Part 54, page 7
DB Cooper-22933Serials 164-2111
Document date 26 November 1973
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 7 (DB Cooper-22933), News clipping, dated 26 Nov 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-54/pages/7
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Skyjacked $20 Repo[r]t May Be Secret
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By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer
The Journal is making its "Secret Witness" plan available for use in helping recover the "Cooper cash," the $200,000 that disappeared the night of Nov. 24, 1971, with the parachuting hijacker popularly known as D. B. Cooper.
The plan can be used with or separate from the newspaper's offer to pay $1,000 for the first $20 bill to be turned in that can be verified by the FBI to be part of the money Cooper obtained from Northwest Orient Airlines prior to jumping from a jetliner he had commandeered. It can be used to return the money, enter into negotiations for its return or to provide information on the whereabouts of the elusive hijacker.
The "Secret Witness" plan will enable someone with one or more of the missing bills to surrender the money and still keep his or her identity secret.
Here is how to use the plan:
1. Place the money in a place of your choosing and write down instructions for locating it.
2. Do not sign your name, but on both lower corners of the first page write a code, using any combination of numbers and letters.
3. Tear off one of the corners, making a jagged tear. Keep the torn off corner bearing your code and mail the report containing the duplicate code to "Secret Witness," The Journal, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, Ore. 97201. [illegible] The Journal will forward instructions to take it direct-
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your information to the FBI which will pick up the money and verify whether it is indeed from the Cooper ransom. If it is, that fact will be published in the newspaper.
After that, give the torn off corner you have kept to a trusted friend or to an attorney or to your minister with instructions to take it direct-
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DO NOT SIGN YOUR NAME X123 X123 CHOOSE YOUR OWN CODE SAVE THIS
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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)
1 THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: November 26, 197[1] Edition: Author: Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling, Title: NORJAK
Character: or Bufile Classification: 164-2111 Submitting Office: Portland
[X] Being Investigated
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DB Cooper-22933