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DB Cooper-23466

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2 Sec. K–Sun., Dec. 26, 1971 Los Angeles Times

CLUE TO HIJACKER

Please Check Your $20 Bills, FBI Asks

BY DARYL LEMBRE 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.

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.

Twelves [guess: Twelve] of the hijack packages 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 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 [guess: 11] districts lettered A through K, are also represented. Numbers on the list are in sequence but skip from smaller to much larger flights.

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 1968; B56 573 882A, dated 1969; B66 468 890A, 1969; C00 297 055A, 1969; C10 521F531A, 163A; D01 505 397A, 1969; D22[guess: 1]75 134A, 1969;

I[guess: H]3 150 258A, [guess: 1]963A; F00 560 623 1969; E13 397F308B 83A; E46 136 830B, 1969; E25 831 831A 63A; [guess: F]00 635 054A, 1969; F18 613 993A, 1969; G00 061 029B, 1969; C[guess: G]0 520 743F 1969; G11 544 899B 63A; G29 690 309B 63A; G36 971 521B, 1963A; G44 4921946B, 1963A; C51 777 384A, 1969; G56 717 1969; 1963A; G67 396,010A, 1963; H00 030 286A, 1969; H27 531,664A, 1963A; 100 039 231A, 1969; I00 834;944A, 1969; I03 429

657A, 1969; I05 028 686A, 1969; I09 430 628A, 1963A; J00 031 331, 1963; J02 357, 13C, 1963A; J06 927 138A, 1969; J10 008 744A, 1969; J15 463 466A, 1969; 126 190 173A, 1963A; J39 611 379A, 1963A; K00 061 294, 1969; K08 015 487A, 565 661A, 1969; L24 291 [guess: 737A], 1969; L25 786 721B, 1963A; L27 309 535B, 1963A; L28 422 704A, 1969; L29 389 833A, 1969; 1.29 638 047A, 1969; L29 861 672A, 1969; L30 031 359B, 1963A; L30 804 860A, 1969; L31 781 102A, 1969; L32 346 096A, 1969; L32 428 331A, 1969.

L32 509 792A, 1969; L32 536 072A, 1969; L32 666 806A, 1969; L32 899A, 1969; L32 815 [guess: 330A], 1969; L29 302 490A, 1969. L32 049 [guess: 922]A, 1969; L33 058 753A, 1969; L33 121 622A, 1969; L[guess: 30] 326A, 1969; L33 [guess: 260] 008A, 1969; L33 312 [guess: 739]A, 1969.

L19 590 456B 63A; L19 723 933A, 1969; L19 855 986A, 1969; L19 960 040A, 1969. L20 676 055A, 1969; L20 186 168A, 1969; L20 291 [guess: 294]A, 1969; L20 403 478A, 1969; L20 476 486A, 1969; L21 441 210A, 63A; L22

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