Part 54, page 160
DB Cooper-23089Serials SE 164-81
Document date 4 February 1979
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 160 (DB Cooper-23089), News clipping, dated 4 Feb 1979 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-54/pages/160
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FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)
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(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Californian ruled out as Cooper suspect
A California man reportedly investigated in connection with the D. B. Cooper airline hijacking apparently has been ruled out as a suspect in the nation's only unsolved air piracy case.
The Associated Press, quoting a Seattle newspaper, said Robert Wesley Rackstraw, 35, was no more than one of more than 1,000 persons who had been considered and rejected as suspects in the 1971 case, according to unnamed law-enforcement sources.
Quoting one source, the newspaper said, "He was just considered a suspect. I think (the) Seattle (FBI office) has already resolved that it wasn't him."
The Seattle office, which directed the FBI's investigation of Cooper, refused to comment on Rackstraw, a pilot, explosives expert and suspect in other crimes.
"We don't know who D. B. Cooper is," said FBI spokesman Ray Mathis in Seattle. "You can imply certain things from that."
Reports arose at week's end in Fullerton, Calif., that Rackstraw, being held on unrelated charges there, had been linked to the unsolved hijacking.
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p. A6 News Tribune Tacoma, Wa.
Date: 2/4/79 Edition: Sunday
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Character: 164-81 or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle
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SUB B1 SUB. 933
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04-81- Sub B DB Cooper-23089