Part 54, page 162

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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-75)

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 12 PIONEER PRESS St. Paul, MN

Date: 5-2-79 Edition: Morning

Title: Dead or alive, D.B. Cooper where are you?

Character: or Classification: 163-74 Submitting Office: MINNEAPOLIS

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Dead or alive, D.B. Cooper where are you?

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Never let the truth interfere with good publicity. [guess: ently] written by the same person. In show business that advice is right up there The first, postmarked from Chicago, thanked the with the Ten Commandments, but sometimes Cricket for the invitation. "I won't say I will things get too far-fetched. accept, and I won't say I won't," the writer said. ENTER THE Cricket Theater, The brief note was signed by Daniel B. Cooper. which last month opened a whim- The second letter, mailed in Los Angeles, was sical musical based on the fic- received late last month after the play opened. tionalized life of an airplane hi- Written on the same type of green notepaper with jacker named D.B. Cooper. In apparently the same typewriter, it was longer and real life a man identified by that full of grammatical errors. name commandeered a North- The writer claimed to have visited Minneapolis west Airline aircraft in 1971 and to see the play. "The actors and actresses were later parachuted from the plane wonderful," the writer said. "I wish I had known somewhere over Washington them in my own actual life." state. What do you do with two such letters? Copy them He carried with him about 21 and put out a news release, of course. Cooper pounds in money, totaling Another question is whether anybody at the $200,000. No one knows what happened to Cooper Cricket really believes the letters could be genuine and none of the money, all of which was marked, literary products by D.B. Cooper. A spokesman for has been recovered. the theater said Producing Director Bill Semans Until now, anyway. If you believe what follows, I "firmly believes" the letters are on the level. have a bridge you might be interested in buying. Earlier this year the Cricket, in a promotional PLAYWRIGHT JOHN Orlock doesn't buy any of gimmick, placed an ad in Time Magazine. "D.B. it. "I think it was (written by) someone who Cooper, wherever you are," the ad said. "Two free couldn't resist the challenge," he said. "If perhaps tickets are waiting for you at the Cricket Theater one more letter comes in we'll have a competi- or 'The D.B. Cooper Project.'" tion." TWO REPLIES WERE received — both appar- Where is D.B. Cooper? Dead, says Orlock. Dead, says the FBI.

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164-81- Sub B SEARCHED ...INDEXED... SERIALIZED... FILED... MAY 4 1979 FBI — SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-23091