Part 2, page 17

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[continues from previous page — top lines partially cut off/illegible] ...and acting as planned and arranging for Cooper, who protested [illegible] want to lie [illegible] rather than [illegible] captured. Lewis said [illegible] he went to Cooper's suburban home one night just before Christmas — about three weeks after the skyjacking — and while he and Cooper were sitting in the den discussing an investment plan, he looked up and noticed two skydiving trophies on Cooper's mantel. The skyjacker was obviously an experienced parachutist. The news reports had all said so. Suddenly it hit him. "Say, you wouldn't happen to have about $200,000 in $20 bills that you can't spend," Lewis said to Cooper. Cooper blinked once, then replied calmly: "Well, what if I did. What could a fella do with that money?" The FBI had, and was circulating, the numbers of all the stolen bills. Some days later, both of them saw [text continues on next page]

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KARL FLEMING was associated with Newsweek magazine as correspondent, Los Angeles bureau chief and contributing editor for 11 years before resigning April 15 to found L.A. While with Newsweek, he covered virtually every significant civil rights story of the turbulent '60s, including Birmingham, Selma, Ole Miss, Little Rock and Watts. He covered the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert and those of Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers. He was assigned to Richard Nixon during the last Presidential campaign and has covered Lyndon Johnson, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. He also reported on the Charles Manson and Jack Ruby trials for Newsweek and the trial of Pueblo spy ship captain Lloyd M. Bucher. Copyright © 1972 Platypus Publications

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The FBI's D.B. Cooper