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The Oregonian Portland, Oregon

Date: 12/13/71, pg. 31 Edition: Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: ☐ Being Investigated

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DB Cooper-22990

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D.B. Cooper slipped by Some airlines don't cooperate in anti-hijacking plan By LEVERETT RICHARDS

THE federal anti-hijacking program has apparently been effective in screening out potential hijackers and other criminals in its first year of oper- ation.

But not all airlines are cooperating in the program — including one of the eight passenger lines serving Portland — points out Jay Adsen, regional chief of the air transportation se- curity division of the Federal Avia- tion Administration.

Adsen stated po- sitively that if the screening system had been used by Northwest Airlines personnel on pas- sengers boarding their Flight 305 in Portland the night of Wednesday, Nov. 24, the ill-famed $200,000 hijacker would have been caught.

Northwest Airlines does not have a magnetometer in Portland to detect concealed weapons on passengers. Ter- minal personnel were too busy with ther flights to screen passengers board- ing the Boeing 727 — including one D.B. Cooper who bought a ticket at the terminal and delivered his ticket stub at the boarding door. Temporary facili- ties used during construction added to Northwest's problems that night, Port- land managers explain.

Northwest's terminal personnel are trained in the screening procedures and do use them under normal condi- tions, however, NWA spokesmen em- phasized.

All airlines at Portland either own magnetometers or share them with oth- er airlines, but the role of the magnetic detector has been greatly over-empha- sized, Adsen said.

"Generally, the magnetometer is used as a final step to confirm or dis- prove doubts about a passenger," Ad- sen said.

The system depends primarily upon training of airline personnel and secur- ity agents to recognize certain traits typical of potential hijackers.

This "behavioral profile," worked out by the FBI and specialized psychol- ogists, is a well-kept secret.

"If a potential hijacker knew what we were looking for he would figure out a way to beat the system," Adsen ex- plained.

But it works, Adsen says, pointing to the record. In the month of October — a dull month — 103 "incidents" were recorded at the eight airports in the western region.

Some 36 incidents were related to po- tential hijackings; 25 led to arrests for possession of narcotics, mostly mari- juana; 18 aliens were arrested for ille- gal entry; 4 wanted men were arrest- ed.

Of the 36 incidents involving airline offenses, 10 involved bomb threats; were arrested for trying to board a[illegible] airline carrying a concealed weapon — a federal misdemeanor; one was ar- rested for "threatening use of a weap- on;" 3 for threatening air piracy; 4 for making false statements regarding air piracy; 10 for creating disturbances involving airline personnel.

More than 1,000 arrests were made nationally, more than 400 for posses- sion of drugs, about 300 for possession of firearms.

Portland reported four incidents in October; including two wanted men ar- rested; one alien charged with illegal entry; and one man for creating a dis- turbance. Twenty-eight arrests have been made since the program started late in Martin Harvey Baynes, Port-