Part 43, page 96

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(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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[illegible] he [guess: year] [illegible] by [illegible] yet [illegible] is [guess: quite] [illegible] dark, [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] at [guess: his] [illegible] Eve [illegible] [illegible] and evidence that D.B. Cooper was [illegible] [illegible] at the [illegible] [illegible] Inter [illegible] named Byron "Jack" Coffelt national [illegible] [illegible] [guess: someone] who survived the jump and es- to [guess: want] to [illegible] [illegible] also [guess: kidnapped]. The FBI and various media night [guess: prefer] [illegible] [guess: readily] and [guess: agents] have spent considerable loved ones [illegible] [illegible] the next [illegible] investigating the Coffelt- day's feast. [illegible] connection, yet his [guess: story] [illegible] before [guess: been] [illegible] A middle-[illegible], [illegible] in [illegible] [illegible] and th[illegible] black suit, [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] black tie [illegible] [illegible] [illegible], walked up to the [illegible] [illegible] Airlines counter, [illegible] [illegible] about 6 feet tall [illegible] [illegible] [guess: build] and carried a [illegible] [illegible] [guess: gave] his name as Dan Co[illegible] [illegible] paid cash for a one-way tick[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] at $[illegible] to Seattle. The [illegible] [illegible] [guess: event] purchased the wrong [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] time came out: "D.B. Co[illegible]"

A few min[illegible] after t[illegible] [guess: liftoff, the] hijra[illegible]ned [illegible] [guess: senior] handed a stewardess a note threatening to blow up the [illegible] [illegible] with a hidden bomb if he [illegible] [illegible] receive $200,000 cash and f[illegible] parachutes. The plane went to Seattle, where an FBI agent brought the ransom to the cabin door and handed it to a stewardess. Then, as the plane continued on [illegible] Reno, Nev., with its [illegible] crew on, as the hijacker had instructed, D.B. Cooper [guess: jumped] into the night — and became [illegible] [guess: legend] in American crime.

The massive manhunt that began the next day in the mountainous terrain that Cooper jumped into was only the beginning. In the eight years since the famous inci- dent, the F[illegible] Bureau of Inves- tigation has [illegible] [guess: sifted] thousands of man-hours t[illegible] [guess: tracking] down leads on some $20 s[illegible] [illegible]. Yet, the official line is still [illegible] an unknown man [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that night and prob[illegible]bly [illegible] [illegible] the parachute jump — [illegible] [illegible] his body, the chu[illegible] and [illegible] money were never fou[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A--1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 12/16/79 Edition: Sunday Latest

Title: NEWS FOCUS

Character: or CAA Classifi[cation] Submitt[ing office] Los Angeles

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SA/3 P6

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164-81-8194 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ JAN [illegible] 1980 [illegible] FBI/DOJ

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([guess: 2/3])

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-17289