Part 53, page 151
DB Cooper-22489Serials SE 164-81-54
Document date 30 November 1971
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 151 (DB Cooper-22489), News clipping, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-54 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-53/pages/151
Transcript
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Hijacker's Note of Thanks?
United Press International
A note from "D. B. Cooper" reading, "Thanks for hospitality," was turned over to the FBI yesterday on the chance it was sent by the parachuting airline hijacker who got away with $200,000 ransom last week.
The note, with printed words pasted to a piece of paper, was received by Reno Newspapers, Inc. It was addressed in light hand-printed pencil to "Reno Newspaper, Reno, Nev.," and postmarked Oakdale, Calif., a small town southeast of Stockton. It read:
"Attention. Thanks for hospitality. Was in a rut, D. B. Cooper."
"D. B. Cooper" was the name given by the swarthy man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner Wednesday, collected $200,000 ransom, and then escaped by parachute while the plane was flying from Seattle to Reno.
"Cooper," a name the FBI said is probably an alias, caught the fancy of some people for the daring nature of his crime and for its apparent success in "beating the system."
FBI agents--not charmed at all by the hijacker's caper -- continued their dogged search yesterday in a 15-square-mile area around Woodland, in Clark County, where they think he came down after leaping from the plane.
Tom Manning, the agent in charge, suggested the hijacker may be marooned in the rugged Cascade foothills with a broken leg.
But some local law officers frankly admit, off the record, that they think he's sitting in a hotel in Mexico with the loot.
Others promote the theory, "The damn fool proba[bly] killed himself and go about business as usual.
One policeman at Wood[land] said confidently:
"Come next deer season, some hunter will find him."
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p. A3 Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.
Date: 11/30/71 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title:
Character: pub B or Classification: 164-81-5/[4] Submitting Office: Seattle
[ ] Being Investigated
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S.v[illegible] B
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