Part 32, page 441
DB Cooper-12080Serials SE 164-81-5033
Document date 14 November 1973
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 32 p. 441 (DB Cooper-12080), News clipping, dated 14 Nov 1973, serial SE 164-81-5033 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-32/pages/441
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Suspect may be D.B. Cooper
SAN DIEGO — (AP) — The F. B. I. says it is investigating whether a man arrested here for an Oregon bank holdup may actually be D. B. Cooper, the first successful parachuting skyjacker.
Arvid Julius Kiperts, 41, of Portland, was arrested Monday in San Diego's Ocean Beach area and ordered jailed in lieu of $150,000 bond.
Cooper was the name used by a man who parachuted over Southwest Washington from a commercial jet which he had hijacked on Thanksgiving eve, 1971. To his chest was strapped $200,000 in ransom.
Cooper was never arrested and none of the money, whose serial numbers had been recorded, has turned up.
The F. B. I. said Kiperts, charged with an October 29 robbery at the King City, Ore., Savings & Loan Co., is suspected of 15 other Oregon bank robberies since 1970. Julius Mattson, the F. B. I. special agent at Portland, said a possible link with Cooper was discovered at one of those 15 bank holdups.
Mattson said the incident took place in December 1971 while a Wilsonville, Ore., bank was being robbed.
Arrangements are being made to show a photograph of Kiperts to the crew of the hijacked plane, an F. B. I. official said. He said Kiperts roughly matches the description given of the hijacker.
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p.B2 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.
Date: 11/9/73 Edition: Final Author: Editor: [redacted] Title: NORJAK
Character: or Classification: 164-81-5033 Submitting Office: Seattle [X] Being Investigated
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