Part 54, page 106
DB Cooper-23032Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-SUBB
Document date 25 November 1976
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 106 (DB Cooper-23032), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1976, serial SE 164-81-SUBB (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-54/pages/106
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Jury indicts 'D. B. Cooper'
PORTLAND — (AP) — On Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, a hijacker known as Dan Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 jet between Seattle and Portland.
He and the $200,000 he took with him haven't been heard from since.
Yesterday, hours before the normal five-year statute of limitations on the crime expired, a federal grand jury in Portland handed down an indictment against "John Doe, also known as Dan Cooper."
And, to add to the mystery, a pair of tattered, moss-stained pants have been found this fall high in a tree near where Cooper was believed to have bailed out.
Jack Collins, first assistant United States attorney in Portland, said the attorney's office sought the indictment because the five-year statute of limitations may apply in the case, but he said federal investigators still have no idea what happened to Cooper.
Orders to obtain the indictment came from Deputy Attorney General Richard Thornburg, head of the criminal division of the Justice Department, Collins said.
One count charges Cooper with air piracy, the other accuses him of interstate commerce by extortion.
Meanwhile, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched an area of thick vegetation in Clark County, Washington, after a farmer and a logger found a pair of tattered, moss-stained pants in a tree near
where Cooper is believed to have bailed out.
Cooper was dressed in a business suit and took two of the worst parachutes aboard the plane with him. When he jumped, the wind-chill factor was 69 degrees below zero.
At least one of his two parachutes would not have opened, investigators say, and the other, an emergency chute, would have given him a hard landing in the rugged terrain.
If he didn't survive the jump, loggers familiar with the area say coyotes, bears, cougars and wild dogs would have made quick work of his body.
Cooper also sometimes called himself D.B. Cooper, and he is popularly known by those initials.
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p.A5 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.
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Date: 11/25/76 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Jim King Title: NORJAC Character: or Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle
☐ Being Investigated
164-81-SubB
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SEARCHED......... INDEXED........ SERIALIZED........ FILED........ DEC 6 1976
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DB Cooper-23032