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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81)

(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) p. E=2 SEATTLE TIMES Seattle, Washington Date: 4/9/86 Edition: PM

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Character: or Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle

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Only two claims to skyjacking loot of D.B. Cooper

PORTLAND With the filing deadline six weeks away, only two claims have been made on the only money ever recovered from the $200,000 in ransom obtained by legendary skyjacker D.B. Cooper 14 years ago.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Collins said his office initiated legal action in January in prep- aration for distributing the $5,800 that has been held as evidence since it was found on a Columbia River beach in February 1980.

The action asked the U.S. District Court to determine who is legally entitled to the money, which was found by 8-year-old Brian Ingram while on a family outing along the beach west of Vancouver, Wash.

FBI Special Agent Phillip L. Miller, whose name appears on the receipt for the money, made a claim along with Northwest Air- lines Inc., whose plane was hi- jacked on a flight from Portland to Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve of 1971.

Collins said Miller made the claim to protect himself "against someone later claiming that he gave away their money."

Collins said he also expects claims from at least two other parties — Ingram's family and

Globe Indemnity Co., the New York insurance company that reimbursed Northwest Airlines for the $200,000 loss from the skyjacking.

The hijacker, who used the name Cooper in buying a ticket, obtained the ransom after threat- ening to set off a bomb he said was in his briefcase. He vanished after he parachuted from the airliner over southwestern Wash- ington with the ransom money.

His identity has never been established.

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