Handwritten noteHandwritten letter from Howard F. Hubbell describing Clair Young as D.B. Cooperpage 2 of 3
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Part 112, page 305

DB Cooper-51153

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right answer. So Clair wanted some big money too. Now we come to Thanksgiving eve. last year, and when I read it, and saw the Composit drawing. I just knew it had to be [REDACTED] and I was so positive because of the things [REDACTED] had told me, the name, and drawing, that I wrote Stan Pitkin U.S. Attorney in Seattle a sealed envelope. Never heard anything. I had [REDACTED] phone [REDACTED] and found out [REDACTED] was still there. So I had jumped the gun, and made a fool of myself. I never even thought of Clair until I bought a magazine with the story and a FBI composite drawing and gave his age as forty five. Everything fitted and I could see how he might use the same name for an alias, and why the resemblance was so close to [REDACTED]. This time I told [guess: an] F B I agent, and have heard nothing. How in the world could all this be a coincidence. I know several times [REDACTED] used this name, and all this is true. I know too that if the witness

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