Part 53, page 210

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IN D.B. COOPER CAPER $1,000 For Hijacked $20 Bill Offer Stands

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By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer

"Identity and whereabouts unknown; money not re- covered."

Those seven words sum up what has so far been an ex- ercise in futility: the com- bined efforts of law enforce- ment to mark finis to the so-called "D. B. Cooper ca- per," the aircraft hijack that changed commercial air travel for everyone.

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They also account, in part, for The Journal's offer to pay $1,000 for $20, providing that Twenty can be verified to be part of the $200,000 that the man known as Cooper extorted from Northwest Ori- ent Airlines in an act of air piracy that began at Port- land on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.

The Journal will pay $1,000 to the first person who brings in one of the 10,000 $20 bills given to Cooper that

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rainy November night in ransom for the freedom of the passengers and some of the crew of the 727 jetliner he commandeered with a threat to explode a bomb. The money may be brought either to The Journal or to

any FBI field office in the nation or any law enforce- ment agency and The Jour- nal will pay the $1,000 when the FBI verifies that the bill is one of those Cooper had in his possession when he para- chuted from the jetliner somewhere between Seattle and Reno.

What Cooper did had re- percussions no one foresaw at the time. Because it was never really determined what happened to him and the money, a round of sky- jackings was touched off in the U.S. and overseas, some resulting in loss of life, and now everyone boarding a commercial airliner is sub- ject to some kind of screen- ing process in a search for weapons.

The so-called "sterile con- course" concept is in force

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at airports from Portland, Orb., to Portland, Me., and from Seattle to Miami whereby no one enters an aircraft boarding area with- out screening.

It has worked, for there have been no hijackings in the U.S. since August, 1972.

Meanwhile, only Cooper— if he did not die in his leap from the jet with the money —was successful among the skyjackers and attempted hi- jackers of U.S. aircraft in the past 24 months.

The FBI has prepared a law enforcement bulletin on the "Futility of Aircraft Hi- jacking" which shows a long list of persons who have been killed, have been prose- cuted, are awaiting prosecu- tion or are identified and being sought as fugitives.

Five hijackers have been killed by FBI agents and six wounded. Passengers have killed one and wounded an- other. Crewmen have wound- ed one and three have com- mitted suicide.

Although members of the public have thought of Coop- er as "the one who got away with it," most authorities be- lieve that he died, perhaps plunging into some glacial lake in the Pacific North- west.

(See list of bills and story on page 4.)

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Oregon Journal Portland, Oregon 11/23/73

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16-81-Sub B

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SEARCHED ___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED ___FILED___ JAN 7 1973 FBI — SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-22548