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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81)

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) The Oregonian Portland, Oregon Date: 7-1-89 Edition:

Title: NORJAK

Character: 164-41 or 80-715 Classification: Submitting Office:

Indexing:

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Does FBI have D.B. Cooper?

☐ The FBI is tracing the path of a man who disappeared at the same time as the hijacking to see if he committed the crime

By ROBERTA ULRICH of The Oregonian staff

The FBI is investigating the possibility that a man recently arrested in the 1971 killing of his family is the elusive airline hijacker known as D.B. Cooper.

The man, John E. List, vanished Nov. 1971, the day authorities believe his mother, wife and three children were shot to death in the family's home at [guess: Westfield], N.J. That was just 15 days before [guess: Cooper]

hijacked a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 at Portland International Airport and parachuted into the dark and subzero temperatures over Southwestern Washington with $200,000 in cash.

No trace of Cooper was ever found, but about $6,000 in tattered, water-soaked $20 bills from the hijack ransom turned up along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash., in 1980. The case remains the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history.

List "is no more of a suspect than any of the other people who come up from time to time," John Eyer, assistant agent in charge of the FBI office in Seattle, said Thursday. "We are investigating to see if he is a viable suspect."

List waived extradition and was flown Thursday from Richmond, Va., to New Jersey, where he was held in the Union County Jail at Elizabeth charged with five

counts of murder. Authorities there said Friday they do not know where List was at the time the Cooper hijacking occurred. Eyer acknowledged that List had been

considered a possible suspect shortly after the hijacking because of the New Jersey killings and the fact that he had disappeared.

"Our interest in him as a potential suspect has been rekindled" as a result of his arrest, Eyer said.

However, Ralph Himmelsbach, the retired FBI agent from Portland who sought Cooper from the night of the hijacking until he retired in 1980, said Friday "I would say he's a major suspect or, at least, I would consider him a major suspect."

After first hearing about the new development Thursday, Himmelsbach said "He definitely looks good to me. He fits the profile, the description. He's the kind of a guy with nothing to lose. ... He does bear a

Please turn to COOPER, Page A15

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1O64A-SE-81 -13 [guess: b-4-1] 1992 SEARCHED... INDEXED... FILED.... [date stamp] 1980 FBI — PORTLAND b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-43751 FBI/DOJ