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

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CLUE TO HIJACKER

Please Check Your $20 Bills, FBI Asks

BY DARYL LEMBKE Times Staff Writer

SEATTLE — If you've got any $20 bills left from Christmas shopping, the FBI wishes you'd take a look at them. There's an off chance they might provide a clue as to the whereabouts of "D.B. Cooper," the fellow who literally jumped at the opportunity to get away with $200,000. That was the name a man gave when he purchased a ticket in Portland on a Seattle-bound Northwest Orient airliner last Nov. 24. He then hijacked the airliner en route to Seattle by showing a stewardess wires which he said were connected to a bomb in his briefcase. He forced the airline to give him $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes when the plane landed in Seattle. He then made the crew take off again and he apparently parachuted out of the 727 jet between Seattle and Reno, taking with him the loot. Although he could have died in the jump, most people seem to think that "Cooper" got away with the money. Some even hope that he did. He has become something of a folk hero. A Seattle firm is even selling "D.B. Cooper" T-shirts, showing a man floating to earth with the greenbacks.

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But a robbery is still a robbery to the FBI, which has the serial numbers of the stolen money and has published them in a 34-page booklet circulated among financial institutions in the West. To have come from the 20-pound package of $20 bills which the hijacker took, the bill must carry both the correct number and the date of the design series. Twenties in the hijack package are dated 1934, 1950, 1963 A and 1969. The date of the series is found at the bottom of the bill and just to the right of the center. The first letter with the serial number indicates in which of the 12 federal reserve districts the bill is [guess: issued]. The great majority of the bills taken by the hijacker came from the 12th Federal Reserve District, headquartered in San Francisco and lettered "L" on the stolen bills, but the other 11 districts lettered A through K, are also represented. Numbers on the list are in sequence but skip from smaller to much larger [guess: numbers].

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Random numbers from the list are as follows. A00 235 872A, dated 1969; A14 808 132A, dated 1969; B14 242 873A, dated 1969; B34 401 451A, dated 1969; B56 573 862A, dated 1969; B66 486 809A, 1969; C00 297 085A, 1969; C10 521 331A, 163A; D01 595 397A, 1969; D22 175 134A, 1969. D43 150 268A, 1963A; E00 560 629, 1969; E13 397 308B 63A; E46 136 999A, 1969; E85 531 831A 63A; F00 653 024A, 1969; F18 613 993A, 1969; G00 061 029B, 1969; G02 520 743, 1969; G11 544 899B 63A; G20 690 309B 63A; G36 971 521B, 1963A; G44 492 946B, 1963A; G51 777 334A, 1969; G56 717 199B, 1963A; G67 396 010A, 1969; H00 050 268A, 1969; H27 531 664A, 1963A. 100 039 231A, 1969; 100 834 944A, 1969; 103 429 657A, 1969; 105 D28 688A, 1969; 109 430 628A, 1963A; J00 031 331, 1963; JO2 357 13C, 1963A; JO6 927 J38A, 1969; J10 008 744A, 1969; J15 062 146A, 1969; 126 190 173A, 1963A; J39 611 379A, 1963A; K00 061 294, 1969; K08 015 487A, 1969; K18 626 893A, 1963A. L00 000 004B 63A; L00 205 900, 1969; L00 625 540A, 1969; L00 982 844, 1969; L01 404 303A, 1969; L01 599 092A, 1969; L01 684 869A, 1969; L01 744 834A, 1969; L02 275 724A, 1969; L03 329 195B, 1963A; L05 070 890A, 1969; L06 514 394, 1963A; L07 483 214, 63A; L09 283 128A, 1969; L09 971 454A, 1969; L11 670 051A, 1969; L13 219 688A, 1969; L14 707 268A, 1969; L16 083 643A, 1969; L17 875 196B, 1963A; L19 018 203A, 1969; L19 303 624A, 1969; L19 488 860A, 1969;

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

K-2 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif.

Date: 12/26/71 Edition: Sunday Final Author: — Editor: — Title: —

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles

☐ Being Investigated

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SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ DEC 2 8 1971 [illegible] ANGELES b6 [illegible] b7C

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164-497-[guess: 3008]

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DB Cooper-23279