Part 9, page 5

Document date 2 May 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 p. 5 (DB Cooper-634), News clipping, dated 2 May 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-09/pages/5

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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

(Mount Clipping In Space Below)

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Paper claims hijack talk

SEATTLE (UPI) —The Seattle flag, a biweekly newspaper just five editions old, has published what it asserts was a transcript of a taped interview with hijacker-extortionist "D. B. Cooper." The newspaper said in Monday's edition it paid $1,000 for the interview conducted by an anonymous "ordinary looking man of 20 years plus" and signed "an agreement of confidentiality." Part of the agreement, said the Flag, required destruction of the tape after transcription. Asked about the Flag report, special FBI Agent J. Earl Milnes at Seattle said, "We have absolutely no comment."

D. B. Cooper was the name used by the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 on a Seattle to Portland, Ore., flight last Nov. 24. The hijacker extorted $200,000 from the airline, then ordered the plane to fly from Seattle to Reno at 10,000 feet altitude. The hijacker escaped by parachute during the Seattle-Reno flight. The newspaper, staffed primarily by persons in their 20s, said it agreed to buy the interview after the anonymous reporter showed a photograph of a $20 bill which had a serial number identified as among those in the marked bundle of $20 bills given to "Cooper."

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DAILY TIMES-ADVOCATE

ESCONDIDO, CALIF.

Date: 5/2/72 Edition: HOME EDITION Author: Editor: RONALD T. KENNEY Title: PAPER CLAIMS HIJACK TALK

Character: or Classification: 164-91-[illegible] Submitting Office: SD.

[ ] Being Investigated

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[guess: cefed] Bureau via [guess: 1/5] 5-10-72 [guess: pm]

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SEARCHED SERIALIZED [stamp] FILED MAY 1 [19]72 b6 [illegible] b7c

DB Cooper-634

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FBI form FD-350 header designating this sheet as a newspaper clipping mount form for the case file. UPI wire article reporting that The Seattle Flag, a biweekly newspaper only five editions old, claims to have published a transcript of a taped interview with D.B. Cooper, the hijacker who extorted $200,000 from Northwest Airlines on November 24, 1971. The newspaper paid $1,000 for the interview with an anonymous source and agreed to destroy the tape after transcription. FBI Special Agent J. Earl Milnes declined to comment. The article recaps Cooper's parachute escape during the Seattle-to-Reno flight. A reporter showed a photograph of a $20 bill whose serial number matched the marked ransom bundle. FBI FD-350 sidebar fields identifying the clipping source as the Daily Times-Advocate, Escondido, California, Page A-3, Home Edition, dated May 2, 1972. Editor listed as Ronald T. Kenney. Case classification number partially illegible. Submitting office is SD, likely the FBI San Diego field office. Handwritten routing or transmittal notation indicating the document was forwarded to the Bureau on May 10, 1972. Specific routing channel partially illegible. Administrative FBI processing stamps confirming the document was searched, serialized, and filed on May 1, 1972. FOIA exemption codes b6 and b7c are marked. Document assigned identifier DB Cooper-634.

Document is an FBI FD-350 newspaper clipping mount form with a UPI newspaper article affixed in the center.
Newspaper clipping text is clear and largely legible across both columns.
Handwritten routing note at bottom center is partially difficult to decipher.
Stamps at bottom right partially overlap; some characters may be obscured.
Classification number in right sidebar is partially illegible.

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