Part 95, page 99
DB Cooper-42497Serials PD 164-41
Document date 16 October 1972
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 95 p. 99 (DB Cooper-42497), Handwritten note, dated 16 Oct 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-95/pages/99
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FBI Portland Oct 16, 1972 D.B. Cooper case 164-41 Sirs In the early hubbub over the D.B. Cooper case I hesitated to contact your office, (though the composite photo of Mr. Cooper seemed [guess: familiar],) and I yet have no reason to believe my [guess: letter] would be helpful. Still, I will advance a couple comments. (I grew up at [REDACTED] [REDACTED]) My first impressions were, (1.) that such a jump as occurred would be imposs- ible to make successfully. (2.) That the many access roads to the Bonneville Power line might have been used in combination with an automatic or manually operated Beacon light. Commercial Airline travel crosses [guess: back] [guess: wood] Canyon roughly parallel to the power line in its flight headed South. A mean average point would place a given Airline roughly overhead at the Eastern slope of Look wood Hill, although they sometimes track directly over the Power line at that point.) (3.) An individual in that area could easily elude detection, even in daylight with searchers about. He could, in fact make it all the way to Interstate 5 to the west, could boat to Eddy [guess: sock] via the East Fork of the Lewis River, reach a parked car on the highway leave from any of [guess: unnumbered] [guess:ble] power line roads or even boat the Lewis and cross the Columbia at St Helens Oregon. Etc.
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DB Cooper-42497