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The FBI's latest release "D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Part 98" reveals that an early suspect in the hijacking of Flight 305 was Fred A Barnowsky, smokejumper and Redding Base Manager for the US Forest Service. Declassified CIA documents indicate that Barnowsky was a contract parachute rigger and Parachute Dispatch Officer for the CIA, and a participant in the disastrous Bay of Pigs mission.
(Left and center) Fred Barnowsky in 1949. Image credit: unknown, by courtesy of National Smokejumper Association and Eastern Washington University. (Right) Image KK5-1 from the FBI Facial Identification Catalog of 1971 (of which the second stewardess said “that’s him”); image credit: FBI, with my additional graphics.
D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Fred Barnowsky
On September 4, 2024, the FBI released “D. B. Cooper Skyjacking Part 98”, its latest monthly compendium of partially declassified documents from the Norj...
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(Left and center) Fred Barnowsky in 1949. Image credit: unknown, by courtesy of National Smokejumper Association and Eastern Washington University. (Right) Image KK5-1 from the FBI Facial Identification Catalog of 1971 (of which the second stewardess said “that’s him”); image credit: FBI, with my additional graphics.
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