Part 54, page 8

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[illegible]ly to the Secret Witness plan coordinator at The Journal." If the codes and torn edges match, your agent will be given the $1,000 for the first $20 of the "Cooper cash" to be turned in. The procedure listed in points 1, 2 and 3 can be fol- lowed for supplying informa- tion about what has hap- pened to Cooper. Julius Mattson, agent in charge of the Portland office of the FBI, says he can visu- alize situations where people with the money might be willing to turn it in, but do not wish it to become known that they have the money. "Suppose someone had found the money and has been holding onto it afraid to turn it in, or has even spent some of it and then become afraid of the consequences; such a person might wel- come the 'Secret Witness' opportunity," Mattson add- ed. There has long been specu- lation that the hij[illegible] [guess: hijacker] per- ished in his nocturnal leap from the jetliner and that some day a hunter or hiker would find his body or the money somewhere along the flight path of the aircraft be- tween Seattle and Reno. It is this possibility to which Mattson refers.

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