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Date: 1/24/86 Edition: Salt Lake Tribune, Page B-7, Salt Lake City, Utah Title:

Character: CAA or Classification: 164-259 Submitting Office: SU

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Writer's Suit Seeks Documents to Prove Provo Hijacker Was Really D.B. Cooper

A Salt Lake County man has filed suit in U.S. District Court for Utah to obtain documents he believes will support his theory that hijacker Richard Lloyd McCoy Jr. is D.B. Cooper.

Bernie A. Rhodes filed a complaint seeking to force the Justice Department to turn over FBI records on McCoy.

In his complaint, Mr. Rhodes states he received 12 pages of records on McCoy under the Freedom of Information Act, but that 32 remaining pages were denied. He said he needs the remaining documents for a book he's writing.

McCoy, Provo, was convicted of commandeering a United Airlines flight in 1972 near Grand Junction, Colo., by claiming he had a handgun and grenade. He forced the plane to land in San Francisco, where he received a $500,000 ransom. He was later arrested in Provo.

McCoy, a Mormon Sunday school teacher, was sentenced to 45 years but escaped in August 1974 from a Lewisburg, Pa., prison. He was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Virginia on Nov. 9, 1974.

Rhodes, a federal probation officer in Utah at the time of McCoy's hijacking, prepared the presentence report on him. McCoy and D.B. Cooper, the man who hijacked a jetliner in 1971 near Portland, Ore., and parachuted out of the plane with $200,000 in ransom, are the same person, Mr. Rhodes maintains.

Cooper disappeared, but in February 1980, $5,800 of the cash was found on a Columbia River beach in southwestern Washington.

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164A-81-6842 SEARCHED ___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___

JAN 31 1986

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DB Cooper-19812

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