Overview
In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a jetliner, demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes, and bailed out somewhere over Oregon, never to be seen again. He became a folk hero to hippies, survivalists, libertarians, and anarchists, who admired the man who had, apparently, beat the system. However, his jumpy, in brutally cold weather and in the midst of a major storm, left one question unanswered: where was he?
George C. Nuttall, with his best friend (pictured right), also a trained policeman and investigator, began to poke around in the mystery of Cooper's disappearance. The resulting book, D.B. Cooper Case Exposed: J. Edgar Hoover Cover-Up? is a record of his investigations, which turn up some results implicating-far more powerful people than D.B. Cooper, whoever he was.
Nuttall and his pal found poor police work, missing documents, and outright lies everywhere they looked, and began to smell a cover-up. The two men were convinced that-there was no possibility that Cooper survived the jump, although they never definitively proved this. More puzzling is the unmistakable FBI fingerprint they find at every turn.
Now, decades later, Nuttall has written an exposé, linking an astonishing cast of characters: cops, congressmen, FAA officials and Mafia dons. The common thread is that, one way or the other, they were all linked back to Washington, to the-powerful, corrupt and perverse head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.
George C. Nuttall spent his entire adult life in law enforcement, working in the San Diego P.D. and the California Highway Patrol, where he-reached the rank of captain and served as the CHP coordinator with the Secret Service. Nuttall also had extensive training with the FBI, and it was his investigative background that lead him to study the D.B. Cooper story. His first book, a memoir of his career, was entitled Cops, Crooks and Other Crazies. He retired in 1983.