Part 53, page 389

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ED-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

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Hijacker Search Wet, Frustrating

WOODLAND, WASH. (UPI) work—checking leads, stopping — If "D.B. Cooper," the sky- at airports and interviewing res- diving hijacker is alive and well ident after resident in the area in the woods near here, it's a of the search, which enters its safe bet to say he's holding 10,- fifth day today. 000 soggy $20 bills. A Northwest Airlines 727 jetli- Rain came to this area Sun- ner was hijacked between Port- day in buckets. During the day land, Ore. and Seattle Wednes- the storm clouds broke for a day night. Saying he had a moment and Woodland's police bomb, a soft-spoken, middle- chief-pilot, Joe May, was able to aged hijacker forced the plane make one flight up the Lewis to land in Seattle where he left River gorge to check out anoth- off all the passengers, collected er in a series of false leads, a $200,000 ransom and four para- "parachute" in a tree turned chutes and said he wanted to go out to be a tin roof on a hillside. to Mexico. The FBI agent in charge of field work here, Tom Manning, took his radio off the hook and spent Sunday dodging reporters and doing old fashioned [illegible]

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

C-8 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif.

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Date: 11/29/71 Edition: 8 Star Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles ☐ Being Investigated

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164-4197-24 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ NOV 3 0 1971 FBI — LOS ANGELES