FD-350 clipping: 'FBI Halts Search For Cooper Clues & Loot', Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Document date 16 February 1980
Also filed at: Part 66 p. 100
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-43:210-210 Document: FD-350 clipping: 'FBI Halts Search For Cooper Clues & Loot', Seattle Post-Intelligencer Id: Cooper-Part-43:210-210 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-43%3A210-210 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 43 p. 210 (DB Cooper-17418), News clipping, dated 16 Feb 1980, serial SE 164-81-8238 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-43%3A210-210
FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) p.A10 Post-Intelligencer Seattle, Wa. Date: 2/16/80 Edition: Final
Title: NORJAK
Character: or Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle
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FBI Halts Search For Cooper Clues & Loot
FBI agents yesterday called off their search on a sandy beach of the Columbia River west of Van- couver for more evidence of D.B. Cooper and the $200,000 he carried when he parachuted from a skyjacked airliner in November 1971.
"When the agents get back here next week, we'll discuss what direc- tion to take next," said Jack Pringle, an FBI agent in Seattle.
One partly decomposed bundle of marked $20 bills from the Cooper loot was found Sunday by a family pic- nicking beside the river nine miles below Vancouver.
It probably will be at least a week before the FBI laboratory in Washing- ton, D.C., will report on how much money was found, said Bill Williams, of the FBI office in Portland, Ore., whose agents dug and sifted the sand earlier this week.
Cooper is believed to have para- chuted over Lake Merwin in Cowlitz County. No trace of him or the money
is known to have been found until the discovery Sunday.
Williams said yesterday that Leon- ard Palmer, a geologist at Portland State University, concluded that the money drifted onto the river bank sometime after August 1974. The money lay in sand on top of spoil from a dredging operation that was conducted that month, Palmer told the FBI.
Pringle said that sooner or later the recovered money will be returned to its owner.
"We don't know who that is and it's not up to us to determine," he said. "It might be that a court will have to decide."
The $200,000 was delivered to Cooper aboard a Northwest Airline plane in Seattle after he skyjacked it.
Brent Baskfield, a Northwest pub- lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn., said Northwest paid the money but has been reimbursed for most of it by The Globe Insurance Co. in New York City.
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DB Cooper-17418
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8238
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