Part 53, page 74

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Air desperados face long odds

IT doesn't pay to imitate "D.B. Cooper." If the truth be known, it probably doesn't pay to be "D. B. Cooper," either.

Excellent work by Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law-enforcement agents resulted in the rapid arrest over the weekend of two suspects in separate extortion-parachute-hi- jacking escapades modeled on the exploits of "D. B. Cooper," who parachuted out of a hijacked airliner with $200,000 Thanksgiv- ing Eve after ordering the plane to fly from Seattle to Reno.

Of the eight parachute-hijack- ing attempts, only the "Cooper" case is listed as unsolved. And

he might well have met his fate in the Southwest Washington wil- derness. At least, not any of the marked bills he received as ran- som have turned up.

Thought is being given in Congress to prohibiting airlines from making ransom payments to hijackers. We doubt that any such law could be made work- able.

In any event, good law-en- forcement work such as that dis- played in the recent Utah and California hijacking escapades ought to have a stronger deter- rent effect than any additional legislation — that and stern deal- ing by the courts with all con- victed hijackers.

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

p.A12 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.

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Date: 4/11/72 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Henry McLeod Title: NORJAK

Character: or 164-81 - Sub.B Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle

☐ Being Investigated

COPY SENT TO BUREAU

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SEARCHED .............INDEXED ......... SERIALIZED .........FILED ................ APR 1 7 1972 FBI—SEATTLE

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Sup. C

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DB Cooper-22412