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D B Cooper — Part 32

457 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jan 6, 1972 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D B Cooper · 457 pages OCR'd
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FD-356 (Rev, 7-16-63) PORTLAND — (UPI) — The Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation says it has definitely eliminated any conection between a captured bank-robbery suspect andthe elu- sive skyjacker “D. B, Cooper" who parachuted from an airliner in 1971 with $200,000 in ransom. ; Julius Mattson, F. B. I. special agent, said. yesterday the robbery suspect, Arvidis J. Kiperts, 41, of Vancouver, Wash., was not the man who called himself Cooper in the hi- jacking of the Northwest Airlines jetliner. The agent said Cooper was de- scribed as thin but Kiperts is stoky. He added that witnesses .to thes hijacking looked at a picture, of Kiger ts and said he was not Cooper. The F. B. 1. said it had conclusive {Mount Clipping In Space Below} Hemay be bank robber, but he’s no? D.B. Cooper evidence that Kiperts was some- where else at the time of the plane hijacking. Kiperts was arrested j in San Diego Monday night on an Oregon ‘bank-. robbery charge and is a suspect in a second bank rebbery in Oregon in which the holdup man doadléd the name D, B. Cooper an a bank-depos- it slip. A man who called ‘himself D. B. - Cooper hijacked the plane between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiv- ing Eve, ‘t971, and demanded the ransom and four pardchutes, He bailed out of the plane belween Seattle and Reno and disappeared. Kiperts is being held in litu .of $150,000 bail and is scheduled ap- ' pear before a United States magis- trate in San Diego November 19. DB Cooper-1208/7 (indicate page, name af newspaper, clty and state.) peA2 Seattle Times ~ Seattle, Wash. Date: 11/10/73 Edition: Final Authom Title: b7C NORJAK Character: Classification: 164-81 ~ 5037 Submitting Office Seattle £] Being Investlgated COR! Sha, 1 BUREAU SEARCHED. gf, -oeenen wy NEKED Gr Lo Ne SERIALIZED f LeSsCan ELLEDrasspsttaccone y 44197
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