Part 59, page 388

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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The skyjacker who vanished into thin air

[guess: This] country has a way of eat[ing] [guess: Did] Cooper get away or not? [guess: Eating] people up[,] says the That is one of the questions that young deputy sheriff[,] motioning [guess: galluseed] loggers spend long hours through the mist at a ridge of the debating around the stove in the Cascade Mountains in southwest Ariel general store and across the Washington. "They tell us Cooper river at Nick's Tavern in Amboy. If bailed out and landed back of that Cooper did, then why haven't any mountain. But who really knows?" of the ten thousand $20 bills—all

These thickly curtained woods carefully recorded by the FBI have become the graveyard for —shown up? Could the skyjacker scores of lost hunters and strayed have had an accomplice on the children. Now, they also seem to ground? Or, if Cooper is hanging have swallowed up the secret of dead, tangled in a fir tree out there.

"D. B. Cooper," the first of the parachuting hijackers and, cur- rently, the only one not in cus- tody. No tangible trace of him has been found since he bailed out the back door of a Northwest Orient 727 last Thanksgiving Eve. He was dressed in a business suit, top coat and brown oxfords, and he had $200,000 in ransom strapped to his chest. This exploit has become leg- end in the Northwest. A macabre cult has formed around him, and at least three subsequent hijackers have used Cooper's technique. All were later arrested. Cooper him- self remains a total mystery. The name he used to buy his airline ticket turned out to be an alias.

After Cooper jumped, it was two days before the heavy clouds cleared enough to permit a heli- copter search of the steep lava foothills and farmlands. The au- thorities figured that Cooper prob- ably came down near the shores of Lake Merwin. But the search yielded nothing, and heavy snows soon sealed the woods off.

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

86 Life Magazine

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Date: 9/16/72 Edition: June Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: 164-497-58 Submitting Office: Los Angeles

☐ Being Investigated

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