LetterPurported D.B. Cooper letter to The Portland Oregonian with Jacksonville, Florida envelope28 March 1972page 1 of 2
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Part 24, page 404

DB Cooper-7806Serials SE 164-81-2720

Document date 28 March 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 24 p. 404 (DB Cooper-7806), Letter, dated 28 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-2720 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-24/pages/404

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March 28, 1972

The Portland Oregonian Newspaper Portland, Oregon

Gentlemen:

This letter is too let you know I am not dead but really alive and just back from the Bahamas, so your silly troopers up there can stop looking for me. That is just how dumb this government is. I like your articles about me but you can stop them now. D. B. Cooper is not real.

I had to do something with the experience Uncle taught me, so here I am, a very rich man. Uncle gave too much of it to world idiots and no work for me. I had to do it to relieve myself of frustration. I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk. Now you know. I am going around the world and they will never find me because I am smarter than the system's lackey cops and lame duck leaders. Now it is Uncle's turn to weep and pay one of it's own some cash for a change. (And please tell the lackey cops D. B. Cooper is not my real name).

Sincerely,

A Rich Man

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164-81-2720 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED /M/ FILED /M/ APR 8) 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-7806