Part 91, page 437

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TELEPHONE: [redacted] [redacted] PORTLAND, OREGON [redacted]

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SEARCHED ......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... DEC 1 3 1971 FBI -- PORTLAND [illegible]

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December 10, 1971

Federal Bureau of Investigation U. S. COURTHOUSE Portland, Oregon 97207

Reference: "D. B. Cooper" hijacking case. Northwest Airlines Flight 305, 11/24/71. Portland-Seattle.

Gentlemen,

Since the writer patronizes various airlines in the course of my business, I dont look forward to being on a hijacked plane at some future date. Furthermore, I dont feel any "hero worship" toward the recent hijacker, as some seem to do lately. I am interested only in apprehending the guilty parties involved.

It is encouraging to note that the list of serial numbers of the $20 bills has been released. On the other hand, from a practical matter, how am I or anyone else going to be able to check the bills in my own possession from a 35-page list not readily available to the public?

I have a suggestion for your consideraion, and I hope that through copies of this letter to the editors of the Oregonian and to the Oregon Journal, they will both do their bit to promote the following:-

The prime unanswered question on this case at the moment is whether the hijacker was successful and is alive and well somewhere spending a part of his loot or whether there is an unopened parachute somewhere attached to a corpse. Obviously, when the first 20 dollar bill shows up in trade somewhere, this question will be answered.

Instead of just a few bank and government employees looking for some of the listed serial numbers, consider how many thousands of times more effective it would be if the general public assisted you!

The quick and relatively inexpensive way to do this is for the government to post the list in every major postoffice, along side the "men wanted" posters and simultaneously through the press and TV, offer to purchase the first ten (10) $20 bills turned in at $100.00 each! What more incentive could you give the general public to participate? And what a pittance to pay, as compared with the cost to date of your manhunt so far!

Further, many of my friends and possibly most of the general public are erronously under the impression that if they should find one of these $20 bills and attempt to report it, it will be confiscated as stolen property. Consequently, no one has any serious thoughts of even looking for the identified bills and would prefer to cover it up rather than report it, if found. Between your office with a purchase offer, and the news media, you could really get a mass inspection program going immediately! I am a concerned citizen. Sincerely yours,

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