(FD-350): 'More Pieces of D. B. Cooper Loot Found', Los Angeles Times
Document date 14 February 1980
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 p. 210 (DB Cooper-914), News clipping, dated 14 Feb 1980, serial SD 164-91-174 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A210-210
FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) LA TIMES, Los Angeles, Ca.; Pt. II, Pg. 18 Date: Thurs., 2/14/80 Edition: Final Title: D. B. COOPER Character: or Classification: 164-91 Submitting Office: San Diego
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More Pieces of 'D. B. Cooper' Loot Found Hunt Delayed by Uncertainty Over How Money Got to Site
From Times Wire Services
PORTLAND, Ore.—FBI agents Wednesday found more fragments of money from the $200,000 airline hijacking loot of the legendary "D. B. Cooper," but the mystery of what happened to the man appeared no closer to solution.
To complicate matters, agents feared Wednesday that all the cash found so far on a sandy beach of the Columbia River may have come from material dredged from the center of the river in 1974.
"We don't know what that means," FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach said. "We have the Army Corps of Engineers and geologists out there. An agent who was out there said it looks like they'll be able to help us out."
The first money from Cooper's haul in the 1971 hijacking was found Sunday on the north shore of the Columbia 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., by children on a family outing. It totaled about $3,000 and the serial numbers matched those on the bills given to Cooper.
Himmelsbach said a number of additional fragments were dug up by agents Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, some of them from as deep as 3 feet. One agent at the site described a formless fist-size clump as "a wadded-up bunch of $20 bills."
Himmelsbach said the geologists and corps scientists probably would be able to determine whether the material on the shore in which the money was found had come from the middle of the river and had been washed downstream from the Washougal River or carried upstream by dredges from the mouth of the Lewis River and dumped at the site.
Until such a determination is made, agents planned no widespread search of wooded areas connected to the river by streams.
A man who signed in as Dan Cooper left Portland, Ore., on Thanksgiving eve in 1971 aboard a Northwest Airlines jet. Once the flight was in the air, the hijacker displayed what appeared to be a bomb and demanded $200,000 and parachutes.
The passengers and two flight at[tendants were let off in Seattle and the remainder of the crew was locked in the cockpit. Somewhere over southwest Washington, the man who has come to be known as "D.B. Cooper" disappeared out the back entrance with the money and a parachute.
The incident is the only unsolved hijacking in the nation.
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164-91-174 SEARCHED ... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... FILED FEB 2 1 1980 FBI—SAN DIEGO DBCooper-914
Serials: SD 164-91, SD 164-91-174
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