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D. B. COOPER

(continued from page 88) identify him later. Around noontime, some 15 hours after his landing, he reached the Jeep. Then he and his accomplice drove to near where the Cadillac was hidden. Eventually they loaded the Jeep with an explosive charge, rolled it into a lake and blew it up. Coffelt said he then entered the back-seat of the Cadillac, and his partner drove him to Kansas City, where he received medical attention. Eleven days after the skyjacking, Coffelt began working as a surgical technician at a northern Virginia hospital. His superior there says that he had difficulty walking and at one point showed her his "badly discolored legs"—injuries that some believe he sustained in the parachute jump. The following spring, after the snow had melted, Coffelt said he chartered a helicopter and returned to the area. But when the pilot became unduly curious about the object of the search, Coffelt abandoned his efforts to locate the moneybag. A few years later he told James Brown that he wanted to go back into the Cascades and look for the small fortune, but that he needed help. In July 1974 the two men and Brown's muscular 17-year-old son made a week-long trek into the mountains where Coffelt said he landed. Coffelt was then in ill health, and at one point he nearly collapsed on a steep grade. For the entire week they made themselves as invisible as possible, blending into the forest, keeping campfires low, meticulously picking up after themselves. But they found no money in the rugged terrain. Meanwhile, Brown had been writing down every scrap of information Coffelt told him. He began working on a manuscript following Coffelt's death in 1975. To sell the story, Brown found producer Dirk Summers in Las Vegas, where he was supervising a Kenny Norton heavyweight fight for CBS Sports. Summers says that he had Brown take a lie-detector test concerning the time he spent with Coffelt in northern Oregon. "He passed with flying colors," claims Summers. "But all that meant was that Brown believed Coffelt's story. I kept thinking, if this story is true, it's the story of the century." So Summers began his own investigation. In 1977 he and Brown organized an expedition into the Cascades, back to where Coffelt had taken Brown three years earlier. This time, thanks to a metal-detector and energetic digging, the search party unearthed a solid piece of physical evidence: a one-and-a-half-inch piece of cording that proved to be synthetic nylon of the type used in parachute shrouding. "We had a lab report confirming that the cording came from a parachute and was five to seven years old," says Summers. "We were very careful uncovering it. I took soil samples, which I turned over to the lab so I would know whether something hadn't just been buried there. It's a strong piece of circumstantial evidence. "The area where we found this was very primitive, remote wilderness—Big-foot country. We had to lower ourselves down a cliff to get to the site. There was a dead tree that Jack told Brown he hit. And this enormous, two-story-high rock with markings on it: X's and O's that Coffelt said he had scratched into the rock the night he landed there. That was where we dug. You could even see the narrow trenches where his feet had hit the ground and he had been dragged by the parachute." Summers became a believer in the story, and he too is convinced that Jack Coffelt was D. B. Cooper. He has finished a book on the subject, and claims to have interested actors Robert Mitchum and Telly Savalas in a TV project. Summers and Brown also believe that the FBI went to great lengths to cover up and otherwise derail the Coffelt/Cooper connection. The producer suspects that the FBI may have known all along that Coffelt was the skyjacker, but didn't go after him because they realized he had stories to tell about his earlier cooperation with the agency. "Assistant and deputy FBI directors are involved in the Coffelt story," says Summers. "It's a string of middle-level officials covering up and protecting their own asses." Many observers closest to the case are still perplexed by the way it was handled. According to reliable sources, Flo Schaffner and Tina Muchlow—the two stewardesses on board Flight 305 who could identify Cooper—said the FBI released a composite of the skyjacker that looked nothing like him, even though they had worked closely with an FBI artist. Both Summers and Brown were interviewed extensively and gave agents copies of Coffelt photographs. Summers says the stewardesses told him the FBI never showed the Coffelt pictures to any of the airline crew. He also says the FBI threatened [guess: him] with legal action and possible prosecution if he continued with his Coffelt investigation. Worse yet, Summers says FBI agents contacted persons who had talked to him and warned them against cooperating further. Even 60 Minutes' intrepid Mike DB Cooper-20803