LetterCitizen letter 'Dan B. Cooper's ILLUSIONS' theorizing the hijacking was a staged magic performance9 December 1976page 1 of 4
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Part 38, page 450

DB Cooper-15152Serials SE 164-81-7250

Document date 9 December 1976

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 38 p. 450 (DB Cooper-15152), Letter, dated 9 Dec 1976, serial SE 164-81-7250 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-38/pages/450

Transcript

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The following outline is the result of many hours of research by [REDACTED] and we be- [illegible]

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live that this information will lead to the arrest and conviction of "Dan B. Cooper", and the return of the money taken. Dan B. Coopers "ILLUSIONS" A. The public and the FBI believe the following: 1. On November 24, 1971 Northwest Orient flight 305 left Washington DC for Portland Oregon, then Seattle Washington. 2. Shortly before landing in Seattle a note was given to a stewardess to relay the following information to the pilot a. I have a bomb in my briefcase; b. Do the following: Relay I will exchange all 36 passengers for $200,000 in twenty dollar bills, and 4 parachutes. 3. All the passengers, plus 2 stewardesses were released in exchange for the above. 4. Money and chutes on board, Cooper positively identified as being on board the aircraft - Aircraft now lifts off. a. 8 fighter jets now tail the aircraft at slow speed, with the door in the tail section of the aircraft open, all the way to Reno Nevada. 1. All the fighter pilots report that no one left the aircraft b. The aircraft now lands, FBI agents and police engulf the aircraft and are convinced that Cooper did not get off the aircraft in Reno Nevada. c. Lodigicol assumption is to assume that Cooper had to parachut off the aircraft between Seattle and Reno Nevada.

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DB Cooper-15152

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