Part 91, page 210
Document date December 1971
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 91 p. 210 (DB Cooper-40593), Letter, dated Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-91/pages/210
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The word college made m[illegible] think of that college of f[illegible]esty after I had seen it on the map and wondered if he had any connection with it. What do you think? Two or three things stand out then. If he were smart he bailed out quickly and knew just what he was doing and got home in no time, because he probably lived around there. I don't personally think he was smart at all and probably had never been down in a parachute at all. I think he is dead someplace, but it is sure funny that the chutes have not showed up and neither has he. There are a lot of people out looking for him. What the spirit told me then is 'he is in a seater' He could be in a swivel chair, in a plane seat heading for another country, in a car going to east coast. I will see now in the next day or two if the spirit still persists in saying-he is in a seater. If this be true then I think he is dead in a tree or dead in a bleachers at a fairgrounds where he hit when he came down, but I have another great idea about it too. The fact of the matter is the spirit keeps saying and especially Dec 3- he is in a seater several times and 'he came down over a fair' near a fair came thru several times--The word car and the word Ford came thru several times. He dialed or called a [redacted] and something about a store or drugstore b6 where he called. Since this word car and Ford began to bug me lately b7C then I think I stumbled on another lead. This is really a kick in the pants and wait until you see it and hear about it. The day before the caper the spirit had talked th[illegible] me about a spring, but I thot it was the spring in my heater that is on the bum and it also said something about a field. I have a swell map of Oregon and I was looking at it and guess what I saw. Boy is this deduction. Take a look at the city map of Springfield, Oregon. I never saw anything like it. It looks like a car or a Ford and it even has a seat in it where the Mckenzie River and Mohawk rivers cut into the city center. It looks like a seat in a car and the whole town, the way it is layed out looks like a Ford or a car. Right north of the seat where the seat is you will see on the map a park called Armitage state park. This could mean the fair- the seat and the car. Isn't that the cats? I imagine the area nnorth of the seat is wooded. It sure is worth a try and I consider it a good lead. I don't know if the plane path went thru Springfield or not. Maybe it went close to it -better check this very important clue. If he waited this long to bail out and didn't have heavy clothing on then I would say he was a dumbell and was probably so cold and frozen that he couldn't even pull the chute string and he is a corpse laying down there someplace. There is another angle to this case, too. People today are not nice like they were in the twenties and thirties as a rule and if anybody has found the corpse and the money the chances are that they would keep the money and never report it. There may be a few honest people left however. Ihope you have the money marked with ultra- violet for black light. If the Cooper guy is smart and really lives in Seattle area in a small town and has the money HE will probably cash some of it in the Seattle city center and not in his small town. A little at a time, or take a plane out of the country. I think he is a crackpot myself and I arrive at my decision thru the light clothes he was wearing and it just might be he is a corpse near Springfield, Oregon right now.
Sincerely,
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Yesterday the spirit talked thru me and said paris a couple or three b6 times and I started looking for a french name like Rainier, W[illegible]sh. b7C because Prince Rainier of Monaco has a principality near France, but it proved to be another hijack at Paris. It also said sewers a couple of times and I thot maybe the man landed near Seattle and hid the chutes in a culvert or drainage ditch, but it rained down her and hence the word sewers meant the coming rain would probably flood some sewers.
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