Part 40, page 9

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AT 164-254

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[REDACTED] mind established his identity as the highjacker, and outlined a plan whereby [REDACTED] and COFFELT would return to the area in the Cascade Mountains, where together, they would conduct a search and recover the ransom money paid in this case.

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[REDACTED] writes that he and COFFELT actually did make a camping trip into the Cascade Mountains and a search was conducted without success in locating the ransom money.

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The file furnished by [REDACTED] contains information from [REDACTED] reflecting that he has been paid at least the sum of $10,000 relating to a story which he is contemplating relating to the D.B. COOPER case. It appears that [REDACTED] intends to describe COFFELT through an appropriate pseudonym as the actual highjacker in instant matter and plans to write of their trip together and the unsuccessful search that they conducted to recover the ransom money paid in this case. [REDACTED] related that COFFELT is now dead based on information furnished by [REDACTED] having died in Honolulu, approximately one year ago or more and that COFFELT's [REDACTED]

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A review of the material written by [REDACTED] contains innuendoes that the Government and particularly the FBI does not desire to solve instant matter nor to find the ransom money, which was paid. [REDACTED] alleges that COFFELT had and perhaps still has friends in the Department of Justice or the FBI.

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The files maintained at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] disclose that [REDACTED]

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Files at Atlanta Penitentiary also disclose that DAVID BRYANT COFFELT, was received at Atlanta Penitentiary, on 4/28/49, to serve a term of 10 years

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DB Cooper-15673

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