DEC 2 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DOES
NOT LOOK LIKE SKETCH.
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FURNISHED THE NAME OF
AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT THIS
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MATTER, WAS INTERVIEWED AND ADVISED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION DOES NOT RESEMBLE IN ANYWAY, STATING HE RECALLS FACE MORE ROUNDER. IT IS NOTED
NONE OF ABOVE BEING CONSIDERED SUSPECT BY LOS ANGELES. .
RE SUSPECT
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AND THEIR 'b6
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TELEPHONE NUMBERS, WHO WERE MEMBERS OF CLUB. HE DESCRIBED 'CLUB MEMBERSHIP AS BETWEEN TEN AND TWENTY MOST FROM EAST LOS ANGELES AREA. SAID DISCUSSION AMONG GROUP . APPEARED TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN NORMAL INTEREST OF SKY DIVERS ABOUT CRIME WHERE HIJACKERS JUMP FROM AIRPLANE AND NONE OF CLUB' MEMBERS HAD, ACTED SUSPICIOUS SINCE HIJACKING THIS CLUB DESCRIBED AS LOCAL IN NATURE AND NOT NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
APPEARED TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN NORMAL INTEREST OF SKY DIVERS ABOUT CRIME WHERE HIJACKERS JUMP FROM AIRPLANE AND NONE OF CLUB' MEMBERS HAD, ACTED SUSPICIOUS SINCE HIJACKING THIS CLUB DESCRIBED AS LOCAL IN NATURE AND NOT NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
SEATTLE, AT FERNDALE, WASHINGTON, CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION THROUGH LAST ADDRESS OF DONALD ERN NELSON,.
BOX. ONE NINE THREE, FERNDALE OR COMPANY b7C TO LOCATE AND ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF NELSON DURING PERTINENT PERIOD.
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CALIFORNIA, WILL ASCERTAIN IF .
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KNOWN TO
OR IF NAME MAINTAINED IN RECORDS PARACHUTE CLUB
LOS ANGELES AREA.
AT EAST LOS ANGELES, WILL INTERVIEW b6 b7C
FOR ALL INFORMATION
`CONCERNING MEMBERSHIP OF CLUB AND DISPLAY ARTIST CONCEPTION TO
END
RECD. FOUR TELS DCA FBI SE HOLD
DB Cooper-29915FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64) (03
FBI
Date:
12/2/71
Transmit the following in
Via
TELETYPE
(Type in plaintext or code) NITEL
(Priority}
TO
SAC, LOS ANGELES
Sub L
FROM
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT
THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SE RE SE TELCALL TO LA THIS DATE.
TO
SAC, LOS ANGELES
Sub L
FROM
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT
THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SE RE SE TELCALL TO LA THIS DATE. RE SKY DIVING CLUBS.
FOR THE INFORMATION OF LA IN REVIEWING RECORDS OF SKY DIVING CLUBS, WITNESSES HAVE FURNISHED DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB WITH VARIATIONS IN AGE FROM THIRTYFIVE TO IN FIFTIES, VARIATIONS OF HEIGHT FROM FIVE FEET NINE TO SIX FEET ONE AND VARIATIONS IN WEIGHT FROM ONE FIFTY TO ONE EIGHTY. THESE VARIATIONS SHOULD BE BORNE IN MIND BY LA IN CONNECTION WITH REVIEW OF SKY DIVING CLUB RECORDS.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
JSD: j1b
(1)
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Approved:
Sent
10:54 PM
Per RA
Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-29916+36 {Hav, 5-22.643
FBI
Date: 12/1/71
namst the following in PLATNEXT (Type in pitantext or code)
TRUETYPE URGENT
(Priority;

TO:	SEATTLE (164-81)	20
FROM:	PORTLAND (164-41) 1 PAGK	SUB L.

UNSUUS NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTIAND TO SEATTLE, NOVENBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORIT ON; 00: SEATTLE.
UNSUUS NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTIAND TO SEATTLE, NOVENBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORIT ON; 00: SEATTLE.
ON NOVEMBER THIRTY, LAST,
TELEPHONE
SAID ABOUT
AGO THE CLUB CONDUCTED AN AIR SHOW AT
WASHINGTON, AND THREE MEN FARACHUTED FROM A SEVEN
TWENTY SEVEN AT TWENTY THOUSAND FEET. BELIEVES THEY WERE
ERON
OREGON, AND (EXU), WAS
DARK
PAMFLECTIONED SSAPHIEREN AND LOOKED SOMEWHAT LIKE SKETCH OF UNSUE.
SEATTIS ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY PERSONS WHO PARACHUTED FROM
SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AT
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164-81-3148
UCC 11871
JR:200 (1)
Sent
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RVS cavreturn: 1/ 4742 087.53 (2/1 412-125 DB Cooper-29917
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៛ NR 003 PD PLAIN 12:53 PM URGENT 12-2-71 LJQ TO: LAS VEGAS (164-60) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) 1P
UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, HIJACKING, NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION, 00: SEATTLE, BUFILE ONE. SIX FOUR - TWO ONE ONE ONE.
FOR INFORMATION OF LAS VEGAS, ON DECEMBER TWO, SEVENTYONE,
ADVISED PORTLAND OFFICE HE LIVED, UNTIL APPROXIMATELY b6 b7C b7D
FOR INFORMATION OF LAS VEGAS, ON DECEMBER TWO, SEVENTYONE,
ADVISED PORTLAND OFFICE HE LIVED, UNTIL APPROXIMATELY b6 b7C b7D
AGO, IN NEVADA. STATED THERE IS A
WHICH HAS SKYDIVING CLUB ON OR CLOSE TO AIRPORT ROAD,
SEVERAL MIDDLE AGED MEN AS MEMBERS. ONE OF THESE MEN, IDENTITY NOT KNOWN TO RESEMBLES DESCRIPTION AND COMPOSITE ARTIST'S
FURTHER OBSERVED AREA SURROUNDING CONCEPTION THIS CASE.
WOULD BE IDEAL COUNTRY FOR NIGHT PARACHUTE JUMPING.
LAS VEGAS HANDLE.
PENDING. END
JOERFBI SE C
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BLAACHEB. JAAP .. INDEXED. GORIALIZEB .___ FILEO. DEC 2 1971
FBI · SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-29918cc: chutes ee sky Dive- L.
. NR 004 LA PLAIN 122PM URGENT 12-2-71 LLS TO SEATTLE (164-31) SAN FRANCISCO FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 3₽
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INSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, POPTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00 : SEATTLE
RE :
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RE LOS ANGELES TELCALL TO SEATTLE AND SEATTLE TELCALL TO LOS ANGELES,. TWELVE TWO INSTANT.
00 : SEATTLE
RE :
(SUB A) b6 b7C
RE LOS ANGELES TELCALL TO SEATTLE AND SEATTLE TELCALL TO LOS ANGELES,. TWELVE TWO INSTANT.
ON TWELVE ONE LAST,
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DESCRIBED TALKING TO SUBJECT : b7D
FITTING DESCRIPTION OF HIJACKER DURING JULY OR AUGUST LAST AT
SUBJECT QUESTIONED RE
DISCUSSION FOLLOWED PE POSSIBILITIES IF
SUBJECT ASKED
WHERE
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DB Cooper-29919
SEARCHED .._____ INDEXED GERIALIZED 123, FILED 4
DEC @ 1971 FBI . SEATTLE
X+ XOHNISAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
12/2/71
SUB L
SA CHARLES R. ST. JOHN
Sul L
UNKNOWN SUBJECT: aka Dan Cooper Northwest Airlines Flight 305 Portland to Seattle 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION 00: Seattle
(NEUE ) 
RE: SKYDIVING CLUBS
Inquiry has determined that an International Skydiving Meet will be held December 4, 1971, at Abbottsford, B. C., Canada. A large number of parachutists from the western United States and Canada are expected to compete.
SA has been alerted and requested to make appropriate arrangements for the exhibiting of the artist's conception of the Unknown Subject.
SA has been alerted and requested to make appropriate arrangements for the exhibiting of the artist's conception of the Unknown Subject.
LEAD:
SEATTLE
AT BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Insure wide distribution of artist's conception of Unsub at above mentioned skydiving meet. 25 copies of most recent conception enclosed.
Covered
CRS:bfr (3)
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DECUS 1971 1, FBI-SEATTLE 7
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DB Cooper-29922NR :15 SD PLAIN 3TIIAM (SENT 12-2-71)PM 12-1-71 NITEL LLC TO SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SAN DIEGO. (164-91)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST. CAA DASH HIJACKING AND EXTORTION.
ADVISED ARTIST'S b6
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CONCEPTION OF UNSUB RESEMBLES
(PHONETIC). b7D
THE LOS ANGELES AREA,
KNOW CURRENT RESIDENCE OF
REPORTEDLY
SAN FRANCISCO AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. REVIEW MEMBERSHIP RECORDS, U.S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION, SIX FIVE ONE CANNERY ROW, TO DETERMINE RESIDENCE OF b6 b7C THEREAFTER SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEAD.
PENDING.
DB Cooper-29923 END
SWD FBI SEATTLE CLR
Sub L 164-81-449 SEARCHED .
PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION, SIX FIVE ONE CANNERY ROW, TO DETERMINE RESIDENCE OF b6 b7C THEREAFTER SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEAD.
PENDING.
DB Cooper-29923 END
SWD FBI SEATTLE CLR
Sub L 164-81-449 SEARCHED ......... INDEXED SERIALIZED.477 __ FILED ........ DEC 21971
FBI - SEATTLENR 008 PD PLAIN 11:47 PM NITEL 12-1-71 AJW

TO :	SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM:	PORTLAND (164-41)

1P
UNSUB; NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHTHTHREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWO FOUR LAST, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE.
RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO PORTLAND NOVEMBER THIRTY, SEVENTYONE. ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF UNSUB DISPLAYED TO
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OREGON. SAME
IS UNFAMILIAR TO HIM. HAS RECORDS OF ALL FORMER STUDENTS OF NORTHWEST NATIONAL AVIATION, INC. AND REVIEWED SAME WITH NEGA- TIVE RESULTS. END
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CLAROKED INDEXED SERIALIZED LILLA DEC 41971 FBI . SEATTLE
2
DB Cooper-29924NR 018 PD PLAIN 11:45 PM NITEL 12-1-71 AJW
TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 1P
UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE.
SEATTLE
2
DB Cooper-29924NR 018 PD PLAIN 11:45 PM NITEL 12-1-71 AJW
TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 1P
UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SE BUFILE ONE SIX FOUR DASH TWO ONE ONE ONE.
REURTEL. NOVEMBER THIRTY SEVENTYONE. PORTLAND COVERED ADJACENT AREA OF AURORA AIRPORT, AURORA, OREGON,
AND DONALD, OREGON, WHERE SKY-DIVING ACTIVITY CONDUCTED, DURING AIR SEARCHES PREVIOUSLY REPORTED TO SEATTLE. PERSONAL CONTACT MADE AT BOTH PLACES WPTH PERSONNEL FAMILIAR WITH SKY-DIVING OPERATIONS, WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. THIS AREA LOCATED WITHIN MARION COUNTY, AND MARION COUNTY SO PERSONNEL ALERTED CONCERNING THIS INVESTIGATION.
END
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164-81-475
SEARCHED. INDEXED SERIALIZED. 1 FILED.
DEC 4) 1971 FBI . SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-29925b6 b7C
SUSP
ce- Sky DIVING
NR 006 BT PLAIN 6:39 PM 11-30-71 NITEL DD TO: SAC, LOS ANGELES SAC, SEATTLE . (164-81) FROM: SAC, BUTTE (164-26) 2P UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY, ONE.
(164-81) FROM: SAC, BUTTE (164-26) 2P UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY, ONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE.
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COPY OF
TODAY MADE AVAILABLE SEVENTY ONE ISSUE OF SKY DIVER
MAGAZINE.
DEPICTED AMONG
OTHERS, IS INDIVIDUAL NAMED
WHO BEARS STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO
ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF 'UNSUB.
YEARS AGO; HOWEVER, DOES NOT KNOW CURRENT
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WHEREABOUTS. ADVISED PURITSHER ABOVE MAGAZINE
IS
, CALIFORNIA, WHO MAY BE ACQUAINTED WITH AND COULD
FURNISH ORIGINAL NEGATIVE FOR ABOVE PICTURE. END PAGE. ONE
DB Cooper-29926
Sub. L 164-81-318 SEARCHED .______ INDEXED. SERIALIZED FILED. NOV 3.0 1971 FBI-SEATTLE 200 SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
11/26/71
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION 00: SEATTLE
Re: FLYING SCHOOLS, AIRPORTS AND SKY DIVING CLUBS
On the possibility that subject might have rented a plane and flown over the area of southwest Washington or that he might have chartered a plane for the same purpose, the following investigation should be
EXTORTION 00: SEATTLE
Re: FLYING SCHOOLS, AIRPORTS AND SKY DIVING CLUBS
On the possibility that subject might have rented a plane and flown over the area of southwest Washington or that he might have chartered a plane for the same purpose, the following investigation should be instituted:
1. Identify and then contact each flying school for anyone who might fit the subject's description as having rented a plane, etc.
2. Identify and then contact all air fields which might have rented such an aircraft to anyone who could answer the subject's description in this case.
3. Identify and contact each sky diving school or club and attempt to determine if the UNSUB might be known to them.
The above investigation should be done on an RA basis with King County being handled by Seattle.
The SRA will coordinate the project for each particular RA. BELLINGHAM BREMERTON - EVERETT - LONGVIEW - MANNING - news in Search fuß Section 
/ OLYMPIA - WICK RICHLAND SPOKANE TACOMA - OLROGG WENATCHEE YAKIMA -
~ SEATTLE - SA 
CEF
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I: RESPONSE TO BUREAU REQUEST FOR SUMMARY OF INFORMATION 3 SLCFWI. DEVELOPIENTS: IN THIS MATTER, THE FOLLOWING IS SET FORTH: AT APPROXIMATELY 5:00 P.M., FEBRUARY IT, 1989,
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, VANCOUVER , WASHINGTON ) TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE PORTLAND. OFFICE TO ADVISE HE HAD FOUND SOME OLD DE- COMPOSED . $23 BILLS, AND HE WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER THE BILLS WERE b6 b7C
BEING SOUGHT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. ICIO CHECKS OF THREE SERIAL DUMSERS, FURNISHED BY DISCLOSED: TWO WERE ON. NOAJAK RAESOM LIST. THIRD SERIAL NUMBER FUNLISHED CONTAINED TOO MADY
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DB Cooper-29939FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Found by Family on Outing Part of D. B. Cooper Loot
WASHINGTON-A young Van- couver, Wash., family on an outing along the Columbia River last Sunday suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks of moldering money-part of the $200,-
Law enforcement authorities-long
have believed that Cooper died in his plunge from the
along the Columbia River last Sunday suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks of moldering money-part of the $200,-
Law enforcement authorities-long
have believed that Cooper died in his plunge from the Boeing 727 because he was wearing only a business suit 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 iniles 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
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 bils 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 rast 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.
Once air- borne, he demanded that the airline have $200,000 in $20 bills and three parachutes on hand when the plane landed in Seattle. He threatened to blow up the plane if his demands were not met.
The airline complied, providing the parachutes and money. However, the FBI said Tuesday that the serial numbers of the bills had been record- ed.
Cooper permitted the airliner's 36 passengers to leave the plane in Seat- tle. He then ordered the crew to take the plane to Reno and told the pilot to fly at a relatively low altitude and to open the plane's rear stairway.
Crew members last heard his voice on the plane's intercom when they were over the Washington-Oregon border. They said they believe he jumped, using the least reliable para- chute.
The decomposed money was found 17 to 20 miles from the jump site by the Ingrams' older son, Brian. The bills were partly buried in sand that the Ingrams were scooping out to build a fire.
"Here's some more wood for the fire .. Daddy," the father recalled his son as saying.
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.
. Daddy," the father recalled his son as saying.
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) I-1 LOS ANGELES TIMES
LOS ANGELES, CA
Date:
2/13/80
Edition: Wednesday Final
Title: PART OF D. B.
COOPER LOOT FOUND
Character: or Classifi
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ORIGINAL TO THE BUREAU DB Cooper-29945FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
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D.B. and the money
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, cily and state.) A-1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA

Date:	2/13/80
Edition:	Wednesday. Latest
Title:	D.D. AND THE KUND

Character: or DAVY
Classific
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2 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
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 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 imoney. the packets, but said it amounted
Eight-year-old Brian Ingram was to "several thousand dollars." helping his father gather firewood The money has been sent to the and had scooped out sand for a FBI laboratory in Washington, fire. As his father was about to D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will drop an armload of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the ingram said, T'Wait a minute, bills, which could lead to the Daddy.
, and Baker hopes the lab will drop an armload of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the ingram said, T'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. 24, 1971. when a passenger hijacked a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727.
The man, identified on the flight list as Dan Cooper, parachuted out of the airliner somewhere over southwestern Washington.
The serial numbers on the bills discovered by young Ingram matched those on the money given Cooper by the FBI in 1371.
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Undicate page, name of newspaper, city and state. p. A]. . Seattle Times Seattle, Wa.
Date: 2/12/80 Edition: Final
Title:
Character: or Classification: 164-81
Submitting Office: Seattle
Compiled from news services ! WASHINGTON - The Federal : Bureau of Investigation has found "about $4,000 of the money that the! legendary hijacker, D.B. Cooper, carried with him when he para- chuted from a commercial . jet over Southwest Washington in 1971, a bureau spokesman said Tuesday.
The spokesman, who asked not to be named, said a family wan- dering along the banks of the Co- lumbia River north of Portland, Ore., found a packet of money this week.
Held together by a rubber band; the packet of $20 bills was so bad- ly deteriorated the F.B.I. could not make an exact count of the amount, the spokesman said.
Despite the deterioration, the spokesman said the F.B.I. was able to identify the money as part of the $200,000 ransom given to Cooper in Seattle nine years ago.
was able to identify the money as part of the $200,000 ransom given to Cooper in Seattle nine years ago. When the money was given to the ibijacker, the F.B.I. kept records jof the serial numbers.
I
The packet was found 20 miles "downstream from the point where' Cooper is believed to have bailed
out of the Northwest Airlines 727, the spokesman said.
He added that with floods along the river it was likely that in nine `years the packet had been carried some distance.
· The Portland and Seattle offices of the F.B.I. were conducting a search in the area, but the spokes- man said it was unlikely that dis- covery of the money packet would aid in the search for Cooper, the only parachute-ransom hijacker in United States history who has not been apprehended.
Cooper boarded a Northwest?
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flight in Portland on Thanksgiving, Eve, 1971, using the name Dan' Cooper. Before the plane reached Seattle, Cooper threatened to ex- plode a "bomb" in his brief case if he were not. given $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes and flown to Reno, Nev.
Before the plane reached Seattle, Cooper threatened to ex- plode a "bomb" in his brief case if he were not. given $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes and flown to Reno, Nev.
The plane circled Seattle for 21/2 hours while authorities gathered the parachutes and money.
The passengers and two of the three stewardesses were allowed : to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded and the plane took off for Reno. The pilot absentia.
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was ordered to fly as slowly as? possible.
Somewhere over Southwest. Washington, the hijacker, thei 'money and one of the parachutes disappeared out of the plane's rear exit, opened in flight. The ap- proximate place of departure was guessed at from cabin-pressure readings on the flight recorder.
The flight recorder and crew testimony indicated Cooper had jumped near the little town of Ari- el, Cowlitz County, about 30 miles north of Portland, a densely wood- ed area in the foothills of the Cas-
cade Mountains.
Despite intensive searches of the area, the only item connected with the hijacking ever found was a rear door from the 727.
Despite intensive searches of the area, the only item connected with the hijacking ever found was a rear door from the 727.
Nothing ever was seen of Coo- per or the $200,000.
The F.B.I. has said since shortly after the hijacking it believed Coo- per probably was killed when he landed.
In 1977, just to make sure the hi-fi jacker didn't escape prosecution via the statute of limitations, he was indicted on federal charges in'!
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ATTH: FBI LABORATORY, DOCUMENT SECTION, SA IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, LATENT. FINGERPRINT SECTION
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, 2/12/80.
Forwarded under separate cover to the Bureau are 12 plastic packets, each containing an unknown quantity of U. S. currency in a deteriorating condition.
REQUEST OF THE FBI LABORATORY, DOCUMENT SECTION
Separate parrany in determine exact amount contained thorein.
REQUEST OF THE FBI LABORATORY, DOCUMENT SECTION
Separate parrany in determine exact amount contained thorein.
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Examine soil residue co-mingled with currency, to determine soll type, to assist in determining possible other location where currency may have been besides sandy beach area.
REQUEST OF THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION
Examine currency for any latent fingerprints contained thereon.
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RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO FBIHQ, ATTENTION: DATED FEBRUARY 12, 1980.
BEING FORWARDED TO FBIHQ BY FEDERAL EXPRESS IS A PACKAGE CONTAINING EVIDENCE TO BE EXAMINED BY THE LABORATORY DIVISION AND THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. THE BILL OF LADING NUMBER IS L-0,683,547.
BEING FORWARDED TO FBIHQ BY FEDERAL EXPRESS IS A PACKAGE CONTAINING EVIDENCE TO BE EXAMINED BY THE LABORATORY DIVISION AND THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. THE BILL OF LADING NUMBER IS L-0,683,547.
PACKAGE IS TO ARRIVE AT FBIHO AROUND NOON ON FEBRUARY 14, 1980.
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DATE:
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Coneapiion UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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For the information of Portland on 7/9/80,
Deputy Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, Yreka, California, advised that he had received information from an individual who wished to have her identity protected regarding captioned matter. This individual's name is , California, telephone number advised that approximately two years
ago
who now resides at
Phoenix, Arizona, telephone number told her that while working on a ranch near Hilt, California, on the Oregon border with an individual named that hađ gotten drunk and told that he was D. B. Cooper.
went on to tell that he had buried the money after the sky-jacking and was waiting to dig it up. He advised that he had moved to the Hilt, California, area due to the fact that there were too many policeman aware of the situation in Washington and Oregon.
Subsequent to receiving the above information was telephonically contacted on 7/9/80, and advised that again she wished to have her
Subsequent to receiving the above information was telephonically contacted on 7/9/80, and advised that again she wished to have her identity remain anonymous but that she had received the above information from approximately two or
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sources, paraphrase contents. Enclosed are corrected pages from report of SA dated
Remark s: Enclosed is a copy of the LFPS report of 3-14-80 to Portland, which set out result of latent print examination of U. S. currency recovered in this case. SUB MI OD

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REPORT of the LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION IDENTIFICATION DIVISION

YOUR FILE NO. FBI FILE NO.	164-41 (P) 164-2111
LATENT CASE NO.	A-45410

March 14, 1980
To: SAC, Portland
RE: NORJAK
REFERENCE: Airtel 2-13-80 EXAMINATION REQUESTED BY: Portland
SPECIMENS: Approximately $5, 800. 00 in U. S. currency, Q58
The Q specimen is further described in a separate Laboratory report.
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currency, Q58
The Q specimen is further described in a separate Laboratory report.
No latent prints are present or were developed on the U. S. currency.
The currency is being returned under separate cover.
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For information, on 2/20/80,
Vancouver, Washington, phone number
was contacted and she advised that visited the Tena Bar area in Vancouver, near the location searched by the FBI for ransom money. happened to find a corner of a $20.00 bill, and she would allow agents of the FBI to examine same.
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On 2/20/80, , were contacted at their residence, and displayed a corner of a $20.00 bill which he found on the Tena Bar. He stated that he found this item sticking out of the sand near the area searched by the FBI.
00 bill which he found on the Tena Bar. He stated that he found this item sticking out of the sand near the area searched by the FBI. He pro- vided the corner of the $20.00 bill to the writer to determine if in fact it is a portion of the ransom money.
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The corner of the $20.00 bill provided by in no way resembles the sections of money found during the search on Tena Bar. It is the opinion of the writer that this item was placed there as a practical joke. The section of the $20.00 bill provided by has been placed in a lA envelope for the file.
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On 2/14/80, Washington, telephone advised on 3/22/77, he found seven $20 bills in the Washougal River below the bowling alley in Washougal, Washington.
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On 2/14/80, Washington, telephone advised on 3/22/77, he found seven $20 bills in the Washougal River below the bowling alley in Washougal, Washington. He stated these bills were in the water and he gave them no thought until the $20 bills were found recently in Vancouver which apparently came from the D. B. Cooper skyjacking. He stated he still had the bills and would provide the serial numbers to the FBI when he returned home.
Later that same day,
$ supra, provided the serial numbers and series/year of the seven $20 bills mentioned above. The serial numbers and series/ years are as follows:

Serial Number	Series/Year
L91936905B	1950B
G94889488C	1950D
A63443468A	1950D
L90073045B	1950B
L97893172B	1950B
L9744 --- 8B	1950B
L0446945*	1950B

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--- 8B	1950B
L0446945*	1950B

A check with the list of known serial numbers and series/year of the D. B. Cooper $20 bills revealed the above serial numbers and series/years did not match those in the list.
The above is for information.
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Misfortune Dogs the Family That Found Part of Skyjacker's Money
By Michael Sweeney
Harold Dwayne Ingram, 28, father of the &-year-old boy who found part of skyjacker D.B. Cooper's ransom money last month, has been arrested in Vancouver, Wash.
Dogs the Family That Found Part of Skyjacker's Money
By Michael Sweeney
Harold Dwayne Ingram, 28, father of the &-year-old boy who found part of skyjacker D.B. Cooper's ransom money last month, has been arrested in Vancouver, Wash., on a fugitive warrant from Oklahoma.
The warrant charges Ingram with unlawfully remov. ing mortgaged property from the state of Oklahoma - a felony charge that carries a maximum penalty" of three years in prison.
o Clark County sheriff's deputies arrested Ingram at bis rented home in Vancouver Monday afternoon. He was released Tuesday night after a local bail bondsman posted Ingram's $500 bail, sheriff's deputies said.
Kathy Kelly, a legal assistant in the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney's office, said Ingram is scheduled to appear in county district court April 17 for an identification hearing to determine if he is, in fact, the same Harold Ingram sought in Oklahoma.
If he is, Kelly said, Oklahoma authorities will have 60
HAROLD INGRAM: "This is no big thing. At least I hope it's not.'
.days to file extradition papers to force Ingram's return to Oklahoma for trial.
kelly said court documents filed by authorities in ; Pittsburg County, Okla.
days to file extradition papers to force Ingram's return to Oklahoma for trial.
kelly said court documents filed by authorities in ; Pittsburg County, Okla., last April charge that ingram "owed $815 then on a used car purchased a month earlier in MeAJester. OkJa.
The warrant for Ingram's arrest was filed last month. after Pittsburg County District Attorney Don Roberts recognized newspaper photos of Ingram that circulated nationwide in the wake of his family's discovery of a portion of D.B. Cooper's loo1.
Cooper parachuted into a freezing rainstorm over;" Southwest Washington with $200,000 after hijacking a ! Seattle-bound Northwest Airlines plane Nov. 24, 1971.
Ingram's son. Brian, unearthed several thousand do !- lars of the ransom money Feb. 10, as he dug a fire pit in the sand along the banks of the Columbia River down- stream from Vancouver.
The next day, Ingram turned the money over to the FBI, which announced the find with great fanfare at a press conference featuring the Ingram family.
"Several of us read the paper and recognized him," Roberts told The Associated Press.
The next day, Ingram turned the money over to the FBI, which announced the find with great fanfare at a press conference featuring the Ingram family.
"Several of us read the paper and recognized him," Roberts told The Associated Press. "We had a warrant sworn out to have him brought back."
Ingram's arrest is the latest in a string of reversals that have followed his family's brief glow in the lime- light.
Two weeks after the money was discovered, Ingram's : wife, Patricia, reported that her husband was forced to d give up 11/2 days of' pay - about $100 - in order to
return the money and attend the FBI's press conference.
"We live from paycheck to paycheck, and we could: sure use that $100," she told The Post-Intelligencer at the time.
Mrs. Ingram told The P-I that recovery of the skyjack loot also resulted in family strife that arose when a relative tried to take credit for finding the money.
Late Saturday night, about 36 hours before Ingram was arrested, a fire broke out in an upstairs bedroom of the Ingram home and caused $1,000 damage before : Vancouver firefighters could put it out.
Vancouver Fire Marsbal Gordon Gage said the blaze was caused by a short in an extension cord.
night, about 36 hours before Ingram was arrested, a fire broke out in an upstairs bedroom of the Ingram home and caused $1,000 damage before : Vancouver firefighters could put it out.
Vancouver Fire Marsbal Gordon Gage said the blaze was caused by a short in an extension cord.
And as of yesterday, Ingram had missed three days of · work this week at the U-Cart Concrete Manufacturing Co. in Vancouver.
. "We're trying to reach him, because we really want to help him," U-Cart owner Joe Tanner said yesterday. Tanner said his firm intends to advance Ingram the money "to get this thing in Oklahoma squared away.
"We think he's getting a bum rap," Tanner said. "I'm from Texas, and I've got a little knowlege about these Southern redneck laws that let a D.A. help busi -; nessmen collect their debts," he said.
"I've been'told he (Ingram) has been making pay- s ments on this car loan, and he's only a couple oft payments bebind," Tanner said.
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"I hate to think the thoughts people will be thinking about me all over the United States," said Harold Dwayne Ingram as he sat in his boss's office Thursday afternoon.
The 28-year-old Vancouver resident said he now regrets his 8-year-old son. Brian's finding of D.B. Cooper's hijack ransom money last month,
"I regret it for myself, but not for Brian," who, he said, has enjoyed all the attention.
Brian and his family made national headlines after a family outing on a Columbia River beach near Vancouver Feb. 10 turned into a major media and FBI event. Brian was preparing 'a campfire when he scooped out about $5,000 of the $200,000 Cooper had demanded and received before jumping out of an airliner in 1971.
Since last month Ingram has;
@ Lost 142 days pay - about $100 - in ; order to return the money and attend an FBI press conference.
Since last month Ingram has;
@ Lost 142 days pay - about $100 - in ; order to return the money and attend an FBI press conference.
i. O Watched as a fire caused about $1,000 damage to the upper floor of his home at : 1500 Markle St. Saturday.
O Been arrested Monday on an Oklahoma warrant alleging he left that state unlawfully
with mortgaged property " a car.
Officials in Oklahoma said they recognized Ingram from newspaper photographs that appeared after the famous find. Ingram had been wanted for about six months before the story first appeared in the paper, they said.
The warrant was issued because Ingram allegedly is behind in payments for his car.
"I have every receipt," Ingram said Thursday. "I don't have a payment due on that car until the 20th of next month."
"I feel confused, really confused," Ingram said Thursday. "And I feel pretty unlucky. I'm not angry; I'm kind of hurt. I really care what people think about me."
Ingram said he bought his car from a new car salesman, paid $200 or $300 down, and arranged for financing.
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Ingram said he bought his car from a new car salesman, paid $200 or $300 down, and arranged for financing. He said he notified the finance company when he and his family moved here from Oklahoma last winter.
His arrest Monday was an unhappy surprise, he said.
"I had no idea I had a warrant on me," he said. "That's obvious, or I wouldn't be flashing my face all over the world."
He might have been late with a payment or two, he said, "but rich people do that, too, don't they?"
But things were looking up for Ingram
today. His boss and attorney, Joe Tanner, said this morning he has been told by the Pittsburg County, Okla., district attorney that that office now has verification of Ingram's car payments. Ingram, in fact, is paid ahead . to July on the car, Tanner said.
Tanner said a few details need to be worked out, but when they are the district attorney has told him the charges will be dropped. That will not occur until Monday, Tanner said he was told. The district attorney was unavailable for comment this morning.
That will not occur until Monday, Tanner said he was told. The district attorney was unavailable for comment this morning.
As for Ingram's other bad fortune, just before midnight Saturday, two bedrooms.on the upper floor burned, and his landlord - who bailed him out of jail Tuesday - started remodeling the next day.
Tanner, vice president of U-Cart Concrete Systems Inc. of Vancouver, where Ingram is employed, said the company is behind him. Tanner, a lawyer, said he will represent Ingram without charge.
Until the charges against him are dropped, Ingram faces an April 17 identification? hearing in Clark County District Court.
"These people are great here," Ingram! said of his fellow employees. "They want to !. back me 100 percent."
"He's been treated unfairly," Tanner said.
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March 18, 1980
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Re: NORJAK
Transmittal Form 7-72
LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
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March 18, 1980
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FBI FILE NO.	164-2111
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Examination requested by:	Portland
Reference:	Airtel dated February 29, 1980
Examination requested:	Document + Mineralogy - Fingerprint
Remarks:

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Specimens received
February 3, 1980
Four United States Twenty Dollar Bills described as follows:

SPECIMEN	SERIAL NUMBER
Q60	G03072381B
Q61	LI0919321A
Q62	L55066857A
Q63	L32987392A

Result of examination:
Specimens Q60 through Q63 contained mineralogical material which was similar to the Q59 sand previously submitted.
Q60 through Q63 were photographed and will be returned with the results of the fingerprint examination.
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Re San Francisco telephone call to Seattle, dated 3/5/80.
Being forwarded to the Seattle Office is one copy each of the following:
LA A letter dated 2/20/80 from 'showing a xerox copy of a twenty dollar bill marked exhibit "A".
A xerox copy of a letter dated 3/6/80 to the FBI
from and a copy of an article captioned"Take the money and jump-how he foiled FBI" dated May 12-18-Berkeley Barb.
As mentioned in referenced telephone call the San Francisco Office contacted after the receipt of his first letter of 2/20/80. stated that he had obtained the plate of the twenty dollar bill which was published in the Berkeley Barb sometime in November, 1972.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation 450 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco California
The following purports to be a copy of one of the twenty dollar bills taken by skyjacker "D.B. Cooper" when he jumped from a 727 on 24 November 1971.
I wonder whether the serial numbers correspond to any of the stolen currency.
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Here is a copy of page 11 of the May 12, 1972 alledged interview with D.B. Cooper.
Confirmation of the serial number on the reproduced bill will form the basis of a short item in a magazine article I have submitted.
I would like to know of any further confirmation or disputation of the details in the enclosed article.
I may be reached c/o the above address.
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Last November24th, a man identifying himself as . Cooper' parachutedfrom a Northwest Orient ines.727 jetliner between Seattle and Reno Nevada with a parcel containing 10,000 twenty dollar bills which was the ransom money that had been delivered to him while he held the planes crew hostage at the Seattle- Tacoma international airport.
The F.B.I. and other state and local law enforcement agents assisted by companies of G.L's from Fort Lewis have futilly wasted many hours and thousands of tax- payers dollars looking for cooper.
L's from Fort Lewis have futilly wasted many hours and thousands of tax- payers dollars looking for cooper.
So far Cooper has successfully eluded his following in the same Ingenious manner that he pulled off his skyjack caper, cooly staying a safe distance away from danger.
The F.B.L. headquaters in Seattle has vowed to ser- .: utinize every foot of land between the Sea-Tac airport - and Reno to turn up clues in the case.
Despite rewards of 5,000 dollars-by the Medias " Fink on your Friends" programe the public has generally granted Cooper adoration and somewhat a hero status.
anonymous interviewer from the twice weekly newspaper the 'Seattle Flag' has produced a story from a taped interview with D.B. Cooper which is validated by the presentation of one of the recorded twenty dollar bills included in the ransom money."
This story was run in the 'Flag' because the inter- viewer was unable to send it to the 'Post-Intellingener' because they had the 5,000 dollar reward out for Coopers head also television stations would have requested a fape from which voice prints could possible be produced.
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This story was run in the 'Flag' because the inter- viewer was unable to send it to the 'Post-Intellingener' because they had the 5,000 dollar reward out for Coopers head also television stations would have requested a fape from which voice prints could possible be produced. Therefore, running the story in the Flag was the only . solution. '
Cooper said that the witnesses description were off by about fifteen pounds and a couple of inches. Aiso that the artist's impression were very poor. When asked why : we was stil in Washington state he added that he felt it was safer to hide where no one would imagine him to be rather then to go to some place like Mexico or South America where the authoritieswould naturally expect him to go."
He said he started act.al work on his skyjacking plan last June . The idea It come to him while he was
it was a calculated risk that's why he jumped in bad weather and at night, also he waited a little longer than usual before pulling his ripcord. Adding that his free fall was about 5,000 of the total 7,000 feet, Which was very risky doing at night.
He came down about a hundred miles away from S. W .. Washington contrary to the F.B.
Adding that his free fall was about 5,000 of the total 7,000 feet, Which was very risky doing at night.
He came down about a hundred miles away from S. W .. Washington contrary to the F.B.L report that he touched down near Vancouver Washington.
The first thing he did on landing was bury his chute,: : he was within five miles of where he had intended in an evergreen wooded terrain, He credited this .accuracy to his projected calculations and his japanese watch. He wouldn't say whether he had an accomplice on the. ground, He said he had lived in Seattle and had once.
two parachutes he had ordered. A stewardess came back with the money in a canvas bag to where couper was holding another stewardess as hostage in the rear of the passenger cabin.
Cooper checked out the loot, first thing and noticed that they reeked of duplicating flud. Then the stewardess made two more trips out on to the run way to bring in the chutes.
Then one of the fuel trucks pulled up ... then he ord- ered the passengers off the plane, and everyone else into the cockpit ... a middle-aged, executive looking man started to push his way back through the line into the tourist cabin.
a middle-aged, executive looking man started to push his way back through the line into the tourist cabin. Cooper tensed up expecting the guy to try something heroic - but he had just left his briefcase on his seat and was retrieving it ... .
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worked at Beoing's on the construction of the first Boeing 727 In 1963 and got to know the 727 from the . inside out.
The reason he was attracted to the plan was the alignment of the three Pratt & Whitney engines two on the sides 1; of the rear fuselage and the third at the base of the T-fall. assembly. Also the down-Daps stalling speed. One hundred
He figured if the F.B.L. was going to make a move it would be at Sea-Tac. Everybody but the stewardess he was holding 'hostage and the three man crew was clear of the plane. Buzzing the cockpit he asked the captain whatthe hold-up was.
Everybody but the stewardess he was holding 'hostage and the three man crew was clear of the plane. Buzzing the cockpit he asked the captain whatthe hold-up was. Trouble with the vapor lock was the answer. And another truck was coming. Cooper told the Captain: "Not more than one fuel truck al o. H. 17 hnt amanteille ". 1 brl f ....FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
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FBI geologist favors. Washougal River
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By MYRON STRUCK States News Service WASHINGTON - Did D.B. Cooper land in, or near, the Washougal River rather than the Lewis River?
In the personal opinion of the chief FBI . geologist who worked on the case, D.B. Cooper may have landed in the Washougal River, not near the Lewis River where it had been presumed that he came to earth -
before about $5,800 in compressed, wet and eroded money was found along the banks of the Columbia River in February upstream from the Lewis.
have landed in the Washougal River, not near the Lewis River where it had been presumed that he came to earth -
before about $5,800 in compressed, wet and eroded money was found along the banks of the Columbia River in February upstream from the Lewis.
The Washougal River scenario is the private view of geologist Chris Fiedler, who handled the soil analysis on the money, and not part of the agency's official report to the Seattle field office coordinating the
investigation.
Still, it seems to be the only clue --- that might help the investigation the FBI was able to glean from a recert analysis of the bills in its Washington, D.C., research area known as The Laboratory.
The official report says little was found on the wad of money. The basis for the new information is Fielder's research of the sand particles found
among the bills and his discussions with federal geologists in the field.
He has concluded that the range of sind particles found among the bills is similar to sediment along the Columbia River and a number of its tributaries.
Fiedler's opinion has been disavowed firmly by his mineralogy division section chief.
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Columbia River," Fiedler said.
Fiedler's opinion has been disavowed firmly by his mineralogy division section chief.
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Columbia River," Fiedler said. "Or he could have come down in the Washougal. The latter is where my; training, and instincts, tell me is more likely, based on the data I have available."
The sand tests involve little in the way of complicated equipment -- only a simple microscope and some geological reference material that discuses the characteristics of sand
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
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March 18, 1980
From: Director, FBI

FBI FILE NO.
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Reference: :
Airtel dated February 29, 1960
Examination requested:
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Portland
Reference: :
Airtel dated February 29, 1960
Examination requested:
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Four United States Twenty Dollar Bills described as follows:

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Result of examination:
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Result of examination:
Specimens Q60 through Q63 contained mineralogical material which was similar to the Q59 sand previously submitted.
Q60 through 063 were photographed and will be returned with the results of the fingerprint examination.
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The letter was addressed to FBI, Washington, D. C., but was incorrectly delivered to the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency.
The letter, dated 2/14/80, concerns the subject and money involved in your investigation, NORJAK. The enclosed is forwarded for your information and action deemed appropriate.
Wilmington is also currently pursuing another lead on this matter which emanated from a totally unrelated source. Seattle is requested to check, if feasible, the name against those in its file and inform Wilmington of any positive results.
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telephone was contacted regarding the possibility that bait money found near the on February 10, 1980, could have been brought to that area by a river feeding the Columbia River from the north.
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telephone was contacted regarding the possibility that bait money found near the on February 10, 1980, could have been brought to that area by a river feeding the Columbia River from the north.
The area believed to be the drop zone of the subject in 1971, is described as that area in the State of Washington bounded on the morth by the Lewis River, the east by the Clark County-Skamania County line, and the Columbia River. advised the only likely river feeding the Columbia River within the above described drop zone that would be capable of moving several bundles of money or a package about 16x16x4 inches to the Columbia River would be the Washougal River. A logical time, if the money came down the Washougal, would have been during the December 2, 1977 Washougal flood when parts of the river were approximately ten feet over the normal winter flood stage.
There are several other streams that feed the Columbia River upstream from the however, due to size, or the degree of slope of the streams, it is unlikely that a small package would have made it to the Columbia. It is also unlikely that a small package would have passed through Lacamas Lake downstream to the Columbia.
It is also unlikely that a small package would have passed through Lacamas Lake downstream to the Columbia.
stated that based on the three feet per second speed of the Columbia River, if a small package entered the Columbia River at Washougal, Washington, and floated in the main stream of the river to the , a distance approximately thirty miles, it would take 14.7 hours. This is assuming that the package did not tumble along the bottom of the river or get caught on any snags.
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Maintenance Branch, Navigation Division, U.S. Army Engineer District, 319 S.W. Pine, telephone was contacted F regarding dredging operations on the Columbia River since November 24, 1971. The purpose of obtaining this information was to determine if it was possible that the bait money located on the beach property on the Vancouver, Washington, on February 10, 1980, could have been placed there through dredging operations
The purpose of obtaining this information was to determine if it was possible that the bait money located on the beach property on the Vancouver, Washington, on February 10, 1980, could have been placed there through dredging operations on the Columbia River.
after a review of his records, advised that the only dredging operation between November 24, 1971, and the present in the vicinity of the was during August 6 through September 18, 1974. .
Material dredged from the river channel in the Columbia River was placed in several locations on or near the as well as one location across the river on the Oregon side.
The dredge material deposited at the site where the money was located came from the north half of the ship channel, which is 300 feet wide, between river mile 96 plus 38 feet and river mile 97 plus 17 feet. This material was deposited on the beach area of the between August 19 through the 25th, 1974, and consisted of 91,100 cubic yards of fill.
The channel is maintained at 40 feet in depth and all the material above 40 feet is dredged out. The dredge "Washington" of the General Construction Company did the dredging on this project.
The channel is maintained at 40 feet in depth and all the material above 40 feet is dredged out. The dredge "Washington" of the General Construction Company did the dredging on this project. It had a 24 inch pipe with wiper bar inside the pipe. The wiper bar keeps large objects such as rocks from passing through the pipe. stated it would be possible for a 16x16x4 inch pack- age to get through the pipe; however, it is likely that a package that size or a human body or parts thereof would
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Tena Bar in Vancouver, Washington, where portions of $20 bills had been found. . These $20 bills were among the money furnished a person identifying himself as D. B. COOPER during a 1971 airplane high- jacking attempt. was interviewed by SA
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advised that he found the beach area in the vicinity where the money was found to be in approximately four different layers.
advised that he found the beach area in the vicinity where the money was found to be in approximately four different layers. These layers consisted of an upper sand layer, a post dredging sand layer, a clay lump (dredge) sand layer, and below that an older sand layer. The upper layer con- sisted of six inches to eight inches of reworked beach sand and is the sand which contained the fragments and bundles of the recovered money. This sand also contained soda pop cans and other debris, which were not severely damaged or rusted. The post dredging sand contained older soda pop cans, rusted nails and spikes, and other rusted artifacts, which were in a much more deteriorated condition. The clay lump (dredge) sand was a mix- ture of course sand and fragments of organic clay material, ranging from one inch to five inches in size. Based on U.S. Corps of Engineering records which reflect that they dredged the Columbia River at this site in 1974, in all probability, was deposited during that 1974 dredging. The older sands, which were light in color and uniform in texture and which were found below the clay lump sand,
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Enclosed for the Bureau is one packet of newspaper articles collected at Portland, Oregon.
The enclosed articles are typical of those appearing in most major newspapers in the State of Oregon following announcement of the location of a portion of. the ransom received by the subject in this matter.
The media contacts on this matter by personnel of the Portland Division during the period 2/12-25/80 included one press conference, 26 television appearances, and a multitude of recorded radio appearances. 1
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DOCUMENT SECTION, SA
FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION,
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Re Portland airtel to Bureau, 2/13/80; and Portland teletype to Bureau, 2/20/80.
Enclosed herewith for the Laboratory are four additional bills from the ransom in this matter obtained on 2/14/80, from as was set forth in referenced teletype.
REQUEST OF THE FBI LABORATORY
LABORATORY. Is requested to conduct any examination possible with the four above mentioned additional bills and to include them with the rest of the
Is requested to conduct any examination possible with the four above mentioned additional bills and to include them with the rest of the recovered ransom.
Upon conclusion of the laboratory examination of the ransom in this matter, the evidence should be returned to Portland for preservation in connection with the prosection presently before the U.S. District Court, Portland.
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Following the finding of a portion of the Nor jak money along the Columbia River, approximately 5 miles downstream from the I-5 bridge, Vancouver, Washington, on the weekend of February 9-10, 1980, the following Special Agents from the Seattle Division proceeded to the money site: :
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Agents from the Portland Division provided the origin manpower to search the beach area for any other traces of NORJAK evidence.
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in . The scene was secured on the afternoon of 2/15/80. No further funds were found or other evidence.
7 Portland State University was on the scene to advise the FBI on soil samples on 2/14/80. The Portland Division is preparing an FD-302 in this regard. The Portland Division also forwarded the found money to the FBI Laboratory. There was approximately $5800 found according th the lab. A separate lab report is being prepared.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - (AP) - The crumbling remains of $20 bills unearthed by a Vancouver family more than two weeks ago represents about $5,800 of the $200,000 taken in the 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking, the Federal Bureau of investigation says. Ray Mathis, senior agent, said officials counted the decaying greenbacks during F.B.I. laboratory tests in Washington, D.C. Otis Cox of the burenu's Washington, D.C., office said little else has been revealed about : the money. Lab technicians continue to study ¡the loot, particularly for evidence of where it1 might have been before it washed up on the.
banks of the Columbia River, Otis said. The lumpy wads of money were found buried in shallow sand west of here, The fate of Cooper, America's first sky- jackor-for-money, has never been learned, al- though the F.
The lumpy wads of money were found buried in shallow sand west of here, The fate of Cooper, America's first sky- jackor-for-money, has never been learned, al- though the F.B.I. maintains he is probably long: dead.
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PORTLAND - For more tham eight years, Ralph Himmelsbach,j: , an agent with the Federal Bureauj of Investigation, followed a nar-ti row trail of clues and tips in his . quest of a legendary hijacker called D.
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PORTLAND - For more tham eight years, Ralph Himmelsbach,j: , an agent with the Federal Bureauj of Investigation, followed a nar-ti row trail of clues and tips in his . quest of a legendary hijacker called D.B. Cooper. But the first real break in the case didn't come . until Himmelsbach's F.B.I. career was drawing to a close.
After 29 years with the bureau, Himmelsbach retired as of Fri- day, a few months before he reaches the mandatory-retirement age of 55.
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 &-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 ¿ bother me.
of all the attention I have ‘; received."
But, he added, "I think I'll walk away from it and it will never ¿ bother me."
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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. fisti stories abound. Hardly anyone wents 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.B. Cooper loot was found recently
For awhile, all sorts of people gathered at the bar to search for some 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; & Vancouver resident and frequenter of Tena
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; & Vancouver resident and frequenter of Tena Bar
Holcomb was fishing there with Virgil Nichols and Ken Troupe, both of Vancouver. The trip made up the entire fishing pobidiation of fena Bar on Wednesday.
"We drag junk out of this river every day. Plastic, old 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 where . 8-year-old: Brian), Ingram found the Cooper money: Cooper hi: jeched a Northwest Airlines plane in 1972 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 Frina said Richard Fazio, "Two pengla came, got stuck in the sand, sid wanted me to pull them out. I del. and then I went up to ciose the gate.
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"As soon as the FBI left Frina said Richard Fazio, "Two pengla came, got stuck in the sand, sid wanted me to pull them out. I del. and then I went up to ciose the gate. Meanwhile,local: FBI agents assigned to the case are awaiting the results of tests of the money by the bureau's crime lab in Washington, D.C., and checking all the leads that invariably crop up when anything to do with the Cooper case is publicis- ed. Every time you have anything on the Cooper case that gets any publicity;the fallout ista great number of leads - look-a-like leads,
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By LESLIE L. ZAITZ ct The Orogonlan etaf?
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 agen's, working with garden rakes and shovels, carefully sifted through the sand on what is known locally as Tena's Bar, a
The agen's, 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 and; 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 Ingramas put the money aside after dis- covering it and continued with their picnic.
Dorwyn Schreuder, the FBI agent supervising the beach search, said the Ingramas 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 Jsaid. 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 employee.
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
why."
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 hell- copters chartered by news
cows watched the beach show from their pens on a small bluff, scattering occasionally when hell- 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, a; 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 Astorla."
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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 Thu'sday 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.
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
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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VANCOUVER, Wash, - Eight- year-old Brian Ingram, who found bun- dles of $20 bills last week but had to turn them over to authorities, has been given one by the FBI.
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VANCOUVER, Wash, - Eight- year-old Brian Ingram, who found bun- dles of $20 bills last week but had to turn them over to authorities, has been given one by the FBI.
The boy jumped into the national spotlight Feb. 10 when he discovered several thousand dollars of the $200,000 ransom paid to skyjacker Dan Cooper in 1971. The money, frayed around the edges, was identified by FBI agents who have been looking for Cooper since : he jumped from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane over Southwest Wash- ington.
The $20 was given to the boy by Mike Heywood, Hough Elementary School PTA president. Accompanying the bill was a certificate praising the boy for his find.
Since finding the money, Brian and- his parents, H. Dwayne and Patricia, have been the subject of network televi -: sion newscasts and newspaper articles. Saturday night, the three were satirized on the "Weekend Update" segment of the weekly television show "Saturday. Night Live."
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By Bud May The Daily News
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.
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 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
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
"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 Column- bia River beach nine miles down- 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.
The D.B. Cooper money find also brought significance to a green bank bag found by Jack Smith who lives up the Washougal River in Skamania County.
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The finding of some of the "Dana Cooper" hijacking money Sunday came! as 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, who has logged thou- sands of hours of flying time in his own 1952 model single-engine Beechcraft4 Bonanza, was aloft in an Oregon Air
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who has logged thou- sands of hours of flying time in his own 1952 model single-engine Beechcraft4 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
Tuesday. "I saw they had logged a lot! of 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. "The case isn't . solved, but this is certainly a major milestone."
Himmelsbach will retire March 1;} After 27 years with the FBI - climaxedì by his work on the Cooper case, one; that will go down in FBI history.
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Himmelsbach will retire March 1;} After 27 years with the FBI - climaxedì by his work on the Cooper case, one; that will go down in FBI history.
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By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonlan 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 he bailed out of a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 flying at 7,000 feet over La Center, Wash.
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 paid 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.
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Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb in the satchel he was carrying and de- manding $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills.
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By the time the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at 5:45 p.m., airline officials were gather- 'ing 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 their passenger and were not ' certain he was gone until they landed in Reno,
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 at 7 degrees below zero, dressed as he was in a light business suit and street shoes.
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 thel $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the celebrated airline hijacker who used the name Dan Cooper was found Sun- day along the
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"Several thousand dollars" of thel $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the celebrated airline hijacker who used the name Dan Cooper was found Sun- day along the Columbia River down- stream from Vancouver, Wash., the FBI reported Tuesday.
Three bundles containing 12 packets of weatherbeaten $20 bills were found in river sand by a picnicking Vancouver family, about nine miles northwest of the city.
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, Harold Dwayne Ingram, his wife, Patricia, and their son, Brian, 8, were y preparing to build a fire on the beach when Brian brushed the sand aside and turned up some of the bills, Ingram said.
"We dug around and found three bundles of bills tied with rubber bands," Ingram 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.
The FBI identified the serial numbers and confirmed that they were part of the loot given Cooper when he hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner between Portland and Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971.
William M. Baker, assistant special; agent in charge of the Portland FBI of -; fice, said the Ingrams were relatively new to the Vancouver area, moving; there recently from Oklahoma. They had never heard of Cooper, Baker said.
"They took it (the money) home and were talking to some friends about it," Baker said. "The friends pointed out that it might be the money from the Cooper thing, That's when they called the FBI."
Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent in charge of the case since the hijack -. ing, said it was the first solid clue to the Cooper mystery since the hijacker bailed out near La Center, Wash., into 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 it was possible the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C., could. discern fingerprints on the money.
"That would be a hell of a break,' he said.
Baker said the money the Ingrams found had not been counted, At first the amount recovered was estimated at about $4,000, but "we have revised our estimate to several thousand dollars," he said.
Baker said the money was bundled Into packages of several sizes at the time of the hijacking, "to make it ap- pear that it was randomly done, as if it. was done in a hurry." Because of that, the actual amount could not be estimat- ed, he said.
FBI agents Tuesday were carefully combing the site of the Sunday discov- ery for further clues. The beach, open to the public, is owned by the New Columbia Gardens Co., a truck and dai- ry farm.
5. Cooper was seen on the plane tying a nylon cord around his waist, presum- ably to tie the money into a parachute bag. 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.
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.
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Brian Ingram, the 8-year-old Van- couver, Wash., boy who discovered some of the Dan Cooper skyjacking ran- som last week, was not given one of the deteriorated bills,
, boy who discovered some of the Dan Cooper skyjacking ran- som last week, was not given one of the deteriorated bills, as was reported Tues- day in some editions of The Oregonian. The boy actually was given a $20 bill made to look like one of the tattered bills, in addition to a certificate praising him for his find. Both items came from . the Hough Elementary School PTA.
Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., FBI laboratory technicians have been unable to determine how much money was in the three bundles of Cooper's recovered as a result of young Ingram's find.
"The $20 bills were so badly deteri- - orated that we have been unable to ;count it," said FBI spokesman Otis Cox. He said no fingerprints were found on the bills.
. The bills were identified as part of Cooper's $200,000 by their serial num- bers.
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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 bijack 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
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.
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a tespite 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."
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.
Hle 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.
Hle 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.
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According to Pringle, only one money bundle from the $200,000 hi- jack ransom was found on this beach nine miles downstream from the bridge over the Columbia River at Vancouver.
But since Cooper had all of his money in one canvas container, ac- cording to Moore, if any of the money. is scattered -- all of it is likely to be scattered.
Cooper, whose real identity bas never been learned, literally dropped out of sight the night he plunged from the airliner. He had collected his bijack e loot in Seattle - buudies of money wrapped in a package six inches bigh, one foot across, and about 1S inches long - later stuffed Into a bag tied to luis waist.
He had collected his bijack e loot in Seattle - buudies of money wrapped in a package six inches bigh, one foot across, and about 1S inches long - later stuffed Into a bag tied to luis waist.
No trace was found of Cooper or bis 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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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 had floated?
Moore said a Portland State Un- iversity Geologist is the one who de- termined that the money had floated? onto the beach within the last two! years.
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 1974.
The clay, he said, appears "undis- turbed," but the sand contains-soft - drink containers and other debris
from pienickers. It appears to be of recent origin, and the money was found only about three to six inches deep in it.
Moore said the Army Corps of En- gineers had scuttled the theory that the money had drifted upstream with tidal currents from the mouth of the Lewis River, which enters the Colun. . bia downstream from here.
"I talked to the engineers, and "they said that it is most unlikely that anything drifted upstream against the current," Moore safl.
If no more money is found, the . FBI's digging on the beach will end today, Moore said.
and "they said that it is most unlikely that anything drifted upstream against the current," Moore safl.
If no more money is found, the . FBI's digging on the beach will end today, Moore said.
But he expressed the belief that the departure of the FBI will not end the sifting through this strip of sand. "After we leave, probably 2.500 people will digging here the next day," he said.
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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
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 arca on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.
The FBI said Tuesday the discovery of more than $3,000 in bad- ly deteriorated $20 bills was made Sunday while the Ingram family was on an outing on a Columbia River beach about five miles northwest of Vancouver on the Washington side.
Meantime, the FBI is conducting an intensive grid search of the beach area where the money was found. Agents reported finding bits and pieces of money Tuesday afternoon, some of it as deep as three feet in sand.
However, the pieces were so small it was not possible to determine the amount of money.
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hydrologist, George Holmes, said he would review information about where the hijacker jumped in rela- tion to where the money was found.
He said the Washougal River was i the only Columbia tributary that y might have carried the cash, and: even that is a remote possibility.
Not everyone shares that opinion.
He said the Washougal River was i the only Columbia tributary that y 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.
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The FBI has also contacted the Ar- my Engineers, which continuously dredges sand in that arca, on the chance that dredging brought the money up from the bottom of the river. A spokesman for the Army Engineers said today that it is a definite possibility. While they con- stantly dredge in that area, the last time they deposited the dredged sand on that beach was in October 1974.
Agents said the money, in bundles, without question is part of that given the man known as Cooper.
"The packaging and numbered so- 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
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 myr arms full, but before I could set it; down, my son said, 'Wait a minute' daddy.' He scooped off some sand, and this money rolled to the top."
A UPI reporter who talked with the family Tuesday said Brian and his 5-year-old cousin. Denise In- gram, shouted, "Look! It's money that we found!"
The Ingrams said they didn't con- . nect the money to the Cooper case at the time, but realized it must be im- portant to someone, so they notified the Portland FBI Office of the find.
Asked by a reporter why he con- tacted the FBI instead of local authorities, Ingram responded. "Because I figured if I turned it over to police, I would never see it again.
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 lies on the bottom of Lake Merwin, most likely hung up on a snag.
Retired FBI Agent Tom Manning of Longview has held that theory for several years, and still does.
The fact that some of the ransom money Cooper got from Northwest Airlines was found Sunday on a Col- umbia River beach north and west of Vancouver has not changed his con- viction in the least.
Manning, now manager of .the Longview Chamber of Commerce, had charge of the massive searches conducted in the Lewis River area after the infamous skyjacking of a Northwest Airlines jet on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.
Because he worked so long on a case that has never been solved, the former resident agent has taken a lot of ribbing from friends and ac- quaintances.
"Some still call me D.B. Cooper," he said with a chuckle Tuesday night.
Manning never believed the sky- jacker survived the jump with $200,000 in ransom money, and was among the first to say so.
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 .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."
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Manning recalls vividly the inten-
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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 arca, where crewmen of the Boeing 727 noted al. fluctuation in the cabin rate of pressure indicator about 8: 10 p.m.
Minutes earlier lights came on in. the cockpit indicating the rear airstair of the aircraft had been lowered.
"Using the same aircraft, we made some tests three days after the hijacking, and the results gave credence to the theory that he - jumped in the area the crew told us about," Manning said.
"Using the same aircraft, we made some tests three days after the hijacking, and the results gave credence to the theory that he - jumped in the area the crew told us about," Manning said.
Manning was aboard the plane, flown by the chief pilot of the airline, when it was taken over the Pacific Ocean off the Hoquiam bombing range for the tests. Also present was the same flight engineer who was on duty the night of the incident.
"We took along some wooden sleds with sandbags to approximate the : weight of Cooper, the parachutes - given him and the ransom money, and dropped them from the plane when the flying conditions were the same as they were at the time he bailed out," Manning recalled.
The airstair was lowered, and the sleds dropped.
"The engineer said the plane reacted the same as it had before when the weight was released," Manning said Tuesday.
According to Manning, the FBI, and the airline were convinced then i that the man calling himself D.B. Cooper bailed out of the jet in thejs Lewis River area, and nothing has happened to shake that belief.
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The handful of residents who live along the beach where part of D.B. Cooper's loot was found Sunday are kicking themselves for not building more sand castles.
They also wonder whether they should have paid more attention to the sand dredging operations along the beach.
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. Most of the land.belongs to large dairy farms. The Fazio Bros. Sand Co. also fronts the river. A road leading through the Fazio gate is a popular path to the beach. It is the same path used by the family the day they found the money. On the east side of Fazio Bros. is Leeward Isle Marina, with a public fishing boat launch and one or two house boats.
During fishing season, the beach is packed from end to end, say local residents Clarence and Barbara Ellis.
During fishing season, the beach is packed from end to end, say local residents Clarence and Barbara Ellis. They have lived in their mobile home just down the road from Fazio Bros. for the past 30 years.
Every day Clarence takes his outboard skiff along Tina Bar patrolling the river and the beach for renegade logs that could damage other boats.
Ellis says that the Army Corps of Engineers con- tinuously dredges sand directly off the shore from where the money was found.
"I betcha that dredging brought that money up and
most of it's been destroyed by the dredging," he said. "Even the FBI is going to be able to figure that one out."
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.
Another resident of the area said that the money was found too far from the water to have washed up. "It had to be the dredging. Maybe I'll go get me a shovel," said Mrs. J.W. Freeman.
The FBI dug all day Tuesday, finding bits and pieces of $20 bills. An agent guarding the site Tuesday evening said the amount they found during the day. was less than the $3,000 orginally dug up.
Tuesday night the Ellis family sat in their home . decorated with fishing gear and large plants, amazed that some the D.B. Cooper money was showing. up on the same beach their children grew up on.
"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.
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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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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.
While the jet circled Seattle before landing, the skyjacker also ordered that $200,000 cash and four parachutes be brought to the plane.
The airline agreed, 36 passengers and part of the crew were allowed to leave, and the plane took off with the man and his ransom.
As it flew south, the rear airstair was lowered, and minutes later the plane reacted in a manner that con- vinced the crew that the sky- jacker had bailed out somewhere in the Lewis River-Lake Merwin area east of Woodland.
Thus began the legend of D.B. Cooper (the name Dan Cooper somehow got lost in news media accounts of the in- cident.)
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.
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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 be 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
"When the agents get back here next week, we'll discuss what direc- tion to take next," said Jack Pringle, an FBI agent in Seattle.
One partly decomposed bundle of marked $20 bills from the Cooper loot was found Sunday by a family pic- nicking beside the river nine miles below Vancouver.
It probably will be at least a week before the FBI laboratory in Washing- ton, D.C., will report on how much money was found, said Bill Williams, of the FBI office in Portland, Ore., whose agents dug and sifted the sand earlier this week.
Cooper is believed to have para- chuted over Lake Merwin in Cowlitz County. No trace of him or the money
is known to have been found until the discovery Sunday.
Williams said yesterday that Leon- ard Palmer, a geologist at Portland State University, concluded that the money drifted onto the river bank sometime after August 1974. The money lay in sand on top of spoil from a dredging operation that was conducted that month, Palmer told the FBI.
Pringle said that sooner or later the recovered money will be returned to its owner.
The money lay in sand on top of spoil from a dredging operation that was conducted that month, Palmer told the FBI.
Pringle said that sooner or later the recovered money will be returned to its owner.
"We don't know who that is and it's not up to us to determine," he said. "It might be that a court will have to decide."
The $200,000 was delivered to . Cooper aboard a Northwest Airline plane in Seattle after he skyjacked it.
Brent Baskfield, a Northwest pub -; lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn., said Northwest paid the money but has been reimbursed for most of it by The Globe Insurance Co. 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 bilis 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.
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.
F.B.I. agents said the money still was packaged in i 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 jof parachute or human remains, which in this case would be only bones."
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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 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 sald 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.
Moore said the meager evidence suggests the hi- jacker "may have landed in the water, although not nec- essarily the Columbia."
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Speculation that Cooper could have dropped into Lake Merwin, a reservoir on the Lewis River, was re- R 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-i stream from Vancouver.
But Moore said there were no plans to search upriver "unless evidence leads us to a more specific area."
Small pieces of currency were found yesterday in i 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.
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 -- 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.
"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.
"Unlike the money, Cooper is biodegradable," Him- melsbach said. 
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It's more likely than ever that the legendary D. B. Cooper is just a grinning skeleton in a nylon shroud, say FBI agents raking the sand for the last of his mouldering stash.
"The discovery of the money adds credence to the theory that he probably did not survive the jump," said Bill Williams, a special agent in Portland.
On the north bank of the 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.
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.
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- i ing town in Southwest Washington.
No trace of Cooper or the hijack- 'ing loot had shown up in the past nine years. The mysterious air pi- rate in that time has become a cult figure, with sweatshirts, bumper- stickers and endless pulp-magazine stories dedicated to the exploit.
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.
"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.
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.
"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.
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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.
"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?
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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VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation brought a backhoe and experts in soil. archeology and river currents to a sandy Columbia River beach west of here today to seek more clues into the 8-year-old D.B. Coo- per hijacking mystery.
An 8-year-old boy Sunday uncov- ered on the beach a small part of the $200,000 the legendary hijacker had strapped to his body when he parachuted from a Northwest Ori- ent Airlines 727 over Southwestern Washington November 24, 1971.
An 8-year-old boy Sunday uncov- ered on the beach a small part of the $200,000 the legendary hijacker had strapped to his body when he parachuted from a Northwest Ori- ent Airlines 727 over Southwestern Washington November 24, 1971.
F.B.I. agents yesterday found more fragments of $20 bills while digging at the beach. Paul Hud- son, the F.B.I.'s on-site coordina- tor, said the fragments - the size of nickels and quarters - were found as much as 5 feet away from where the money was found Sunday. Some fragments were 3 feet under the surface.
Hudson said the bureau is trying to determine possible ways the money reached the beach. The Briver 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.
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Discovery of the money "prob- ably raises as many questions as it , does answers," Hudson said. "In my own mind I can rule out the possibility that (the money) was buried here."
Hudson said whether searchers might find Cooper's remains in the area is "one of the questions we hope to answer today."
The beach is about nine miles west of Vancouver, adjacent to a dairy farm and a popular spot for, steelhead fishing. Today a Clark County deputy sheriff was at the
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farm gate, turning away fisher- men and the curious. 6 One longtime fisherman, Sidney Tipper, 80, of Vancouver, was ad- mitted to fish. Tipper said, "I've" ·`been going up and down this river for 10 years. 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 .
said yesterday it pre- sumes the money had been washed downstream, possibly . from a tributary to the Columbia. An Army . Engineers hydrologist said that the Washougal River was the only tributary that might have carried the money. The Washou- gal is the first Washington tribu- tary upstream from Vancouver.
William M. Baker, assistant spe- cial agent for the Portland F.B.I. office, said he expected searches would be carried out along the Col: lumbia to the mouth of the Wall. shougal and possibly up the Wall shougal.
The money recovered. Sunday, ' in three bundles of decomposing $20 bills, was discovered by Brian Ingram, 8, of Vancouver. The boy
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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 & Tavern were "ring- ing off the hook" said Dave Fish- er, the owner.
Ariel happens to be near Lake Merwin, and a number of theorists suggested that Cooper might have gone into the reservoir behind the Ariel dam.
Since 1976 the Ariel Tavern has hosted an annual D.B. Cooper par- ty on November 24. the anniversa- ry of the hijacking in 1971. Every year 200 to 300 people have shown up to eat buffalo stew and see whether Cooper would answer the standing invitation to join the party.
He never has, of course.
Fisher bought the tavern and the tradition 15 months ago, and until 3:30 yesterday afternoon, "I wasn't expecting a thing tonight .; it's pretty dead in winter.
Fisher bought the tavern and the tradition 15 months ago, and until 3:30 yesterday afternoon, "I wasn't expecting a thing tonight .; it's pretty dead in winter."
But then the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced in Seattle and Portland that part of $200,000 given to the 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.
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 & Portland televi- sion station interested in filming reaction to the discovery of the .
erside Tavern in Woodland had been moved to Ariel last night at : the request of & 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 -: 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.
6 He said the finding could lead to other developments, pointing out that the discovery by the boy was! a strange first trace of Cooper! after so many years.
Then the telephone rang in the next room, Fisher raced to an- swer it, laughed and announced, "San Jose calling.' 1
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Passengers on Flight. 305 re- tmembered the man as a quiet- spoken sort wearing a dark brown' suit. He took the last seal on the right-hand side of the Northwest Orient Airline's flight out of Port- land.heading for Seattle.
The only thing unusual about the man was that he wore sun glasses, unusual because it was a rainy day on November 24, 1971, a day before Thanksgiving.
The man checked aboard the Boeing 727 under the name of "Dan Cooper" in Portland, the last leg of the flight that had start- ed in Washington, D.C.
By the time the plane finally set down in Reno several hours later, the man who became known as "D.B. Cooper" was gone, along with $200,000 in $20 bills, two para- chutes and a briefcase which Coo- per told the
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- ington, 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, chased, down thousands of leads and. heard from hundreds of . people who claim either to be Cooper or, to know his whereabouts.
But it took an 8-year-old Van- couver, Wash., boy to uncover the only piece of concrete evidence that Cooper really did bail out into . the dense forest of Southwest Washington.
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Until Brian Ingram dug up 12; packets of $20 bills while on a pic- nic with his family along the Co- lumbia River, law-enforcement of- ficers only assumed D.B. Cooper' jumped over Southwest Washing- ton. The plane's recorder showed a "low pressure bump" at 8:11 p.
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 'hijackt ing, the legend of D.B. Cooper
started to build. People started to "talk about him as a modern-day Robin Hood. They admired the daring, the planning and the ex- ecution of the jump.
Slowly but surely, the reports of encounters with Cooper started to come out. A man in Woodland said someone knocked at his back door on November 24 about the time Cooper would have landed, but he didn't answer. Other people start- ed turning in friends who looked like Cooper, in hopes of collecting . the $25,000 reward.
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
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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.
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.
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 retite Feb- ruary 29, said he was "delleifichi? 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 that the probabilities are that the material was washed ashore rather than theing rin) dredged sand." FBI - Agent Ralph Himmelsbach of Portland told The Post - Intelligencer last night.
Children on a family outing on 'Sunday found the first half - decom- posed packets of $20 bills with which Cooper had parachuted from a North- west Orient jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.
The total was between $1,000 and $4,000, Himmelsbach said, and serial numbers checked matched numbers on the marked bills given Cooper.
The money was found farther downriver from Vancouver than FBI agents had estimated Tuesday, when they announced the
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 Lewisi River and into the Columbia Riveri Then, he said, ocean tides could have pushed them several miles up the Columbia to where they were found.
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. 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?
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Did Cooper, lightly dressed and buffeted by wind and freezing rain when he parachuted from the airlin- er, drop the money on the way down?
"That's a good possibility," Him- melsbach said. "There's also the possi- bility that he just took the money, and neither he nor the money left there (where he landed).
"I feel this is an indication that' probably be didn't make it (alive), and it has been my feeling that probably he didn't make it because of the eir- cumstances of the jump and the fact that he didn't have the proper equip- ment for parachuting." Himmelsbach continued.
"He didn't have a hardhat, goggles, leather gloves, jump suit or jump boots. He didn't have any of those things and he sure needed them all.
"i don't think the fall killed him," -Himmelsbach theorized, "but there ",was that sudden stop. I think probably there was good likelihood he was in !! `jured during the fall and didn't have any help . . . and was unable to extri- cate himself (from wherever he fell). And probably is still there."
Agents continued digging yester- day, and Himmelsbach said he didn't know how long they would continue.
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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, be al- lowed all the passengers and all but four members of the crew to leave, demanded and received the $200,000 . and four parachutes, and had the plane depart for Reno, Nev.
The skyjacker bailed out over Southwest Washington.
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"Il doesn't increase my (retirement) annuity any, but it does make me happy," Himmelsbach said.
; solid break in the case.
"Il doesn't increase my (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 he dropped the money or he's dead," commented John D.
River, the stacks of $20 bills say noth- ing encouraging about the fate of the legendary hijacker.
"It can tell you a number of things either he dropped the money or he's dead," commented John D. Prin- gle, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI office in Seattle. "We can't ( tell at this point."
For Ralph Himmelsbach of Port. land, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation since it began, the dis- covery reinforces bis 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 f 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
"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 bijacker, who had used the name "Dan Cooper" to buy his airline ticket, boarded the jet in Portland, threatened to blow it up with what he. claimed was a bomb in his briefcase, `then forced it to land in Seattle to col- ect 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.
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 ap ¡¡ parachute not likely to work.
Agents have theorized that his remains are at the bottom ml Merwin, its forest of under wa snags entangling his parachute. of
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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- Jered $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- Jered $20 bills. The bills were the first evidence uncovered in the case since Cooper hijacked the" jetliner in 1971.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - It started as a Sunday Jpicnic on a chilly river beach for a Vancouver, Wash., family and became a new chapter in the legend of D.B. Cooper.
With one sweep of his arm, 8-year-old Brian Ingram discovered Sunday what thousands of searchers failed to find - a bundle of $20 bilis, now deteriorated, demanded by the infamous, parachuting skyjacker in 1971.
Tuesday night in an interview with the Vancouver Col- umbian, Brian, his father, H. Dwayne, and his mother, Patricia, recounted the events of a casual outing that unearthed what one official called the "most important discovery" in the 842-year-old case. At the same time, the elder Ingram described finding several thousand dollars of soggy cash as "heartbreaking" without a pen- ny of reward money in sight.
The family and two relatives were walking along the Columbia River near a sand company about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. They decided to gather wood for a fire to take ?
The family and two relatives were walking along the Columbia River near a sand company about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. They decided to gather wood for a fire to take ? 'the chill off the 40-degree temperature.
"I gathered an armload of firewood," said Ingram, 28, a painter for U-Cart Manufacturing, a Vancouver firm. "He (Brian) was doing his part, happy and enthusiastic. I was about ready to set the wood down and he said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy.""'
Brian, a second-grader at Hough Elementary School, knelt beneath his father to smooth a spot for the fire. He swept the river sand only once, uncovering three worn bundles of $20 bills.
"I seen that money, I thought 'Wow!"" recalled the slender, towheaded youngster, who said it was the first money he ever found. "I went over to my parents and they thought it was counterfeit."
Unknown to them, Brian had uncovered part of a $200,000 ransom handed over to a man calling himself Dan Cooper on Nov. 24, 1971. Cooper demanded the cash ; as ransom and hijacked a Northwest Airline Boeing 727 jet in Seattle.
As the plane flew south to Reno, Nev.
Cooper demanded the cash ; as ransom and hijacked a Northwest Airline Boeing 727 jet in Seattle.
As the plane flew south to Reno, Nev., Cooper bailed? out from the jet's rear-stairway with the bundled money: wrapped in a parachute and tied to his body.
Authorities believe he jumped over southwest Washington,
The Ingrams, who moved here from Oklahoma less than a year ago, said they were aware of the D.B. Cooper saga but did not connect it to their find.
Neither did the buried treasure put a damper on thel afternoon activities. "We had a picnic," said Ingram. "We forgot about the money and had a great time."
Back home about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the bills, erroded into lozenge-shaped piles, were placed unceremoniously atop a kitchen cabinet to dry.
"I was thinking about decoupaging them and putting them on a board," said Mrs. Ingram, 26.
"I thought it might have been mob money or lost money. I just didn't know what to think, but it was just money that looked useless to me."
Monday, during his 10 a.m. coffee break, Ingram call- ed a local bank to see whether the battered bills could be .
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Monday, during his 10 a.m. coffee break, Ingram call- ed a local bank to see whether the battered bills could be . exchanged for new ones. A bank employee told him it could be done if the serial numbers were intact, but add- ed a check would be made of the numbers.
Ingram said he brooded on that the rest of the day and called the Portland FBI office Monday evening, reading several serial numbers to an agent.
When Ingram called back 30 minutes later, "they said they'd like to talk to me."
It was not until Tuesday morning that he learned the money was part of the Cooper caper.
Tuesday evening, the couple watched themselves on national television. By then, they had grown weary of the day's hectic activities and exuded disappointment in learning that apparently no reward awaits their hones- ty.
"It's just heartbreaking that nothing may come of this," Ingram said.
"I went from a rich man to a poor man without hardly making a move."
Supporting a family of four and making the $200 a month rent payment for their ragged westside home is tough at times, Ingram said, adding "If all this fame came with a
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Supporting a family of four and making the $200 a month rent payment for their ragged westside home is tough at times, Ingram said, adding "If all this fame came with a little fortune, I would talk to everyone in the «world about this story."
He abruptly ended the interview minutes later, turn- ing his eyes to the television set, saying, "If. you don't 'mind, I've waited five years to see this movie (The Exor cist) on television."
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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 flight from Portland to Seattle.
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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PORTLAND (UPI) -- Ralph Himmelsbach, the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who has headed the D.B. Cooper case since the 1971 hijacking, outlines this "possible scenario" to explain how some of the Cooper money washed up on the beach west of Vancouver:
"Probably the money (in the bag) came down close to the bank of a stream.
outlines this "possible scenario" to explain how some of the Cooper money washed up on the beach west of Vancouver:
"Probably the money (in the bag) came down close to the bank of a stream. When the water got high enough it washed down- stream, bumping along the bot- tom. The bag finally degraded.
"Perhaps it could have burst on impact, but that is not likely. We think finally, tumbling down the . ; river bottom, it broke open and, the money was carried on, wear-jt ing off little bits and pieces around. the edges, grinding it down like it 'had been ground with sandpaper or a file, leaving the center portion."
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MR. A. M. ROBINSON, POST OFFICE BOX 58, PECK, IDAHO 83545, CORRESPONDED WITH "THE OREGONIAN", MAJOR PORTLAND, OREGON, NEWSPAPER, TO ADVISE THAT HE HAS A SUSPICIOUS $20 BILL AND
ROBINSON, POST OFFICE BOX 58, PECK, IDAHO 83545, CORRESPONDED WITH "THE OREGONIAN", MAJOR PORTLAND, OREGON, NEWSPAPER, TO ADVISE THAT HE HAS A SUSPICIOUS $20 BILL AND WANTED IT CHECKED AGAINST THE RANSOM MONEY IN THIS CASE. ROBINSON, WHO APPEARED TO BE AN ELDERLY MAN, DID NOT FURNISH THE SERIAL NUMBER OF THIS BILL.
IT IS REQUESTED THAT BUTTE PROMPTLY CONTACT MR. ROBINSON TO CHECK OUT THIS MATTER AND ADVISE PORTLAND AND SEATTLE OF RESULTS.
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DECEMBER 15, 1977, A. M. ROBINSON, BOX 58, PECK, IDAHO, 90 YEARS OLD, ADVISED SAW NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN "OREGONIAN" NEWSPAPER APPROXIMATELY NEAR END NOVEMBER, 1977, INDICATING ANY $20.00 BILL HAVING SERIES 1971 OR EARLIER COULD BE SUS- PICIOUS AND POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH COOPER HIJACKING IN 1971.
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On 4/11/74, Arco Service Station, Seattle, Washington, advised that a white male had been in his station on 4/4/74 and spent a $20 bill, Serial L89409765C. After consulting the list of ransom bills, was advised that this $20 bill was not identical to any $20 bill in the ranson money.
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On 1/3/74 Rockville, Maryland, telephonically contacted WFO requesting that a list of twenty dollar bills still outstanding in connection with captioned matter be sent to , The Dalles, Oregon. She stated that this request was prompted by recent publicity appearing in the Oregon Journal stating that such a list was avail- able through local FBI Offices and a visit to
who related captioned matter to her. She stated
that neither are in possession of any suspect twenty dollar bills nor do either have any infor- mation concerning caption matter and the list was merely being requested as matter of curiosity.
The above information is being furnished the Portland and Seattle Divisions since the office of origin may decm it advisable for to be interviewed to determine the basis for his interest in captioned matter.
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Re Seattle airtel to Minneapolis, 11/9/73.
Enclosed for receiving offices is one copy each of a letter received 11/15/73, registered mail, registry number 17427, from
Monrovia, California,
៛ Northwest Orient Airlines (NWAL), Minneapolis, Minnesota, was contacted 11/15/73, and he advised that judgment was filed on
plus interest in the Hennepin County District Court, Minneapolis. Judgment stayed by the court
this matter.
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This letter is in regards to the parachuting skyjacking on November 24, 1971 of a Northwest Airlines plane between Seattle, Washington and Reno, Nevada. This case has, so far, not been solved and the skyjacker who collected $200,000 is known only as D.B. Cooper.
In a telephone conversation on November 8, 1973 with at Northwest Airlines, St. Paul, Minnesota, we discussed rewards offered in this case. He told me of rewards having been offered of 10% of recovered amounts, or possibly $25,000 if all is recovered. also told me of a Seattle newspaper offering $5000.
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in Los Angeles. This information concerened possibilities of a as a suspect in the November 24, 1971 skyjacking. Since November 8, 1973 we have had other contacts with Special Agent Bob Stranger.
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This letter is to serve as claim to any such available rewards should be brought to justice in connection with the parachuting skyjack of November 24, 1971 of the Northwest Airline. 164-81-5048
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On June 1, 1973, BILL CLAUSNER, Sheriff of Stevenson, Washington, advised that $480 worth of $20 bills, 1950 series, were found in a home in North Bonney- ville, Washington. CLAUSNER advised an elderly lady was living in the home and moved to Goldendale, Washington, to be nearer her family. The elderly lady is named Mrs. MIDLAND, according to CLAUSNER.
Subsequent to her move, an envelope was dis- covered in the vacant home containing the $20 bills. CLAUSNER advised all of the $20 bill serial numbers were run through NCIC, as well as compared with serial numbers on the D. B. COOPER ransom list. There was no match either in NCIC or with the D. B. COOPER ransom list.
It is noted all the D. B. COOPER ransom serial numbers have been entered into NCIC.
No further investigation appears to be warranted concerning this matter.
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necessary to testify that a microfilm had been prepared of the ransom money paid to the hijacker of Northwest Airlines Flight 305. In tracing back the preparation of the microfilm, the following information was revealed:
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Seattle-First National Bank, it was learned that the actual microfilming of the money was done by their employee
who can be located at telephone number *
On December 14, 1972, advised that the money was microfilmed on a Recordak Model RW600, by He advised that the machine normally takes both the front and back sides of the document but in the case of the filming of the
On December 14, 1972, advised that the money was microfilmed on a Recordak Model RW600, by He advised that the machine normally takes both the front and back sides of the document but in the case of the filming of the money, they blocked out the back of the bill as well as one half of the front side.
At issue in the testimonies of was whether or not there could be some distortion in the numbers of the bills due to the fact they were taken at an angle. ₹ , who is familiar with these machines, stated that although a series of mirrors is used to record the images of the checks or money, the surface of the document must be square to the film plane. Therefore, he advised there is no angle and no known distortion.
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He was advised of the amount as well as the fact that the reward would vary with the portion of ransom money recovered. The individual then said "that don't sound like enough, "and hung up.
The above information is being provided for in- formation purposes only. It is SA opinion that the individual who called quite possibly was not the hijacker because of his use of poor English and obvious lack of a formal education.
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Reurtel November 24, 1972.
K4 in this matter is one roll of microfilm of the NORJAK ransom money. K4 was originally submitted to the Laboratory by Seattle with an airtel dated April 26, 1972. K4 was returned to Seattle as an enclosure to Laboratory report dated May 1, 1972.
K4 was originally submitted to the Laboratory by Seattle with an airtel dated April 26, 1972. K4 was returned to Seattle as an enclosure to Laboratory report dated May 1, 1972. Seattle resubmitted K4 with an airtel dated May 3, 1972, and it has been maintained in the Laboratory since that date. K4 is enclosed herewith.
Two documents designated Q46 and Q47 were received from Atlanta on May 1, 1972. Q46 and Q47 are the receipts involved in this matter and were returned to Atlanta as enclosures to Laboratory report addressed to Seattle dated May 3, 1972. Atlanta will furnish these receipts to Seattle as requested in retel.
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RE MINNEAPOLIS NITEL TO BUREAU AND SEATTLE,
OCTOBER FIVE,. SEVENTYTWO.
MINNEAPOLIS IS REQUESTED TO RECONTACT MR. NYROP
AND OBTAIN HIS APPROVAL FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION TO THE NEWS MEDIA IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AREA:
"DONALD W. NYROP, PRESIDENT, NORTHWEST ORIENT
AIRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS DASH ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, HAS
· AUTHORIZED A FINDERS FEE OF TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TOTAL
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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.
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 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 nuni- bers are known and can be identified,
(4) Deteriorated raincoat or over- coat.
(5) Small briefcase or attache case. Tom Manning, special FBI agent ju Longview, urged anyone having any information concerning this matter to- report to the nearest FBI office or call' the Seattle office collect, MA2-0460.
Tom Manning, special FBI agent ju 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 Py the Skamania-Clark county line.
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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 164-81
Classification:
Submitting Office:
Seattle
Being Investigated
COPY SENT TO BUREAU
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OCT 6
FBI -- SEATT
1972OPTIONAL FORM NO. 1D MAY 1982 EDITION OSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.0 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
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TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (168-81) (P)
DATE:
8/4/72
FROM
:
SA
Sub. E
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
Re Memo of SA Ristoranti Referenced memorandum contained information regarding alleging that he is able to locate currency by means of
a
On 8/2/72
telephonically advised
that had changed his original
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SUBJECT:
NORJAK
Re Memo of SA Ristoranti Referenced memorandum contained information regarding alleging that he is able to locate currency by means of
a
On 8/2/72
telephonically advised
that had changed his original location of a currency cache to a spot approximately 22 miles east of the original Location. It should be noted that the new location is approximately on line of flight of the hijacked aircraft as set forth on original maps and in other data, and also approximately 1% miles from Point A, of a triangulated search area, in a northerly direction.
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On 8/3/72 the writer,
and went to the intersection of County Roads 16 and 32 in Clark County where and evhibited time honored techniques
¢ This resulted in producing
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Oneother reference point, being Point A (Supra), was located, after which both susing their technique produced an angle which when extended appearedto contact the previously established location within the triangle. b6
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The writer to test the veracity of the tehhnique used hid small sums of currency in various locations and observed both Locate the hidden currency using the
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The writer to test the veracity of the tehhnique used hid small sums of currency in various locations and observed both Locate the hidden currency using the
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the area
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1010-108
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SERIALIZED	FILED


AUG 47972 FBI-SEATTLE

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
DB Cooper-30064
SUB X
to SAC, 8/1/72 Sus M
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b6 What they concluded to be the direction and approximate location of a large sum of currency. Three other reference points were located on County Road 20 and using the same method angles were determined setting up a triangle in which this large amount of currency is believed to be located by
Maps explaing the above information are attached to this
It is felt consideration should be given to exploring the possibility that a large sum of currency is located at outlined in red on one of the attached maps. SEARCHED 7/26/72
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81 SUB G)
SA CHARLES E.
SEARCHED 7/26/72
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81 SUB G)
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK
RE: FILM OF RANSOM MONEY
During the investigation of the story appearing in the "Seattle Flag" the microfilm of the ransom money was sent to the FBI Lab via pilot courier on Northwest Airlines flight 78 leaving Seattle at 9:15 a.m. on May 4, 1972 and was to be picked up on arrival at Dulles Airport at 5 p.m. by the Alexandria Office (See 164-81-3181 - daily summary) .
The original communication to Alexandria is Seattle teletype dated May 4, 1972, serial 164-81-3076.
In view of the fact that the case against will be going to
trial, the Bureau is not being requested at this time to return the film inasumch as certain exhibits might be requested of the Laboratory concerning the $20. bills in the case. CEF : (3)
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Subim 164-81-366-
SEARCHNO SERIAL b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-300655/19/72
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SA CHARLES E.
CEF : (3)
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Subim 164-81-366-
SEARCHNO SERIAL b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-300655/19/72
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK
After receipt from the New York Office of a Xerox copy of the three $20 bills which had been involved in the manuscript prepared by the original microfilm nade of the ransom money itself, was reviewed on 4/25 and 26/72 on a viewer at the Federal Reserve Bank by SAS and the three bills bearing serial numbers L 54904730 A, I 33529797 A and L 20168977 A, were located and marked on the film. As each bill was located on the viewer, a print thereof was made.
Attached as part of this memo is a print of cach of the bills from the microfilm.
A review of the Xerox copies of the original microfilm shows that the Xerox copies were bogus. 
CET : (3)
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Sub.m 164-81-333-6 b6 b7C
DB Cooper-300661. 20168977 A
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DOLLARS
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L 33529797 A
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DB Cooper-30067DB Cooper-30068UNITED
OFAMERICA
STATES
tut NOTE If LECAL HINDIA FOR ALL DENTI, INTUIC AND PALYATI
L 54904730 A
12
WASHINGTON, 17.
DOLLARS
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L 33529797 A
12
DB Cooper-30067DB Cooper-30068UNITED
OFAMERICA
STATES
tut NOTE If LECAL HINDIA FOR ALL DENTI, INTUIC AND PALYATI
L 54904730 A
12
WASHINGTON, 17.C.
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L 54904730 A
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TWENTY DOLLARS
20.
OFAMERICA
20
THE NOTE HÀ LEGAL TENGER
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L33529797 A
WASBOLNOTON D.C.
12
L 33529797 A.
20
12. Asiamai
OFAMERICA
UNITED
STATES
ATKIS KOTE 13 JECAL TENDER FOR ALL DIETE. PULUE AND PRIVATE
L'201689.77 A
WASHINGTON,D.C.
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L 20168977 A
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DB Cooper-30069Transun pulsohas by Facsimile - PLACITEXT
Rx SAC CAal miles SEATTLE
Date:
Fapt
SAM: HOKSAK
Received - ANTER CONCEDAM Laboratory Report Fingcamping Fanta A935- Newspaper clipping PALAAZION'S (5 ml6) K CÍM)
Spettal Beathing Insirupfinns:
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MONEY
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SEARCHED CCHIALIZED
INDEXED FILED
APR 2 8 1972 FOI - QUATTLE
A
DB Cooper-30070
$
Prindly Immediate
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SAC, Seattle (164-81)
FAZEGY Bay 1, 1972
1
I NONJAK
FRI FIS HE. 164-213X L.IN. HE- D-720427009 IL

Datumnatten requested AN:	AoAC:
QUATTLE
A
DB Cooper-30070
$
Prindly Immediate
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SAC, Seattle (164-81)
FAZEGY Bay 1, 1972
1
I NONJAK
FRI FIS HE. 164-213X L.IN. HE- D-720427009 IL

Datumnatten requested AN:	AoAC:24
Rulewyhur=	Almost 4/06/72
Fartendilen street	Facamint

Eswariz:
Enclosures (8) (14, 3 Lab report) 2 - Portland (164-4)) Razinaures (2) (2 Lab Forart) Z - Los Angeles Enclosures (2) (3 Lah roport) 3 - New York Enclosures (2) ( Lab report)
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ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE
164-81-2963
DB Cooper-30071el Cha
PODIEL MORGAN OF FIVESTORTICH WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555
Bot, dasttle (164-51)
NOR JAK
Luis: FEL FIR 2. 108-2211 Feür No,
******* Available at the Bare;
Qe Photocopy of three W. S. twenty-dollar Bills bearin: serial Bunkers L 84904720 A. 1 37529797 & and I 20168877 A
Specisommi received from THI, Seattle 4/87/72:
KA Que roll of microfilm of Poucos soney
ALSO SERMITTED; Three photocopies sada fros migrafilm of $ Fansos bills bearing serisi mutters L 34008730 A, 1 3252977 A amd 1. 20109977 A
domnit of examination:
The hills represented by i'd were compared with corresponding bills represented by FA.
20109977 A
domnit of examination:
The hills represented by i'd were compared with corresponding bills represented by FA. In the comperlant, photographie overlays of the ofs kills shared the strict mandare on there bills to be out of register with the serial archers on the Me bills.
The crusination definitely determiand that the 04 bille are not a part d thụ rancon mondy represented by the Es migratils.
"< is returned herewith. Appropriate photographt DASe frem KA and the ALBO BRONITTEY
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164-81-2962DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
4/21/72
LEGAT, COPENHAGEN (164-3) (RUC)
NORJAK
ReBuairtels 11/29/71 and 12/7/71.
The ransom list and photographs furnished to this office were disseminated to all Scandinavian police departments with the request that practical and appro- . priate dissemination be made and that the composite drawing of the Unsub be disseminated to parachute clubs and associated groups in an effort to effect identifica- tion of the Unsub.
Since no positive resulting information has been received, this case is being closed.
priate dissemination be made and that the composite drawing of the Unsub be disseminated to parachute clubs and associated groups in an effort to effect identifica- tion of the Unsub.
Since no positive resulting information has been received, this case is being closed. Bureau, however, will be promptly informed of any subsequent information which may be developed.
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164-81-2935 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED 10100 FILED
APR 2 7 1972 FBI -- SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-300735
4/26/72
AIRTEL
AIRMAIL
TO :
DIRECTOR, FBI
(164-2111)
ATTENTION:
FBI LABORATORY
FROM :
SAC, SEATTLE
(164-81) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
Being sent to the Bureau by pilot courier is one roll of microfilm listing the ranson paid in the captioned case.
Making reference to the xerox copies of three $20
bills which allegedly were in the possession of person
identified as "D. B. COOPER" and given to
, located on the microfilm and marked with a small piece of tape. These $20 bills are as follows:
L54904730A, series 1969
L33529797A, series 1969 L20168977A, series 1969
It was noted that only the right half of the bill was microfilmed.