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[Handwritten]: C.C. Results [Handwritten]: FM 5076 [Handwritten]: Ar[key/ley]

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(D. B. COOPER) (BY CLYDE JABIN)

PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI) - THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CALLED NEWS CONFERENCES IN PORTLAND AND SEATTLE TODAY TO ANNOUNCE "A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT" IN THE D.B. COOPER AIRLINE HIJACKING.

THE NEWS CONFERENCES WERE CALLED FOR 6 P.M. EST.

NEITHER COOPER, WHO PARACHUTED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES JET OVER THE NORTHWEST ON THANKSGIVING EVE 1971, NOR ANY OF THE $200,000 IN $20 BILLS HE COLLECTED EVER HAS BEEN FOUND.

FBI SPOKESMAN BILL WILLIAMS REFUSED TO DIVULGE WHAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT WOULD BE BUT INDICATED IT DEVELOPED THIS MORNING AND "WE FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A HOAX."

THE FBI HAS SAID SINCE SHORTLY AFTER THE HIJACKING IT BELIEVED THAT COOPER - WHOSE REAL NAME WAS NEVER LEARNED - JUMPED FROM THE REAR OF A BOEING 727 OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND PROBABLY WAS KILLED WHEN HE LANDED.

[case number stamp: 164-5137-A] COOPER BOARDED A NORTHWEST FLIGHT IN PORTLAND [stamp obscures text; likely: UNDER THE] NAME DAN COOPER. BEFORE THE PLANE REACHED SEATTLE, COOPER [illegible — stamp overprint] THREATENED TO EXPLODE A "BOMB" IN HIS BRIEF CASE IF HE WERE NOT GIVEN THE MONEY AND FOUR PARACHUTES AND FLOWN TO RENO, NEV.

THE OTHER PASSENGERS WERE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE PLANE AT SEATTLE AND COOPER WAS GIVEN THE MONEY AND THE PARACHUTES. AFTER THE PLANE LEFT SEATTLE HE ORDERED ALL THE CREW MEMBERS INTO THE FLIGHT DECK.

WHEN THE PLANE ARRIVED AT RENO COOPER AND THE MONEY WERE GONE.

THE FLIGHT RECORDER AND CREW TESTIMONY INDICATED COOPER HAD JUMPED NEAR THE LITTLE TOWN OF ARIEL ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF PORTLAND, A DENSELY WOODED AREA IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS.

DESPITE INTENSIVE SEARCHES OF THE AREA, THE ONLY ITEM CONNECTED WITH THE HIJACKING EVER FOUND WAS A REAR DOOR FROM THE 727.

UPI 02-12 04:52 PES

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59 AUG 11 1980 WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE [Handwritten bottom right]: 6. file [illegible initials]