Part 53, page 288

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Winner Of D.B. Cooper $20 Bill Hunt Gets $1,000

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Are you checking the seri[al numbers] Alaska, in answer to a de- who had paid cash for rent- al numbers of the $20 bills in mand from a man who tele- ing a car on Aug. 12 had your possession against the phoned an airline that "a lived in the area of the pay- list being published in The crooked egg" (bomb) was off site, all because of the Journal of bills given to the aboard a Seattle-bound jet one bill that turned up. aircraft hijacker identified liner and would explode Still later, the Klamath as D.B. or Dan Cooper? when the plane descended to Falls Police Department in- It's a [fascinating] game 10,000 feet. quired about a man who had which could pay you $1,000. The jet had 118 passen- arrived in that city with a for one of the Cooper 20s and gers, including 72 children, large amount of money and could result in solution of and 9 crew members aboard. had paid off his wife's debts. one of law enforcement's Under those conditions, the FBI agents based in Port- most baffling cases. airline arranged for the mon- land determined that the Checking serial numbers ey to be delivered to the des- man had been a big spender has resulted in solution of ignated site and then await- while in Oregon, giving his two Pacific Northwest ed a call to describe the hid- wife $1,400, his mother-in- crimes in the past decade, ing place of the bomb and law $400, paying $100 to a according to files of the FBI. how to disarm it. bar owner for loss of a bar- The Bank of California in The call never came and maid for one night, buying Tacoma, Wash., was robbed eventually the jet had to two cars and spending $500 Feb. 14, 1966 of $9,859 and land after five tension-filled to $1,000 per evening buying the amount included 10 $20 hours and did so at Seattle drinks for customers in a bills that could be identified with people praying and bar. by serial number. holding their breath. There Sept. 20, 1970, the FBI ar- Numbers of the bills were was no bomb. rested a West German citi- circularized by Tacoma po- But in the bundle of bills zen in Portland and he ad- lice in shopping centers and making up the $25,000 was a mitted making the hoax calls a few days later a man was number of bills in which the to the airline. He later, that arrested after he passed two serial numbers had been re- year was sentenced to five bills identifiable as part of corded and these numbers years in the custody of the the bank robbery money. were distributed to airlines, attorney general of the Unit- He said he stole the money banks, savings and loan as- ed States on a charge of im- from a parked car, but in sociations, car rental compa- parting or conveying false subsequent investigation he nies, hotels, finance compa- information. and two other men were im- nies, grocery stores and oth- Checking the $20 bills in plicated in the bank robbery er places. your possession against and each was later sen- The extortion occurred those in the so-called Cooper tenced to prison. Aug. 11, 1970. In mid-Sep- caper might result in solu- The second case had thrill- tember one of the identifia- tion of that case also. The ing overtones and involved ble bills turned up in a bank. Journal is publishing the the leaving of $25,000 at a FBI agents traced the bill to serial numbers in install- specified site in Anchorage, an apartment house manag- ments (some are at left) er, then to a renter of an and will publish more apartment and finally to an- of them over the next sever- other bank. Eventually it al days until the complete was determined that a man list has been made available to readers.

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

THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON

Date: November 23, 1971 Edition: Author: Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling, Title: NORJAK

Character: or Bufile Classification: 164-2111 Submitting Office: Portland

[X] Being Investigated

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