Part 53, page 75

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Cooper' Hijack Link Studied

Associated Press.

The FBI said yesterday it is "consider- ing" the possibility that the hijacker who bailed out of an airliner with $500,000 late Friday might be the same man as "D..B. Cooper" who pulled a similar escapade last November.

A massive search for the latest hijack- er—who parachuted from a United Air Lines 727 jetliner after leaving San Fran- cisco—was conducted in the Provo, Utah, area yesterday. But the search had all but ended last night after a local official re- ported a suspect has been identified but not apprehended.

Meanwhile, the search was continuing in the Woodland, Wash., area for the mys- terious Cooper, who parachuted Thanks- giving Eve from a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner with $200,000.

The FBI at Las Vegas said the possibil- ity that the United hijacker might be the same man who used the D. B. Cooper name was "under consideration."

He said there was "always a possibili- ty" that the two might be the same, but added that there was no evidence at this time to indicate the possibility was true.

In Salt Lake City, FBI agent-in-charge,

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p.Al Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.

Date: 4/9/72 Edition: Sunday Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title: NORJAK

Character: or 164-81-[illegible] Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated

COPY SENT TO BUREAU [stamps] INDEXED [stamps] FILED - APR 1 2 1972 FBI—SEATTLE

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