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`Compiled from news services ! WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found "about $4,000 of the money that the legendary hijacker, D.B. Cooper, carried with him when he para- chuted from a commercial . jet over Southwest Washington in ·1971, a bureau spokesman said Tuesday.
The spokesman, who asked not to be named, said a family wan- dering along the banks of the Co- lumbia River north of Portland, Ore., found a packet of money this week.
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Held together by a rubber band, the packet of $20 bills was so bad- ly deteriorated the F.B.I. could not make an exact count of the amount, the spokesman said.
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could not make an exact count of the amount, the spokesman said.
Despite the deterioration, the spokesman said the F.B.I. was able to identify the money as part of the $200,000 ransom given to Cooper in Seattle nine years ago. When the money was given to the hijacker, the F.B.I. kept records of the serial numbers.
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The packet was found 20 miles "downstream from the point where! Cooper is believed to have bailed
out of the Northwest Airlines 727, the spokesman said.
He added that with floods along the river it was likely that in nine : `years the packet had been carried some distance.
· The Portland and Seattle offices of the F.B.I. were conducting a search in the area, but the spokes- man said it was unlikely that dis- covery of the money packet would aid in the search for Cooper, the only parachute-ransom hijacker in United States history who has not been apprehended.
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flight in Portland on Thanksgiving, Eve, 1971, using the name Dan Cooper. Before the plane reached Seattle, Cooper threatened to ex- plode a "bomb" in his brief case if he were not given $200,000 in $20
Before the plane reached Seattle, Cooper threatened to ex- plode a "bomb" in his brief case if he were not given $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes and flown to Reno, Nev.
The plane circled Seattle for 21/2 hours while authorities gathered" the parachutes and money.
The passengers and two of the' three stewardesses were allowed: to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded and the plane took off for Reno. The pilot
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Somewhere over Southwest Washington, the hijacker, ther ·money and one of the parachutes disappeared out of the plane's rear exit, opened in flight. The ap- proximate place of departure was guessed at from cabin-pressure readings on the flight recorder.
The flight recorder and crew testimony indicated Cooper had jumped near the little town of Ari- el, Cowlitz County, about 30 miles north of Portland, a densely wood -; ed area in the foothills of the Cas-
cade Mountains.
Despite intensive searches of the area, the only item connected with the hijacking ever found was a rear door from the 727.
Despite intensive searches of the area, the only item connected with the hijacking ever found was a rear door from the 727.
Nothing ever was seen of Coo- per or the $200,000.
The F.B.I. has said since shortly after the hijacking it believed Coo- per probably was killed when he landed.
In 1977, just to make sure the hi- jacker didn't escape prosecution via the statute of limitations, hel was indicted on federal charges in !! absentia.
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PORTLAND (UPI) - Ralph Himmelsbach, the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who has headed the D.B. Cooper case since the 1971 hijacking, outlines this "possible scenario" to explain how some of the Cooper money washed up on the beach west of Vancouver:
"Probably the money (in the bag) came down close to the bank of a stream. When the water got high enough it washed down- stream, bumping along the bot- tom.
washed up on the beach west of Vancouver:
"Probably the money (in the bag) came down close to the bank of a stream. When the water got high enough it washed down- stream, bumping along the bot- tom. The bag finally degraded.
"Perhaps it could have burst on impact, but that is not likely. We think finally, tumbling down the river bottom, it broke open and) the money was carried on, wear- ing off little bits and pieces around the edges, grinding it down like it had been ground with sandpaper or a file, leaving the center portion."
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On 2/15/80, Kettle Falls, Washington, advised the photographs of Subject are very similar to one of his former business partners in the business, is very proficient in sky diving, swimming, and related athletic activities as well as being crooked.
last saw anproximately 19 years ago but did see a picture of him approx. 10 years ago in a trade journal. was last known to live in
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On 2/15/80, Kettle Falls, Washington, advised the photographs of Subject are very similar to one of his former business partners in the business, is very proficient in sky diving, swimming, and related athletic activities as well as being crooked.
last saw anproximately 19 years ago but did see a picture of him annoox. 10 years ago in a trale journal. central Oregon.
last saw anproximately 19 years ago but did see a picture of him annoox. 10 years ago in a trale journal. central Oregon.
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P ORTLAND, Ore. - The" mystery surrounding D.B. Cooper's skyjacking and disappearance eight years ago has been rekindled by a Vancouver, Wash., family's inad- vertent discovery of worn packets of $20 bills on the Columbia River shoreline - part of Cooper's $200,- 000 ransom.
The saga which changed the nature of airline piracy began on Thanksgiving Day, 1971, when Cooper boarded Northwest Air- lines flight 305 for a flight from Portland to Seattle. Once aboard, he handed a crew member a note, saying he was carrying a bomb in a satchel and wanted $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills.
When the jetliner landed at the Seattle-Tacoma International Air- port that evening, authorities had arranged the cash and had also obtained
When the jetliner landed at the Seattle-Tacoma International Air- port that evening, authorities had arranged the cash and had also obtained four parachutes, as in- structed by Cooper.
Cooper then allowed the flight's 36 passengers and all crew mem- bers but two pilots and one stew. ardess to disembark. He then ordered the aircraft to take off for Reno, Nev.
'At. one point in that flight, the crew felt a fluctuation in cabin pressure, which suggested the -jet- liner's rear cabin door had opened.
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The FBI believes it is at that point The distance involved tends to belie Coffelt's story of the hijacking, which he told over a period of months in 1974 to strapped on the bag of money and the an old friend who helped him search for satchel containing the supposed bomb, the lost money. Coffelt died of apparent and leaped out.
natural causes in Hawaii in 1975.
He tumbled into the heart of a Further weakening Coffelt's claim of Pacific Northwest storm, with tempera- being Cooper is his assertion that he tures at the 10,000-foot altitude at the minus end of the thermometer. Authori- landed just east. of Mt. Hood, which is about 25 miles south of the Columbia River. ties estimated Cooper experienced .a headwind of up to 200 miles per hour.
Hood, which is about 25 miles south of the Columbia River. ties estimated Cooper experienced .a headwind of up to 200 miles per hour.
He would have landed on the ground at a speed of 50-70 miles per hour, authorities calculated.
The FBI conducted numerous recon- struction flights over southwest . Wash- ington and employed complicated computer calculations to help deter- mine where Cooper might have landed.
Experts agree that even if the money entered the river at that point, it would be unlikely that it could wind its way down the wide waterway some 60 miles to where it was found on the north bank of the river.
"The money would have had to float through locks, reservoirs, spillways and power units on the Columbia," said a geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Portland. "I don't think it could have done that and been intact."
Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent who has invested the past eight years on the case, concluded shortly after Cooper's jump that the daring man was killed in the attempt.
Robert Wagman, a producer for "60 Exhaustive searches by the Washing- Minutes" who has spent more than a ton
Robert Wagman, a producer for "60 Exhaustive searches by the Washing- Minutes" who has spent more than a ton National Guard and the FBI year investigating Coffelt's claim to the produced only one clue - a placard D.B. Cooper legend, said, "Based on from the jetliner's rear" door.> conversations I've had with FBI agents Hundreds of treasure hunters have and engineers who know the river, it doesn't seem possible that the money could have washed up (where it was
prowled southwest Washington envi- rons hoping to find the missing cash or Cooper.
found) from where Coffelt said he lost it.
Until the Harold Dwayne Ingram It actually defies belief."
And some people still refuse `to
family made its discovery of a dozen packets of tattered $20 bills, .those believe that Cooper is dead.
efforts had failed ..
Journalist :J.D. Reed, the author of
'Cooper's daring and unorthodox dir the recently released fictional book hijacking ... which came to be known as "Free Fall," dealing with the Cooper a "skyjacking" - provoked other efforts adventure, said he disagrees with the to extort money from commercial
which came to be known as "Free Fall," dealing with the Cooper a "skyjacking" - provoked other efforts adventure, said he disagrees with the to extort money from commercial air-FBI that finding the money tends to lines. That increase " in airline piracy support the probability that D.B. Cooper triggered 'the installation of beefed-up did not survive the jump. security systems at the nation's airports "It doesn't rule out that Cooper got awav." said Reed. to spot potential hijackers.
Over the years, many people refused to believe that Cooper had died in his effort, and a few even claimed to be the mysterious skyjacker.
In one case,'Byron "Jack" Coffelt, an 'ex-convict' who claimed, to be the mysterious hijacker, told a friend that he landed after parachuting from the airliner. .... -
DB Cooper-17353An artist's sketches of D.B. Cooper based on recollections of passengers on the jet he hijacked and parachuted from in 1971.
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V ANCOUVER, Wash. William M. Baker, assistant agent Twelve packets of $20 in charge of the Portland FBI bills, used eight years office, said discovery of the money ago as part of the $200,- lends credence to the FBI theory 000 paid to airline hijacker "D.B. that Cooper died in the hijacking Cooper," have been found on a attempt.
said discovery of the money ago as part of the $200,- lends credence to the FBI theory 000 paid to airline hijacker "D.B. that Cooper died in the hijacking Cooper," have been found on a attempt.
Columbia River beach near here, Cooper's extortion effort was the the FBI announced yesterday.
first time a jet had been hijacked Harold D. Ingram, 27, his wife, for ransom. A number of hijack- Patricia, 26, and their two sons, ings for cash have been carried out were picnicking on what is known since the Cooper escapade.
as Tena's Bar last Sunday when' Baker said the FBI could not be their older son. discovered : the certain how much money was in money.
the packets, but said it amounted
Eight-year-old Brian Ingram was to "several thousand dollars." helping his father gather firewood The money has been sent to the and had scooped out sand for a'FBI laboratory in Washington, fire. As his -father . was about to. D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will drop an armload of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the Ingram Fold, "Wait a minute, bills, which could lead to the Daddy."
suspect.
Recalling his find yesterday, , "That would be a hell of a Brian said, "I seen that money, I break .
Recalling his find yesterday, , "That would be a hell of a Brian said, "I seen that money, I break ... tie said. - thought, wow."
But his parents remained calm, the son recalled.They thought it was counterfeit."
The tattered and worn "bills young Ingram found were the first to be recovered by law enforce- ment agencies since Nov. 24, 1971, when . a passenger hijacked a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727.
The man, identified on the flight List as Dan Cooper, parachuted out of the airliner somewhere over southwestern Washington.
The serial numbers on the bills discovered by young Ingram matched those on the money given Cooper by the FBI in 1971 ..
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f ; Ingram, 'a painter, said in a news conference yesterday that the bills bound in three packets and wrapped in worn rubberbands were about six Inches beneath the surface. Despite the find, the family continued with its picnic.
"It didn't look like .I could spend it," the older Ingram said.
". The family, which moved last year from Oklahoma to Vancouver; a town of about 40,000 across the Columbia from Portland, wasn't aware of the D.B. Cooper legend. Baker said the family contacted the FBI Monday afternoon only after learning about the hijacking from friends, who suggested the money might have been part of the missing foot.
After the Ingrams reported their discovery, the FBI immediately' cor- doned off a section of beach behind the truck and dairy farm operated by the New Columbia Gardens Co .-
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After the Ingrams reported their discovery, the FBI immediately' cor- doned off a section of beach behind the truck and dairy farm operated by the New Columbia Gardens Co .-
Fifteen to.20 FBI agents dressed in blue jeans and using shovels and rakes they had brought. from their homes sifted through sand and driftwood along # 150-yard stretch around where the Ingrams found the cash.
"Working from 10 a.m. until dusk yesterday, they found a few bits of bills buried from a half-foot to 3 feet beneath the surface near where the campfire had been. The FBI expected to use a backnoe today"to dig even deeper.
DB Cooper-173574 Baker said one of the first chores for the agency will be to attempt to find how the money got to the beach. He said the FBI believes the money was washed up on the shoreline at a time when the Columbia was running high.
He said experts in hydrology and topography would be consulted to determine how the money got to the beach. The FBI has meticulously reconstructed flight conditions that existed at the time Cooper is believed to have jumped.
The FBI believes Cooper jumped out over the small .
The FBI has meticulously reconstructed flight conditions that existed at the time Cooper is believed to have jumped.
The FBI believes Cooper jumped out over the small .Washington .town of La Center, about 20 miles north of .Vancouver. In nearby Ariel, Wash., a tiny town that has adopted Cooper as a folk hero, city father's hold "Cooper Caper Days". each year of the
DB Cooper-17358anniversary of his jump.
Despite extensive searches employ- ing the FBI, sheriff's departments from two counties in southwest Washington and the Washington National Guard, no trace of Cooper has been found.
"He's probably not alive today," said Dorwyn Schreuder, FBI agent supervis- ing the continuing beach search. "If he were, I think he'd be with his money." Ralph Himmelsbach, FBI agent lead- ing the Cooper investigation for the past eight years, said the conditions under which Cooper parachuted underscored the fact that he died in the jump.
Himmelsbach said the FBI believes Cooper was wearing only a business suit and street shoes when he jumped at night into sub-freezing temperatures and winds of up to, 200 miles an hour.
Himmelsbach said the FBI believes Cooper was wearing only a business suit and street shoes when he jumped at night into sub-freezing temperatures and winds of up to, 200 miles an hour. Even if Cooper should somehow have survived and is watching recent devel- opments on television, he still isn't clear of the law. A federal grand jury in 1977 handed down an indictment against 'Cooper charging him 'with air piracy. "Just in case ... " said Baker ..
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WASHINGTON-A young Van- couver, Wash., family on an outing along the Columbia River last Sunday suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks of moldering money-part of the $200,-
Law enforcement authorities long have believed that Cooper died in his plunge from the Boeing 727 because he was wearing only a business suit
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Law enforcement authorities long have believed that Cooper died in his plunge from the Boeing 727 because he was wearing only a business suit
and street shoes when he jumped into 0,00 that the notorious airline hijacker "D. B. Cooper" made off with more than eight years ago, the FBI said Tuesday.
a howling wind and freezing rain in an unreliable parachute. It has been estimated that he hit the ground at a
speed of 50 to 70 m.p.h.
With the bills now having been! traced definitely to the Cooper loot, 30 agents from the Portland and Seattle FBI offices have begun an ex- tensive search of the area for more of the money-and possibly for some sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re- mains.
The money-"several thousand dollars," according to one official- was found in Washington about five miles northwest of the Interstate 5 bridge that spans the Columbia and separates Washington from Oregon, FBI agent William M. Baker told a news conference in Portland.
Discovery of the money by Harold Dwayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia, 26, and their sons, 8 and 3, marked the latest twist in the bizarre saga of the now-legendary Cooper, who pa- rachuted from a Northwest
Discovery of the money by Harold Dwayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia, 26, and their sons, 8 and 3, marked the latest twist in the bizarre saga of the now-legendary Cooper, who pa- rachuted from a Northwest Airlines jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, never to be seen or heard from again. When found by the Ingrams, the stacks of $20 bills were bound by de- composing rubber bands, the FBI said. But there was "no trace of D. B. Cooper," according to the agency."
"Shortly after the hijacking, a cult sprang up around D. B. Cooper, a hame that never has been traced to it's origins.
A private club was named in his honor, D. B. Cooper T-shirts were manufactured, bumper stickers were run off and anniversary parties were held: Baker said in Portland that wheth- er Cooper got away with the rest of the money was an open question.
The saga began when "Cooper" boarded the jetliner in Portland for an evening flight to Seattle. Once air- borne, he demanded that the airline have $200,000 in $20 bills and three parachutes on hand when the plane landed in Seattle. He threatened to blow up the plane if his demands were-not met.
Once air- borne, he demanded that the airline have $200,000 in $20 bills and three parachutes on hand when the plane landed in Seattle. He threatened to blow up the plane if his demands were-not met.
"The airline complied, providing the parachutes and money. However, the FBI said Tuesday that the serial numbers of the bills had been record- ed.
Cooper permitted the airliner's 36 passengers to leave the plane in Seat- tle. He then ordered the crew to take the plane to Reno and told the pilot to fly at a relatively low altitude and to open the plane's rear stairway.
Crew members last heard his voice on the plane's intercom when they were over the Washington-Oregon border. They said they believe he jumped, using the least reliable para- chute. The decomposed money was found 17 to 20 miles from the jump site by the Ingrams' older son, Brian. The bills were partly buried in sand that the Ingrams were scooping out to build a fire.
"Here's some more wood for the fire, Daddy," the father recalled his son as saying.
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Ingram said he assumed the bills might be part of the Cooper money. He turned them over to the FBI, add- ing with a smile that they were so de- composed, "I couldn't have spent it.'
In leafing through the rotting bills, Baker said, the FBI made about "nine or 10 immediate hits"-matches with the numbers of the missing money. The bills were flown to Washington for further analysis, and tests by the FBI laboratory.
.An FBI official said the packaging and number sequence of the recov- ered bills indicated they had not been separated and "are in much the same order as when they were given to the hijacker.
An FBI official said the packaging and number sequence of the recov- ered bills indicated they had not been separated and "are in much the same order as when they were given to the hijacker."
The initial search, confined to an area several hundred yards long and 40 yards wide, turned up "fragments of more money" -- nothing more, Bak- er said. He said the money appeared to have washed up on the bank.
Once that. search is completed, probably by this afternoon, a scaled- down number of agents will move up- stream, continuing the hunt.
Law enforcement officials in the' Pacific Northwest have theorized that Cooper's body is at the bottom of Lake Merwin, 30 miles north of Port- land, or that his bones are so entan- gled in giant wild blackberry bushes that they will never be found ..
^.Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent who has worked on the hijacking since it took place, said the money probably had been washed down- Stream from a Columbia tributary in Washington. But he said he doubted that it came from the Lewis River, the tributary that flows out of Lake Merwin.
DB Cooper-1736BWEATHERED CASH-Harold and Patricia Ingram Portland with money their.
But he said he doubted that it came from the Lewis River, the tributary that flows out of Lake Merwin.
DB Cooper-1736BWEATHERED CASH-Harold and Patricia Ingram Portland with money their.son found:
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white male, DOB had told her several months ago while he had been drinking that he was actually D. V. Cooper, the subject of a TV news story that they were watching.
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LEADS
SEATTLE
At Seattle, Washington
Furnish complete background information to Indianapolis Division for interview of is determined he
if it
INDIANAPOLIS
At Michigan City, Indiana
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
2*
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DB Cooper-17366 SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 2/12/80
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (164-177) (P)
NORJAK CRIME ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT - AIRCRAFT HIJACKING
SUBJ
00: SEATTLE
On 12/12/79, Bloomington, Indiana, advised
white male, DOB had told her several months ago while he had been drinking that he was actually D.
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 2/12/80
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (164-177) (P)
NORJAK CRIME ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT - AIRCRAFT HIJACKING
SUBJ
00: SEATTLE
On 12/12/79, Bloomington, Indiana, advised
white male, DOB had told her several months ago while he had been drinking that he was actually D. V. Cooper, the subject of a TV news story that they were watching.
On 12/14/79, viewed a composite sketch of TV Cooper and stated it resembled She stated he has always smoked non-filter Camel cigarettes and that he has black hair and hazel eyes. She stated he is a long time resident of Bloomington, Indiana, who at Michigan City, Indiana, where he
On 1/28/80, a review of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Bloomington, Indiana, records show has FBI
Number Monroe County Sheriff's Photo Identification Number and 2-Seattle 2-Indianapolis
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DB Cooper-17367
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LEADS
SEATTLE
At Seattle, Washington
Furnish complete background information to Indianapolis Division for interview of is determined he
if it
INDIANAPOLIS
At Michigan City, Indiana
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
2*
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b6 b7c
DB Cooper-17368FD-350 (Rev.
DB Cooper-17367
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b6 b7c
b6 b7CIP 164-177
LEADS
SEATTLE
At Seattle, Washington
Furnish complete background information to Indianapolis Division for interview of is determined he
if it
INDIANAPOLIS
At Michigan City, Indiana
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
2*
b6 b7c
b6 b7c
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BEFORE WE START CUTTING, I'D LIKE TO TRY A NEW THEORY I DEVELOPED YESTERDAY.
LUMBER
GOLLY. THAT SURE LOOKS LIKE MORE D.B. COOPER MONEY!
OVER THERE!
NO. OVER HERE
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RUNDIST the SEATTLE TIMES@18O
BEFORE WE START CUTTING, I'D LIKE TO TRY A NEW THEORY I DEVELOPED YESTERDAY.
GOLLY TIMAT SURE LOOKS LIKE MORE D.
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RUNDIST the SEATTLE TIMES@18O
BEFORE WE START CUTTING, I'D LIKE TO TRY A NEW THEORY I DEVELOPED YESTERDAY.
GOLLY TIMAT SURE LOOKS LIKE MORE D.B.COOPER MONEY!
OVER THERE!
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Dear Sir,
I was reading the wednesday edition of the Portland Oregonian about the finding of the marked bills from the Cooper highljacking and noticed the sketch of the highjacker that i hadn't seen before.I recognized a great similarity between it and a man i rode on a bus with from New York City to Spokane last June the 8th.
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As long as we were going to same state we sat together and he told me what he had been doing in New YORK. He had been living in Nassau on Long Island and doing odd work to get by on. He said he had A sister in Spokane and was going there. When we got to Chicago he bought my dinner and rode the rest of the way with A tourist who was going as far as we were.
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I am 68 years old and living on retirement so it does not 1 make any difference about the reward
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I am 68 years old and living on retirement so it does not 1 make any difference about the reward offer being cancelled. I am enclosi my phone number and address with my name; ,
Charles F. Seward 1818 Terry Ave. 164-81-8220
98101
Tel. 345 9398
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February 15th 1980 Seattle Wa.
Dear Sir,
I was reading the wednesday edition of the Portland Oregonian about the finding of the marked bills from the Cooper highljacking and noticed the sketch of the highjacker that i hadn't seen before.I recognized a great similarity between it and a man i rode on a bus with from New York City to Spokane last June the 8th.
As long as we were going to same state we sat together and he told me what he had been doing in New YORK. He had been living in Nassau on Long Island and doing odd work to get by on. He said he had A sister in Spokane and was going there. When we got to Chicago he bought my dinner and rode the rest of the way with A tourist who was going as far as we were.
When we got to Chicago he bought my dinner and rode the rest of the way with A tourist who was going as far as we were.
I am 68 years old and living on retirement so it does not make any difference about the reward offer being cancelled. I am enclosi my phone number and address with my name;
Charles F. Seward 1818 Terry Ave. 98101
164-81-830
Tel. 345 9398
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Cooper parties will continue in Ariel
By Fran Kaiser The Daily News Staff Writer
. ARIEL - The party will go on - whether D.B. Cooper is found or not.
That assurance is from Laurel Fisher, owner of the Ariel Store and Tavern, where legend seekers gather each November to fete the famous skyjacker.
"We'll.probably have the party forever," said Laurel, who spent the morning hosting television crews from as far away as Los Angeles after some of Cooper's loot was found near Vancouver.
Even if Cooper is found dead the party will continue as a memorial, she said.
morning hosting television crews from as far away as Los Angeles after some of Cooper's loot was found near Vancouver.
Even if Cooper is found dead the party will continue as a memorial, she said.
"It means something to everyone up here. It's a legend. He sort of put Ariel on the map."
Authorities believe Cooper bailed out of the hijacked Boeing 727 near Lake Merwin in the area east of Woodland. Neither he nor $200,000 in loot was ever seen - until some of the money appeared Tuesday.
The money caused excitement in the small community on the Lewis River near Merwin Dam. Despite the find, some Ariel residents still say maybe Cooper dropped some of his money, but got away. ?
Laurel and her husband, David, bought the store 15 months ago and continued the traditional party started by the former owner.
About 300 people showed up for last November's party. Somey perhaps, hoped Cooper himself might be lured to the celebration if he's alive.
He's never shown, but he has an open invitation.
(Indicate page, name of 'spaper, city and state.) p. Bl Daily News Longview, Wa.

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The Hero Left a Victim After All
By Darrell Bob Houston
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The big 727-100 shot spray as it pow- ered down the runway at Sea-Tac, leaving an oily rainbow in its wake. The pilot began his climb, grabbing altitude at more than 3,000 feet per minute. He leveled off at 30,000 in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens, home of the legend- ary Sasquatch and a landmark in the nine-year ground search for D.B. Cooper.
I looked up from my manuscript and studied the cabin. Seat C, Row 18. That's where Cooper had:sat on Flight 305, chain-smoking his Raleighs and fondling that attache case with the five phony sticks of dynamite inside.
That's where Cooper had:sat on Flight 305, chain-smoking his Raleighs and fondling that attache case with the five phony sticks of dynamite inside. Mr. Nice Guy with the Rotary Club smile and the cheap business suit. Tobacco stains on his teeth - and larceny in his heart.
I glanced at the ventral stairwell. That had been the key to D. B.'s dream- ship. Located under the center engine, it allowed him to climb out and jump
without being sucked into a turbofan or sliced to carrots on the flaps.
Now, a large red sign proclaimed: This stairway cannot be opened in flight. The D. B. door was closed -- for good. Cooper had changed the specifi- cations of a fleet of $5 million airplanes. He had also made me a hero worshiper.
The stewardess came up the aisle. She stopped at my seat.
"I'm curious . . . " she began. My paranoia mounted. I fumbled around, trying to hide the manuscript that was open on my lap.
The stewardess was charmed by my modesty.
"You're a writer, aren't you?" I mumbled a confession.
And that's a. b.o.o.k manuscript?" Her smile was very white.
"You're a writer, aren't you?" I mumbled a confession.
And that's a. b.o.o.k manuscript?" Her smile was very white. I thought of the froth on a Wyoming trout stream:
Faking a coughing attack, I bent over the thick pile of pages that consti- tuted my D.B. Cooper novel.
"What's your book about?" I sat up straight.
"It's about a man," I said. "A man who figured that we're all riding on an airplane. Its name is Earth -- and its zooming through the Void at some- thing like 66,690 miles an hour.
"But even at that speed - or so his-
theory went - most people are still bored spitless.
"This man gave us the answer: The only way to get off that angst ridden airplane IS TO JUMP!"
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I saw it coming - all the way to the nearest FBI interrogation room.
"What was his name?"
"D. B. Cooper," I whispered.
"Any relation to James Fenimore?"
The stewardess' wink said it all. I closed my eyes. I wanted to slip on my dark glasses -- but why tempt fate any further? I would have to cringe openly.
I pretended to sleep all the way to San Francisco.
I wanted to slip on my dark glasses -- but why tempt fate any further? I would have to cringe openly.
I pretended to sleep all the way to San Francisco.
Emerson said that the trouble with heroes is not their ceramic feet. It's that eventually they become a pain in the ass.
I wonder if the Sage of Concord would have been all that blase about the acturial little gent who called him- self Dan Cooper -- especially if D. B. had kept him in groceries for almost 10 years. .
When I think back to that stormy Thanksgiving Eve of 1971, the night Cooper half-gainered his way to im- mortality, I find it hard to label him the criminal he officially is - dead or al- live.
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I was huddled in bed in my $50-a- month pad on Summit Avenue, listen- ing to the radio and eating noodles. with a pair of borrowed chopsticks:
The noodles were even colder than the apartment. But after the first flash about the parachute skyjack, it didn't matter.
Apologizing to my pet cockroach, William S. Burroughs III, I scratched around on the floor and found a dime. I- called the Los Angeles Times.
Apologizing to my pet cockroach, William S. Burroughs III, I scratched around on the floor and found a dime. I- called the Los Angeles Times. The edi- tors assigned me to do a D. B. story.
I was elated. I would eat again. So would Burroughs, who was as sick of monosodium glutamate as I was.
The first national D. B. Cooper epic was laid out in the March 19, 1972 issue of the L.A. Times' West Magazine. It covered seven full pages with six dia- grams and photographs. Included, too, was a song called "The Ballad of D.B. Cooper." The lyric was catchy -and forgettable,
Then, after the huge presses at Times Mirror Square had already kicked in, the editors had second thoughts. With several thousand copies
Cadicate page, name of 'spaper, city and state.) p. Al Seattle Times Seattle, Wa.
Date:
2/15/80
Edition:
Final
Title:
NORJAK

Character: or	164-81
Classification:
Submitting Office:	Seattle

run off, the Times pulled my story and replated -at considerable cost.
Title:
NORJAK

Character: or	164-81
Classification:
Submitting Office:	Seattle

run off, the Times pulled my story and replated -at considerable cost.
They said they loved the headline: "Coffee, Tea -or $200,000?" But they didn't want to glorify the skyjacker, who, after all, was a dangerous fugi- tivė.
Now how in the hell was I going to rationalize that to a cockroach? *** My hero-fixation surfaced next on a Seattle television show.
By that time I was really into my role. I had my own tacky attache case to go with my black suit and skimpy tie. I encouraged people to call me D. B. I wore my sunglasses -- even on rainy days.
When my television host asked me if I thought Cooper was a new Ameri- can hero, I was ready.
"Yes," Isaid. "He was a terrific hero. He screwed the System back - nonvi- olently, nonpolitically. He didn't hurt anybody, and he only took 200 grand.
"And best of all" -- I had rehearsed the line for a week - "he didn't leave any footprints in the clouds."
The switchboard at the station turned into a pinball machine;
The most irate of the callers was Ernest K.
"
The switchboard at the station turned into a pinball machine;
The most irate of the callers was Ernest K. Gann, the author and former, airline pilot.
Istill have a copy of the telegram he isent to the station the next day.
"The true depiction of all hijackers for what they are, instead of as he- roes," it said in conclusion, "must be shown now or you and your loved ones may well, and very soon, be aboard the next of another Robin Hood's terrible adventures."
I fired back at Gann through Em- mett Watson's column in The P-I. I re- peated my favorite argument: D. B., with his lopsided grin and gentle man- ner, had left no victims.
I was not only smug. I was wrong.
164-81-8222
The door to my apartment was ajar when I returned. A tall young woman sat at my writing desk. Blonde hair fell"
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1You must have the wrong apart- ment," I said, from the doorway.
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1You must have the wrong apart- ment," I said, from the doorway. Her reply made no sense. "I had a nervous breakdown after the skyjack," she said in a dull voice.
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Excusing myself, I ducked into the bathroom. I wanted to wash my face, collect my wits. Dozens of D. B. Cooper freaks had sought me out over the years, but this was going too far. I fully
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expected this one to tell me that D. B was really a woman.
When. I came out of the bathroom my visitor was gone. I ran down the hall and out into the streets. Nothing. She had pulled a classic.D. B. and van- ished into the ozone.
I returned to my apartment, shak- ing my head. Still puzzled, I leafed through my Cooper scrapbook. There it was-an old advance copy of the mga- zine article the LA Times editors had killed in 1972.
One of the photographs showed the crew of the skyjacked 727 after the plane - sparks rising high from the still down ventral stairs - had landed at Reno.
Tina Mucklow, the stewardess Cooper held hostage on the plane, was sitting on her suitcase, Her long blonde hair was scraggly.
Tina Mucklow, the stewardess Cooper held hostage on the plane, was sitting on her suitcase, Her long blonde hair was scraggly. Her posture was slumped -- and somehow defeated.
I no longer worry about whether the woman who appeared at my apart- ament was real, imaginary - or a prankster. She simply was.
D. B. Cooper left more than a stach of cigarette butts when he bailed out into that freezing rainstorm. He left behind a victim, one who doesn't laugh at skyjacking jokes.
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The Hero Left a Victim After All
By Darrell Bob Houston
The big 727-100 shot spray as it pow- ered down the runway at Sea-Tac, "leaving an oily rainbow in its wake. The pilot began his climb, grabbing altitude at more than 3,000 feet per minute. He leveled off at 30,000 in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens, home of the legend- ary Sasquatch and a landmark in the nine-year ground search for D.B. Cooper.
I looked up from my manuscript and studied the cabin. Seat C, Row 18. That's where Cooper had sat on Flight 305.
I looked up from my manuscript and studied the cabin. Seat C, Row 18. That's where Cooper had sat on Flight 305. chain-smoking his Raleighs and fondling that attache case with the five pony sticks of dynamite inside. Mr. Nice Guy with the Rotary Club smile and the cheap business suit. Tobacco stains on his teeth - and larceny in his heart.
I glanced at the ventral stairwell. That had been the key to D. B.'s dream- i ship. Located under the center engine,' it allowed him to climb out and jump
without being sucked into a turbofan ! or sliced to carrots on the flaps.
Now, a large red sign proclaimed: This stairway cannot be opened in flight. The D. B. door was closed - for good. Cooper had changed the specifi- cations of a fleet of $5 million airplanes. He had also made me a hero worshiper. The stewardess came up the aisle. She stopped at my seat.
"I'm curious . . . " she began. My paranoia mounted. I fumbled around, trying to hide the manuscript that was open on my lap.
The stewardess was charmed by my modesty.
I fumbled around, trying to hide the manuscript that was open on my lap.
The stewardess was charmed by my modesty.
"You're a writer, aren't you?" I mumbled a confession.
''. . . And that's a book manuscript?" Her smile was very white. I thought of the froth on a Wyoming trout stream.
Faking a coughing attack, I bent over the thick pile of pages that consti- tuted my D.B. Cooper novel.
"What's your book about?"
I sat up straight.
'It's about a man," I said. "A man , 'who figured that we're all riding on an airplane. Its name is Earth - and its zooming through the Void at some- thing like 5,690 miles an hour.
"But even at that speed - or so his-
theory went - most people are still bored spitless.
"This man gave us the answer: The only way to get off that angst ridden' airplane IS TO JUMP!"
: I saw it coming - all the way to the nearest FBI interrogation room.
"What was his name?"
"D. B. Cooper," I whispered.
"Any relation to James Fenimore?" The stewardess' wink said it all. I closed my eyes. I wanted to slip on my dark glasses - but why tempt fate any further?
" The stewardess' wink said it all. I closed my eyes. I wanted to slip on my dark glasses - but why tempt fate any further? I would have to cringe openly.
I pretended to sleep all the way to San Francisco.
***
Emerson said that the trouble with heroes is not their ceramic feet. It's that eventually they become a pain in the ass.
I wonder if the Sage of Concord would have been all that blase about the acturial little gent who called him- self Dan Cooper - especially if D. B. had kept him in groceries for almost 10 years. .
When I think back to that stormy Thanksgiving Eve of 1971, the night Cooper half-gainered his way to im- mortality, I find it hard to label him the ! criminal he officially is - dead or al- live.
I was huddled in bed in my $50-a- 'month pad on Summit Avenue, listen- : ing to the radio and eating noodles with a pair of borrowed chopsticks.
The noodles were even colder than the apartment. But after the first flash about the parachuteskyjack, it didn't matter.
Apologizing to my pet cockroach, William S.
But after the first flash about the parachuteskyjack, it didn't matter.
Apologizing to my pet cockroach, William S. Burroughs III, I scratched around on the floor and found a dime. I called the Los Angeles Times. The edi- tors assigned me to do a D. B. story.
I was elated. I would eat again. So would Burroughs, who was as sick of monosodium glutamate as I was.
The first national D. B. Cooper epic was laid out in the March 19, 1972 issue of the L.A. Times' West Magazine. It covered seven full pages with six dia- grams and photographs. Included, too, was a song called "The Ballad of D.B. 'Cooper." The lyric was catchy - and forgettable.
Then, after the huge presses at Times Mirror Square had already kicked in, the editors had second thoughts. With several thousand copies
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(Ir ate page, name of aper, city and state.) p. Al Seattle Times Seattle, Wa.

Date:	2/15/80
Edition:	Final

Title:
NORJAK
Character: or 164-81
Classification:
Submitting Office: Seattle
run off, the Times pulled my story and replated - at
Date:	2/15/80
Edition:	Final

Title:
NORJAK
Character: or 164-81
Classification:
Submitting Office: Seattle
run off, the Times pulled my story and replated - at considerable cost.
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They said they loved the headline:), "Coffee, Tea - or $200,000?" But they · didn't want to glorify the skyjacker,
! who, after all, was a dangerous fugi- tive.
Now how in the hell was I going to rationalize that to a cockroach?
***
My hero-fixation surfaced next on a Seattle television show.
By that time I was really into my role. I had my own tacky attache case to go with my black suit and skimpy tie. I encouraged people to call me D. B. I wore my sunglasses - even on rainy days.
When my television host asked me if I thought Cooper was a new Ameri- can hero, I was ready.
"Yes," I said. "He was a terrific hero. He screwed the System back - nonvi- olently, nonpolitically. He didn't hurt anybody, and he only took 200 grand.
"And best of all" -- I had rehearsed .
the line for a week - "he didn't leave any footprints in the clouds."
The switchboard at the station turned into a pinball machine.
the line for a week - "he didn't leave any footprints in the clouds."
The switchboard at the station turned into a pinball machine.
The most irate of the callers was Ernest K. Gann, the author and formerf. airline pilot.
I still have a copy of the telegram he ¿sent to the station the next day.
"The true depiction of all hijackers for what they are, instead of as he- roes," it said in conclusion, "must be shown now or you and your loved ones may well, and very soon, be aboard the next of another Robin Hood's terrible adventures."
1
I fired back at Gann through Em- mett Watson's column in The P-I. I re- peated my favorite argument: D. B., with his lopsided grin and gentle man- ner, had left no victims.
I was not only smug. I was wrong.
***
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The door to my apartment was ajar when I returned. A tall young woman isat at my writing desk. Blonde hair fell' q&HED
to her shoulders. Her posture strueli !! LIZED
me as incongruent to her beauty Her slump was one of weariness - and de- feat.
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Ir. Frank Kanokoa Sheriff Clark County Sheriff's Office Vancouver, Washington 93660
Doar Frank,
I wish to express to you my sincere gratitude for your assistance in the case commonly known as the "D.B. Cooper Skyjacking". The security provided by your deputies at the Tena Bar area in Vancouver greatly assisted us by allowing our Agents to fully concentrate on the search of the beach area. I have been informed that your deputies handled their positions in a very professional manner and I hope you will express my thanks to them.
Sincerely, Pim
Paul L. Mack Special Agent in Charge
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DB Cooper-17378
11 : 8223 915 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington 98174 February 19, 1980
Mr. Frank Kanekoa Sheriff Clark County Sheriff's Office Vancouver, Washington 98660
Dear Frank,
I wish to express to you my sincere gratitude for your assistance in the case commonly known as the "D.
Frank Kanekoa Sheriff Clark County Sheriff's Office Vancouver, Washington 98660
Dear Frank,
I wish to express to you my sincere gratitude for your assistance in the case commonly known as the "D.B. Cooper Skyjacking". The security provided by your deputies at the Tena Bar area in Vancouver greatly assisted us by allowing our Agents to fully concentrate on the search of the beach area. I have been informed that your deputies handled their positions in a very professional manner and I hope you will express my thanks to them.
Sincerely ; Pim
Paul L. Mack Special Agent in Charge
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Vancouver, Washington
Gentlemen:
I wish to express to you my sincere gratitude for your assistance to the FBI in the case commonly known as the "D.B. Cooper Skyjacking". With your cooperation and use of our investigation on your land at Tena Bar, progressed very smoothly and efficiently. It is citizens such as yourselves who have so greatly aided the FBI in carrying out its functions over the years.
It is citizens such as yourselves who have so greatly aided the FBI in carrying out its functions over the years.
Sincerely, Pr Paul L. Mack Special Agent in Charge
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Vancouver, Washington
Gentlemen:
I wish to express to you my sincere gratitude for your assistance to the FBI in the case commonly known as the 'D. B. Cooper Skyjacking". With your cooperation and use of our investigation on your land at Tena Bar, progressed very smoothly and efficiently. It is citizens such as yourselves who have so greatly aided the FBI in carrying out its functions over the years.
Sincerely, Pur Paul L. Mack Special Agent in Charge :
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IN RESPONSE TO BUREAU REQUEST FOR SUMMARY OF INFORMATION ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS MATTER, THE FOLLOWING IS SET FORTH: AT APPROXIMATELY 5:00 2.M., FEBRUARY 11, 1989,
VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE PORTLAND OFFICE TO ADVISE HE HAD FOUND SOME OLD DE- COMPOSED $20 BILLS, AND HE WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER THE BILL'S WERE BEING SOUGHT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. NCIC CHECKS OF THREE SERIAL NUMBERS FURNISHED BY: DISCLOSED TWO WERE ON BORJAK RANSOM LIST. THIRD SERIAL NUMBER FURNISHED CONTAINED TOO MANY
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b7C TELEPHONE FROM VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, CALLED BACK AT APPROXIMATELY 5:30 P.M. TO DETERMINE RESULTS OF NCIC CHECK AND WAS TOLD FBI WAS INTERESTED IN THE, MONEY. APPOINTMENT . WAS MADE FOR HIM TO BRING MONEY TO PORTLAND OFFICE, 9:00 A.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1950. AT APPROXIMATELY 9:45 A.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1980, APPEARED AT PORTLAND OFFICE AND FURNISHED PORTLAND CASE
AGENT, SA WITH PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING SEVERAL CLUMPS OF $20 BILLS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SERIAL NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY CHECKED, AND' ADDITIONAL NUMBERS CONTAINED ON RANSOM, LIST AND IDENTIFIABLE AS RANSOM. STATED THEY HAD BEEN OM FAMILY OUTING ON BEACH OF COLUMBIA RIVER NEAR LAKE VANCOUVER, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12, 1960, WHEN DECIDED TO BUILD A BONFIRE. HE ASSEMBLED SOME -DRIFTWOOD, AND AS. HE STARTED TO PLACE IT ON THE BEACH SAND TO BUILD A FIRE, BENT DOWN AND, WITH HIS HANDS, SMOOTHED THE SAND TO CLEAR A PLACE TO BUILD THE FIRE. AT THAT MOMENT, WITH HIS HANDS, A BUNDLE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE MONEY IN THIS MATTER.
SAND TO BUILD A FIRE, BENT DOWN AND, WITH HIS HANDS, SMOOTHED THE SAND TO CLEAR A PLACE TO BUILD THE FIRE. AT THAT MOMENT, WITH HIS HANDS, A BUNDLE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE MONEY IN THIS MATTER. THE MONEY, AT THAT
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TIME, WAS IN A PARCEL BARELY HELD TOGETHER BY DECOMPOSED RUBBER- BANDS WHICH CRUMBLED AND FELL AWAY UPON BEING HANDLED. VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY EXAMINED AND HANDLED THE MONEY WHICH THEY THEN TOOK HOME WITH THEM THAT EVENING. THE FOLLOWING DAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1980, RELATED THE STORY OF THE FINDING OF THE MONEY TO FELLOW EMPLOYEES AT U-CART MANUFACTURING COMPANY-, VANCOUVER, WHERE AND THEY TOLD HIM ABOUT THE COOPER SKYJACKING CASE AND POSSIBILITY THAT THE MONEY MAY HAVE COME FROM THIS RANSOM. HE THEN CONTACTED. THE PORTLAND FBI OFFICE UPON GETTING OFF OF WORK THAT DAY .
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - (AP) - Brian Ingram, the 8-year-old who uncovered some of D.B. Coo- per's hijack loot, will get to keep one of the frayed $20 bills as a souvenir.
The Federal Bureau of Investi- gation also gave the Vancouver boy a certificate praising him for his discovery.
Brian was helping his father, Harold, build a fire on a Columbia River beach February 10 when he uncovered three bundles of weath- ered $20 bills.
Brian was helping his father, Harold, build a fire on a Columbia River beach February 10 when he uncovered three bundles of weath- ered $20 bills. The bills were the first evidence uncovered in the !. case since Cooper hijacked the jetliner in 1971.
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was contacted on the beach area known as Tena Bar which is located in the vicinity of 11600 NW Lower River Road, Vancouver, Washington. was informed of the identity of the interviewing agent as well as the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation wished to conduct a search of an area of beach on the Tena Bar. The purpose for the search was discussed with and the area of the search was explained to him.
the Federal Bureau of Investigation wished to conduct a search of an area of beach on the Tena Bar. The purpose for the search was discussed with and the area of the search was explained to him. ad- vised that the beach area which the FBI desires to search
for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct a search
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Found- D.B.'s Loot! Kids Dig Up Hijack Cash 1 1 1
By Neil Modie .
More than eight years after D.B. Cooper parachuted into rainy dark- ness from a hijacked airliner, part of . his $200,000 loot was found buried in a river bank near Vancouver, Wash., the FBI announced yesterday. .
Badly weathered and apparently washed ashore from the Columbia River, the stacks of $20 bills say noth- ing encouraging about the fate of the legendary hijacker.
"It can tell you a number of things - either he dropped the money or he's dead," commented John D: Prin- gle, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI office in Seattle. "We can't tell at this point."
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For Ralph Himmelsbach of Port- land, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation since it began, the dis- covery reinforces his opinion that Cooper died after he parachuted from a Northwest Orient 727 trijet on- Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
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Himmelsbach said the find re- duced to "less than 50 - 50" the odds that Cooper is still alive.
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"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the Portland office, which the Ingram family contacted on Monday.'
The money was found about 25 miles southwest of the area where the FBI had thought it most likely Cooper landed after he parachuted from the jetliner into a freezing rainstorm on Nov.
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The money was found about 25 miles southwest of the area where the FBI had thought it most likely Cooper landed after he parachuted from the jetliner into a freezing rainstorm on Nov. 24, 1971.
The hijacker, who had used the name "Dan Cooper" to buy his airline ticket, boarded the jet in Portland, threatened to blow it up with what he claimed was a bomb in his briefcase, then forced it to land in Seattle to.col-
lect the ransom. 1 Cooper allowed 36 passengers aboard the flight to leave, then or- dered the crew of four to fly it to Reno after $200,000 in marked bills and four parachutes demanded by the hijacker were brought on board.
As the southbound airliner passed over Southwest Washington, the hi- jacker - wearing only a business suit and street shoes - parachuted through a rear stairwell door. . .
As "Dan Cooper" became a legend, the name "D.B. Cooper" - as an FBI agent had initially identified him - became the name that stuck.
The FBI said his chances of sur- vival were slim because he was lightly dressed for jumping into a howling wind and a freezing rain in af parachute not likely to work.
The FBI said his chances of sur- vival were slim because he was lightly dressed for jumping into a howling wind and a freezing rain in af parachute not likely to work.
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Regardless of Cooper's fate, Sun- day's discovery was the first of any trace of the hijacker, the parachutes or the money.
The long frustrated FBI made simultaneous announcements of the find in Seattle, Portland and Washing- ton, D.C., yesterday.
The crumbling stacks of $20 bills, and members of the Ingram family who dug it out of the sand, were put on display at an FBI press conference in Portland.
"An examination of the badly de- composed $20 bills reveals that they bear serial numbers identical to a por- tion of those given to the hijacker," Paul L. Mack, special agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said in a statement.
$20 bills reveals that they bear serial numbers identical to a por- tion of those given to the hijacker," Paul L. Mack, special agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said in a statement.
"Because of the decomposed na- ture of the bills, an exact estimate of the recovered money is not possible pending a laboratory examination. However, it appears to be several thousand dollars.
"The packaging and the numbered sequence," Mack added, "indicate that the bills have not been separated and . are in much the same order as when given to the hijacker."
The money was still held together with a rubber band, FBI agents said.
The bills are being sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C., for further examination.
"It appears logical that the pack- age of bills could have been carried downstream on one of the Washing-
ton tributaries of the Columbia River to the site where they were found," Mack said.
The money was found on the Washington side of the Columbia about five miles downstream from the Interstate 5 bridge at Vancouver, where the river makes a sharp north- ward bend.
The discovery will probably steer agents away from the vicinity of Lake Merwin, which until now they
The discovery will probably steer agents away from the vicinity of Lake Merwin, which until now they had considered the most likely area for Cooper to have landed in his jump.
Lake Merwin is behind a dam. on, the Lewis River, which empties into the Columbia about 15 miles down- stream from where the money was found. So it appears to mean the loot couldn't have washed down the Lewis River.
Agent Himmelsbach said the money could have washed down the Washougal River instead. If so, the agent said, Cooper's landing spot would have been about 25 miles far- ther south than the FBI had believed.
About.33 FBI agents from Portland and Seattle swarmed over the area where the money was found with shovels and rakes last night. An agent said they'd be back at work there to- day.
Treasure hunters and curiosity seekers were being kept away.
"We've got the area secured and it will be secured until we're through with it," Bill Williams, a spokesman for the Portland office of the FBI said.
The site is in a swampy dairy farm- ing area, frequently flooded by the Columbia River.
be secured until we're through with it," Bill Williams, a spokesman for the Portland office of the FBI said.
The site is in a swampy dairy farm- ing area, frequently flooded by the Columbia River. .
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Bits of $20 bills were found buried in as much as three feet of sand, Wil- liams said. But he added that the depth wasn't remarkable considering. the amount of flooding. .
In the increasingly unlikely event that Cooper turns up alive, he will still face a federal charge of airline hijack- ing - and a possible death penalty.
As a precaution, a federal grand jury in Portland indicted "John Doe, also known as Dan Cooper," on Thanksgiving Eve 1976 - the last day before à five - year statute of limita- tions would have run out.
Agent said in Seattle yesterday that the FBI doesn't believe the stat- ute of limitations would have applied anyway because it considers the crime a capital offense, for which there is no time limit. .
The person happiest about the dis- covery of the ransom money may be Agent Himmelsbach, who is scheduled
The person happiest about the dis- covery of the ransom money may be Agent Himmelsbach, who is scheduled to retire from the FBI Feb. 29 after more than eight years of frustration with the hijacking investigation.
"I'm delighted," he said yesterday.
"We haven't gotten him off the ceiling yet," Williams said of Him- melsbach.
Williams said the second - happiest person may be a dairy farmer on whose property the money is believed to have been found. In the past, the agent said, the farmer has posted a sign charging fishermen and picnick- ers 25 cents to use his property.
"He'll probably be charging five dollars now," Williams said.
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More Of D.B.'s Ransom Found
By Neil Modie
FBI agents yesterday found bits of more $20 bills buried in the sand be- side the Columbia River near Van- couver, Wash., and said it was more of the $200,000 ransom collected in 1971 by airline hijacker D.B. Cooper. ..
Agents speculated earlier in the day that the muck and sand the money was buried in may have been dredge material. But they discounted that theory after a geologist examined the site, about 10 miles northwest of Vancouver.
But they discounted that theory after a geologist examined the site, about 10 miles northwest of Vancouver.
"His (the geologist's) feeling is thal the probabilities are that the material was washed ashore rather than (being in) dredged sand," FBI - Agent Ralph Himmelsbach of Portland told The Post - Intelligencer last night.
Children on a family outing on Sunday found the first half - decom- posed packets of $20 bills with which Cooper had parachuted from a North- west Orient jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.
The total was between $1;000 and $4,000, Himmelsbach said, and serial numbers checked matched numbers on the marked bills given Cooper.
The money was found farther downriver from Vancouver than FBI agents had estimated Tuesday, when they announced the discovery, and it caused Himmelsbach to return to the theory he has had since 1971 that Cooper landed - dead or alive -- in the vicinity of Lake Merwin on the Lewis River about 25 miles north of Vancouver.
Himmelsbach, the agent in charge of the investigation since the hijack- ing took place, said he believes the dozen packets
Himmelsbach, the agent in charge of the investigation since the hijack- ing took place, said he believes the dozen packets of greenbacks were gradually washed down the Lewis River and into the Columbia River Then, he said, ocean tides could have pushed them several miles up the Columbia to where they were found.
There was speculation Tuesday
·that the site was too far up the Colum- bia for the money to have come from the Lewis River.
However, Himmelsbach. said yes- terday, "My understanding is that this is. tidal water, and if so, there are Kimes that this (river) runs backward. So it could have run upstream that far."
Did Cooper, lightly dressed and buffeted by wind and freezing rain when he parachuted from the airlin- er, drop the money on the way down?
"That's, a good possibility," Him- melsbach said. "There's also the possi- bility that he just took the money, and neither. he nor the money left there. (where he landed).
."I feel this is an indication that probably he didn't make it (alive), and it has been my feeling that probably he didn't make it because of the cir- cumstances of the jump and the
"I feel this is an indication that probably he didn't make it (alive), and it has been my feeling that probably he didn't make it because of the cir- cumstances of the jump and the fact that he didn't have the proper equip- ment for parachuting," Himmelsbach continued.
"He didn't have a hardhat, goggles, leather gloves, jump suit .or jump boots. He didn't have any of those things and he sure needed them all ..
"I don't think the fall killed him," Himmelsbach theorized, "but there was that sudden stop. I think probably there was good likelihood he was in- jured during the fall and didn't have any help . . . and was unable to extri- cate himself (from wherever he fell). And probably is still there."
Agents continued digging yester- day, and Himmelsbach said he didn't know how long they would continue.
There was no trace at the site of the legendary extortionist nor of his parachute, and Himmelsbach indi- cated he didn't expect to find such evidence there.
The ransom money was given to Cooper at Seattle - Tacoma Interna- tional Airport after he threatened to blow up the 727 trijet while on a flight from Portland.
The ransom money was given to Cooper at Seattle - Tacoma Interna- tional Airport after he threatened to blow up the 727 trijet while on a flight from Portland. At Sea - Tac, he al- lowed all the passengers and all but four members of the crew to leave, demanded and received the $200,000 and four parachutes, and had the plane depart for Reno, Nev.
The skyjacker bailed out over Southwest Washington.
Sunday's find was particularly sat- isfying for Himmelsbach, who on Feb, 29 is scheduled to retire from the FBI after a career of nearly. 29 years - more than eight of which were spent trying to solve the Cooper caper. The discovery of the money was the first solid break in the case.
"It doesn't increase my (retirement) annuity any, but it does make me happy," Himmelsbach said.
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More Of D.B.'S Ransom Found By Neil Modie
FBI agents yesterday found bits of more $20 bills buried in the sand be- side the Columbia River near Van- couver, Wash., and said it was more of the $200,000 ransom collected in 1971 | by airline hijacker D.B. Cooper.
Agents speculated earlier in the day that the muck and sand the money was buried in may have been dredge material. But they discounted that theory after a geologist examined the site, about 10 miles northwest of Vancouver.
"His (the geologist's) feeling is thal the probabilities are that the material: was washed ashore rather than (being ,in) dredged sand," FBI - Agent RalpE Himmelsbach of Portland told The Post - Intelligencer last night.
Children on a family outing on 'Sunday found the first half - decom- posed packets of $20 bills with which Cooper had
Children on a family outing on 'Sunday found the first half - decom- posed packets of $20 bills with which Cooper had parachuted from a North- west Orient jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.
The total was between $1,000 and $4,000, Himmelsbach said, and serial numbers checked matched numbers on the marked bills given Cooper.
The money was found farther downriver from Vancouver than FBI agents had estimated Tuesday, when they announced the discovery, and it caused Himmelsbach to return to the theory he has had since 1971 that Cooper landed - dead or alive - in the vicinity of Lake Merwin on the Lewis River about 25 miles north of Vancouver.
Himmelsbach, the agent in charge of the investigation since the hijack- ing took place, said he believes the dozen packets of greenbacks were 'gradually washed down the Lewis! River and into the Columbia River; Then, he said, ocean tides could havej pushed them several miles up the Columbia to where they were found.
There was speculation Tuesday
·that the site was too far up the Colum- bia for the money to have come from #he Lewis River.
There was speculation Tuesday
·that the site was too far up the Colum- bia for the money to have come from #he Lewis River.
However, Himmelsbach said yes- terday, "My understanding is that this is tidal water, and if so, there are times that this (river) runs backward. So it could have run upstream that far."
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Did Cooper, lightly dressed and buffeted by wind. and freezing rain when he parachuted from the airlin- er, drop the money on the way down?
"That's a good possibility," Him- melsbach said. "There's also the possi- bility that he just took the money, and neither be nor the money left there (where he landed).
."I feel this is an indication that' probably he didn't make it (alive), and it has been my feeling that probably he didn't make it because of the cir- cumstances of the jump and the fact that he didn't have the proper equip- ment for parachuting," Himmelsbach continued.
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"He didn't have a hardhat, goggles, leather gloves, jump suit or jump boots. He didn't have any of those things and he sure needed them all.
"He didn't have a hardhat, goggles, leather gloves, jump suit or jump boots. He didn't have any of those things and he sure needed them all.
"I don't think the fall killed him," Himmelsbach theorized, "but there ... was that sudden stop. I think probably "there was good likelihood he was int jured during the fall and didn't havel any help . . . and was unable to extri -! cate himself (from wherever he fell). And probably is still there."
Agents continued digging yester- day, and Himmelsbach said he didn't know how long they would continue. .
There was no trace at the site of the legendary extortionist nor of his parachute, and Himmelsbach indi- cated he didn't expect to find such evidence there.
The ransom money was given to yCooper at Seattle - Tacoma Interna- tional Airport after he threatened to blow up the 727 trijet while on a flight from Portland. . At Sea - Tac, be al- lowed all the passengers and all but four members of the crew to leave, demanded and received the $200,000 . and four parachutes, and had the plane depart for Reno, Nev.
At Sea - Tac, be al- lowed all the passengers and all but four members of the crew to leave, demanded and received the $200,000 . and four parachutes, and had the plane depart for Reno, Nev.
The skyjacker bailed out over Southwest Washington.
Sunday's find was particularly sat- isfying for Himmelsbach, who on Feb. 29 is scheduled to retire from the FBI !after a career of nearly 29 years - more than eight of which were spent trying to solve the Cooper caper. The discovery of the money was the firstd solid break in the case.
"It doesn't increase my (retirement) annuity any, but it does make me happy," Himmelsbach said.
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Tuesday's announcement of the finding of part of the D. B. Cooper loot was the first dramatic development in one of the nation' most publicized - and puzzling skyjack cases. Seattle writer Dar- rell Bob Houston, who has. devoted years of study to the case and who wrote the book "King of the Midnight Blue," herewith reviews the D. B. Cooper history. and his own preoccupation with it.
By Darrell Bob Houston
My first mistake was-having the same initials as D.B. Cooper.
My second was writing a book about him.
My third was allowing myself to' become a D.B. Cooper expert.
My fourth - and perhaps most !; dangerous - was when I scoffed
at the supernatural overtones ink the case.
My fifth mistake was the most embarrassing. After nine years of checking out everything from the Raleigh filter cigarettes that D.B. smoked to the thin clip-on necktie he wore, I came to see him as a kind of avatar. The Last Invisible Hero. He could be anybody - be- cause he was nobody.
smoked to the thin clip-on necktie he wore, I came to see him as a kind of avatar. The Last Invisible Hero. He could be anybody - be- cause he was nobody. Punk or par- agon, he could go either way.
Even the FBI doesn't know what he looked like. The thousands of flyers they plastered around the
world show Cooper's face hidden behind the fattest pair of sun- glasses this side of Hollywood Bou- levard.
D:B; is the only man ever to make the global Ten Most Wanted List - in disguise. But ask any school kid who the first man to. walk on the moon was, and all you get is a stare. Mention D.B. and the kid will give you everything but the serial numbers on the ransom' money.
There I go, parroting the lines that I've fed to people for the past nine years. Especially people who! wanted my help in turning "the real: D.B. Cooper" over to the po- lice. Many claimed to have been in jail with him. One caller, after reading one of my essays on Coop- er, said D.B. was really his mother - in drag.
Steadily it was building up, this' feeling that I was hiding the truth from myself: I fought it back.
Steadily it was building up, this' feeling that I was hiding the truth from myself: I fought it back. Every time a new clue would turn up - a pair of soiled underwear in. a Southwest Washington tree, the alleged sighting of a sasquatch, playing building-blocks with a pile of $20 bills - I would write .an- other skyjack article.
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D.B. had become, in a sense, my life .. And my livelihood.
Then came the day when the
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conviction struck home.
I had just finished a story for Saga Magazine called'" The Phan- tom Skyjacker" I brushed off my dark Montgomery Ward business suit. I flicked at a mote of, dust. on } my lowcut military brogans. I. straightened my thin, clip-on tie Ir pushed my wraparound sunglasses- up on my forehead and exclaimed to the skies.
"It's true. I know too much. I am.D. B. Cooper!"
My megalomania fled the next day,
It was the letter that did it.
I know too much. I am.D. B. Cooper!"
My megalomania fled the next day,
It was the letter that did it. From the opening paragraph, I was hooked.
Here's how it began:
. Thanksgiving eve, 1971. A stormy night. A Northwest Orient 727 lumbers through the dark- ness. Its speed is barely above stall-point. A stairwell slowly dis- tends from the big jet's belly.
: A man appears. He rides the swaying ladder like a tomcat on a fire 'ladder. He wears a dark suit and overcoat. Sunglasses are taped to his temples.
: Strapped to his waist is a can- bas bag stuffed with the $200,000 ransom he collected at Seattle. Over his buttocks, on the same strap, an attache case dangles. It is black and contains five sticks of phony dynamite.
The man is poised on the final step. His laughter.rises in the, wind. He spreads his arms wide and skydives toward the treetops - and the folklore of the nation.
D. D, Cooper has arrived. The world will never be the same place again.
I felt a pang of professional jeal- ousy. This guy was good with the
typewriter.
The world will never be the same place again.
I felt a pang of professional jeal- ousy. This guy was good with the
typewriter. And all the space age jargon was there. He called they 727-100's engines "Pratt & Whitney jewels." He knew the skyjacked plane's fuel capacity - in U.S. gal- fons. And he knew how much 10,000 twenties weighed.
It was smooth and authentic. Still, the writer could have gotten. most of that stuff out of Jane's All the World's Aircraft.
But one section struck home. The part that told about the deliy- èry of the ransom aboard the 727 at Sea-Tac. Airport:
'The bills were the real McCoy. But all of them had been xeroxedi to get their serial numbers. I know! I snarfed them personally."
Snarfed? A doozy of a verb, an active-verb.
One that might lead me straight
to the skyjacker. 'To an all-time journalistic scoop. To fame, for. tune - and a Hollywood contract.
Iread the letter a dozen times.
It was signed like the rest of them: D.B. Cooper. This one, how- ever, was different. After more than 200 bogus D.
It was signed like the rest of them: D.B. Cooper. This one, how- ever, was different. After more than 200 bogus D.B.'s write to you, you can tell.
The address was an apartment house on Capitol Hill. The place smelled of pomade and-insecticide.
It was enough to make a health inspector call in.sick. I knocked oni Number 9.
"He ain't here. Not if you're looking for D.B."
The old man had tippy-toed up. behind me in the carpeted ball-
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"Cooper packed up and moved out a couple of days ago," he said. "Didn't pay his rent, though.
"His name is really D. B. Cooper?"
The old man studied his palms. "Strange fella," he said. "Kept trying to turn himself in.
Cooper?"
The old man studied his palms. "Strange fella," he said. "Kept trying to turn himself in. But. the cops wouldn't believe his story, either."
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I called Sea-Tac and asked for Operations.
A young; eager voice.came on. I told its-owner that I was a writer. What I specifically wanted to know was this: had anyone in. Operations overheard any of the conversation between Cooper and « the tower while the plane was re- fueling and the money was being. delivered to the skyjacker?
There was a pause.
"I heard a little," the young man said. "But don't quote me."
"I don't even know your name," I assured him.
"The radio was a little staticky,' he said: "I heard the captain tell; Cooper that the smart skyjacker, would try for San Francisco in- ștead of Reno. Cooper just told him to rotate for takeoff - that's right, rotate - and head south, on. Vec- tor 23."
I asked what his voice was like. "Flat, sir;" my informant said. "Kind of a whine, like W.C. Fields 'or Mae West."
"Anything else?"
"Yeh.
"Flat, sir;" my informant said. "Kind of a whine, like W.C. Fields 'or Mae West."
"Anything else?"
"Yeh. Cooper was very unhappy about the money having been xe- roxed. He said something like, "I. sniffed it myself - tell that to the bank.3. ".
"Sniffed?"'I said. "Or snarfed?" " A long silence.
"I'm not sure, sir," the helpful young man said at last. His tone turned waspish. "Could it possibly :make any difference?"
"Only," I said, "to someone who's over forty and has a dirty mind."
"Dirty mind, sir?"
Sighing, I thanked the young man and hung up. I was too old to be tracking phantom skyjackers. Admit it, I goaded myself. You've finally OD'd on D.B.
But my addiction was not that simple. Once a Cooper expert, always a Cooper expert.
(Next: The'Los Angeles Times packs down on D.B. - and a beau tiful blonde ghost visits my apart ment.)
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Tuesday's announcement of the finding of part of the D.B. -Cooper loot was the first dramatic development in one of the nation's most publicized - and puzzling - skyjack cases. Seattle writer Dar- rell Bob Houston, who has devoted years of study to the care and who wrote the book "King of the Midnight Blue," herewith reviews the D.B. Cooper history and his own preoccupation with it.
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D:B. is the only man ever to make the global Ten Most Wanted List - in disguise. But ask any school kid who the first man to walk on the moon was, and all you get is a stare. Mention D.B. and the kid will give you everything but the serial numbers on the ransom' money.
But ask any school kid who the first man to walk on the moon was, and all you get is a stare. Mention D.B. and the kid will give you everything but the serial numbers on the ransom' money.
There I go, parroting the lines that I've fed to people for the past nine years. Especially people who, wanted my help in turning "the real D.B. Cooper" over to the po- lice. Many claimed to have been in jail with him. One caller, after reading one of my essays on Coop- er, said D.B. was really his mother - in drag.
Steadily it was building up, this feeling that I was hiding the truth from-myself .- I fought it back. Every time a new clue would turn up - a pair of soiled underwear in a Southwest Washington tree, the . alleged sighting of a sasquatch; playing building-blocks with a pile of $20 bills - I would write an- other skyjack article.
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"It's'fruc. I know too much. I am D.B. Cooper!"
My megalomania fled the next day ..
It was the letter that did it. From the opening paragraph, I was hooked.
Here's how it began:
. Thanksgiving eve,' 1971. A stormy night. A Northwest Orient 727 lumbers through the dark- ness. Its speed is barely above stall-point. A stairwell slowly dis- tends from the big jet's belly.
A man appears. He rides the swaying ladder like a tomcat on a fire ladder. He wears a dark suit and overcoat. Sunglasses are taped to his temples.
· Strapped to his waist is a can- vas bag stuffed with the $200,000 ransom he collected at Seattle. Over his buttocks, on the same strap, an attache case dangles. It is black and contains five sticks of phony dynamite.
Over his buttocks, on the same strap, an attache case dangles. It is black and contains five sticks of phony dynamite.
The man is, poised on the final step. His laughter. rises in the wind. He spreads his arms wide and skydives toward the treetops. - and the folklore of the nation.
D.B. Cooper has arrived. The' world will never be the same place again.
I felt a pang of professional jeal- ousy. This guy was good with the
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But one section struck home. The part that told about the deliv- èry of the ransom aboard the 727 at Sea-Tac Airport:
"The bills were the real McCoy. But all of them had been xeroxed; to get their serial numbers. I know! I snarfed them personally.
The part that told about the deliv- èry of the ransom aboard the 727 at Sea-Tac Airport:
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1 Passengers on Flight. 305 re- membered the man as a quiet- spoken sort wearing a dark brown suit. He took the last seat on the right-hand side of the Northwest Orient Airline's flight out of Port- land heading for Seattle.
The only thing unusual about the man was that he wore sun glasses, unusual because it was a: rainy day on November 24, 1971, a day before Thanksgiving.
The man checked aboard the Boeing 727 under the name of "Dan Cooper" in Portland, the last leg of the flight that had start- ed in Washington, D.C.
By the time the plane finally set down in Reno several hours later, the man who became known as. "D.B. Cooper" was gone, along with $200,000 in $20 bills, two para: chutes and a briefcase which Coo- per told the stewardess contained a bomb.
Somewhere in Southwest Wash- Jington, D.B. Cooper had bailed out at 10,000 feet into dark storm clouds and into history. He would remain to this day the only hi- jacker in the United States ever to escape arrest.
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He would remain to this day the only hi- jacker in the United States ever to escape arrest.
Over the last seven years, the F.B.I. has questioned more than 1,000 possible suspects,' chasedy down thousands of leads and heard from hundreds of people who claim either to be Cooper or to know his whereabouts.
But it took an 8-year-old Van- couver, Wash., boy to uncover the only piece of concrete evidence that Cooper really did bail out into the dense forest of Southwest Washington.
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Until Brian Ingram dug up 12; packets of $20 bills while on a pic- nic with his family along the Co- lumbia River, law-enforcement of ficers only assumed D.B. Cooper jumped over Southwest Washing- ton. The plane's recorder showed a "low pressure bump" at 8:11 p.m .. near Woodland, and when the plane landed in Reno, the hijacker couldn't be found.
Hundreds of searchers, spread out over the area around Wood- land, hoping either to find the body or the money or just a piece of the parachute dangling from a tree. Most parachute experts con- sulted at the time agreed it would: be almost impossible for Cooper to survive the plunge.
Most parachute experts con- sulted at the time agreed it would: be almost impossible for Cooper to survive the plunge.
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started to build. People started to talk about him as a modern-day Robin Hood. They admired the daring, the planning and the. ex- ecution of the jump.
Slowly but surely, the reports of encounters with Cooper started to come out. A man in Woodland said. someone knocked. at his back door on November 24 about the time Cooper would have landed, but he didn't answer. Other people start- ed turning in friends who looked like Cooper, in hopes of collecting the $25,000 reward.
Then the stories started to ap- pear. The now defunct Seattle Flag ran several pages of purport- ed interview with Cooper, and two
Kitsap County men were arrested for selling a fake interview with Cooper to a former contributing editor of Newsweek for $30;000.
Five months ago, two Tacoma! men said they had talked with D.B. Cooper, who, they said, was Jiving in Puyallup.
Five months ago, two Tacoma! men said they had talked with D.B. Cooper, who, they said, was Jiving in Puyallup. The man, told them that the money was buried under a pile of garbage at the Puyallup dump.
Mostly, however, people just have had fun with the D.B. Cooper story. T-shirts with the picture of D.B. Cooper in his sunglasses and. bearing the legend, "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?" became popu- lar, and there even was a song written about him ..
The residents of Ariel, Cowlitz County, near where Cooper sup- posedly bailed out, started holding an annual. "D.B. Cooper Day" to. commemorate the event. The fes- tival, called the "Cooper Caper," featured buffalo stew and sky divers and attracted more than 800 people. But not, apparently, D.B. Cooper.
. As for the two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who have been on the case since it began, they say they believe D.B. Cooper probably died the night he went jut the plane.
"It is my personal opinion that he is dead," said Joseph O'Con- nell, who has retired.
Cooper probably died the night he went jut the plane.
"It is my personal opinion that he is dead," said Joseph O'Con- nell, who has retired. "He jumped out of a plane at 10,000 feet on a cold, raw night and he jumped in an area densely populated with Douglas fir and ponderosa pine." Ralph Himmelsbach, Portland F.B.I. agent who is to retire Feb- ruary 29, said he was "delighted about the money being found. He EB 115 1980 said the find reduced the chances of Cooper ever being found alive to "less than 50-50."
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1 ARIEL, Cowlitz County - Not much happens in Ariel, a small logging community 11 miles east of Woodland.
Until a hijacker vanished mys- teriously over Southwest Washing- ton more than eight years ago, probably nothing happened in Ariel.
But D.B. Cooper put the town on the map, and yesterday and: last night the telephones at the Ariel Store & Tavern were "ring- ing off the hook" said Dave Fish- er, the owner.
Cooper put the town on the map, and yesterday and: last night the telephones at the Ariel Store & Tavern were "ring- ing off the hook" said Dave Fish- er, the owner.
Ariel happens to be near Lake Merwin, and a number of theorists suggested that Cooper might have gone into the reservoir behind the Ariel dam.
Since 1976 the Ariel Tavern has hosted an annual D.B. Cooper par- ty on November 24, the anniversa- ry of the hijacking in 1971. Every year 200 to 300 people have shown up to eat buffalo stew and see whether Cooper would answer the standing invitation to join the party.
He never has, of course.
Fisher bought the tavern and the tradition 15 months ago, and until 3:30 yesterday afternoon, "I wasn't expecting a thing tonight:) It's pretty dead in winter."
But then the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced in Seattle! and Portland that part of $200,000 given to the hijacker had been found along the banks of the Co- lumbia River near Vancouver.
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The moldering money, about $4,000, was found by a family pic- nicking along the river north of Portland. A young boy digging in the sandy riverbanks with a stick uncovered the loot.
After that, Fisher said, "It was just like the D.B. Cooper party."
. Fisher said he had been on the run answering telephone calls from television-network reporters in New York and newspapers and- radio stations all over the West Coast.
Only about 20 or 30 patrons were in the Ariel Tavern last night, and most were paying as much attention to playing pool as to the Cooper talk. A weekly Tues- day-night pool match with the Riv- erside Tavern in Woodland had been moved to Ariel last night at the request of a Portland televi- sion station interested in filming reaction to the discovery of the money.
Fisher and others said they were mystified as to how the mon- ey arrived on the banks of the Co- limbia River, but they still would have to be persuaded that the hi- jacker didn't survive after he bailed out of the Boeing 727.
Fisher and others said they were mystified as to how the mon- ey arrived on the banks of the Co- limbia River, but they still would have to be persuaded that the hi- jacker didn't survive after he bailed out of the Boeing 727.
"I still think he's alive, until they find some bones," Fisher said.
He said the finding could lead to other developments, pointing out that the discovery by the boy was) a strange first trace of Cooper after so many years.
Then the telephone rang in the next room, Fisher raced to an- swer it, laughed and announced, "San Jose calling."
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Federal Bureau of Investigation brought a backhoe and experts in soil, archeology and river currents to a sandy Columbia River beach west of here today to seek more clues into the 8-year-old D.B. Coo- per hijacking mystery.
An 8-year-old boy Sunday uncov- ered on the beach a small part of the $200,000 the legendary hijacker had strapped to his body when he parachuted from a Northwest Ori- ent Airlines 727 over Southwestern Washington November 24, 1971.
F.B.I. agents yesterday found more fragments of $20 bills while digging at the beach. Paul Hud- son, the F.B.I.'s on-site coordina- tor, said the fragments - the size of nickels and quarters - were found as much as 5 feet away from where the money was found Sunday. Some fragments were, 3. feet under the surface.
9. Hudson said the bureau is trying ito determine possible ways the money reached the beach. The Jriver recently covered the beach, he said.
Hudson said the bureau is trying ito determine possible ways the money reached the beach. The Jriver recently covered the beach, he said.
Hudson also noted that the Co- lumbia River channel is dredged periodically and sand from the riv- er bottom is pumped on the shore.
"It's possible that it washed up here a period of time ago riot 9 years ago but not necessarily recently," Hudson said.
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Discovery of the money "prob- ably raises as many questions as it! does answers," Hudson said. "In my own mind I can rule out the possibility that (the money) was buried here."
Hudson said whether searchers might find Cooper's remains in the area is "one of the questions we hope to answer today."
The beach is about nine miles. west of Vancouver, adjacent to a dairy farm and a popular spot for steelhead fishing. Today a Clark County deputy sheriff was at the
farm gate, turning away fisher- men and the curious.
One longtime fisherman, Sidney. Tipper, 80, of Vancouver, was ad- mitted to fish. Tipper said, "I've been going up and down this river for 10 years.
Tipper, 80, of Vancouver, was ad- mitted to fish. Tipper said, "I've been going up and down this river for 10 years. The money wasn't very deep. If it had been here (a long time) I think we'd have seen it."
The F.B.I. said yesterday it pre- sumes the money had been washed downstream, possibly from a tributary to the Columbia. An Army Engineers hydrologist said that the Washougal River was the only tributary that might have carried the money. The Washou- gal is the first Washington tribu- tary upstream from Vancouver.
William M. Baker, assistant spe- cial agent for the Portland F.B.I. office, said he expected searches would be carried out along the Col lumbia to the mouth of the Wa shougal and possibly up the Wall shougal.
The money recovered Sunday, in three bundles of decomposing $20 bills, was discovered by Brian Ingram, 8, of Vancouver. The boy.
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."I thought, 'Wow!' " Brian said. 'I saw it was money and went! over to my parents. They thought it was counterfeit."
The boy's father, Harold D. In- gram, said he called the F.B.I. be- cause "I figured if anybody knew what to do it would be them." He said he did not connect the money with the D.B. Cooper loot.
The money was described' as .looking like a "ball of wet pulp. Agents said there could be any- where from $4,000 to $10,000 in the' bundle.
The serial numbers of the bills matched the numbers of the $200,000 taken by Cooper when he hijacked the plane, which was on a Portland-Seattle flight, The money was put aboard at the Seat- tle-Tacoma Airport. Cooper jumped out through the 727's rear loading steps somewhere in South- western Washington after order -; ing the pilot to fly to Reno:
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Cooper jumped out through the 727's rear loading steps somewhere in South- western Washington after order -; ing the pilot to fly to Reno:
Dorwyn. Schreuder, an F.B.I. agent in charge of the beach "search. yesterday, said Cooper probably is not alive today. "If he were, I think he'd be with his mon- ey;" Schreuder said.
One earlier F.B.I. theory was that Cooper fell to his death in Lake Merwyn on the Lewis River. However, the Lewis River enters the Columbia downstream from where the money was found.
Baker said he believes rewards offered in the D.B. Cooper case have expired. "But if there was a. reward," Baker said, "I certainly would recommend that the In- grams get it." .
The discovery was the first ma- jor break for the F.B.I. in the hi- jacking. The hijacking was the first of its kind and the only one that remains to be solved.
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It's more likely than ever that the legendary D. B. Cooper is just a grinning skeleton in a nylon shroud, say FBI agents raking the sand for the last of his mouldering stash.
"The discovery of the money adds credence to the theory that he probably did not survive the jump," said Bill Williams, a special agent in Portland.
On the north bank of the Colum- bia River today, more than 30 FBI agents worked behind a cordon of armed sheriff's deputies, spading over every square foot of sand along 150 feet of shoreline.
The site is where eight-year-old Brian Ingram of Vancouver, digg- ing idly in the sand with a stick on Sunday, turned up a sodden wad of $20 bills.
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The site is where eight-year-old Brian Ingram of Vancouver, digg- ing idly in the sand with a stick on Sunday, turned up a sodden wad of $20 bills.
Serial numbers on the money - 12. stacks of twenties, still in their bank wrappings - matched some of those given to "Dan Cooper" when he hijacked Northwest Air- lines Flight 305 on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
Flourishing what looked like a stick of dynamite, "Cooper" or- dered the plane to fly from Seattle- Tacoma International Airport to Reno, Nev., after first demaninding $200,000 and four parachutes.
The Boeing 727's flight recorder indicated that he jumped from the plane's lowered rear stairwell somewhere near Ariel, a tiny logg- ing town in Southwest Washington.
No trace of Cooper or the hijack- ing loot had shown up in the past nine years. The mysterious air pi- rate in that time has become a cult figure, with sweatshirts, bumper- stickers and endless pulp-magazine stories dedicated to the exploit.
FBI agents, who have been the butt of D. B. Cooper jokes for nine years, did not conceal a certain grim satisfaction when they an- nounced the finding of the money in Seattle and Portland press confer- ences yesterday.
Cooper jokes for nine years, did not conceal a certain grim satisfaction when they an- nounced the finding of the money in Seattle and Portland press confer- ences yesterday.
The fact that the money appears to have washed up on the river- bank, rather than having been pur- posely buried there, increases the chances that Cooper is dead.
"There is no way we can tell if he is dead or alive," said John Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle office. "We only know that if he is alive, he doesn't have this money."
The site of the find is about nine miles downriver from the Inter- state 5 bridge over the Columbia between Portland and Vancouver. Young Ingram made the discovery while picnicking with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dwayne Ingram.
The elder Ingram told reporters yesterday he was preparing to build a fire when his son "ran up and said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy.' He raked a place out in the sand, and there it was."
Ingram told The Associated Press he didn't even consider spending the money, because it looked so badly deteriorated.
The decomposed money was being sent today to the FBI crime lab in Washington, D.
Ingram told The Associated Press he didn't even consider spending the money, because it looked so badly deteriorated.
The decomposed money was being sent today to the FBI crime lab in Washington, D.C., for exami- nation. Pringle said there is a pos- sibility that mud and soil deposited in the bundles may give a clue as to where they were washed from.
"We're going to be doing some study of tide tables and flood records, also," added Portland agent Williams today. "That'll tell us whether examining any of the
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Columbia's tributaries would be useful."
The Washougal River flows into the Columbia below the money site, and its origins are deep in the woods over which Cooper is be- lieved to have jumped.
However, Williams noted, the Columbia is frequently dredged and often floods where the money was found, so the situation could be very confused.
Pringle said Cooper jumped with the money tied around his waist, and he said he believed "it was in a bag which would have de- teriorated over this length of
Pringle said Cooper jumped with the money tied around his waist, and he said he believed "it was in a bag which would have de- teriorated over this length of time."
He said a major objective of the search going on now is to find some other object that is connected to Cooper.
"We could find bones, or a piece of parachute," he said. "Nylon does not deteriorate rapidly."
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Agents using spades and rakes have discovered a few more pieces of $20 bills, about the size of nick- els and dimes, according to the FBI. The new discoveries were made within a three-foot radius of the original finding.
"We are planning to bring in some heavy equipment tomorrow ; to speed things up," Williams said. "The problem when you dig up a spadeful of sand is, what do you do with the sand?"
In Ariel, meanwhile, tavern owner Dave Fisher said the little town will go on with plans for its annual "D. B. Cooper party" at his Ariel Store & Tavern-this Nov. 24
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Part of the money paid to D. B. Cooper, the legendary skyjacker, was shown during an FBI news conference yes- terday. FBI officials said several thousand dollars of the $200,000 ransom Cooper received in 1971 had been found on a Columbia River sandbar five miles north of Vancouver, Wash. A picnicking family found the soaked cache while looking for firewood. Cooper, who parachuted from a 727 airliner, has never been found.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation treasure hunters re- turned to a cold and sandy Columbia River beach down- stream from Vancouver, Wash., today seeking more clues to the eight-year-old D.B. Cooper skyjacking mystery.
The F.B.I. mixed a little science and technology with a lot of old-fashioned elbow grease yesterday in continued digging at the beach. Agents continued to find scraps of $20 bills in the area where a picnicking Vancouver family found three bundles of money Sunday.
Through serial numbers, those decomposed bundles. of bills have been identified as "several thousand dollars" of the $200,000 given to the man who hijacked a. Northwest Orient Airlines 727 in November, 1971, then parachuted from the jet with his loot. The F.B.I. believes he jumped somewhere in the vicinity of LaCenter, about 25 miles northeast of the beach where the money, was found.
Yesterday's search, aided by a backhoe and advice from a Portland State University geologist, provided no clues how the money got to the beach or where it has been since the hijacking .
Yesterday's search, aided by a backhoe and advice from a Portland State University geologist, provided no clues how the money got to the beach or where it has been since the hijacking ..
F.B.I. agents said the money still was packaged in the same order as it was given to the hijacker, The geolo- gist said the money probably had been there for less than two years.
Kenneth Moore, a Seattle F.B.I. agent assigned to the case, said, "One reason for conducting an exhaustive search of this area would be to find other indications of what happened -- pieces of clothing, pieces of bag, pieces of parachute or human remains, which in this case would be only bones."
The beach area is 71/2 miles northwest of Vancouver on a stretch of shoreline used heavily by fishermen and lined with industrial plants and farms.
Moore and other agents said it would be just specula- tion to, suggest that Cooper might have come down hear the Columbia River beach, or that the search site might give any clue besides additional pieces of money. The round shape of the wads of money suggested that the cash could have tumbled along the river bed, agents said.
The round shape of the wads of money suggested that the cash could have tumbled along the river bed, agents said.
The farmers who own the shoreland, Al and Richard' Fazio, said the place where the money was found is peri- odically underwater during high river runoff, like last week.
Moore said the currency might have been pumped on the beach during the dredging, but that was doubted by Dr. Leonard Palmer, Portland State geologist,
Palmer said the scraps of money had been found in looser sand, not in dredging spoils. The river last was; dredged there in 1974.
Moore said the meager evidence suggests the hi- jacker "may have landed in the water, although not nec- essarily the Columbia."
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Speculation that Cooper could have dropped into Lake Merwin, a reservoir on the Lewis River, was re- placed this week by speculation he could have landed in the Washougal River watershed: The Lewis River enters: downstream from the search area, the Washougal. up- stream from Vancouver.
But Moore said there were no plans to search upriver "unless evidence leads us to a more specific area.'
Small pieces of currency were found yesterday, in scattered :places as they combed through sand several hundred feet downstream from Sunday's discovery site!
Other fragments showed up as agents shoveled sand through wire screens around the main site. The largest" piece discovered yesterday was about the size of a stick of chewing gum. It was several layers thick.
Moore said the new fragments may once have been part of the destroyed bundles discovered Sunday.
Although there were several rewards offered for the discovery of the money or the arrest of D.B. Cooper, fed- eral agents said it looked as if the Harold Ingram family is out of luck.
Although there were several rewards offered for the discovery of the money or the arrest of D.B. Cooper, fed- eral agents said it looked as if the Harold Ingram family is out of luck. ' Ingram's son, Brian, 8, uncovered the money.
"As far as I know, all reward offers have been can- céled," a Portland F.B.I. agent, Bill Williams, said. 1
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"Our loss was covered by our insurance and so. we are out of the situation now," he said.
Ralph . Himmelsbach, a Portland F.B.I. agent who has worked on the D.B. Cooper case since 1971, said the finding of the money gave him "a certain sense of satis- faction," the Associated Press reported.
"The case isn't solved," Himmelsbach said, "but this is certainly a major milestone:
"So we know at least that he (Cooper) never spent this money, and we know that none of the money he was given has ever turned up in circulation."
Himmelsbach said Cooper's skeleton probably never, will be found if it is in the forested mountain area where he is supposed to have
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Himmelsbach said Cooper's skeleton probably never, will be found if it is in the forested mountain area where he is supposed to have landed.
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FBI agents yesterday called off their search on a sandy beach of the Columbia River west of Van- couver for more evidence of D.B. Cooper and the $200,000 he carried when he parachuted from a skyjacked ' airliner in November 1971.
"When the agents get back here next .week, we'll discuss what direc- tion to take next," said Jack Pringle, an FBI agent in Seattle.
One partly decomposed bundle of marked $20 bills from the Cooper loot was found Sunday by a family pic- nicking beside the river nine miles below Vancouver.
It probably will be at least a week before the FBI laboratory in Washing- ton, D.C., will report on how much money was found, said Bill Williams, of the FBI office in Portland, Ore.
C., will report on how much money was found, said Bill Williams, of the FBI office in Portland, Ore., whose agents dug and sifted the sand earlier this week.
Cooper is believed to have para- chuted over Lake Merwin in Cowlitz County. No trace of him or the money
is known to have been found until the discovery Sunday.
Williams said yesterday that Leon- ard Palmer, a geologist at Portland State University, concluded that the money drifted onto the river bank sometime after August 1974. The money lay in sand on top of spoil from a dredging operation that was conducted that month, Palmer told the FBI.
Pringle said that sooner or later the recovered money will be returned to its owner.
"We don't know who that is and it's not up to us to determine," he said. "It might be that a court will have to decide."
The $200,000 was delivered to . Cooper aboard a Northwest Airline plane in Seattle after he skyjacked it.
Brent Baskfield, a Northwest pub-, lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn., said Northwest paid the money but has been reimbursed for most of it by The Globe Insurance Co.
Paul, Minn., said Northwest paid the money but has been reimbursed for most of it by The Globe Insurance Co. in New York City:
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On Nov. 24, 1971, a calm, middle-age man calling himself Dan Cooper bought a ticket for a Northwest Airlines flight to Seattle.
Shortly after takeoff, he handed a note to stewardess Florence Schaffner.
Thinking the man was my- ing to "hustle" her, she stuff- ed the note in her purse, but he motioned for her to
Thinking the man was my- ing to "hustle" her, she stuff- ed the note in her purse, but he motioned for her to read it.
The note said he had a bomb, and wanted to go to Mexico.
While the jet circled Seattle before landing, the skyjacker also ordered that $200,000 cash and four parachutes be brought to the plane.
The airline agreed, 36 passengers and part of the crew were allowed to leave, and the plane took off with the man and his ransom.
As it flew south, the rear airstair was lowered, and minutes later the plane 'reacted in a manner that con- vinced the crew that the sky- jacker had bailed out somewhere in the Lewis River-Lake Merwin area east of Woodland.
Thus began the legend of D.B. Cooper (the name Dan Cooper somehow got lost in news media accounts of the in- cident.)
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Cooper has never been found, but interest in the case is still strong, and flared Tues- day when the FBI announced a Vancouver family had found several thousand dollars of the ransom money on a Columbia River beach northwest of Van- couver.
Several stories about the case appear in today's issue of The Daily News.
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1 The handful of residents who live along the beach where part of D.B. Cooper's loot was found Sunday are kicking themselves for not building more sand castles.
They also wonder whether they should have paid more attention to the sand dredging operations along the beach.
Tina Bar is a stretch of sandy beach on the Washington side of the Columbia River northwest of Vancouver. The lonely country road that winds along the beach, Lower River Road, dead-ends about three miles from where a Vancouver family found about $3,000 beneath the sand Sunday while on a picnic. Rabbits bounce on the side of the road at night, startl- · ed by occasional passing cars.
Less than 10 houses are along the 12-mile stretch of beach road. Most of the land belongs to large dairy farms.
Less than 10 houses are along the 12-mile stretch of beach road. Most of the land belongs to large dairy farms. The Fazio Bros. Sand Co. also fronts the river. A road leading through the Fazio gate is a popular path to the beach. It is the same path used by the family the day they found the money. On the east side of Fazio Bros. is Leeward Isle Marina, with a public fishing boat launch and one or two house boats.
During fishing season, the beach is packed from end to end, say local residents Clarence and Barbara Ellis. They have lived in their mobile home just down the road from Fazio Bros. for the past 30 years.
Every day Clarence takes his outboard skiff along Tina Bar patrolling the river and the beach for renegade logs that could damage other boats.
Ellis says that the Army Corps of Engineers con- tinuously dredges sand directly off the shore from where the money was found.
"I betcha that dredging brought that money up and
most of it's been destroyed by the dredging," he said. . "Even the FBI is going to be able to figure that one out.
"I betcha that dredging brought that money up and
most of it's been destroyed by the dredging," he said. . "Even the FBI is going to be able to figure that one out."
Today a spokesman for the Army Engineers said they were working closely with the FBI, checking out that lead. The sand sucked up from the bottom of the river and spewed onto the beach could have contain- ed some or all of the long-sought money. While the dredging is continuous, the last time sand was deposited in that spot was in October 1974.
Another resident of the area said that the money was found too far from the water to have washed up. "It had to be the dredging. Maybe I'll go get me a shovel," said Mrs. J.W. Freeman.
The FBI dug all day Tuesday, finding bits and pieces of $20 bills. An agent guarding the site Tuesday evening said the amount they found during. the day . was less than the $3,000 orginally dug up.
Tuesday night the Ellis family sat in their home decorated with fishing gear and large plants, amazed that some the D.B. Cooper money was showing up on the same beach their children grew up on.
Tuesday night the Ellis family sat in their home decorated with fishing gear and large plants, amazed that some the D.B. Cooper money was showing up on the same beach their children grew up on.
"To think I worked like a slave all my life and here this money was right in my front yard," said Ellis. "When I think of the times my kids took the four- wheel drive right over that spot. I mean that's our beach. It belongs to the people we lease from and that's the beach we use."
His wife, Barbara, said she felt "kinda sick" not finding it. But she added that she would have turned it in. "Somebody could have lost it," she said.
The beach property actually belongs to the Hans Egger family of Vancouver. A baby sitter at the home said the Eggers were on vacation in California. They learned the money had been found on their property when they listened to a television newscast Tuesday night.
"They were shocked," said the baby sitter.
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The body of , skyjacker D.B. Cooper lies on the bottom of Lake Merwin, most likely hung up on a snag.
Retired FBI Agent Tom Manning of Longview has held that theory for several years, and still does.
The fact that some of the ransom money Cooper got from Northwest Airlines was found Sunday on a Col- umbia River beach north and west of Vancouver has not changed his con- viction in the least.
Manning, now manager of the Longview Chamber of Commerce, had charge of the massive searches conducted in the Lewis River area after the
Manning, now manager of the Longview Chamber of Commerce, had charge of the massive searches conducted in the Lewis River area after the infamous skyjacking of a Northwest . Airlines jet on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.
Because he worked so long on a case that has never been solved, the former resident agent has taken a lot of ribbing from friends and ac- quaintances.
"Some still call me D.B. Cooper," he said with a chuckle Tuesday night.
Manning never believed the sky- jacker survived the jump with $200,000 in ransom money, and was among the first to say so.
"I said several years ago that I think he may be hung up on a snag at the bottom of Lake Merwin, and I still think so," Manning said after learning Tuesday that some of the ransom money had been found.
Manning said the fact that the money was found upstream, rather than downstream from the mouth of the Lewis River, doesn't disprove his theory.
He said it could have been moved upstream by tides and currents.
George Holmes, a hydrologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says that would not have been im- possible, but he considers it unlikely that currents would
Army Corps of Engineers, says that would not have been im- possible, but he considers it unlikely that currents would have moved the Acash that far upstream.
"However," Holmes, emphasized, "I'm not taking issue in any way with the theory of where the hijacker may have come down after leaving the plane, or where the rest of the money might be."
Manning recalls vividly the inten-
sive search conducted east of Woodland in the Lewis River area.
He says Charles Farrell of Seattle was the FBI agent in charge of the case, while Manning coordinated the . searches. Other agents from the Seattle and Portland FBI offices were also involved. In addition, about 200 soldiers from Fort Lewis were used in an inch by inch grid .. search conducted in March of 1972 after the winter snows melted.
Despite the fact that no trace of Cooper was found, Manning and other agents remained convinced he had jumped somewhere in the Lewis River-Lake Merwin area, where crewmen of the Boeing 727 noted al fluctuation in the cabin rate of pressure indicator about 8:10 p.
was found, Manning and other agents remained convinced he had jumped somewhere in the Lewis River-Lake Merwin area, where crewmen of the Boeing 727 noted al fluctuation in the cabin rate of pressure indicator about 8:10 p.m.
Minutes earlier lights came on in the cockpit indicating the rear airstair of the aircraft had been lowered.
"Using the same aircraft, we made some tests three days after the hijacking, and the results gave credence to the theory that he jumped in the area the crew told us about," Manning said.
Manning was aboard the plane, flown by the chief pilot of the airline, when it was taken over the Pacific Ocean off the Hoquiam bombing range for the tests. Also present was the same flight engineer who was on duty the night of the incident.
"We took along some wooden sleds with sandbags to approximate the weight of Cooper, the parachutes given him and the ransom money, and dropped them from the plane when the flying conditions were the same as they were at the time he bailed out," Manning recalled.
The airstair was lowered, and the . sleds dropped.
"The engineer said the plane reacted the same as it had before when the weight was released," Manning said Tuesday.
"The engineer said the plane reacted the same as it had before when the weight was released," Manning said Tuesday.
According to Manning, the FBI, and the airline were convinced then! that the man calling himself D.B.[: Cooper bailed out of the jet in the! Lewis River area, and nothing has happened to shake that'belief.
Where he landed has never been determined, but Manning still thinks Lake Merwin is a good bet.
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By Bud May The Daily News
The body of | skyjacker D.B. Cooper lies on the bottom of Lake Merwin, most likely hung up on a snag.
Retired FBI Agent Tom Manning of Longview has held that theory for several years, and still does.
Cooper lies on the bottom of Lake Merwin, most likely hung up on a snag.
Retired FBI Agent Tom Manning of Longview has held that theory for several years, and still does.
The fact that some of the ransom money Cooper got from Northwest Airlines was found Sunday on a Col- umbia River beach north and west of Vancouver has not changed his con- viction in the least.
Manning, now manager of the Longview Chamber of Commerce, had charge of the massive searches conducted in the Lewis River area after the infamous skyjacking of a Northwest Airlines jet on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.
Because he worked so long on a case that has never been solved, the former resident agent has taken a lot of ribbing from friends and ac- quaintances.
"Some still call me D.B. Cooper," he said with a chuckle Tuesday night.
Manning never believed the sky- jacker survived the jump with $200,000 in ransom money, and was among the first to say so.
"I said several years ago that I think he may be hung up on a snag at the bottom of Lake Merwin, and I still think so," Manning said after learning Tuesday that some of the ransom money had been found.
"I said several years ago that I think he may be hung up on a snag at the bottom of Lake Merwin, and I still think so," Manning said after learning Tuesday that some of the ransom money had been found.
Manning said the fact that the money was found upstream, rather than downstream from the mouth of the Lewis River, doesn't disprove his theory.
He said it could have been moved upstream by tides and currents.
George Holmes, a hydrologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says that would not have been im- possible, but he considers it unlikely that currents would have moved the ^cash that far upstream.
' "However," Holmes, emphasized, "I'm not taking issue in any way :with the theory of where the hijacker may have come down after leaving the plane, or where the rest of the money might be."
Manning recalls vividly the inten-
sive search conducted east of Woodland in the Lewis River area.
He says Charles Farrell of Seattle was the FBI agent in charge of the case, while Manning coordinated the ' searches. Other agents from the Seattle and Portland FBI offices were also involved. In addition, about 200 soldiers from Fort Lewis were used in an inch by inch grid .
Other agents from the Seattle and Portland FBI offices were also involved. In addition, about 200 soldiers from Fort Lewis were used in an inch by inch grid . search conducted in March of 1972 after the winter snows melted.
Despite the fact that no trace of Cooper was found, Manning and other agents remained convinced he had jumped somewhere in the Lewis River-Lake Merwin area, where crewmen of the Boeing 727 noted ali fluctuation in the cabin rate of pressure indicator about 8:10 p.m.
Minutes earlier lights came on in the cockpit indicating the rear airstair of the aircraft had been lowered.
"Using the same aircraft, we made some tests three days after the hijacking, and the results gave credence to the theory that he - jumped in the area the crew told us about," Manning said.
Manning was aboard the plane, flown by the chief pilot of the airline, when it was taken over the Pacific Ocean off the Hoquiam bombing . range for the tests. Also present was the same flight engineer who was on duty the night of the incident.
"We took along some wooden sleds with sandbags to approximate the weight of Cooper, the parachutes given him and the ransom
"We took along some wooden sleds with sandbags to approximate the weight of Cooper, the parachutes given him and the ransom money, and dropped them from the plane when the flying conditions were the same as they were at the time he bailed out," Manning recalled.
The airstair was lowered, and the sleds dropped.
"The engineer said the plane . reacted the same as it had before when the weight was released," Manning said Tuesday.
According to Manning, the FBI, and the airline were convinced then that the man calling himself D.B. Cooper bailed out of the jet in the Lewis River area, and nothing has happened to shake that belief.
Where he landed has never been determined, but Manning still thinks Take Marwin ica rond hot
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Daily News Longview, Wa. Date: 2/13/80 Edition: Final
Title: NORJAK
Character: or Classification: 164-81
Submitting Office: Seattle
FBI to Cooper loot
FBI agents digging in search of more clues
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By Bud May The Daily News
PORTLAND -- An 8-year-old boy . accomplished with a sweep of his hand Sunday something the FBI has been trying to do for more than eight years.
Brian Ingram, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dwayne Ingram of Van- couver, provided the first major breakthrough in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case when he accidental- ly uncovered part of the $200,000 ran- som Cooper had when he bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet in the Lewis River area on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.
skyjacking case when he accidental- ly uncovered part of the $200,000 ran- som Cooper had when he bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet in the Lewis River area on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.
The FBI said Tuesday the discovery of more than $3,000 in bad- ly deteriorated $20 bills was made Sunday while the Ingram family was on an outing on a Columbia River beach about five miles northwest of Vancouver on the Washington side.
Meantime, the FBI is conducting an intensive grid search of the beach area where the money was found. Agents reported finding bits and pieces of money Tuesday afternoon, some of it as deep as three feet in sand.
However, the pieces were so small it was not possible to determine the amount of money.
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hydrologist, George Holmes, said he would review information about where the hijacker jumped in rela- tion to where the money was found.
He said the Washougal River was the only Columbia tributary that might have carried the cash, and! even that is a remote possibility.
Not everyone shares that opinion. Some experts feel that because of the Columbia's currents, the money could have come from the Lewis River and washed upstream.
Some experts feel that because of the Columbia's currents, the money could have come from the Lewis River and washed upstream.
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The FBI has also contacted the Ar- : my Engineers, which continuously dredges sand in that area, on the chance that dredging brought the money up from the bottom of the river. A spokesman for the Army Engineers said today that it is a definite possibility. While they con- stantly dredge in that area, the last time they deposited the dredged sand on that beach was in October 1974.
Agents said the money, in bundles, without question is part of that given the man known as Cooper.
"The packaging and numbered se- quence indicate the bills have not been separated and are in much the same order as when given to the hi- jacker," explained Bill Baker, assis- tant agent in charge at the Portland office.
Baker could not say whether the Ingram family will get a reward, since the FBI can not offer one, but he indicated there is a good possibili- ty that the airline or another source; would provide one.
Baker could not say whether the Ingram family will get a reward, since the FBI can not offer one, but he indicated there is a good possibili- ty that the airline or another source; would provide one.
The elder Ingram and his wife, Patricia, told dozens of news media, people at a press conference in the Portland FBI Office Tuesday how
the money was found.
"I was about to build a fire on the" beach," said Ingram, "and had myi. arms full, but before I could set it; down, my son said, 'Wait a minute' daddy.' He scooped off some sand, and this money rolled to the top."
A UPI reporter who talked with the family Tuesday said Brian and his 5-year-old cousin, Denise In- gram, shouted, "Look! It's money that we found!"
The Ingrams said they didn't con- nect the money to the Cooper case at the time, but realized it must be im- portant to someone, so they notified the Portland FBI Office of the find.
Asked by a reporter why he con- tacted the FBI instead of local authorities, Ingram responded, "Because I figured if I turned it over to police, I would never see it again."
He didn't elaborate on that remark, but continued to answer questions from newspaper, televi- sion and radio reporters.
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He didn't elaborate on that remark, but continued to answer questions from newspaper, televi- sion and radio reporters.
Asked if he considered keeping the money, Ingram laughingly replied, "No, it looked in such bad shape I didn't think I could spend it."
Ingram said the money, which was displayed for reporters on a table at the press conference, was about 20 yards from the edge of the river, but was very wet.
Because of the poor condition of the bills, the exact amount ... of recovered money is unknowni pensAft ding laboratory examination; the,sen FBI said.
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By John O'Ryan
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Eight FBI agents digging on a Columbia River beach in a snowstorm found no more of D.B. Cooper's hijack ransom yester- day, but they revealed new clues to the fate of the legendary parachutist.
Special agent Ken Moore of Seat- tle, in charge of the digging, said a geologist's report indicates that the money which has been found drifted up on this beach within the past two years.
Furthermore, Moore said as he warmed himself by a campfire during 1
a respite from the frigid digging, the money came downstream, and proba- bly reached the Columbia from the Washougal River, or one of several smaller streams which enter the big river above here.
It isn't likely, he said, that the money came upstream, with tidal cur- rents, from the Lewis River - which drains Lake Merwin, where Cooper has long been thought to have per- ished.
It isn't likely, he said, that the money came upstream, with tidal cur- rents, from the Lewis River - which drains Lake Merwin, where Cooper has long been thought to have per- ished.
Moore thought for a few moments, then said:
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All of which indicates that Cooper, with $200,000 in a canvas suitcase strapped to his body, jumped from a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 a little southeast of the point originally esti- mated by the FBI.
He apparently landed southeast dif Lake Merwin which is just off I-5 near Woodland, in the drainage of the Washougal River, or nearby streams, in hilly, wooded country.
"There is nothing infallible about our original estimate of where he landed," said John Pringle, assistant special agent in charge of the Seattle
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"Because of strong wind currents, and other variables, we could have been a little off in our original esa- mates."
According to Pringle, only one money bundle from the $200,000 hi- jack ransom was found on this beach nine miles downstream from the bridge over the Columbia River at Vancouver.
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According to Pringle, only one money bundle from the $200,000 hi- jack ransom was found on this beach nine miles downstream from the bridge over the Columbia River at Vancouver.
But since Cooper had all of his money in one canvas container, ac- cording to Moore, if any of the money. is scattered - all of it is likely to be scattered.
Cooper, whose real identity has never been learned, literally dropped out of sight the night he plunged from the airliner. He had collected his hijack e loot in Seattle - bundles of money wrapped in a package six inches high, one foot across, and about 1S inches long - later stuffed into a bag tied to his waist.
No trace was found of Cooper or his money until a family picnicking on this north bank of the Columbia, on property owned by the Fazio Brothers Sand Co. and dairy cow farm, found tattered bills three to six inches deep in the sand.
It was "Seattle day" at the FBI dig- gings on the Columbia River yester- day. The previous day, 10 FBI agents from the Portland bureau carried out the digging.
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The previous day, 10 FBI agents from the Portland bureau carried out the digging.
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Sand was piled around the original money discovery area, because the FBI had been using a backhoe to ex- cavate there. Agents were working yesterday with shovels and rakes.
Moore said a Portland State Un- iversity Geologist is the one who de- termined that the money had floated? onto the beach within the last two years.
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This, Moore said, was based on ag determination that there is only about six to eight inches of sand on this beach, and beneath it is a clay that was placed here by a channel dredg- ing project carried out in 1974.
The clay, he said, appears "undis- turbed," but the sand contains-soft - drink containers and other debris
from pienickers. It appears to be of recent origin, and the money was found only about three to six inches deep in it.
Moore said the Army Corps of En- gineers had scuttled the theory that the money had drifted upstream
Moore said the Army Corps of En- gineers had scuttled the theory that the money had drifted upstream with tidal currents from the mouth of the Lewis River, which enters the Colun- . bia downstream from here.
"I talked to the engineers, and · they said that it is most unlikely that anything drifted upstream against the current," Moore safl.
If no more money is found, the . ¿FBI's digging on the beach will end today, Moore said.
But he expressed the belief that "the departure of the FBI will not end the sifting through this strip of sand. "After we leave, probably 2,500 people will digging here the next day," he said.
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DB Cooper-17428 1 Most agents believe he died in the " jump, and their views are strengthened by the fact that the bills found Sunday were unseparated. In addition, none of the ransom money has ever turned up elsewhere in the more than eight years since the skyjacking.
In addition, none of the ransom money has ever turned up elsewhere in the more than eight years since the skyjacking.
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Ralph Himmelsbach, an agent associated with the case from the beginning, is among those who believe the skyjacker died, and may never be found.
"I originally thought he had a 50-50 chance of survival. I later modified my own opinion, and believe he had ·substantially less chance than that.
Himmelsbach, who retires at the end of this month, is also a pilot. He flew over the suspected bailout area the day after the incident, and later was assigned to follow up leads received by the Portland office.
He said, he is delighted by the discovery of the money, and hopes i more evidence will be found.
1 While his retirement means an" end to his involvement in the in -! vestigation, Himmelsbach said he! will always maintain a keen interest! in the case.
"We've put an awful lot of work in- to it," he said.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - The search along;a Columbia River beach for more money from the D.
DB Cooper-17429FBI ending hunt for Cooper cash
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - The search along;a Columbia River beach for more money from the D.B. Cooper hijacking eight years ago probably will be suspended after today, FBI officials said Thursday.
Meanwhile, a geologist concluded that several thou- sand dollars found Sunday by an 8-year-old boy on a family picnic was deposited on the beach in the past year or two.
FBI agents continued to dig for more of the $200,000 that Cooper took with him when he bailed out of a plane on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.
The search began Tuesday along the river's north shore, about three miles southwest of downtown Vancou- ver. Additional scraps of money were found on Wednes- day.
A man whose passenger list was signed "Dan Cooper" left a Northwest Airlines plane that was bound for Reno, Nev., from Seattle after he displayed what appeared to be a bomb and obtained a package of $20 bills and three parachutes.
FBI agents believed he left the plane, during a storm, about 20 miles northeast of where the crumbled and weathered bills were found.
FBI agents believed he left the plane, during a storm, about 20 miles northeast of where the crumbled and weathered bills were found.
It is the nation's only unsolved hijacking.
"We'll work today and tomorrow and probably knock it off and bring my troops back up here and reassess the situation," said Jack Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle office which took over the search operations.
"Some of the area is inaccessible and there's no way we can search the whole river," Pringle said.
He said geologist Leonard Palmer of Portland State University concluded that the dredging operation in 1974 did not put the money onto the beach, because the bills were found above clay deposits put on the banks by the dredge.
Brian Ingram, when scooping out a place for a campfire, found the money, tied together by rubber bands in three clumps, under a thin layer of sand.
The bills were matched to the Cooper loot by serial numbers.
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DB Cooper-17440FBI ending hunt for Cooper cash
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - The search along a Columbia River beach for more money from the D.B. Cooper hijacking eight years ago probably will be suspended after today, FBI officials said Thursday.
Meanwhile, a geologist concluded that several thou- sand dollars found Sunday by an 8-year-old boy on a family picnic was deposited on the beach in the past year or two.
FBI agents continued to dig for more of the $200,000 that Cooper took with him when he bailed out of a plane on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.
The search began Tuesday along the river's north shore, about three miles southwest of downtown Vancou- ver. Additional scraps of money were found on Wednes- day.
A man whose passenger list was signed "Dan Cooper" left a Northwest Airlines plane that was bound for Reno, Nev., from Seattle after he displayed what appeared to be a bomb and obtained a package of $20 bills and three parachutes.
, from Seattle after he displayed what appeared to be a bomb and obtained a package of $20 bills and three parachutes.
FBI agents believed he left the plane, during a storm, about 20 miles northeast of where the crumbled and weathered bills were found.
It is the nation's only unsolved hijacking.
"We'll work today and tomorrow and probably knock it off and bring my troops back up here and reassess the situation," said Jack Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle office which took over the search operations.
"Some of the area is inaccessible and there's no way we can search the whole river," Pringle said.
He said geologist Leonard Palmer of Portland State University concluded that the dredging operation in 1974 did not put the money onto the beach, because the bills were found above clay deposits put on the banks by the dredge.
Brian Ingram, when scooping out a place for a campfire, found the money, tied together by rubber bands in three clumps, under a thin layer of sand.
The bills were matched to the Cooper loot by serial numbers.
Brian Ingram, when scooping out a place for a campfire, found the money, tied together by rubber bands in three clumps, under a thin layer of sand.
The bills were matched to the Cooper loot by serial numbers.
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Dear Sir- SUBJ
am enclosing a thats of my helicopter pilor that flew one on a flight over the seattle Fair in 1962 on 63 pour the top of a building at the Fair grounds in Seattle, The peculiar thing about the pilot. He did not want his picture taken, Celso his similarity to the artist sketches of The Hijacker that has been in the news lately
am enclosing stamp for 1 return of same, if you don't need is.
Resp yours Made Hampton
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SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (RUC)
SUBJECT:
NORJACK
00: SE
Bufile: 164-2111
TO:
TO :
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SUB J
On 2/14/80, Tracy, Ca., home phone
office phone furnished the following information.
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She stated that from August to October, 1979, she that closely resembles the artist conception drawings of D. B. Cooper. She stated that his name is
She advised
that California, and
Beverly Hills, Ca. She believes he was in the Army and was a paratrooper. She stated that calls her, however she does not see him.
Above information being furnished Seattle for information and whatever action deemed appropriate.
G - Seattle 1 - Sacramento EMC (3)
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Above information being furnished Seattle for information and whatever action deemed appropriate.
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SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (RUC) NORJACK 00: SE Bufile: 164-2111
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SUB J
On 2/14/80,
Tracy, Ca., home phone
office phone furnished the following information.
She stated that from August to October, 1979, she that closely resembles the artist conception drawings of D. B. Cooper. She stated that his name is
that California, and
She advised
Beverly Hills, Ca. She believes he was in the Army and was a paratrooper. She stated that calls her, however she does not see him.
Above information being furnished Seattle for information and whatever action deemed appropriate. 2 - Seattle 1 - Sacramento EMC (3)
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33 SOUTH FIFTH STREET MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55402 TELEPHONE [612] 339-4911
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TELECOPIER [612] 339 4181 TWX 910-576-2737
February 14, 1980
Mr. Bill Baker Assistant Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation P. O. Box 709 Portland, Oregon 97207
SUBS: GIM,R
Re: D. B. Cooper
Dear Mr. Baker:
We have become aware that some of the money given to D. B. Cooper has been recovered. This letter is to advise you that our client, Globe Indemnity Company, reimbursed Northwest Airlines for the money which was given to D. B. Cooper. It is our opinion, based on the terms of the contract pursuant to which such indemnification was made, that Globe Indemnity is entitled to receive any recovery made until the full amount of indemnification has been repaid.
It is our opinion, based on the terms of the contract pursuant to which such indemnification was made, that Globe Indemnity is entitled to receive any recovery made until the full amount of indemnification has been repaid.
We would appreciate being kept advised of what recovery is or has been made.
Very truly yours,
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SAINT PAUL OFFICE 1210 MINNESOTA BUILDING SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA SSIOI TELEPHONE (GI2) 224-5884
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL OFFICE SUITE SSO 2590 CUMBERLAND PARKWAY ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30339 TELEPHONE (404) 434-7100
WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE SUITE 200 19600 FAIRCHILD DRIVE IRVINE, CALIFORNIA 92715 TELEPHONE (714) BSI-0291
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Mr. Bill Baker Assistant Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation P. O. Box 709 Portland, Oregon 97207
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TELECOPIER [512] 339 4181 TWX 910-576-2737
February 14, 1980
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Oregon 97207
DB Cooper-17456LAW OFFICES
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33 SOUTH FIFTH STREET MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55402 TELEPHONE [612] 339-4911
TELECOPIER [512] 339 4181 TWX 910-576-2737
February 14, 1980
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Mr. Bill Baker Assistant Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation P. O. Box 709 Portland, Oregon 97207
SUBS: G,M, R
Re: D. B. Cooper
Dear Mr. Baker:
We have become aware that some of the money given to D. B. Cooper has been recovered. This letter is to advise you that our client, Globe Indemnity Company, reimbursed Northwest Airlines for the money which was given to D. B. Cooper. It is our opinion, based on the terms of the contract pursuant to which such indemnification was made, that Globe Indemnity is entitled to receive any recovery made until the full amount of indemnification has been repaid.
We would appreciate being kept advised of what recovery is or has been made.
Very truly yours,
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SAINT PAUL OFFICE 1210 MINNESOTA BUILDING SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA SSI01 TELEPHONE (612) 224-5904
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL OFFICE BUITE SSO 2690 CUMBERLAND. PARKWAY ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30339 TELEPHONE (404) 434-7100
WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE BUITE 200 13GOO FAIRCHILD DRIVE IRVINE,
PARKWAY ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30339 TELEPHONE (404) 434-7100
WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE BUITE 200 13GOO FAIRCHILD DRIVE IRVINE, CALIFORNIA 82715 TELEPHONE (714) 051-0291 DB Cooper-17457
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To: Director, Att .: SAC, (PERSONAL ATTENTION) Houston Albany Oklahoma City Albuquerque Indianapolis Omaha Alexandria Jackson Philadelphia Phoenix Anchorage Jacksonville Portland Baltimore Richmond Birmingham Pittsburgh Atlanta Kansas City Knoxville Las Vegas Little Rock Sacramento Boston Buffalo Butte San Diego Cleveland San Francisco Minneapolis San Juan Columbia :
Boston Buffalo Butte San Diego Cleveland San Francisco Minneapolis San Juan Columbia Mobile Dallas Denver Detroit Newark New Haven New Orleans Springfield El Paso Washington Field
Date
2/19/80
RE:
NORJAK
00: Seattle
REMARK S: Enclosed is letter from the .Law Offices of Minneapolis, Minnesota, dated 2/14/80 which was forwarded to the Portland Office. You may wish to coordinate requests for recovered money by Northwest Airlines and Globe Indemnity Company and correspond with them accordingly.
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Dan Cooper bil ¿not given to boy
Brian Ingram, the 8-year-old Van- couver, Wash., boy who discovered some of the Dan Cooper skyjacking ran- som last week, was not given one of the deteriorated bills, as was reported Tues- day in some editions of The Oregonian. The boy actually was given a $20 bill made to look like one of the tattered bills, in addition to a certificate praising him for his find. Both items came from . the Hough Elementary School PTA. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., FBI laboratory technicians have been unable to determine how much money was in the three bundles of Cooper's recovered as a result of young Ingram's find. "The $20 bills were so badly deteri- . 'orated that we have been unable to count it," said FBI spokesman Otis Cox. He said no fingerprints were found on the bills.
'orated that we have been unable to count it," said FBI spokesman Otis Cox. He said no fingerprints were found on the bills.
The bills were identified as part of Cooper's $200,000 by their serial num- bers.
SUBS: B, G, M
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newspaper, city and state.)
Pare D2. The Oregonian Portland, Or.
Date: 2/20/20 Edition:
Title:
Character:
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. Adult Probation Office
State of Nebr. 4th Judicial District Room 164 Hall of Justice Omaha, Nebr. 68102 Phone 444-7166 Feb. 19, 1980
Chief Adult Probation Officer
Deputy Chief Probation Officer DEPUTY PROBATION OFFICERS
DISTRICT COURT DOUGLAS COUNTY COURT
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Mr. William Baker Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Buildong Portland, Oregon 98100
RE: Unsub, D.
William Baker Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Buildong Portland, Oregon 98100
RE: Unsub, D. B. Cooper Hi-Jacking, ' 11-Nov. 1971
Dear Mr. Baker:
The writer, retired Sp. Agt
was assigned to Portland Div. 1944-47, serving as an RA at Medford & Klamath Falls in 1946-47.
The following is submitted concerning a subject of a case the writer came in contact with in Oregon in late 1945 who could have some of the physical appearance of drawings of captioned UNSUB aswellas mentality and guts to pull such an act. This is submitted from past recollection-as I realize -most remote possibility. 5 at One, in 1945
in which Portland was origin. At the time he was in his 20's .
Fe had been
Oregon in
Washington, as I recall. He was
at Seattle, Washington,
relative to in that State. Investigation revealed
During interview with Oregon, he
in late . 1945 at the Portland,
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During examination of personal possessions of wi.ich were recovered by the Oregon State Police, it was noted he had a pilot's log book-indicating airtime flights in Dallas, Texas area.
ich were recovered by the Oregon State Police, it was noted he had a pilot's log book-indicating airtime flights in Dallas, Texas area. The Bureau on review of the
On the Portland, and
in
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Washington, where the writer- in late
1945. He was then
I was subsequently advised by someone that in Washington,
someplace in Idaho. This is the last I had occasion to hear of him-as I transferred from the Portland Div.
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I do recall that Portland, Oregon, had inquired
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in the State of Washington, but could only if he were taken to the area. This was never done in view of his
He may have been too old as of Nov. 1971 to be matched with Unsub, D.B. Cooper, but inview of his, familiarity with the
States of Washington and Oregon, experience with smaller airplanes
I thought he might be of interest.
Perhaps the Army may have a photo of in Portland, taken some years ago, of course, or or Army record might indicate where he was in Nov, 1971 for elimination, if considered feasible or worthwhile for such .
the Army may have a photo of in Portland, taken some years ago, of course, or or Army record might indicate where he was in Nov, 1971 for elimination, if considered feasible or worthwhile for such .
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With genuine good wishes to you,
Si
Omaha, Nebr.
(20)
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P.S. No response or acknowledgement is necessary.
CC: SAC, Seattle, Wash.
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OMAHA.NE PM
Ligner ofthe Declar's and the Constitution
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DB Cooper-17464OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
DATE:
1/30/80
FROM
:
0/*SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
(00: Seattle)
Bufile 164-2111
Re suspect
(ph) , Woodland, Washington.
For information of Seattle, on 1/15/80, an adult male telephonically contacted the Portland Office to furnish the following information :
He considers as a possible suspect in this matter one (phonetic), a white male in his
For information of Seattle, on 1/15/80, an adult male telephonically contacted the Portland Office to furnish the following information :
He considers as a possible suspect in this matter one (phonetic), a white male in his 50's who has brown hair, balding, who fits the physical description of Unsub and who resembles the composite that has been published numerous times in the media. This complainant stated that drives funds, the source of which is unknown, hangs out at bars in Woodland, Washington, claims to Woodland,
a automobile with a black vinyl top, has considerable
although the complainant stated he has reason to believe the individual Complainant stated that
The above complainant declined to furnish his name, but he furnished his Social Security number as He stated he reads the newspapers and should and arrested, he will come forward and reveal himself.
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TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
DATE:
1/30/80
FROM
:
DIFESAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
(00: Seattle)
Bufile 164-2111
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Re suspect
(ph) , Woodland, Washington.
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For information of Seattle, on 1/15/80, an adult male telephonically contacted the Portland Office to furnish the following information:
He considers as a possible suspect in this matter one (phonetic), a white male in his 50's who has brown hair, balding, who fits the physical description of Unsub and who resembles the composite that has been published numerous times in the media. This complainant stated that drives
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automobile with a black vinyl top, has considerable
funds, the source of which is unknown, hangs out at bars in Woodland, Washington, claims
This complainant stated that drives
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a
automobile with a black vinyl top, has considerable
funds, the source of which is unknown, hangs out at bars in Woodland, Washington, claims to Woodland, although the complainant stated he has reason to believe the individual
Complainant stated that
The above complainant declined to furnish his name, but he furnished his Social Security number as He stated he reads the newspapers and should and arrested, he will come forward and reveal himself.
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SEATTLE
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For information of Seattle, on 1/15/80, an adult male telephonically contacted the Portland Office to furnish the following
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For information of Seattle, on 1/15/80, an adult male telephonically contacted the Portland Office to furnish the following information:
He considers as a possible suspect in this matter one (phonetic), a white male in his 50's who has brown hair, balding, who fits the physical description of Unsub and who resembles the composite that has been published numerous times in the media. This complainant stated that drives funds, the source of which is unknown, hangs out at bars in Woodland, Washington, claims to Woodland,
a automobile with a black vinyl top, has considerable
although the complainant stated he has reason to believe the individual Complainant stated that
The above complainant declined to furnish his name, but he furnished his Social Security number as He stated he reads the newspapers and should and arrested, he will come forward and reveal himself.
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SEATTLE
AT WOODLAND, WASHINGTON. Will, if has not b6 b7C
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Will, if has not b6 b7C
already been processed and eliminated, consider him as a possible suspect in this matter.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
(2) - Seattle 2 - Portland RPH : 1:d (4)
FBI · SEATTLE
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TO	SAC, SAVANNAH
FROM	SAC, ATLANTA (164-642) (P)
SUBJECT	NORJAK CAA-AIR PIRACY (A) 00: SEATTLE

Enclosed for Savannah are two copies of Seattle airtel to Atlanta dated 1/22/80, and enclosures.
For information Seattle, is located within the Savannah Division.
LEAD
Savannah at Ga., contact regarding the information concerning possible NORJAK subject.
2 -- Savannah (Encs. 3) (2 .- Seattle (164-81) 1 - Atlanta
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FRON	SAC, ATLANTA (164-642) (P)
SUBJECT	HORJAK CAA-AIR PIRACY (A) 00:
SPATTLE
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TO	SAC, SAVANNAH
FRON	SAC, ATLANTA (164-642) (P)
SUBJECT	HORJAK CAA-AIR PIRACY (A) 00: SEATTLE

Enclosed for Savannah are two copies of Seattle airtel to Atlanta dated 1/22/80, and enclosures.
For information Seattle, is located within the Savannah Division.
LEAD
Savannah at Ga., contact regarding the information concerning possible NORJAK subject.
2 - Savannah (Encs. 3) (2 - Seattle (164-81) 7 - Atlanta
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oregonian
Portland, Wa.
Date:
2/13/80
Edition:
Final
Title:
SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED. FILED
FEB 2 5 1980
Character:
FBI - SEATTLE 7 or
Classification: 164/81
Submitting Office: Seattle
cash uncovered
By.LEVERETT.RICHARDS of The Oregontanstait
"Several thousand dollars" of the $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the
RICHARDS of The Oregontanstait
"Several thousand dollars" of the $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the celebrated airline hijacker who used the name Dan Cooper was found Sun- day along the Columbia River down- stream from Vancouver, Wash., the FBI reported Tuesday.
Three bundles containing 12 packets of weatherbeaten $20 bills were found in river sand by a picnicking Vancouver family, about nine miles northwest off the city.
FBI agents searching the beach Tuesday afternoon found several more, fragments of $20 bills, some of them under three feet of sand.
1 Harold Dwayne Ingram, his wife, Patricia, and their son, Brian, 8, were preparing to build a fire on the beach when Brian brushed the sand aside and turned up some of the bills, Ingram said.
"We dug around and found three bundles of bills tied with rubber bands," Ingram sald.
The bills were wet and badly worn, but the serial numbers were legible. The FBI identified the serial numbers and confirmed that they were part of the loot given Cooper when he hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner between Portland and Seattle
The FBI identified the serial numbers and confirmed that they were part of the loot given Cooper when he hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner between Portland and Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971.
William M. Baker, assistant special agent.in charge of the Portland FBI of- fice, said the Ingrams were relatively new to the Vancouver area, moving there recently from Oklahoma. They had never heard of Cooper, Baker said.
"They took it (the money) home and were talking to some friends about it," Baker said. "The friends pointed out that it might be the money from the Cooper thing. That's when they called the FBI."
Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent in charge of the case since the hijack-, ing, said it was the first solid clue to the! Cooper mystery since the hijacker bailed out near La Center, Wash., Into.al winter storm at 8:10 p.m. that Thanks- giving Eve. The first hijacking for money, the Cooper case became a na- tional sensation.
Baker said It was possible the FBI laboratory In Washington, D.C., could, discern fingerprints on the money.
"That would be a hell of a break,' he said.
Baker said It was possible the FBI laboratory In Washington, D.C., could, discern fingerprints on the money.
"That would be a hell of a break,' he said.
Baker said the money the Ingrams found had not been counted. At first the amount recovered was estimated at about $4,000, but "we have revised our estimate to several thousand dollars," he said.
Baker said the money was bundled Into packages of several sizes at the time of the hijacking, "to make it ap- pear that it was randomly done, as if it was done in a hurry." Because of that, the actual amount could not be estimat- ed, he said.
FBI agents Tuesday were carefully combing the site of the Sunday discov- ery for further clues. The beach, open to the public, is owned by the New Columbia Gardens Co., a truck and dai- ry farm.
Cooper was seen on the plane tying a nylon cord around his waist, presum- ably to tie the money into a parachute Ibag. The Ingrams sald they did not see any sign of a cloth bag, but Himmels- bach said it would be hard to under- stand how the bundles of bills could have stayed together all these years if they were not in some kind of contain-
Baker said the search
The Ingrams sald they did not see any sign of a cloth bag, but Himmels- bach said it would be hard to under- stand how the bundles of bills could have stayed together all these years if they were not in some kind of contain-
Baker said the search for Cooper's remains or other clues would be re- sumed in a new area.
FBI spokesmen concluded that the bills could have been washed down some tributary of the Columbia.
George Holmes, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hydrologist, said he would review information about where Coop-
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FBI agents sifting the sand at the picnic site Tuesday had found a few more $20 bills, but no evidence of a. container. The bundles of bills were! Badly worn, as if eaten away by contact
with rocks and gravel while drifting downstream.
"The packaging and the numbered sequence of the bundles indicated that they had not been separated, and were in much the same order as when deliv- ered to Cooper at Seattle-Tacoma Air- port the night of the hijacking," Baker said. He said they would be sent to the FBI laboratory immediately for further examination.
Ingram, 28, and his wife, 26, will get no reward so far as is known, FBI agents said. Northwest Airlines' reward offer has expired.
"If there is one, they deserve it," Baker said. Ingram works as a painter in the U-Cart factory in Vancouver.
Brian Ingram, who is in the second grade at Hough School in Vancouver, does not yet know that he is a hero,
Brian Ingram, who is in the second grade at Hough School in Vancouver, does not yet know that he is a hero, his mother said. at Tuesday's press confer- ence. He was still in school when his parents took the bills to the FBI office in-Portland.
Himmelsbach, who said soon after the hijacking that Cooper had less than a '50-50 chance of having survived, said Sunday's find confirmed his earlier.con- clusion.
"This is strong evidence that Cooper didn't survive," he said, "but we have . no proof of that."
Himmelsbach said all the evidence points to Cooper's having bailed out over. La Center. But he may have drifted farther east than the experts computed; Ie may have landed in the Washougal watershed, where the money could Jave found its way into the stream and been washed down to the Columbia by successive floods.
Himmelsbach discounted the possi- bility that the bag full of money could have torn loose from Cooper's waist when he stepped off the rear stairway
HIJACKER + Sketch of airline hi- jacker known as Dan Cooper was re- leased by FBI after hijacking, based on witness descriptions.
torn loose from Cooper's waist when he stepped off the rear stairway
HIJACKER + Sketch of airline hi- jacker known as Dan Cooper was re- leased by FBI after hijacking, based on witness descriptions.
of the plane into a 200-mile-an-hour slipstream.
"But we don't know," he empha- sized.
Baker said detailed plans for a fur- ther search had not been formulated, but said he would expect to search up the Columbia to the Washougal -- the first tributary to flow into the river above Vancouver - and may extend the search up the Washougal itself.
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DB Cooper-17471Staff photo by WES GUDERIAN
COOPER CASH FINDERS - FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, standing views $20 bills found by Harold Dwayne Ingram, left, and his wife, Patricia on family picnic Sunday near Vancouver, Wash. FBI said "several thousand dollars" of the ransom paid to Dan Cooper were in the worn packets.
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Date:
2/13/80
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Final
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Submitting Office: Seattle