Part 54, page 52

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Ransom Finder's Fees OKd

Northwest Orient Airlines offered a "finder fee" Thurs- day for return of any or all of the $200,000 ransom given to the person known as D. B. Cooper in the 1971 skyjack- ing of an NWA jet during a flight from Portland.

The FBI reported that Donald W. Nyrop, president of the airline, has authorized $25,000 total reward or 15 per cent of any portion of the Cooper ransom money that is returned.

Following the hijacking of the jet on Nov. 24, 1971, $200,000 in cash plus para- chutes were delivered to the aircraft at Seattle in re- sponse to Cooper's demands. The jet then departed for Reno where it arrived with- out Cooper or the money. No trace of man or money has since been found despite searches along the entire route at the time and an in- tensive search in the Wood- land, Wash., area earlier this year.

Nineteen other "Cooper type" skyjacks have oc- curred since then, but in each of those cases the mon- ey has been recovered on the suspects captured or both. The money was not re- covered in one instance when the skyjacker bailed out over Honduras and was caught.

A Coos Bay girl and her boyfriend are living in Alger- ia where they took a jet they had commandeered, but the $500,000 they obtained was returned to the airline by Al- gerian authorities.

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)

3 THE [illegible] [guess: Portland], [illegible]

Date: 10 - 19 - 72 Edition: Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office:

☐ Being Investigated

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[guess: local] [illegible] ducks ! SEARCHED..........INDEXED.......... SERIALIZED..........FILED.......... OCT . . 72 FBI - [illegible] ND

DB Cooper-22978