Himmelsbach was the agent re- garded as the bureau's expert on the puzzling case that started : when the still-unknown sky pirate . leaped from a Northwest Airlines 727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two parachutes on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
Nothing has been heard of Coo- per; and nothing was seen of the money until an 8-year-old boy found about $5,800 of it mixed in the sand along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash., February 10.
"It's been an interesting case and I have enjoyed the investiga-
tion because of the things that have happened," Himmelsbach said. "It altered my life because of all the attention I have ¡¡ received."
But, he added, "I think I'll walk away from it and it will never o bother me.'
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Human skeletal remains found in a rough section of Southwest Washington are those of a teenage girl and not the bones of D.
- Human skeletal remains found in a rough section of Southwest Washington are those of a teenage girl and not the bones of D.B. Cooper, the airline hijacker, said Federal Bureau of Investigation officials yesterday.
Special Agent John Pringle said Dr. Arch Hamilton, Clark County coroner, determined the skull found near the western boundary of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest belonged to a young girl.
Pringle said the girl's age or identity has not been determined.
The skull and other bones were found Sunday by Jack Bannister, of Yacolt, Clark County, and his son, Jack, as they were panning for gold about five miles from Yacolt, according to the Clark County sheriff's office.
While the sheriff's office said it didn't think the bones belonged to the famed hijacker, speculation had run high that the skull was Coo- per's because it was found in the general area where Cooper bailed out of a plane with $200,000.
: Cooper hijacked the plane in Seattle in November, 1971, after pick- ing up $200,000 and bailed out somewhere over Southwestern Washington.
: Cooper hijacked the plane in Seattle in November, 1971, after pick- ing up $200,000 and bailed out somewhere over Southwestern Washington.
No trace of Cooper had been found until a &-year-old boy found some . of the $20 bills along the Columbia River two weeks ago.
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No money, no fish Treasure hunters fail to find more Cooper loot
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - When the fellas gather at Tena Bar, fish stories abound. Hardly anyone wants to talk about the D.B. Cooper money that got away.
Tena Bar isn't a local watering hole, It's a local fishing hole - and the sand bar on the Columbia River on which the D.
Tena Bar isn't a local watering hole, It's a local fishing hole - and the sand bar on the Columbia River on which the D.B. Cooper loot was found recently.
For awhile, all sorts of people gathered at the bar to search for sonte of the $200,000 ranson money taken by Cooper in the nation's first hijacking-for-profit nine years ago, after a boy found weathered packets of $20 bills in the sand ..
On Wednesday, however, the only evidence of last week's frantic search of the beach by .FBI agents were mounds of sand turned up by. the searchers.
"We haven't seen anybody," said Bill Holcomb, a Vancouver resident and frequenter of Tena Bar.
Holcomb was fishing there with Virgil Nichols and Ken Troupe, both of Vancouver. The trio made up the entire fishing population of T'ena Bar on Wednesday.
"We drag junk out of this river every day. Plastic, oll shoes, things like that." said Nichols. "But never any money."
"There may be money here, but there's no fish." Holcomb said.
A long trench on the beach dug for use by river experts studying the layers of sand has been refilled, as has the large hole around the spot
A long trench on the beach dug for use by river experts studying the layers of sand has been refilled, as has the large hole around the spot where 8-year-old Brian Ingram found the Cooper money, Cooper hi- jached a Northwest Airlines plane in 1971. and jumped from the back of the jet with $200,000.
The Fazio Brothers, who own the beach next to their farming opera-
tion, seem glad it's over.
"As soon as the FBI left Friday said Richard Fazio, "Two people came, got stuck in the sand, al'd wanted me to pull them out. I did, and then I went up to close the gate.
Meanwhile, local FBI agents assigned to the case are awaiting the results of tests of the money by the bitreau's crime lab in Washington, D.C., and checking ail the leads that invariably crop up when anything to do with the Cooper case is publiciz- ed.
"Every time you have anything un the Cooper case that gets any publicity, the fallout is a great number of leads - look-a-like leads.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Guernsey cattle and puzzled fishermen watched with curiosity Tuesday as 20 casually attired FBI agents combed the Columbia River shoreline near here, looking for more of a hijacker's treasure.
The agents, working with garden rakes and shovels, carefully sifted through the sand on what is known locally as Tena's Bar, a sloping beach about nine miles northwest of Vancou- ver.
The agents, working with garden rakes and shovels, carefully sifted through the sand on what is known locally as Tena's Bar, a sloping beach about nine miles northwest of Vancou- ver. The beach is owned by New Co- lumbia Gardens Co., which operates a truck and dairy farm behind the beach.
What attracted the searchers was the find Sunday afternoon of 'a dozen bundles of worn $20 bills, part of the ransom paid more than eight years ago | to the legendary "Dan Cooper." A man using that name hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner in November 1971 andî parachuted out of the aircraft with 211 pounds of cash totaling $200,000. .
The bundles on the beach were! found by 8-year-old Brian Ingram, who was helping his parents, Harold Dwayne and Patricia Ingram, build a fire for a picnic. The family, which moved to Vancouver recently from Oklahoma, had never heard of the man who was widely known at the time of his crime as D.B. Cooper.
Dorwyn Schreuder, the FBI agent supervising the beach search, said the Ingrams put the money aside after dis- covering it and continued with their. 'picnic.
Dorwyn Schreuder, the FBI agent supervising the beach search, said the Ingrams put the money aside after dis- covering it and continued with their. 'picnic. They reported their discovery to. the FBI on Monday.
The site, a popular fishing spot for- Vancouver residents, was guarded by agents Monday night and the search, started about noon Tuesday.
Agents roped off a section of beach measuring roughly 150 yards long and 30 yards wide. All driftwood was re -- moved, and then began the laborious task of raking through sand at least 6 Inches deep.
"The Ingrams' find had been about 6 inches. beneath the surface, Schreuder sald. FBI agents Tuesday afternoon found fragments of at least two other $20 bills. By late Tuesday, several more fragments had been found as deep as 3 feet below the surface.
"We'll be taking some heavy equip. ment, probably backhoes, in there Wednesday to dig deeper," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office.
Schreuder and other agents at the site said they still supported the long- held FBI theory that Cooper died in his parachuting attempt.
Schreuder and other agents at the site said they still supported the long- held FBI theory that Cooper died in his parachuting attempt.
"He's probably not alive today," Schreuder said. "If he were, I think he'd be with his money."
The FBI initially was cautious about disclosing the precise location of the discovery. Operators of the farm said they knew something was unusual when several cars streamed along a road leading through the farmyard to the beach.
"We didn't know what it was about until we heard it on the radio," said one farm entployee.
And three fishermen who routinely spend every day but Sundays fishing on the beach initially were confused and, then angry.
"These guys wouldn't tell us what :was going on," said Ken Davenport of Vancouver. "They asked us to move, but wouldn't tell us who they were or
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Another fisherman, Mike Haddican of Vancouver, said they knew some- thing was up "because everybody was getting out of cars with shovels instead of fishing poles."
The Guernsey . cows watched the beach show from their pens on a small bluff, scattering occasionally when heli- copters
cows watched the beach show from their pens on a small bluff, scattering occasionally when heli- copters chartered by news organiza- tions flew overhead.
Within an hour after the FBI an- nounced where the money had been found, private automobiles streamed : down Northwest Lower River Road, ar narrow two-lane road leading to the farm. A Clark County sheriff's deputy guarded the entrance, preventing thek public from getting to the beach.
FBI agents were to remain on the scene overnight to keep out would-be treasure hunters.
The FBI said how much of the beach would be searched would be determined after the agency consulted with hy- drologists and others who could provide expert advice about from where the money may have come.
Only half-joking, Schreuder said the agents "could search all the beach from here to Astoria."
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The FBI has, at least temporarily, called off its search along the Columbia River for more of the money obtained eight years ago by the airplane hijacker who used the name Dan Cooper.
Jack Pringle, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said, the search was called off late Thursday night after several days of sand-sifting produced no new evidence. The; Seattle office has coordinated
search efforts in the Cooper caper, the only unresolved hijacking on record since it occurred in 1971. .
Pringle said search efforts might be- renewed next week, after the results of laboratory tests are received on the sev- eral thousand dollars in badly decayed $20 bill fragments found by a picnick- ing family Sunday about nine miles downstream from Vancouver.
He said there was a chance the tests "could find additional debris that might give us an idea where (the money) may have been" before it washed onto the river bank.
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He said there was a chance the tests "could find additional debris that might give us an idea where (the money) may have been" before it washed onto the river bank.
A geologist serving as consultant to . the FBI has said he believes the money had spent most of the past eight years underwater and was deposited on the sandy beach only within the past year. .
The Northwest Airlines plane was hijacked between Portland and Seattle by a man who said he had a bomb. The. hijacker obtained $200,000 in $20 bills when the plane landed in Seattle and .then parachuted with the money over Southwest Washington.
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A thorough search of a Columbia River beach where part of D.B. Cooper's ransom money was found Sunday has turned up no new clues as to the fate of the legendary skyjacker.
The FBI said today that the search will continue today and Fri- day, then probably be suspended temporarily.
Brought to the beach to aid in Wednesday's search were a backhoe and a geologist.
The FBI said the backhoe was used to dig a trench near the discovery site, making possible a study of the layers to sand.
An associate professor of geology at Portland State University, Leonard Palmer, was retained to inspect the sand and to assist in- vestigators in determining when the bundled money may have been' . deposited there.
Palmer, to the surprise of some authorities, concluded that the money was deposited on the beach in the past year or two because it was above clay deposits put on the beach
Palmer, to the surprise of some authorities, concluded that the money was deposited on the beach in the past year or two because it was above clay deposits put on the beach in a 1974 channel dredging operation.
According to the FBI, a coarse layer of sand sloped from a height of about six inches at the river's edge to two feet or more some distance up the river bank.
Earlier, Ralph Himmelsbach, a Portland FBI agent who has had charge of following new leads in the Cooper case for a number of years, said he believed the money must have been deposited within a couple of years after the skyjacking.
He says discovery of the money provided a major break in the case, but puts authorities no closer to locating Cooper, whom Him- melsbach believes is dead.
Agents say the money was tied to Cooper when he bailed out of! the plane, but was no longer with him when it was deposited on the beach.
If it had still been attached to his body at the bottom of the river when the channel was dredged in 1974, the body would have clogged up the dredge and have been found, agents believe.
If it had still been attached to his body at the bottom of the river when the channel was dredged in 1974, the body would have clogged up the dredge and have been found, agents believe.
Jack Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle FBI Office, told The Daily News this morning that small bits and pieces of $20 bills were located Wednesday when agents continued digging in sand surrounding the spot where a Vancouver family discovered money Sunday.
The Harold Dwayne Ingram family was on an outing north and west of Vancouver when their 8-year-old son, Brian, uncovered several thousand dollars in decomposed bills.
Ingram contacted the Portland FBI Office, and a check of serial numbers conclusively established that the money was part of' $200,000 in $20 bills Cooper had when he bailed out of a Northwest; Orient Airlines jet over the Lewis River area on Nov. 24, 1971.
Pringle said the area was still being searched today, but no news . evidence had been located as of this forenoon.
"Some of the area is inaccessible, and there's no way we can search the whole area," Pringle said in Seattle this morning.
"Some of the area is inaccessible, and there's no way we can search the whole area," Pringle said in Seattle this morning.
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By PAT MOSER Columbian Staff Writer WASHOUGAL - Bob Devaney watched the ducks peck away at something floating in the Washou- gal River near the Riverside Bowl.
It was March 22, 1977, and Devaney of 4221 F Circle, Washou- gal, was fishing for steelhead. The muddy runoff waters had cleared, and the river was in shape for catching the ocean-going trout.
"I watched the ducks nibbling away," Devaney said. "I waded out to see. That's when I saw the money. At first, I thought it was play money.
"I watched the ducks nibbling away," Devaney said. "I waded out to see. That's when I saw the money. At first, I thought it was play money."
But Devaney picked up a bill and examined it. It was a real $20 bill, and there were six others to be grabbed from atop the water. .
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significant last week when part of the D.B. Cooper hijacking money was found washed up on a Collum- bia River beach nine miles doivn- stream from Vancouver. One theo- ry contends the money could have washed out of the Washougal River watershed during the nearly 81/2 years since Cooper parachuted from an airliner over Southwest Washington.
A check with the Federal Bureau of Investigation list of serial num- bers on the $200,000 given Cooper didn't match those found by Deva- ney. Davaney still has his $140 tucked away in cellophane bags. .
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The finding of some of the "Dans `Cooper" hijacking money Sunday came! is a dramatic climax to the career of ean Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI's! 'Cooper expert.
Himmelsbach, himself a veteran pi- lot, has lived, breathed and slept the Dan Cooper case ever since a man using that name hijacked a Northwest Air- lines jet from Portland on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
Himmelsbach, himself a veteran pi- lot, has lived, breathed and slept the Dan Cooper case ever since a man using that name hijacked a Northwest Air- lines jet from Portland on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
Himmelsbach, who has logged thou- sands of hours of flying time in his own 1952 model single-engine Beechcraft, Bonanza, was aloft in an Oregon Air
National Guard helicopter ready to in- tercept the hijacked plane within a few minutes after the airliner took off from , Seattle, where Cooper obtained. $200,000 and four parachutes. But the air turbulence that night was so severe that the helicopter was ordered back to Portland Airbase.
Next morning Himmelsbach started the first of a series of flights which took him the length of the hijack route many times, between investigating other clues, all of which proved to be false.
"I was over the target area near Lake Merwin Sunday again," he said 1ª Tuesday. "I saw they had logged a lot! pf prime search area, and thought some- thing would turn up now."
But he never guessed the news that would confront him when he reported : for work Monday.
"I'll admit to a certain sense of satis- faction," Himmelsbach said Tuesday,; flashing a broad smile.
"I'll admit to a certain sense of satis- faction," Himmelsbach said Tuesday,; flashing a broad smile. "The case isn't solved, but this is certainly a major milestone."
Himmelsbach will retire March 1; ifter 27 years with the FBI - climaxed! by his work on the Cooper case, one; that will go down in FBI history.
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By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonion staff
The weathered bundles of $20 bills found on the Washington bank of the Columbia River nine miles northwest of Vancouver on Sunday were the first solid clues to the mystery of the "Dan Cooper" aircraft hijacking, FBI agents said Tuesday.
One of the more intensive searches in the FBI's history had failed to turn up any clue to the fate of the mysterious hijacker or his loot during the eight years since
One of the more intensive searches in the FBI's history had failed to turn up any clue to the fate of the mysterious hijacker or his loot during the eight years since he bailed out of a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727. flying at 7,000 feet over La Center, Wash., on . Nov. 24, 1971, FBI spokesmen said.
$ Cooper's was the first hijacking of a commercial airliner for money, and ¿started a chain of similar attempts, which was responsible in part for the rigid security system now enforced at all United States airports and most ma- jor airports abroad.
Because of an erroneous report of the name used by the hijacker, he be- came known nationally as D.B. Cooper, although the airline manifest showed he had used the name "Dan."
The man who called himself Cooper pald cash for a ticket and boarded Northwest's Flight 305 at Portland In- ternational Airport just before it depart- ed. He sat in a rear seat in the cabin and waited until the plane was airborne. Then he handed stewardess Florence Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb in the satchel he was carrying and de- manding $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills.
Then he handed stewardess Florence Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb in the satchel he was carrying and de- manding $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills.
By the time the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at 5:45 p.m., airline officials were gather- ring the money and the four parachutes he had demanded. The hijacker released the 36 passengers on board, along with all crew members except one steward- ess and two pilots. The plane then took off and headed south at 7,000 feet in stormy weather.
At 8:10 p.m. the pilots felt a fluctua- . tion in cabin pressure which indicated the rear door had been opened. Later . tests showed this was when the hijack; er had bailed out, taking with him the money and the device that he claimed was a bomb.
Computer calculations and a later reconstruction of the flight persuaded the FBI that Cooper had bailed out near Woodland, Wash., and would have: landed somewhere west of Lake Mer; win.
William Rataczak, first officer (co- pilot) on the hijacked plane who flew the later reconstructions of the hijack flight, said the pilots received no an- swer when they called on the inter: phone to
William Rataczak, first officer (co- pilot) on the hijacked plane who flew the later reconstructions of the hijack flight, said the pilots received no an- swer when they called on the inter: phone to their passenger and were not .! certain he was gone until they landed in !! Reno, Nev., at 11 p.m.
The "target area" was searched ref peatedly by the FBI, other law enforce-, ment officers and soldiers from Fort . Lewis, Wash., but no trace of man or money was found. Northwest Airlines offered a reward, since expired, and hunters and woodsmen continued the search for years without success.
Before Sunday, the only item that had been found from the hijacking was a placard believed to have blown off the bulkhead of the 727 when the door was opened in flight.
It was found 13 miles east of Castle Rock, Wash., in January 1979. The placard, if indeed it came from the hi- jacked plane, "helped to confirm that the plane was on course all the way, but didn't shed any light on what happened to Cooper," said FBI agent Ralph Him- melsbach, who headed the investiga- tion.
After eight years of investigation Himmelsbach has said he still believes' Cooper could not have survived the pa- rachute jump
After eight years of investigation Himmelsbach has said he still believes' Cooper could not have survived the pa- rachute jump at 7 degrees below zero, dressed as he was in a light' business suit and street shoes.
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"Several thousand dollars" of the $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the celebrated airline hijacker who used the name Den Cooper was found Sun- day along the Columbia River down- stream from Vancouver, Wash.
dollars" of the $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the celebrated airline hijacker who used the name Den 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 of the city.
FBI agents searching the beach Tuesday afternoon found several more, fragments of $20 bills, some of them ¿under three feet of sand.
Harold Dwayne Ingram, his wife, iPatricia, 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 sald.
"We dug around and found three bundles of bills tied with rubber bands," Ingram said.
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 on Nov. 24, 1971.
William M. Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the Portland FBI of- fice, said the Ingrams were relatively
Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the Portland FBI of- fice, said the Ingrams were relatively new to the Vancouver ares, moving there recently from Oklahoma. They had never heard of Cooper, Baker sald.
"They took it (the money) home and were talking to some friends about it," Baker sald. "The friends pointed out that it might be the money from the Cooper thing. That's when they called FBI.".
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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 a 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 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,"
At first the amount recovered was estimated at about $4,000, but "we have revised our estimate to several thousand dollars," he said.
Baker sald 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 tle the money Into a parachute ibag. The Ingrams said 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- er.
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.
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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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 be varmed himself by a campfire during
2 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.
Moore thought for a few moments, then said:
"Tourists who want to look for more Cooper money probably should
look on the Washougal River.
Moore thought for a few moments, then said:
"Tourists who want to look for more Cooper money probably should
look on the Washougal River."
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 of Lake Merwin which is just off 1-5 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." stid 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 cod mares."
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 bis money in one canvas container. ac- cording to Moore, if any of the money.
But since Cooper had all of bis 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 bijack e loot in Seattle - bundles of money wrapped in a package six inches high, one foot across. and about IS 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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Seattle bureau were hard at work. The beach is roped off, and a'Clark : County sheriff's car was parked at the entrance to the Fazio property to Keep the public out.
Sand was piled around the original money discovery area. because the . FB! 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 bad floated? onto the beach within the last twob years.
This, Moore said. was based on a 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 197-1.
The clay, he said. appears "undis- turbed," but the sand contains-soft - drink containers and other debris
from picnickers. It appears to be of recent origin, and the money was found only about three to six inches deep in it.
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 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 saftl.
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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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.
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.
Agents reported finding bits and pieces of money Tuesday afternoon. some of it as deep as three feet in sand.
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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 i 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. 1.
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.
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.
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 myl 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,
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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.
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."
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The body of , skyjacker D.B. Cooper lics 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 .
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 have moved the E.
Army Corps of Engineers, says that would not have been im- possible, but he considers it unlikely that currents would have moved the E.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 inton-
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.
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 id! 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 sìeds 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 inte atting.
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1 The handful of residents who live along the beach where part of D.B. Cooper's Icot 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 pienic. Rabbits bounce on the side of the road at night, starti- ed by occasional passing cars.
Less than 10 houses are along the 12-mile stretch of beach road.
Rabbits bounce on the side of the road at night, starti- 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. 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.
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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.
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."
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.
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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How it all started
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 try- 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
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.)
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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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 be 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 bilis from the Cooper loot was found Sunday by a family pic- nicking beside the river nine miles below Vancouver.
One partly decomposed bundle of marked $20 bilis 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., whose agents dug and sifted the sand carlier 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 be skyjacked it.
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The $200,000 was delivered to - Cooper aboard a Northwest Airline plane in Seattle after be skyjacked it.
Brent Baskfield. a Northwest pub- lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn., said Northwest paid the money but i has been reimbursed for most of it by The Globe Insurance Co. in New York City:
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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 near 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 I 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.
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 sitel
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. Ingram's son, Brian, 8, uncovered the money.
"As far as I know, all reward offers have been can -! celed,".a Portland F.B.I. agent, Bill Williams, said.
Roy Erickson, a spokesman for Northwest Orient in St. Louis, said the airline had settled with its insurance company, Globe of New York, several years ago and re -.
Louis, said the airline had settled with its insurance company, Globe of New York, several years ago and re -. ceived $180,000.
"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 landed.
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By KERRY WEBSTER INT Staff Writer
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 Column- 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.
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 .
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 Vnine 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.
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.
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.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.
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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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 time."
He said a major objective of the search going on now is to find some other object that is connected to Cooper.
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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."
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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by Richard Zahler and Steve Johnston Times staff reporters VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Federal Bureau of Investigation brought a backhoe and experts in soll, 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
'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. .
Hudson said the bureau is trying to determine possible ways the money reached the beach. The Vriver 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 . . . not 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.
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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
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One longtime fisherman, Sidney e 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 Co lumbia to the mouth of the Wall shougal and possibly up the Wait shougal.
The money recovered Sunday, in three bundles of decomposing $20 bills, was discovered by Brian Ingram, 8, of Vancouver.
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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ARIEL, Cowlitz County - Not much happens in Ariel, a small logging community Il 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 & Tavem 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.
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 Iwasn'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 Injacker had been found along the banks of the Co- lumbia River near Vancouver.':
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.
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- lumbia River, but they still would: have to be persuaded that the hi-e 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 wast 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.
Then the telephone rang in the next room, Fisher raced to an- swer it, laughed and announced, "San Jose calling."
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Passengers on Flight. 305 re- imembered 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,
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- lington, 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.
.Over the last seven years, the F.B.I. has questioned more than 1,000 possible suspects, chasedr 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
, 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.
But within days of the 'hijack ling, the legend of D.B. Cooper
istarted 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.
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 nen said they had talked with D.B. Cooper, who, they said, was living 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.
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 but 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 "del gifreutfic .fra: 5 HI D. about the money being found. He said the find reduced the chances of Cooper ever being found alive to "less than 50-50.
about the money being found. He said the find reduced the chances of Cooper ever being found alive to "less than 50-50.'
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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: ein) dredged sand," FBI - Agent Ralpl 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 .
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, Ilimmelsbach 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 have pushed them several miles up the Columbia to where they were found.
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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 times 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 thatw 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 be 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 be sure needed them all.
"I don't think the fall killed him," Himmelsbach theorized, "but there m.was that sudden stop. I think probably there was good likelihood he was inf "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. 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.
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 fafter 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 1 (retirement) annuity any, but It does make me happy," Himmelsbach said.
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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 be dropped the money or he's dead," commented John D. Prin- gle, assistant special agent in charge of the FB! office in Seattle. "We can't tell at this point."
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.
The money was found Sunday by an 8-year-old Vancouver boy, Brian Ingram, and his 5-year-old cousin, Denise, as they were digging in the sand with sticks along the river bank during a family outing.
"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. 24, 1971.
The hijacker, who had used the name "Dan Cooper" to buy his airline ticket, boarded the jet in Portland,.
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 bis briefcase .: `then forced it to land in Seattle to col- lect the ransom.
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 a? . parachute not likely to work.
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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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DB Cooper-27451915 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington 98174 February 19, 1980
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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, Pur
Paul L. Mack .Special Agent in Charge
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Mr. Frank Kanekoa Sheriff Clark County Sheriff's Office Vancouver, Washington 98660
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Dear Frank,
I wish to express to you my sincere gratitude for your assistance in the case commonly known as the "D.B. Cooper Skýjacking". 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, Pcm
Paul L. Mack Special Agent in Charge
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Found by Family on Outing Part of D. B. Cooper Loot
WASHINGTON-A young Van- Law enforcement authorities lors couver, Wash., family on an outing have believed that Cooper died in his along the Columbia River last Sunday
plunge from the Boeing 727 because suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks of ne was wearing only a business suit moldering money-part of the $200,-
and street shoes when he jumped into 000 that the notorious airline hijacker "D. B. Cooper" made off with more than eight years ago, the FBI said' Tuesday.
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
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 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 name that never has been traced to its 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.
Baker said in Portland that wheth- er Cooper got away with the rest of the money was an open question.
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.
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.
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.
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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LOS AROUDAS, CA
Date:
2/13/80
Edition:
Wednesday Final
Title: PART OF D. B. COOPER LOOT FOUND
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Date:	2/13/80
Edition:	Wednesday, Latest
Title:	D.C. AND THE KUNE

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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.
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
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
the packets, but said it amounted money.
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 sald, I'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" He 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.
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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 Bist 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 197E.
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Mystery remains in the saga of D.B. Cooper
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
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 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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Date:	2/13/80
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LOS ANGELES, CA
Date:	2/13/80
Edition:	Wednesday Latest
Title:	MYSTERY REMAINS
IN CACA OF D.B.
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FOR. INFO RECEIVI'S OFFICES, AT. 3:00 PM, PST, TODAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1986, Par :3 CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN PORTLAND OFFICE WHICH WILL ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING :
ARHTUR G. BARGER, SPCIAL ACENT IN CHARGE OF THE FBI FOR OREGON, HAS ANNOUNCED A DEVELOPMENT IN A CRIME WHICH BEGAN ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 24, 1971, AT PORTLAND INTER- NATIONAL AIRPORT, PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HAS BECOME WI D: LY KNOWN SINCE THAT TIME AS THE D. B. COOPER HIJACKING CASE.
OW THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, 1971, A MAI WHO GAVE
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DB Cooper-27472'PAGE TWO ' PD. 164-41 UNCLAS THE NAME DAN COOPER BOUGHT A ONE-WAY TICKET ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305 FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. UPON DEPARTING PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COOPER NOTIFIED
'A STEWARDESS THAT HE WAS HIJACKING THE AIRCRAFT AND DISPLAYED TO HER WHAT HE SAID WAS A BOMB IN HIS BRIEFCASE.
UPON DEPARTING PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COOPER NOTIFIED
'A STEWARDESS THAT HE WAS HIJACKING THE AIRCRAFT AND DISPLAYED TO HER WHAT HE SAID WAS A BOMB IN HIS BRIEFCASE. . THE FLIGHT . PROCEEDED TO SEATTLE, WHERE AFTER MAINTAINING A HOLDING PATTERN FOR SEVERAL HOURS, IT WAS PERMITTED TO LAND. AND REFUEL. AFTER $200,000 AND FOUR PARACHUTES DEMANDED BY THE HIJACKER WERE BROUGHT ON BOARD, HE RELEASED ALL OF THE PASSENGERS AND ALL BUT FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CREW. THE FLIGHT THEN TOOK OFF AND PROCEEDED SOUTH THROUGH WASHINGTON TOWARD RENO, NEVADA. THE HIJACKER INSTRUCTED THAT THE FLAPS AND GEAR REMAIN LOWERED AND THE REAR STAIR DOOR OPEN. AS THE AIRCRAFT PASSED 'OVER LACENTER, WASHINGTON, CASIN . PRESSURE. FLUCTUATION WAS OBSERVED, WHICH WAS LATER DETERMINED TO INDICATE HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE AIRCRAFT THROUGH THE REÄR STAIRWELL DOOR. SINCE THAT TIME NO TRACE OF THE HIJACKER, THE PARACHUTES, OR THE MOWEY HAS BEEN FOUND UNTIL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1980. ON THAT DATE WHILE ON AN OUTING WITH
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A SUM OF MONEY PARTIALLY BURIED BY SAND IN THE NORTH RIVER BANK OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILES DOWN RIVER FROM THE U.S. INTERSTATE 5 BRIDGE CROSSING BETWEEN PORTLAND ADD : VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON: THE FBI AND AN EXAMINATION. OF THE BADLY DECOMPOSED $20 BILL'S REVEALS THAT THEY BEAR SERIAL NUMBERS IDENTICAL TO A PORTION OF THOSE GIVEN TO . THE HIJACKER. BECAUSE OF THE DECOMPOSED NATURE 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 INDICATE THAT THE BILLS HAVE NOT BEEN SEPARATED AND ARE IN MUCH THE SAME ORDER AS WHEN GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER, THE BILLS WILL BE SENT IMMEDIATELY TO THE FBI LABORATORY FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMINATION.
IT APPEARS LOCICAL' THAT THE PACKAGE OF BILLS COULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED DOWNSTREAM ON OSE OF THE WASHINGTON TRIBUTARIES OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER TO THE SITE WHERE THEY WERE FOUND.
SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE FBI FROM OREGON AND.
LOCICAL' THAT THE PACKAGE OF BILLS COULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED DOWNSTREAM ON OSE OF THE WASHINGTON TRIBUTARIES OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER TO THE SITE WHERE THEY WERE FOUND.
SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE FBI FROM OREGON AND. WASHINGTON HAVE SECURED THE AREA AND COMMENCED AN INTENSIVE SEARCH: ·BT
DB Cooper-27474In Reply, Please Refer to File No.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL PUR. A OF INA .TICATION 915 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington 98174 January 22, 1980
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Dear
Reference is made to your letter concerning D. B. Cooper addressed to Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 915 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington, and dated January 12, 1979.
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Your letter concerning the possible whereabouts of D. B. Cooper is appreciated. In the event you have any specific information concerning the actual whereabouts of Cooper and/or the money, you are requested to contact the Vancouver Resident Agency office of the FBI at telephone number 695-5661. The information you have provided in the above referenced letter, while interesting, does not indicate why you believe Cooper to be in the area you indicate he is · in or why you believe the money to be there also.
The information you have provided in the above referenced letter, while interesting, does not indicate why you believe Cooper to be in the area you indicate he is · in or why you believe the money to be there also. As you are well aware, the FBI cannot deal in supposition, but must have specific facts prior to conducting any investigation. As such, it is necessary that you be specific in your information.
Thank you for your interest in this matter.
Very truly yours,
Paul L. Mack Special Agent in Charge
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Please open the enclosed map of the state of Washington and start at The Seal of the State of Washington.
Follow this pencil line to the place where it crosses another pencil line (in the lower part of the circle I have drawn).
I believe this to be the approximate location of the remains of Cooper, the man who jumped from the plane with $200.
I believe this to be the approximate location of the remains of Cooper, the man who jumped from the plane with $200.000.00 in his possession.
The money is also in this area.
I also beleive I can be of help in actually finding both the remains of Cooper, and the money, if I am on the site with you.
Please beleive I am not looking for personal glory for myself. What I am interested in is being of help , and the satisfaction of of knowing I helped in a good cause.
Should you decide my help would be worthwhile, as far as I am concerned, no one else beside you and I need know about the matter. You can be the judge of the matter.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO
: ACTING SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
DATE: 9/7/78
FROM :
SA
SUBJECT: NORJAK (A)
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Re memo of SA JOHN M. REED, dated August 24, 1978.
On August 24, 1978, Kirkland, Washington, was telephonically contacted and advised that the FBI did not have any information which would help him in his search and salvage operations in the Lake Merwin area.
was further advised that no portion of the lake could be ruled out as far as a possible area into which UNSUB may have landed after parachuting from the NORJAK aircraft.
It was reiterated to that should he find anything during his search, he should immediately contact the Vancouver Office of the FBI and failing to contact them, he should call collect to the Seattle Office of the FBI and ask for Special Agent
stated he is currently in the process of
purchasing a which would allow him to widen his search of the Lake Merwin area, and he anticipated
collect to the Seattle Office of the FBI and ask for Special Agent
stated he is currently in the process of
purchasing a which would allow him to widen his search of the Lake Merwin area, and he anticipated continuing the search of the Lake Merwin area, on August 25, 1978.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO :FILE (164-81)
DATE:
8/24/78
FROM :SAC JOHN M. REED
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SUBJECT: NORJAK
164-81-7136
, Kirkland,
Wa. (telephone telephonically contacted me and advised that he Globe Insurance Company, which has the insurance policy for Northwest Airlines in this matter. He said he has been working on the possibility that UNSUB may have landed in Lake Merwin as he has, through use of
, located what he thinks is a body in 100-150 feet of water.
He said he has been working on the possibility that UNSUB may have landed in Lake Merwin as he has, through use of
, located what he thinks is a body in 100-150 feet of water. He says he has been work- ing on this theory and has searched a number of areas of Lake Merwin, and wanted specific information as to the possible landing area.
I informed him that insofar as I could recall, the entire matter of exactly where he landed is conjecture due to a number of variables, i.e., wind on the night in question; size of chute; weight of the individual; period of time before UNSUB released parachute, etc.
This matter was referred to SA in an attempt to resolve any of the questions which may have.
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ington, advised telephonically, that he was currently on Lake Merwin using his equipment and that he would call the Seattle Office of the FBI in a few days with results. further advised that he was on Channel 16 and his vessel number was number was
His call
On 4/26/78, again telephonically advised the Seattle Office that he had found in Lake
£ Merwin what he thought was a body. stated he
was to reach this unknown object and had to call off his search temporarily. advised that he would recontact the Seattle Office to bring them up to date
On 5/8/78, again telephonically attempted to contact the Seattle Office.
On 5/10/78, appeared at the Seattle Office and advised that he had found an object in Lake Merwin that he thought might be a body and in attempting to reach it had had.
advised that his
advised that he intended to return to Lake Merwin and continue his search and would immediately advise the Longview RA or the
advised that his
advised that he intended to return to Lake Merwin and continue his search and would immediately advise the Longview RA or the Seattle Office of the FBI if any items of evidentuary nature were found. 
Sub E was provided the following information at his request: The color of the parachute canopy used by D. B. COOPER; the description of his clothes and the approximate heading of the Norjak /64-81-7983 aircraft. stated he was being aided in his underwater
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DATE: 4/8/77
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was contacted at his home and he provided the following information: stated he was flying on Continental Flight 306 which originated in Burbank, California, with a stop over in San Jose, California, and another stop in Portland, Oregon, and then the final destination was Seattle, Washington.
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During the flight down to Portland, noticed that his cruising altitude of about 13,000 feet that he was flying into a headwind of about 60 knots. explained that on the way to Seattle from Portland his ground speed was 480 knots, but on the way back down to Portland his ground speed was only 420 knots. According to
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Re Portland airtel to Seattle dated 3/1/77.
On March 10, 1977, Continental
Airlines telephonically contacted the writer from the Los Angeles International Airport, explained that he was just beginning a 6 day flight schedule and would return
On March 10, 1977, Continental
Airlines telephonically contacted the writer from the Los Angeles International Airport, explained that he was just beginning a 6 day flight schedule and would return to Seattle on March 17, 1977. stated he would contact the writer at that time and set up an appointment for interview.
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FBI
Date:
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TO:
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FROM:
SAG, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
SUBJECT:
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Re information from Airlines
, Continental
On 2/22/77,
Continental Airlines Seattle, Washington, was interviewed at Portland International Airport by SA furnished the following information:
On the night of 11/24/71, during the hijacking in this matter, he, a Continental Air- lines flight between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
Airport by SA furnished the following information:
On the night of 11/24/71, during the hijacking in this matter, he, a Continental Air- lines flight between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He became aware of the hijacking by radio and followed the progress of the hijacking by monitoring the discrete radio frequencies in his own aircraft.
advised that he departed Seattle- Tacoma Airport enroute for Portland shortly after Northwest Flight 305, which was being hijacked, and that he followed the same course flown by Northwest Flight 305 but was approximately four minutes behind the Northwest flight when it arrived at Portland.
advised that in his, twenty-four years flying airliners, he recalls that night of 11/24/71, as being the most rapid and severe weather change in his experience. He said that when he was approaching Portland, along Victor 23 airways flying a course of approximately 166 degrees, he was experiencing a wind directly from 166 degrees at 80 knots of speed at his altitude which was 14,00 feet. He said that the wind, CHE 164-81-7398 Sub E )- Seattle 2 - Portland
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b6 b7COPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION ROA EPHA (41 CPR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
DATE:
12/29/76
FROM : ASAC
SUBJECT: NORJAK
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On 12/28/76, ASAC telephonically advised that the Bureau had authorized coopera- tion with the Allen Lansburg Productions in order that the firm could produce a 30 minute film based on captioned matter. stated that the authorization included an interview of SA who is the case agent in Portland, by the research crew as well as photograph him during the interview. stated that they desired to get photographs of at the Lake Merwin site and were proceeding to that area for these photographs and was advising this office since the area is in the Seattle Division territory.
advised that they would next be coming to Seattle to obtain additional information and one of the items they desired to see was the
advised that they would next be coming to Seattle to obtain additional information and one of the items they desired to see was the transcript made of the tapes between the control tower and the pilot at the time of the hijacking. stated that the AUSA in Portland had refused to grant them permission to hear the actual tapes, but felt that they could be shown the transcripts of these tapes.
On 12/29/76, I was contacted by Allen Lansburg Productions regarding this matter at which time he was b6 advised that I had not received any approval from FBIHQ to furnishb7c him with any information and stated he would call back.
I then telephonically contacted External Affairs Division who advised that cooperation had been authorized to the extent that it would not interfere with the investigation .. or jeopardize any prosecution.
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? and determine if he has any firsthand information or knowledge concerning this matter. If it is determined that does not have any information of value concerning this matter, he should be advised that the military has provided expert personnel who have calculated the drop zone for unsub in this matter and therefore services, although appreciated, are not desired at this time.
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164-81-7-7 DB Cooper-27489December 10, 19
Mr. Farrell Federal Bureau of Investigation 915 2nd Avenue Seattle, Wash 98174
SUBE
Dear Mr. Farrell:
RE: . Telephone conversation 9:20 a.m. this date
The following is information I need to solve the skyjacking involving North West Air Lines in 1971, by Cooper:
1. Date of skyjacking.
2. Time 727 jet was airborn (air strip).
3. Compass heading after level flight.
'4. Compass heading when skyjacker finished adjustment of personal effects.
5. Time skyjacker disappeared from sight on plane.
6. Time skyjacker was definitely not' on plane.
7. When act occurred, elevation of plane starting at zero level; ground level temperature; and barometric reading.
8. Wind knots, and direction.
9. Whether he had 1 or 2 parachutes; weight of chutes) ; weight of money; approximate weight of clothing and boots.
10. Estimate of height and weight of skyjacker.
Sincerely,
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DB Cooper-27490Royal Globe Insurance COMPANIES.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY . LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY . ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY . GLOBE INDEMNITY COMPANY . ROYAL GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY
LONDON AND LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SAFEGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY . STANDARD MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY . THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
NEWARK INSURANCE COMPANY . AMERICAN AND FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANY . BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY . THAMES & MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
ROYAL GLOBE
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180 WILLIAM STREET
INSURANCE
NEWYORK, N. Y. 10038
September 9, 1976
TEL: (212) 732-8400
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Sus FF
Dear Sir:
Re:
Hijacking Northwest Airlines
Date of Loss: 11/24/71
Claim#:
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Following our September 1, 1976 telephone conversation re above I would like to
Seattle, Washington 98174
Sus FF
Dear Sir:
Re:
Hijacking Northwest Airlines
Date of Loss: 11/24/71
Claim#:
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Following our September 1, 1976 telephone conversation re above I would like to bring you up-to-date on all the recent tips we received due to the courtesy and cooperation of the Northwest Orient Airlines: nef - 164 - 81- 6834
1. As you have been previously informed we have been negotiating with on Lake Merwin, State of Washington. - We are preparing a contract with this independent entrepreneur. We will advise you when will be ready to start and keep you posted on the developments.
2. We called attorney ofNaples, Florida on 8/23/76 in connection with his letter of 8/11/76 addressed to of the Northwest Orient Airlines, copy attached. This is what attorney told me: He knows a waitress, presently employed in Naples, formerly living in Miami, Florida. The woman alleges that she knew Cooper under his real name, not disclosed during our telephone conversation with attorney Cooper had a detective agency in Miami and was . using an alias Cooper on occasion. He was a paratrooper(?
The woman alleges that she knew Cooper under his real name, not disclosed during our telephone conversation with attorney Cooper had a detective agency in Miami and was . using an alias Cooper on occasion. He was a paratrooper(?) and bragged that he would undertake some sort of a stunt or hijacking to get hold of JulE
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money. The woman allegedly knows Cooper's friends and could help to trace him.
Attorney told me that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was informed of those details about 22 years ago, but apparently the information did not warrant the Bureau's attention. The attorney suggested a meeting in his office between the woman and a representative. of our company.
For the time being this tip was laid to rest.
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of Oakland, California, dated 8/10/76, copy attached, -I called" on September 1, 1976. He told me that he knows somebody who knows Cooper. Cooper is allegedly in the sheet metal business operations.
He told me that he knows somebody who knows Cooper. Cooper is allegedly in the sheet metal business operations. was told to get in touch with us if he has anything concrete to report. He wanted to know how much we were willing to pay for this information. I indicated to him that we would consider sharing the redeemable money on a reasonable basis. We were not told who informer was. b6 b7C
was referring to this individual as his We are not attaching too much hope to h submitted "clue".
4. As I told you I had called Napa, California. Please refer to the attached copy of his 8/15/76 letter to Northwest Airlines, Inc. Please confirm your statement that the parts of a parachute allegedly found by did not
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Cooper. We will obviously abandon this lead based on the information supplied by you.
Hopefully somethingmore concrete will eventually develop, which
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RECEIVED
AUG 2 3 1976
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Northwest Orient Airlines Minnesota St.
Hopefully somethingmore concrete will eventually develop, which
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AUG 2 3 1976
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Northwest Orient Airlines Minnesota St. Paul National Airport St. Paul, Minnesota 55111
Dear
My office represents a young lady, formerly of Miami, Florida. that believed she has information concerning the whereabouts of a man using the alias of D. B. Cooper, being the same man that hijacked a Northwest Orient airplane on or about the latter part of November in 1970.
If the man has not been apprehended and you are interested in the information that she has, please drop us a line.
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In answer to your telephone call of yesterday, your contact in reference to D.B. Cooper (Northwest Airlines hijack) is as follows: Royal Globe Insurance, New York, New York; telephone: (212) 732-8400, extension
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Very truly yours,
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RECEIVED AUG 17.
hijack) is as follows: Royal Globe Insurance, New York, New York; telephone: (212) 732-8400, extension
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If this office can be of any further assistance to you, please feel free to drop us a Line at your convenience.
Very truly yours,
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RECEIVED AUG 17. 1976 INSURANCE DR.
DB Cooper-27495Quece 15, 1976
20 : Northwest airlines one? Sabe: D.B. Cooper
AUG IS 1976 & SAFETY DIV. Gentlemen ; Last fall while hunting in the Siera Mountains, I found a piece of parachute hidden under a log .... thought the chute may have Been Coopers, so I gave it to the F.B.J. and they brought it back to me this spring, and said that it could be his chute, They couldn't toll, Sinci then, my wife and I have made aver trips back up there, but it wasn't untill fuller, that conditions were right that we could Track him. The followed. his trail for 21/2 miles and found enough evidence to prove to is That it was Cooper, that he was badly injured and that he could not possibly have made it out to the wavestradition : but I had to come home to work It
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DB Cooper-27498OFTIONAL, FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION OSA FPMR (41 CFRI $01-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO :
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
DATE: 8/16/76
FROM :
SA
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
(BUfile 164-2111)
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On 7/28/76, Agent for the Royal. Globe Insurance Company, Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington, was contacted by the writer. stated
he had been dealing with 
concerning
and that company's ability to locate any evidence con- cerning captioned matter in Lake Merwin.
stated he had reached an agreement with as to a reward for should he discover any infor-
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mation. was advised that in no way would the FBI endorse nor would they guarantee integrity.
stated he had reached an agreement with as to a reward for should he discover any infor-
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mation. was advised that in no way would the FBI endorse nor would they guarantee integrity.
stated he understood the FBI's position and intended to investigate as thoroughly as possible.
was asked to furnish the FBI with the names of any individuals or groups who contact Royal Globe concerning the possibility of obtaining a reward for evidence in captioned matter. stated he would make the requests known to his superiors in New York and would be back in touch with the writer when the results of that inquiry are known. further advised that he did not see any problems with providing the requested information. ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
DATE: 7/13/76
FROM
:
SA
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
BUfile 164-2111
RE: SUB E -
6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
DATE: 7/13/76
FROM
:
SA
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
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BUfile 164-2111
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Re memo of SA THOMAS J. MANNING dated 6/29/76.
On 7/9/76, attempt was made to contact
at , Seattle, Washington.
advised that he was on vacation until 7/19/76 and she advised she would have call SA at that time.
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DB Cooper-27500OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION CSA PMR (4 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81> (P)
DATE:
6/29/76
FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING
SUBJECT: NOR JAK
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Attached to this memo is a letter received at Longview RA on 6/28/76.
This letter was previously mentioned in a memo of the writer concerning a telephone call from of ROYAL-GLOBE INSUP ANCE.
Contact with in Seattle, mentioned in letter, being left to discretion of case agent.
This letter was previously mentioned in a memo of the writer concerning a telephone call from of ROYAL-GLOBE INSUP ANCE.
Contact with in Seattle, mentioned in letter, being left to discretion of case agent.
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-108-02Royal-Globe Insurance COMPANIES
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY . LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY . ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY - GLOBE INDEMNITY COMPANY . ROYAL GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY
LONDON AND LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SAFEGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY . STANDARD MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY . THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
NEWARK INSURANCE COMPANY . AMERICAN AND FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANY - BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY . THAMES & MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
Claim & Loss Ppty W. Comp. 150 WILLIAM STREET
ROYAL GLOBE
INSURANCE
TEL: (212) 732-8400
NEWYORK, N. Y. 10038
June 22, 1976
Mr. Thomas J. Manning Federal Bureau of Investigation P. O. Box 429 Longview, Washington. 98632
Dear Sir:

Insured :
Manning Federal Bureau of Investigation P. O. Box 429 Longview, Washington. 98632
Dear Sir:

Insured :	Northwest	Airlines
Hijacking	11/24/71

This furthers your June 15, 1976 telephone conversation with our concerning the potential recovery of the funds, which we paid to the captioned insured as a result of the hijacking of one of its planes by an individual identi- fied as D. B. Cooper.
The Northwestern Airlines were apparently approached by , of Kirkland, Washington, who offered his
services as with the indication that, according to his information, the hijacker landed with the money in a lake, and that he, would be able to locate the bag and possibly the body of the late D. B. Cooper and bring it to the surface.
The Northwestern Airlines contacted our attorney, who in turn advised us of the situation.
We then contacted by phone and this is briefly
what
told us :
He
in Kirkland. He has and since he believes, on the basis of the information, which he was able to gather, that D.
He has and since he believes, on the basis of the information, which he was able to gather, that D. B. Cooper with the money landed in a lake in the Louis River Canyon, he would undertake the search for the money for a certain percen- tage of the redeemable bills. 164-81-6988
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directed us to your the Seattle, Washington F. B. I., who in turn informed us that the Lake (Merwin) is in your operational territory and that it may be wise to contact you.
We are eeriously considering services. If you can throw some light on the background of the story and assist us in our endeavors, would you please get in touch with in our Seattle, Washington Claim Office, 490 Dexter Horton Building, telephone number is .
will convey to us any information obtained from you and we will then eventually decide upon our further course.
Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, we remain, Very truly yours,
JMB :mer
cc:
Seattle, Washington Claim
Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, we remain, Very truly yours,
JMB :mer
cc:
Seattle, Washington Claim Office
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TO :	SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P).	DATE:	6/15/76
FROM :
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Company., 150 Williams Street, New York, New York 10038 telephonically contacted the writer at Longview RA. She advised name of writer was given to her by the company's in Seattle, Washington, telephone
as a person familiar with captioned matter.
stated she has been contacted by Kir jkland, Washington telephone (home and b7C
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stated she has been contacted by Kir jkland, Washington telephone (home and b7C
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business ) who stated he advised that he has a and stated he knows where money from this case is located, and would try to get it for the company. He gave no specific details of positively knowing where the money was located except to say it was in water near a dam where COOPER jumped from the plane. Undoubtedly hewas referring to Lake Merwin and dam at that location.
She pointed out that he originally approached Northwest Airlines re this matter and was referred to an attorney who represented Northwest Airlines in litigation concerning payment by Royal insurance to Northwest which was the insurance carrier for the airline. She stated that the company fought payment of the sum of $210,000 in court but after litigation were told to pay the amount and this has been paid. Under rights of subrogation Royal now has right, title and interest to the money COOPER received.
the lake with told her he would be willing to undertake a search of in hopes of recovery of same. She stated she knew that the FBI had serial numbers of all the bills and had in fact pictures of each bill.
She stated she knew that the FBI had serial numbers of all the bills and had in fact pictures of each bill. He stated that if the money was found it would be surrendered to Royal and his payment would be one half of all recovered monies. He did not want a down payment and had no minimum charge but would do everything at his own risk with his final objective being the 50-50 split. He stated he wanted a contract to specifically set out this 50-50 split with Royal and that based on this proposition she had their Seattle representative conduct a background check to determine whether (2) TJM/
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DB Cooper-27504 ....This check revealed very little except that his company was new and was not known to places like Better Business Bureau, was not listed in phone book etc. She stated she did not doubt the legitimacy of however.
very little except that his company was new and was not known to places like Better Business Bureau, was not listed in phone book etc. She stated she did not doubt the legitimacy of however. She continued that she was going to bring to Royal's management attention the desire for a contract with
P and would advise Seattle Division by letter if they are going under contract.
She asked that not be contacted until contractual matter is resolved. No statement was made by writer that we would or would not contact Further she was not advised that
has contacted SA explaining his
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From everything she said it would appear that in a long line of individuals who have searched, on their own, for the money in the general search area FBI and army personnel operated. However it is felt that an interview with would be in order in the event he has not been completely candid with SA and does have some definite information as to location of money. It is requested that no information re contact with be revealed at time of contact.
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TO
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DATE:
5/20/76
FROM
:
SA
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
BUfile 164-2111
RE: SUB E - SEARCH AREA
SUB CC - SEARCH PERSONNEL
SUB DD - COMPLAINTS RESULTING
FROM SEARCH
On 4/29/76,
Kirkland, Washington,
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telephone , appeared at Seattle Office and advised he is going to undertake a search of Lake Merwin.
advised he has developed a closed circuit TV system whereby he tows a TV camera in a waterproof container from the back of his boat and it is possible, according to to control the depth of this towed TV camera.
stated the average depth of Lake Merwin is approximately 140 ft. and that at that depth, a man can only dive for about one hour a day. stated the visibility should be about 100 ft. but for his com- putations he will use 30 ft. as a minimum visibility. estimates he will be able to search a 64 ft. wide search area traveling at 5 miles per hour. and according to , he has started a
company with
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stated that to this point, he has invested about $5,000 in the project and
and according to , he has started a
company with
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stated that to this point, he has invested about $5,000 in the project and was interested in learning about all rewards offered concerning captioned matter. The writer provided such information to
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11/30/73 SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
Sub to
NORJAK
As a matter of information for Seattle, a woman who identified herself as
,
Portland, telephone
contacted the Portland
Division by telephone 11/23/73 and advised that she recalled at the time of the hijacking incident involved in this matter she had read in a newspaper that an elderly man had been found in critical condition at the edge of Lake Merwin in southern Washington. He apparently had nearly drowned in the lake.
in this matter she had read in a newspaper that an elderly man had been found in critical condition at the edge of Lake Merwin in southern Washington. He apparently had nearly drowned in the lake. He was taken to the hospital and did not know the outcome.
said she just thought that this man might be D.B. COOPER or at least there might be some connection. She did not know the man's identity and could provide no further details.
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SEARCH	INFORMATION
SUB I

Prior to the hunting coason which begins mid-October 1973, and ends nid-November 1973, information should be provided to Washington State Game Vardens that handle the arca into which the hijacker parachuted. As was done last year, a memorandum bac been prepared explaining what hunters and campers in the area of interest should be alert for.
On 9/27/72, Vancouver, Washington, phone , advised that his dopartant would disseminate literature about UNSUB to garo wardens for further dissemination to local hunters in the Lake
On 9/27/72, Vancouver, Washington, phone , advised that his dopartant would disseminate literature about UNSUB to garo wardens for further dissemination to local hunters in the Lake Merwin Dan area. Le advised that he could probably disseminate 1500 copies of the literaturo.
LEADS
SEATTLE DIVISION
At Vancouver, Washington
Will recontact to determine if he is willing to disseminate literature # again this year. (If he is willing, will ascertain from hin THE a number of copies of reno desired).
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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SAC,	ATLANTA	(164-254) (RUC)

7/30/73
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NORJAK 00: SEATTLE
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Continuous efforts were made by SA to contact Lilburn, Ga., with negative results. It was ascertained that who was employed by Travelers Insurance Co., Atlanta, Ga., was on leave and would return to work on 7/30/73.
On 7/30/73, the U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Nap was returned to at the Travelers Insurance Company, 230 Peachtree
Department of Agriculture Forest Service Nap was returned to at the Travelers Insurance Company, 230 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga,
ARMED AND DANGEROUS. (2)- Seattle 1 - Atlanta JBR : jh (3)
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RE: SUB E AND SUB R Be Atlanta lottor to Seattlo, 4/30/73.
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Enclosed for the Seattle Office is a U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service map of the Joseph Ranger District, Wallowa Whitman National Forest, dated in 1965.
Enclosed map was made available by Lilburn, Ga, residing
This map is being made available for the assistance of the Seattle Division. has requested that when the map has served its purpose that it be returned to him.
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3/30/73
SA THOMAS J. MANNING
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NOR. JAK
Upon cessation of the most recent terrain search in Clark County, Washington it is felt that the following comments are pertinent since they come from one individual who has partic .. ipated in every search operation which have a total time expenditure of approximately 9 weeks.
it is felt that the following comments are pertinent since they come from one individual who has partic .. ipated in every search operation which have a total time expenditure of approximately 9 weeks.
The search conducted by the United States Army was the best effort which could be expended considering the number of personnel involved, logistic and support problems, weather and terrain factors. This is pointed out by one speaking from actual experience, intimately acquainted with details of the various searches, since there appears to have arisen some question on the adequacy of the military search.
The searches conducted by Agent personnel were also the best effort which could be put forth considering the same problems mentioned above.
The most recent search appears to have been based upon the securing of new data which corrected the most logical spot at which the hijacker exited from the aircraft, which resulted in the moving of what has been referred to in past communications as point A. However no concrete information has been developed that the parachute of the hijacker did not open and the renewing of the search of the terrain at new point A appears to have been based on
However no concrete information has been developed that the parachute of the hijacker did not open and the renewing of the search of the terrain at new point A appears to have been based on mere conjecture that the chute did not in fact deploy.
In view of the above it is respectfully and earnestly recommended that absent concrete information concerning the hijacker or evidence in this matter being in the searched or unseacrhed terrain that no further terrain searches be undertaken. It is felt that to do so would result in an unwarranted expenditure of agent time and effort and an expenditure of Bureau funds which is not economically feasible or justified.
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AIRTEL AIRMAIL
TO:
SAG, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM:
SAG, HONOLULU (164-85) (R.c.)
SUBJECT: NORJAK
Re Seattle nitel, 3/7/73. On 3/8/73, SA's Honolulu, obtained signed FD-26 from which is being enclosed.
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2- Seattle (Enc. 1) (RM - RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED) - Honolulu 1
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DB Cooper-27516FD-36 (Rev.
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Date:
3/20/73
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Via	TELETYPE NITEL
(Priority}
TO:	ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM:	SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)	SUB E
NORJAK. 00: SEATTLE.	Sus
RE: SEATTLE AIRTEL TO THE BUREAU 3/2/73.
AD ONE-MILE AREA SURROUNDING THE POINT WHERE IT IS HIS

CALCULATED UNSUB WOULD HAVE LANDED IF ITS PARACHUTE DID NOT
OPEN, WAS THOROUGHLY AND COMPLETELY SEARCHED	DURING THE
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Date:
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(Priority}
TO:	ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM:	SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)	SUB E
NORJAK. 00: SEATTLE.	Sus
RE: SEATTLE AIRTEL TO THE BUREAU 3/2/73.
AD ONE-MILE AREA SURROUNDING THE POINT WHERE IT IS HIS

CALCULATED UNSUB WOULD HAVE LANDED IF ITS PARACHUTE DID NOT
OPEN, WAS THOROUGHLY AND COMPLETELY SEARCHED	DURING THE WEEK
OF 3/12-16/73 WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.
THE SEARCH WILL RESUME DURING THE WEEK
DURING THE WEEK
OF 3/12-16/73 WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.
THE SEARCH WILL RESUME DURING THE WEEK OF	MARCH 26, 1973,
AND WILL CONSTITUTE A ONE-MILE SQUARE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH
OF THE FIRST MILE. ANY FURTHER SEARCH WILL BE CONTINGENT UPON
THE RESULTS OF CURRENT SEARCH.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972 - 455-574
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11:40 AM NITEL 3/10/73 MCC
TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (RUC) 1P
Government Printing Office: 1972 - 455-574
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11:40 AM NITEL 3/10/73 MCC
TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (RUC) 1P NORJAK .
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RE YOUR TELETYPE DATED 3/7/73. ON 3/10/73 , SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THEY ARE
IN LA CENTER , WASHINGTON , DESCRIBED
ADVISED THIS PROPERTY PRESENTLY BEING RENTED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY
, LA CENTER.
ADVISED ANY CONSENT TO SEARCH AFORE-MENTIONED PROPERTY MUST BE GIVEN BY .
SEATTLE - WILL CONTACT AND CONDUCT
INVESTIGATION AS STIPULATED IN REFERENCED COMMUNICATION. END MMM FBI SE TU CLR
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DB Cooper-27519OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1942 EDITION CSA FPMR (41 CR) 191-11.6 UNITED STATES GO ERNMENT Memorandum

TO	: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)	DATE: 3/9/73
FROM	: SPC	Sub E
SUBJECT:	NORJAK	Salep

At 9:52 PM, 3/9/73, : Orchards, Wash. (N.E. of Vancouver, Wash. ) ,
telephone , telephonically advised that he has #
Wash., for a number of years. He said that he was out there this afternoon and found that someone has built an elaborate tree-house in a large wooded area located just off Apparently this person has also posted "no tres- passing" signs around the tree-house.
stated he did not see anybody around the area when he was out there, but explained he did not stay around very long to investigate. He sounded as if he was afraid he may get shot.
stated he did not see anybody around the area when he was out there, but explained he did not stay around very long to investigate. He sounded as if he was afraid he may get shot. He has no idea when the tree-house was built, since he has not been out there for about two to three years,
believes that his property lies within the area where D.B. COOPER reportedly parachuted. He said that hey would like to have an agent contact him at the above tele- phone number or address and he would show the agent where the tree-house could be found. In addition, he said he would like this matter settled as soon as possible for he will be selling the land in the near future.
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was advised that his information would be given
to the case agent the first thing Monday next.
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FBI Date: 2/28/73
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TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM:
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) (P)
NORJAK
(00:
5-22-64)
FBI Date: 2/28/73
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TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM:
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) (P)
NORJAK
(00: SEATTLE)
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ReSEairtel to Alexandria, 2/15/73.
Transmitted under separate cover for Seattle are the following fourteen items:
1) One copy of Seattle Sectional Aeronautical Chart on scale 1:500,000.
2) One copy of U. S. Department of Interior Geological Survey Index of Topographic Maps of Washington.
3) Two copies each of fifteen-minute quadrangle maps (scale 1:62, 500 or one inch equals approximately one mile) of the Pigeon Springs, La Center, Yacolt, and Cougar areas of Washington.
4) Two copies each of maps (scale of 1:250,000) of the Vancouver and Hoquiam area of Washington.
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4-Seattle (Enc. 14) (1-Package Copy) 2-Alexandria FL/krl (6)
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U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972 - 455-574 DB Cooper-27521AX 164-72
Alexandria, Virginia, advised flight crews normally carry sectional aeronautical charts on the scale of 1:500,000 and that larger charts on the scale of 1:250,000 are used only by training crews. stated his office only maintains the 1:500,000 scale charts and furnished one of the Seattle area which includes the area in question which is encircled in black magic marker pencil located by the coordinates of 122 degrees and 30 minutes longitude and 46 degrees and zero minutes latitude. stated additional charts of Seattle area on the scale of 1:500,000 as well as charts on the scale of 1:250,000 can be obtained at Post Headquarters, G-2, Fort Lewis Army Base, Tacoma, Washington.
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District - Washington, Department of Interior, 1200 South Eads Street, Arlington, Virginia, furnished a copy of the U. S. - Department of Interior Geological Survey Index of Topographic Maps of Washington. She advised the area in question is located in their Vancouver and Hoquiam, Washington, maps in the scale of 1:250,000. In addition, a larger scale of the area is contained in the fifteen-minute (scale 1:62,500 or one-inch equals approximately one mile) quadrangle maps of the Pigeon Springs, La Center, Yacolt, and Cougar, Washington, areas. These latter maps are the largest scale available except that the southern half of the La Center map can be obtained on a larger scale (seven and a half-minute maps of the Ridgefield and Battle- ground, Washington, areas on scale of 1:24,000 or one-inch equals 2,000 feet). furnished copies of the maps for the above-mentioned Pigeon Springs, La Center, Yacolt, Cougar, Vancouver, and Hoquiam, Washington, areas.
was very cooperative and apologized several times because some of the fifteen-minute quadrangle maps were dirty and soiled around the borders.
was very cooperative and apologized several times because some of the fifteen-minute quadrangle maps were dirty and soiled around the borders. This condition exists she stated because her office basically handles only the maps for the Eastern States (east of the Mississippi) and thus the few WestemState maps on her shelves linger on the shelf and become dirty. She stated copies of the maps of the Western States are basically furnished by the Distribution Section, U. S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado.
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SA THOMAS J. MANNING
3/9/73 SubE SulF
NORJAK
Re search of new area at drop zone a conference was held 3/9/73 with agents to be involved in search.
Decision was made to commence search as early as practicable on 3/12/73 with prime drop zone at new Point A to be first area searched. Case agent has requested that shovels (entrenching tools) and machetes be secured to assist in search. SAs b6 b7C
will take SE 99 to Vancouver, Washington and will pick up below listed equipment at whatever location it can be secured:
8 entrenching tools
11 ponchos 11 pair of rain
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will take SE 99 to Vancouver, Washington and will pick up below listed equipment at whatever location it can be secured:
8 entrenching tools
11 ponchos 11 pair of rain pants (suspender type)
10 machetesor some type of brush cutting device
Headquarters for search will be SE 99 (mobile) and Quay Motel (fixed). Search in initial phase to commence 3/12/73 and end 3/16/73 at 4:00 PM. Agehts from Seattle Hq will return to Seattle afternoon of 3/16/73.
SA has telephonically advised that he has secured waiver of search forms from all individuals in prime 1 square mile area and for distance of } mile north and south of prime area.
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SA will bring photographic equipment, evidence kit and other material which will be necessary in event remains or evidence are located. 4 portable radios will be secured from with charger and will be transported by agents in
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SA will have vehicle (number unknown) which he will SuLE drive accompanied by SA
Agents from Seattle Division will leave at 7:30 AM, 3/12/73 and will meet with writer at Quay Motel, Vancouver for briefing and it is anticipated thatsearch will
which he will SuLE drive accompanied by SA
Agents from Seattle Division will leave at 7:30 AM, 3/12/73 and will meet with writer at Quay Motel, Vancouver for briefing and it is anticipated thatsearch will commence afternoon of 3/12/73
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WXA NR 003 SE PLAIN 7:15 PM NITEL 3-7-73 DCB TO HONOLULU (164-85) VIA WASHINGTON PORTLAND (164-41) SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) FROM SEATTLE (164-81) (P) IP
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NOR JAK. :
FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, SEATTLE DIVISION WILL CONDUCT EXTENSIVE GROUND SEARCH IN WOODED AREA NEAR LA CENTER , WASHINGTON, BEGINNING 3-12-73, TO LOOK FOR REMAINS OF UNSUB , AKA D.B. COOPER. ALL RECEIVING OFFICES CONTACT PERSONS LISTED BELOW AND HAVE AN FD-26 EXECUTED.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-27524 Sub E
164-81-4495FD-36 (Rov. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
2/15/73
Transmit the following in
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Via
AIRTEL
AIRMAIL
(Priority)
TO:
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72)
FROM :
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
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An attempt is being made to obtain larger scale maps of the area it is
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AIRTEL
AIRMAIL
(Priority)
TO:
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72)
FROM :
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
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An attempt is being made to obtain larger scale maps of the area it is thought UNSUB parachuted into. This area is in the southeast portion of the State of Washington and is located approximately halfway between Woodland, Wash- ington, and Lake Merwin.
On February 13, 1973,
Mc Chord Air Force Base, made available an address for the U. S. Army Aeronautical Service. advised maps could be obtained from this office of the area desired.
The full address is United States Army Aeronautical Service Office, HQDA (FDAS-A1), Cameron Station, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314, telephone Area Code 202/274-7773, Autovon phone 284-7773.
LEADS
ALEXANDRIA DIVISION At Alexandria, Virginia
Will contact appropriate personnel of the U. S. Army Aeronautical Service Office and attempt to obtain blown up maps of the area located between Woodland, Washington, and Lake Merwin. Note: This area is described in the United States Department of Interior Geological Survey under the following four names: Pidegon Springs, Cougar La Center, and Yacolt.
Note: This area is described in the United States Department of Interior Geological Survey under the following four names: Pidegon Springs, Cougar La Center, and Yacolt.
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Special Agent in Charge
Sent M Per
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DB Cooper-27525
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FBI
Date:
2/8/73
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(Priority)

TO:	SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)	Sub E
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FROM:	SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) (P)	Siehe G
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NORJAK (00:SE)	Sub 2

Re WFO letter to Alexandria, 11/20/72; and Seattle airtel to Alexandria, 2/5/73:
Continuous investigation has been conducted at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, during the months of. December, 1972, and January, 1973, in an attempt to determine who would have authority to re-route military training missions in visual aerial phtography flown within the continental United States.
December, 1972, and January, 1973, in an attempt to determine who would have authority to re-route military training missions in visual aerial phtography flown within the continental United States. To date no one has been located who could positively state that this could be done. however, was contacted and he advised that he had made inquiry into this matter and stated that in the event Seattle wished to have military assistance in this matter than Seattle should request the Director to submit a letter of request to the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, D. C. 20301. In this letter the full particulars of the matter should be set forth as well as whether or not the Bureau or Department of Justice is willing to observe the additional cost if any to the Air Force. advised that he
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Government Printing Office: 1972 - 455-574
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AIRTEL
AIRMAIL
TO:
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72)
FROM:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (₽)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
Re Wro letter to Alexandria dated 11/20/72.
Alexandria is requested to expedite investigation requested in referenced communication and report results to Seattle Division.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-27528 SulE 164-81-440-NR 009 AX PLAIN 7:45 PM NITEL 2-1-73 HWW
TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM ALEXANDRIA (164-72) P'
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NORJAK, 00 : SEATTLE
. RE SEATTLE AIRTEL TO ALEXANDRIA, 1-28-73. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER, PENTAGON CONTACTED 1-29-73, BY SA REGARDING RELEASE TO BUREAU OF b6 b7C RADAR DATA AND CALCULATIONS IN POSSESSION OF MC CHORD .AIR FORCE BASE, WASHINGTON. MATTER REFERRED TO JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (JCS) PERSONNEL. ON 1-30-73, OFFICE CONTACTED BY
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.U.S. AIR FORCE, JCS STAFF, AND DETERMINED
AUTHORITY NOT TO RELEASE INSTANT DATA BASED ON AIR FORCE ALL MAJOR COMMAND MESSAGE DATED JULY 1972.
AIR FORCE, JCS STAFF, AND DETERMINED
AUTHORITY NOT TO RELEASE INSTANT DATA BASED ON AIR FORCE ALL MAJOR COMMAND MESSAGE DATED JULY 1972. U.S. ARMY , JCS , ADVISED TELEPHONICALLY CONFERENCE HELD 1-31-73, BETWEEN HIMSELF, ,'AIR FORCE STAFF, JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERALS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND OTHER PERTINENT AIR FORCE OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY REGARDING INSTANT MATTER. RESULTS ARE BUREAU WILL BE FURNISHED THE DESIRED INFORMATION.
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Memorandum

TO	: SAC, ALEXANDRIA	DATE:	11/20/72
FROM	: SAC, WFO	Sub E Sub F
SUBJECT ; NORJAK (00: SE)	Sul Y

REFERENCE: Seattle airtel to Bureau,
SAC, WFO	Sub E Sub F
SUBJECT ; NORJAK (00: SE)	Sul Y

REFERENCE: Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/15/72.
WFO copies of referenced communication are forwarded as lead is within investigative jurisdiction of addressee office.
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BALTIMORE (Enc.) ALEXANDRIA (Enc.) 2
( INDIANAPOLIS (Enc.) )
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FBI
Date:	11/15/72

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Transmit the following in
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AIRTEL
(Type in plaintext or code)
AIR MAIL
(Priority)
TO:
ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM:
SAÇ, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
5-22-64)

FBI
Date:	11/15/72

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AIRTEL
(Type in plaintext or code)
AIR MAIL
(Priority)
TO:
ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM:
SAÇ, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: Seattle
Re Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/1/72, Norfolk
airtel to Bureau, 11/9/72.
Enclosed for WFO is one-copy each of re communications. - WFO is .to contact the National Military Command Center, Washington, D.C., and request a training mission in visual aerial photography be flown along the 87 miles of the NORJAK aircraft flight path that is under consideration.
The exact coordinates of the area to be covered will be provided by Seattle Division, if the training mission is approved. This lead is being set out on a UACB basis. ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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Special Agent in Charge
#U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972 - 455-57411/9/72
Sub E Sub F Sub X
Airtel
TO:
ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM:
SAC, NORFOLK (164-41) (RUC)
NORJAK
(00: Seattle)
Re Seattle airtel to Bureau 11/1/72.
Printing Office: 1972 - 455-57411/9/72
Sub E Sub F Sub X
Airtel
TO:
ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM:
SAC, NORFOLK (164-41) (RUC)
NORJAK
(00: Seattle)
Re Seattle airtel to Bureau 11/1/72. On 11/7/72, interviews were conducted with the following individuals assigned to the , Langley Air Force Base, Virginia:
It was the consensus of opinion among the three individuals above, each of whom had had considerable experience with infrared imagery, that efforts to locate the attache case by this means would probably prove futile. The terrain, as described, would neutralize any effort, particularly if tall trees and mountains are part of its makeup. Further explained was the necessity for the presence of heat which would need to be generated by the object (attache case) in contrast to the surrounding terrain for successful infrared high resolution photography. The size of the attache case provides a poor target for any type of aerial photography, including visual photography.
2 - Bureau 
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November 13,
2 - Bureau 
2,- Seattle (164-81) 1 - Norfolk CPK: 1jf (5)
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November 13, 1972
SA
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On October 30, 1972, Orient Airlines, Seattle, Washington. telephone
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advised that
Northwest Orient Airlines, would call SA concerning his calculations of the flight path of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, Portland to Seattle, November
, 24, 1971 further advised that
McChord Air Force Base, also calculated the area into which Unsub parachuted and would have in his possession radar data concerning the above-mentioned flight.
LEADS
SEATTLE
AT MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WASHINGTON
Will contact and review with him his calculations of the flight path and course of the Norjak airplane in order to determine if there is a possibility of an error in the computation of the search area.
AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Will arrange to obtain from copy of his calculations of the course, flight path, and jump area for Unsub, aka Cooper.
AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Will arrange to obtain from copy of his calculations of the course, flight path, and jump area for Unsub, aka Cooper.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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SAC, ATLANTA (164-254)	11/10/72
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Re: Atlanta let to SE, 10/31/72.
Atlanta is requested to recontact , Lilburn, Georgia, and obtain from him the map mentioned in referenced communication and forward same to Seattle.
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DB Cooper-27535 Sul E
164-81-4078SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
10/31/72
SAC, ATLANTA (164-254) (RUC)
NORJAK 00: SE BUFILE: 164-2111
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Re Atlanta letter to Seattle, 8/31/72.
On 10/16/72, Lilburn, Ga., who previously furnished information concerning material found by him on a hunting trip in Northeast Oregon 11/71, advised that he has located a map of the area referred to in referenced letter and has this map available of the area
concerning material found by him on a hunting trip in Northeast Oregon 11/71, advised that he has located a map of the area referred to in referenced letter and has this map available of the area referred to with its approximate loca- tion marked off. If needed, this map will be made available.
A review of the file of the Atlanta Office discloses that all investigation has been completed and furnished office of origin. Accordingly, this case is being placed in an RUC status.
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DB Cooper-27536SAG, SEATTLE (164-01)
10/27/72
SAC, DETROIT (164-115) (RUC)
HOR JAK (00: SEATTLE) Eufile 164-2111
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Re Atlanta letter to Seattle, 3/31/72. Ser. 3865
The following investigation was conducted by SA at Grayling, Michigan, on 10/16/72. 4
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3 Grayling, Michigan, advised Bint their records chow the guarantee card for bow number was nover returned and subsequently there is no record of its owner on file. indicated that since the serial number began with the bow had been shipped by their company in 1969, added that the only record of the serial number that
indicated that since the serial number began with the bow had been shipped by their company in 1969, added that the only record of the serial number that their company might have would be on the reverse side of the shipper's copy of shipments going out to any of their
.
b6 b7C 4,500 dealers. stated as a shipment goes out, che shipping clerk usually writes serial numbers down on the reverse side of the shipper's copy of all bows. stated the shippor's copies are kept on file at the Gray- ling office and if it was suspected that the bow was pure chased in a particular region of the country, the files for the dealers in that region could be reviewed and possibly the particular dealer which received that bow could be identified. ARMED AND IMAGEROUS 2 - Seattle 1 - Detroit IIJG/ccu (3)
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DB Cooper-27537 11/1/72
AIRTEL
AIRMAIL
Sub E Sub F Sub S Sub X
TO:
ACTING, DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) AND
SAC, NORFOLK (164-41)
FROM:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
(00:SE)
The following background information is being
DB Cooper-27537 11/1/72
AIRTEL
AIRMAIL
Sub E Sub F Sub S Sub X
TO:
ACTING, DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) AND
SAC, NORFOLK (164-41)
FROM:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
(00:SE)
The following background information is being provided to the Norfolk Division: Unsub had with him prior to the time he jumped the following:
A. . Parachute Back Pack
B. Parachute Chest Pack
C. Briefcase or attache case
D. Dark overcoat
E. A 4x12x14 paper bag
F. A pair of dark slip-on shoes.
G. Wrap around sunglasses with dark rims.
H. 10,000 $20 bills.
Since none of the above was found when the plane was searched at Reno, Unsub must have taken them with him, or discarded some of them prior to jumping.
The above-described attache case supposedly con- tained a bomb. It is believed Unsub threw this attache case from the planc prior to his jumping, because of the numerous other items he had to carry. If he did throw it prior to jumping, it would fall almost directly in the path of the aircraft. The 727 air stairs were lowered sometime after 7: 42 p.m. and Unsub jumped prior to 8:15 p.m. on November 24, 1971. The plane covered a distance of approximately 87 miles during this time.
and Unsub jumped prior to 8:15 p.m. on November 24, 1971. The plane covered a distance of approximately 87 miles during this time.
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DB Cooper-27538
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Fort Lewis, Washington, advised on August 22, 1972, that ,
, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, tele-
phone 5 would be able to provide expert information concerning the feasibility of using high resolution infrared or regular photographic equipment in a low flying aircraft to locate the attache case or any other of the above-described items Unsub may have discarded prior to jumping.
The items could possibly be lodged in thickly wooded, mountainous terrain. The search area would cover a strip of land approximately 87 miles long by one-half mile wide. It has been suggested that infrared photography might possibly indicate non-living material, such as an attache case, in a darker shade than living material, thereby enabling the case to be found using infrared high resolution photography.
Since Unsub possibly discarded the attache case prior to jumping, he could not have buried or hidden it.
Since Unsub possibly discarded the attache case prior to jumping, he could not have buried or hidden it. The case would have dropped directly in the flight path of the plane and could possibly be visible from the air. The length of time Unsub would have to throw the case or any other item is limited to 33 minutes, and therefore the area covered is relatively small when compared to the entire flight path.
Since NORJAK is the only aircraft hijacking in which the subject has not been identified and apprehended nor the ransom money recovered, the following lead is being set forth as a method of possibly obtaining new evidence that might identify Unsub or indicate his whereabouts:
LEAD
NORFOLK
AT LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, VIRGINIA. Will expeditiously contact and determine from him the feasibility and cost of conducting the above-described photographic air search.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-27539SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SA
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Re memo of SA THOMAS J.
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SA
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NOR JAK 00: SEATTLE
Re memo of SA THOMAS J. MANNING, dated 10/24/72.
Referenced communication advised that Washington, had furnished the following
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On the night of NORJAK, a jet airliner flew over his home at about 5,000 feet from the ground. home is considerably east of the search area, and if the jet airliner that flew over his home was the hijacked Boeing 727, this would indicate an error was made in the calculations of the search area.
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LEADS
SEATTLE
AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
1 Will through Northwest Orient Airlines contact and with
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recalculate the flight path and a drop point pertinent to the NORJAK matter.
2. Will review radar information concerning the flight of Northwest Orient Airlines 727 in an attempt to determine the accuracy of the previous flight path calculations.
3. Wil review logs currently contained in Seattle File 164-81 to determine if UNSUB could have jumped after the time previously calculated.
Wil review logs currently contained in Seattle File 164-81 to determine if UNSUB could have jumped after the time previously calculated.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)	10/24/72
SA THOMAS J. MANNING	Sub E
NORJAK	Sul F

Re memo of SA THOMAS J. MANNING to SAC, 10/19/72
On 10/20/72 SA contacted
Washington and he furnished the following
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information:
He lives directly under the fly way between Portland and Seattle. He recalls that the night of the hijacking a plan was flying very low and slowly over his house in the early evening and about 5 minutes after the plane flew over he heard on television that the hijacking was in progress. He stated the plane was a jet airliner but he did not see the plane.
was flying very low and slowly over his house in the early evening and about 5 minutes after the plane flew over he heard on television that the hijacking was in progress. He stated the plane was a jet airliner but he did not see the plane. It was about 4 to 5,000 feet from the ground and he recalled that the weather was overcast, very low clouds and it was raining. The flight of the plane was about 20 miles from Mt. St. Helens
He pointed out that planes on the fly way always fly about 10 to $2,000 feet and in the four years he has lived at his present location he has never heard one so low as on the night of the hijacking. He advised that he knows the plane was over 3,000 feet for he lives near Mount Tum Tum and that is 3,000 feet and the plane was above that mountain. He also pointed out that the east end of Lake Merwin is approximately He pointed out that the plane flew directly over area and the area over which it flew is extremely rugved terrain. "e pointed out that recently there have been a number of hunters in that area, from Lake Merwin to area.
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stated he feels that if it was the hijacked plane then the area which has been searched would have been too far west.
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stated he feels that if it was the hijacked plane then the area which has been searched would have been too far west. He pointed out that the plane was heard before 10:00 PM and after dark but he could not fix the exact time he heard the plane fly over. 164-81-14343 furnished a copy of a map on which he drew what he felt was theflight of the plane and this map is attached. Sub E
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The area over which the plane flew has a number of private owners but the majority of the area is owned by Gifford Pinchot National Forest and the Weyerhaeuser company. 164-81-4023
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FBI- SEATTLE 
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DB Cooper-27541OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1942 EDITION GSA FPMA (41 CFR) 101-11.4 UNITED STATES GO . ERNMENT Memorandum
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING
DATE10/19/72 Suis 2
SUBÍ Suo X
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SUBJECT: NORJAK
On 10/19/72
Washington, telephone telephonically contacted the Longview RA and advised that he lives just north of the .
MANNING
DATE10/19/72 Suis 2
SUBÍ Suo X
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On 10/19/72
Washington, telephone telephonically contacted the Longview RA and advised that he lives just north of the .He advised that to get to his residence
O He pointed out that the night of the hijacking he was watching television and heard an announcement concerning the hijacking. Almost as soon as he heard the announcement a large. plane flew low overhead and flew slightly to the east of his house over area. He pointed out the area into which the plane flew was one which is extremely heavily wooded andan area into which one would have difficulty going on foot.
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He advised that he has been thinking of calling the FBI on this matter but has kept putting it off and feels that the flight of the plane that night would indicate that the area searched to date has not included area and the route over which the plane flew .. He pointed out that he lives directly under the north- south flyway for the airlines and this is the only time that he' and have ever heard a plane flying over that low. He requested an agent contacting him personally in order that the flight of the plane could be accurately
He requested an agent contacting him personally in order that the flight of the plane could be accurately described.
Contact with will be made 10/20/72-
One copy of' this memorandum furnished to SA Longview RA for handling on 10/20/72.
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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to D. B. Cooper disappearance
FBI hopes hunters may find clues
The FBI is hopeful that one of sever- al thousand deer hunters beating the brush in Cowlitz and Clark counties this fall may run across evidence of D.B. Cooper (or whatever his name is) who parachuted out of a jetliner nearly a year ago with about 40 pounds of $20 bills.
. The State Game Department is coop- erating with the FBI and will distribute thousands of form letters asking hunt- ers for their help and outlining what to
look for. J. E. Milnes, special agent in charge at Seattle, asks hunters or campers to contact the FBI if any of
E. Milnes, special agent in charge at Seattle, asks hunters or campers to contact the FBI if any of the following is noticed:
(1) The remains of a man, possibly dead for one year.
(2) The remnants of a parachute, harness or parachute shroud lines ..
. (3) Ten thousand $20 bills wrapped in a parachute canopy. The serial num- bers are known and can be identified.
(4) Deteriorated raincoat or over- coat.
(5) Small briefcase or attache casel Tom Manning, special FBI agent In. Longview, urged anyone having any information concerning this matter to. report to the nearest FBI office or call' the Seattle office collect, MA2-0460. The area where the search is being concentrated is bound on the west by Interstate Highway 5, on the south by. . the. Columbia River, on the north .py. the Kalama River, and on the east by the Skamania-Clark county line. d
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The Daily News
Longview, Washington
Date: 10/3/72
Edition: Afternoon
Author: Dick Pollock
Editor: John McClelland
Title:
NORJAK
Character: or
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The Daily News
Longview, Washington
Date: 10/3/72
Edition: Afternoon
Author: Dick Pollock
Editor: John McClelland
Title:
NORJAK
Character: or
Classification:
164-81
Submitting Office: Seattle
Being Investigated
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Re memo from SA 8/24/72.
at Seattle, dated
On September 27, 1972,
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On September 28, 1972, SA was advised of the above information at which time he stated that he would forward 1, 500 copies of the literature regarding the unsub to the Longview, Washington RA for further dissemination to (supra) .
LEADS
SEATTLE
AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON
Will provide , with literature regarding unsub for further dissemination to game wardens and subsequent
LEADS
SEATTLE
AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON
Will provide , with literature regarding unsub for further dissemination to game wardens and subsequent dissemination to local hunters in the Lake Merwin Dam area.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
In Reply, Please Refer to File No.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Seattle, Washington . October 2, 1972
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Dear Sir:
On November 24, 1971, a man parachuted into the below described area with $200,000 in $20 bills. If, while camping or hunting, you should discover any evidence concerning this skyjacking please contact the nearest FBI Office.
AREA INVOLVED:
Bound on the West by US 5, bound on the South by the Columbia River, bound on the North by the Kalama River, and bound on the East by the Skamania - Clark County line.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
(1) The remains of a man, possibly dead for one year.
(2.) The remnants of a parachute, harness or parachute shroud lines.
(3.) 10,000 $20 bills wrapped in a parachute canopy, all serial numbers are known and can be identified.
) 10,000 $20 bills wrapped in a parachute canopy, all serial numbers are known and can be identified.
(4.) Deteriorated raincoat or overcoat.
(5.) Small briefcase or attache case.
If any information concerning this matter is discovered, it should be reported to the FBI Office at Seattle, Washington, Area Code 206, telephone MA 2-0460 collect, or to the nearest FBI Office, which can be found by checking the front of your telephone directory.
Very truly yours, J.E. Milnes. J. E. MILNES, Special Agent in Charge
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RE: PARACHUTE FOUND NEAR THE KALAMA RIVER ROAD
On September 7, 1972, SA advised telephonically that he had discovered a parachute hanging from the top of a tall pine tree, approximately 15 miles from the end of the Kalama River Road. Thirty yards from the tree in which the parachute was found was a piece of white plastic on which was inscribed the following: "United States Depart- ment of Commerce, NOAA - National Weather Service, Radio Sonde.
the tree in which the parachute was found was a piece of white plastic on which was inscribed the following: "United States Depart- ment of Commerce, NOAA - National Weather Service, Radio Sonde."
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stated the parachute was a reddish color with white shroud lines. The parachute appeared to be slightly smaller than a normal-sized parachute and appeared to have something hanging from the end of it that looked like part of a box.
On September 7, 1972, United States Department of Commerce, National Weather Service, 909 First Street, Seattle, Washington, advised his department uses parachutes to recover radio sonde equipment attached to weather balloons. explained that a balloon is released with the radio equipment attached to it. The balloon rises to a preset height, at which time the balloon explodes. The radio equipment then falls.a short distance and a small parachute opens and carries the radio equipment safely to the ground. This parachute is slightly smaller than a regular-sized parachute and it is pink in color with white shroud lines. further stated that housing the radio sonde equipment is a white plastic box with the following inscription:
further stated that housing the radio sonde equipment is a white plastic box with the following inscription: "United States Department of Commerce, NOAA - National Weather Service, Radio Sonde."
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BUFILE 164-2111
On 8/17/72
residing at
* Georgia, furnished the following infor- mation.
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During the first week of November 1971, he was on an elk hunting trip in the northeastern portion of the state of Oregon, During this hunt he ran across a log shelter cabin and a cache of survival gear located in a remote place in this area. He is unware of the signifcance of this cache but furn- ished this information after hearing about captioned case. He advised that a short time after the hijacking he was transferred by his company from Portland, Oregon, to Atlanta, Georgia, and only recently received his furniture and personal effects.
He advised that a short time after the hijacking he was transferred by his company from Portland, Oregon, to Atlanta, Georgia, and only recently received his furniture and personal effects. Since some of the data contained herein was with his personal effects he was unable to furnish this information prior to this time.
He produced a United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service map of the Joseph Ranger District, Wallowa Whit- man National Forest, dated in 1965. He stated that this map is available through the headquarters of the forest service in Portland, Oregon. He stated that the area that he is relating to is located within sections 1, 12, or 13 of Range 49 east in Township 1 north as set out on the above described mp.
He states that he was off hunting by himself on this one particular occasion, when he stumbled into an area of heavy brush, he discovered a log shelter constructed entirely of logs five to six inches in diareter. Tho building being approximately four fect long by five feet wide and four feet high, the open- ing to the shelter was covered by logs propped in place and staked in position in the ground.
Tho building being approximately four fect long by five feet wide and four feet high, the open- ing to the shelter was covered by logs propped in place and staked in position in the ground. At the time he was there there wascapproximately 12 to 18 inches of snow on the ground and this amount of snow had been in the area for four to six weeks prior 1
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to this tiro. He notlecd no fresh traeho acar the sholtor or cache at the tiro.
Ko was unable to look Into tho choltor to see what was contained thoroin and ho did not rerovo amy of the logs to ozanino it, Mo did notice a duffol bag hanging tron o trco acar by. This duffel bag had the mro or the lant mamo could be 74th Air Force nuntor
Imprinted ca tho duffel bag, The bag appeared to bo old and contained numerous tears and wear holes. Bo examined the contents of the duffol bag and discovered that it contained . riflo bullets, long-handicd mon's undorocar, shoo grease, candlos, a jacket, vitamin pills, abd some hippie-typo
riflo bullets, long-handicd mon's undorocar, shoo grease, candlos, a jacket, vitamin pills, abd some hippie-typo smoking pipos, which appeared to banirade. He noticed no Zood, no socks, or chocs im the bag. He noted that several of these itors still had prico tags on then rolleeting that they woro purchased eithor at GI Joo'o or Andy and Box both of which are Arry sur- plus stores located in Portland, Oregon, Bo did not recall any dates of purchaso.
He also noted that there was a loft-handed bos, as used by archers, hanging from a tree nearby. Ho roroved this bow and took it with him, the bow boars the nano Baor Archory Company, Grayling, Michigan, registration number ‘
He stated that the area of the cache is located in what is known as Well's Canyon, near the boundary between east- orn Oregon and Idaho. It is located generally in a gully be- tueon Windy Ridge and the next ridge located to the southwest. Ko states that the nearest communty is in Irnaha, Oregon, located on the Immaha River. To get to the area you tako the Et Point Road out of Irnaba and follow it to the end of the pavocent, at
To get to the area you tako the Et Point Road out of Irnaba and follow it to the end of the pavocent, at this point you follow the wido trail that goos out on Windy Ridge and finally comes to a dead end. The road ends at a call draw and the area of the cache is located about 800 or do yards from the end of the road.
Ho stated that this general area has the appcaranco of being used during the summer conthe by packtrain tripo con- Ing from various dude ranches in the area and located nearby lo a camping area which might be an overnight stopping point on these mektrain trips. He stated that from this camping area the site of the cache is perhaps 100 to 150 yards away up the oldo of a hill in heavy brush. The cache could not bo Geon from the camping arca but the arca could probably bo polat- cd out by ono of the rangers from the nearby sanger station at Eat Point.
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stated that with him on this trip was an who goes by the name
who is a builder in Portland, Oregon, but who rosides in Aurora, Oregon, having homo telephone number