Part 53, page 264

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FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75)

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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If Cooper survived skyjacking, pants first on shopping list

Mysterious and missing skyjacker Dan (D.B.) Cooper got away with $200,000 in airline money five years ago and the caper may have cost him his pants.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Seattle Wednesday confirmed that a farmer and logger in the Green Moun- tain area of Washington State's Clark County had found a pair of pants in a tree near where Cooper bailed out of the hijacked airliner.

Up until dark Wednesday, FBI agents searched the area where the pants were found, tattered and moss- stained, by William Lynch about a month ago.

Agent Dick Dyer in Vancouver said "All we want to do is pose the question, 'are these his pants?'"

In Seattle, Agent John Reed said he wasn't too excited.

"We've been getting pants, para- chutes and parachute cords for five years," he said. "I'm not that excited about it, but we've got to give it the full shot. I hope nobody's playing a hoax on us."

The general area where Cooper is believed to have landed was searched for weeks by the FBI and Army after a

Northwest Airlines 727 was hijacked Nov. 25, 1971, on a flight from Portland to Seattle.

Dan Cooper was the name given by a man who paid cash for a ticket from Portland to Seattle Thanksgiving Eve. Shortly after the jetliner left Port- land, he gave a stewardess a note say- ing there was a bomb in his briefcase.

He ended up with $200,000 in cash and four parachutes, two of which he wore when he left the airliner's rear door in a raging thunderstorm some- where between Seattle and Reno.

Some news stories subsequently re-

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)

Page D-8 THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON

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Date: 11-25-76 Edition: Author: Editor: J. Richard Nokes Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: b6 b7C ☐ Being Investigated [guess: b2b4]

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