Portland to Seattle and all offices re press conference on recovered Cooper ransom money (file copy)
Document date 12 February 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-09:197-199 Document: Teletype Portland to Seattle and all offices re press conference on recovered Cooper ransom money (file copy) Id: Cooper-Part-09:197-199 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A197-199 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 pp. 197–199, Teletype, dated 12 Feb 1980, serial SD 164-91-167 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A197-199
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OO SE LA SF SD SC DN LV SU MP DE PD O 122300Z FEB 80 FM PORTLAND (164-41) P TO SEATTLE (164-81) IMMEDIATE LOS ANGELES IMMEDIATE DENVER IMMEDIATE SA[N] FRANCISCO IMMEDIATE LAS VEGAS IMMEDIATE SACRAMENTO IMMEDIATE SALT LAKE CITY IMMEDIATE SAN DIEGO IMMEDIATE MINNEAPOLIS IMMEDIATE BT
UNCLAS NORJAK; OO:SEATTLE.
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FOR INFO RECEIVING OFFICES, AT 3:00 PM, PST, TODAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1980, PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN PORTLAND OFFICE WHICH WILL ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING:
ARTHUR G. BARGER, SPCIAL AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE FBI FOR OREGON, HAS ANNOUNCED A DEVELOPMENT IN A CRIME WHICH BEGA[N] ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 24, 1971, AT PORTLAND INTER- NATIONAL AIRPORT, PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HAS BECOME WIDELY KNOW[N] SINCE THAT TIME AS THE D. B. COOPER HIJACKING CASE.
ON THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, 1971, A MAN WHO GAVE
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Squad 4 1 copy [signature illegible]
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164-91-167 SEARCHED [checkmark] INDEXED SERIALIZED [checkmark] FILED [initials] FEB 12 1980 FBI — SAN DIEGO
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FEB 12 SAN DIEGO DIVISION FBI
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PAGE TWO PD 164-41 UNCLAS THE [guess: NAME] DA[guess: N] COOPER BOUGHT A ONE-WAY TICKET ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 3[guess: 0]5 FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. [guess: UPON] DEPARTING PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COOPER NOTIFIED A STEWARDESS THAT HE WAS HIJACKING THE AIRCRAFT AND DISPLAYED TO HER WHAT HE SAID WAS A BOMB IN HIS BRIEFCASE. THE FLIGHT P[guess: ROC]EEDED TO SEATTLE, WHERE AFTER MAINTAINING A HOLDING PATTERN FO[guess: R] SEVERAL HOURS, IT WAS PERMITTED TO LAND AND REFUEL. AFTER $[guess: 2]00,000 A[guess: N]D FOUR PARACHUTES DEMANDED BY THE HIJACKER WERE BROUGHT O[guess: N] BOARD, HE RELEASED ALL OF THE PASSENGERS AND ALL BUT FOUR [guess: M]EMBERS OF THE CREW. THE FLIGHT THEN TOOK OFF AND PROCEEDED SOUTH T[guess: HR]OUGH WASHINGTON TOWARD RENO, NEVADA. THE HIJACKER INSTRUCTED THAT THE FLAPS AND GEAR REMAIN LOWERED AND THE REAR STAIR DOOR OPE[guess: N]. AS THE AIRCRAFT PASSED OVER LACENTER, WASHINGTON, CABIN PRESSURE FLUCTUATION WAS OBSERVED, WHICH WAS LATER DETERMINED TO I[guess: N]DICATE HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE AIRCRAFT THROUGH THE REAR STAIRWELL DOOR. SINCE THAT TIME NO TRACE OF THE HIJACKER, THE PARACHUTES, OR THE MONEY HAS BEEN FOUND UNTIL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1[guess: 3], 19[guess: 8]0.
O[guess: N] THAT DATE WHILE ON AN OUTING WITH THEIR CHILDREN, MR. [continues on next page]
PAGE THREE PD 164-41 UNCLAS
A [guess: AND] MRS. HAROLD DWAYNE INGRAM OF VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, DISCOVERED A SUM OF MONEY PARTIALLY BURIED BY SAND IN THE NORTH RIVER BANK OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILES DOWN RIVER FROM THE U.S. INTERSTATE 5 BRIDGE CROSSING BETWEEN PORTLAND AND VA[N]COUVER, WASHINGTON. THE INGRAMS CONTACTED THE FBI AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE BADLY DECOMPOSED $20 BILLS REVEALS THAT THEY BEAR SERIAL NUMBERS IDENTICAL TO A PORTION OF THOSE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER. BECAUSE OF THE DECOMPOSED NATURE OF THE BILLS A[N] EXACT ESTIMATE OF THE RECOVERED MONEY IS NOT POSSIBLE PENDING A LABORATORY EXAMINATION, HOWEVER, IT APPEARS TO BE SEVERAL THOUSA[N]D DOLLARS. THE PACKAGING AND THE NUMBERED SEQUENCE I[N]DICATE THAT THE BILLS HAVE NOT BEEN SEPARATED AND ARE IN [M]UCH THE SAME ORDER AS WHEN GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER. THE BILLS WILL BE SE[N]T IMMEDIATELY TO THE FBI LABORATORY FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMI[N]ATION.
IT APPEARS LOGICAL THAT THE PACKAGE OF BILLS COULD HAVE BE[E]N CARRIED DOWNSTREAM ON ONE OF THE WASHINGTON TRIBUTARIES OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER TO THE SITE WHERE THEY WERE FOUND.
SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE FBI FROM OREGON AND WASHINGTON HAVE SECURED THE AREA AND COMMENCED AN INTENSIVE SEARCH. BT
Serials: PD 164-41, SD 164-91-167, SE 164-81
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