Part 53, page 92

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Hijacker Sought By FBI, Army

FBI agents, aided by about 200 mem- bers of the Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry and nine helicopters from Ft. Lewis, have resumed the search for the missing hi- jacker who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet last Nov. 24.

The search is concentrated in the Mer- win Dam area, about 20 miles southeast of Kelso, where the hijacker is believed to have bailed out during a sub-freezing flight from Seattle to Reno.

Residents in the search area said a pass was required to enter Merwin Park on Lake Merwin. The park is the stag- ing area for the "terrain search."

"A spokesman for the Army said "nothing specific" was behind resumption of the search.

"There is no new evidence," he said. "Time just went by, and it began to look more and more like they might be search- ing for a dead man."

The hijacker, who used the name "D. B. Cooper," and the $200,000 in ransom money he took with him, have disap- peared without a trace.

The FBI circulated a serial-number list of the 10,000 $20 bills to banks and busi- nesses throughout the country, but none of the money has ever turned up, according to Paul Bibler, assistant special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office.

Bibler refused to speculate, however, as to whether the hijacker survived his night plunge from the Boeing 727.

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p.Al Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.

Date: 3/23/72 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title: NORJAK

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

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