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18 LA October 28, 1972

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D.B. COOPER WHY HE HIJACKED PLANE FOR $200,000

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By Karl Fleming

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In last week's first installment, the man claiming to be D.B. Cooper told how he planned the hijacking for more than a year, how he did it alone, how he decided where to do it, how after he parachuted to earth with $200,000, he walked to his car and drove home, how he [continues into main body columns]

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there that he would surface and expose himself to capture? If Cooper was smart enough to essay such a slickly pulled-off crime, he doubtless would be smart enough to know with what appetite agents of the law were seeking his capture. His getting away with it, after all, would only encourage others to mimic his deed, at God knows what cost to the airlines in hard dollars and possibly in human life. "Advertise!"

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ground revolutionary bomber group to tell his story: advertising. Accordingly, I placed a classified advertisement in several Pacific Northwest newspapers, addressed to Cooper, inviting him to contact me, and assuring him we could talk without exposing him to capture. An imprudent and wasted effort, probably. I had not been one to shy away from risks. No, only was there but a tiny chance Cooper would respond, but a minefield of booby-traps and pitfalls lay in wait. I would be

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secret? Or would I be obligated, as a citizen with knowledge of a crime, to turn Cooper in? Moreover, suppose in fact someone came forward representing himself as Cooper. How could I know he was the right man? After all, the Clifford Irving hoax was much in the press. How could I be sure someone wouldn't try the same scheme on me? There was one way, it seemed, to prove his identity: if Cooper responded to my ad, I could demand that he produce the money from the [text cut off at right edge]