LetterFrom Los Angeles tipster to FBI Portland with spirit-guided theories, photographs and annotated map5 December 1971page 1 of 5
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Part 91, page 203

DB Cooper-40586

Document date 5 December 1971

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Los Angeles, California December 5, 1971.

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F. 3. I. Portland, Oregon

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Dear Friends: I see nobody has found out what happened to the airplane hijacker yet. I thot for sure that by Sunday someone would find the parachutes. I have written several letters to you about it and I guess this one will finally be the last. I hope I have been some help in the case. You will have to discount what I wrote about Springfield, Oregon tho I guess. I had the spirit pretty good Saturday nite and it told me more about the case and repeated some of the things it had already told me and you can bet yout bottom dollar that you were pretty hot in looking for him at Woodland, but you have to go a little south and cross the Columbia. The spirit told me so many times that he came 'down near a fair'-'came down over a fair' and even once said he was in a fair that I have pinpointed the Multnomah County fairgrounds or near it as the place. The spirit also said 'he came down over a Mare' This is symbolic- it means an island like the fair area seems to be on because Mare island in San Francisco is the symbolism- so Mare in this case means an island. It also said celery. -to me this also means island, because in Spokane in the twenties when I was there, there were some chinese raising celery in the delta part of a river there not far from town- the southwestern section. Celery would mean then- delta area. I have never been over around that section, but if I did I would look around the columbia river on the west side and maybe near the north end of Smith lake. Smith lake looks like a horse with his front feet down and a saddle on his back., there are two little horns or saddle horns I call them sticking up on the northern side of the lake. Maybe this is what the spirit meant when it said ' he is in a seater' There is a little inlet there on the north side of the lake. If he made it accross the Columbia and got on the west side then he probably let the chutes go in to the lake and they floated down the river. The spirit seemed to say today Sunday that he had left the area. It is pretty definite with me then that he floated over the fair grounds. Maybe even the race track and came down in the middle of it. There was a word came thru me early last week 'union' and I wondered what it meant and today in looking at the map I found a street or avenue called Union. I think he was on it and either caught a trolley or walked on it. The spirit Saturday nite told me three times that he was a drugger. This means that he was narcotic. It also said he was a collector. I wonder what he collected besides the $200,000 ? Maybe he is selling narcotics, also, but there was another aspect of the case- it said he called a [illegible] and I thot it could mean his sweetheart, but at least two times or more it said he called a lawyer. Maybe he called a lawyer and the secretary answered. Could he be maybe a wanted man and need a lot of money to buy himself off? Maybe the lawyer is in cahoots with him and owns a light plane and picked him up. He sure made a phone call according to the spirit. When I was out walking bothe Saturday and Sunday I got a message twice- it said ' He had four' and then broke off. The sentence was not finished. I figured he had four men in with him. How did he know when to jump off. Did he go by lights or did he have something in his brief case such as a powerful walkie talkie [guess: or police radio] rigged up with someone on the ground? Maybe he was smarter than I thot he was and was [illegible] underware. He could thus stand the cold in the plane better and [illegible] with the aid of some kind of drug or amphetamine.

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