Part 54, page 85

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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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$1,000 Reward For A 'D. B.' Twenty

PORTLAND, Ore. — (UPI) — $1,000 for a $20 bill — that's the offer made yesterday by the Oregon Journal.

The Journal announced it will give a $1,000 reward for the first $20 bill recovered from the loot collected two years ago by D. B. Cooper, and still missing parachuting airplane hijacker.

The Journal said it was making the offer in accordance with an FBI statement that obtaining any of the $200,000 extorted from Northwest Orient Airlines would aid its investigation.

A passenger listed as Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Boeing 727 jetliner here Thanksgiving Eve 1971, hijacked the craft, forcing Northwest to give him the $200,000 in $20 bills at Seattle, then ordered the plane crew to fly to Reno, Nev.

When the plane landed at Reno, Cooper, later labeled D. B. Cooper, was not aboard. The flight crew and FBI believe he parachuted from the plane over Southwestern Washington.

No trace of either Cooper or the money ever has been found and officers admit they are baffled. Many believe he was killed when he parachuted and that his body and the money may someday be found in the rugged mountains north of Portland by some hunter or hiker.

The Journal said it made its offer in belief that if any of the money from the extortion is in circulation its readers may turn up one of the bills.

The paper ran a list of some of the serial numbers and said it would publish more later.

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

p.A5 Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.

Date: 11/23/73 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title: NORJAK Character: or Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office Seattle [X] Being Investigated

COPY SENT TO BUREAU

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SW B

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164-81- [guess: SubB] SEARCHED............ INDEXED............ SERIALIZED...filed... FILED............... NOV 27 1973 FBI—SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-23011