Part 53, page 96

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

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CLUE TO HIJACKER

Please Check Your $20 Bills, FBI Asks

BY DARYL LEMBKE Times Staff Writer

SEATTLE -- If you've got any $20 bills left from Christmas shopping, the FBI wishes you'd take a look at them.

There's an off chance they might provide a clue as to the whereabouts of "D.B. Cooper," the fellow who literally jumped at the opportunity to get away with $200,000.

That was the name a man gave when he pur- chased a ticket in Portland on a Seattle-bound North- west-Orient airliner last Nov. 24.

He then hijacked the airliner en route to Seattle by showing a stewardess wires which he said were connected to a bomb in his briefcase. He forced the airline to give him $200,- 000 in $20 bills and four parachutes when the plane landed in Seattle.

He then made the crew take off again and he ap- parently parachuted out of the 727 jet between Seattle and Reno, taking with him the loot.

Although he could have died in the jump, most people seem to think that "Cooper" got away with the money.

Some even hope that he did. He has become some- thing of a folk hero. A Seattle firm is even selling "D.B. Cooper" T-shirts, showing a man floating to earth with the greenbacks.

But a robbery is still a robbery to the FBI, which has the serial numbers of the stolen money and has published them in a 34- page booklet circulated among financial institu- tions in the West.

To have come from the 20-pound package of $20 bills which the hijacker

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P.2 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif.

Date: 12/26/71 Edition:

Author: Daryl Lembke Editor: Title:

NORJACK

Character: CAA-HIJACKING; or EXT Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle

X Being Investigated COPY SENT TO BUREAU

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Searched Serialized Indexed Filed

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FBI-SEATTLE [illegible] 1371

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DB Cooper-22434