FD-350 clipping: 'Agent in D.B. Cooper case retires' (Ralph Himmelsbach), Seattle Times

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FD-350 clipping, Seattle Times, 'Agent in D.B. Cooper Case Retires'

Document date 2 March 1980

Part 65page 1541 pageDB Cooper-27409

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) p. A8 Seattle Times Seattle, Wa. Date: 3/2/80 Edition: Sunday

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Agent in D.B. Cooper Case Retires

PORTLAND — For more than eight years, Ralph Himmelsbach, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, followed a nar- 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 8-year-old boy found about $5,800 of it mixed in the sand along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash., February 10.

"It's been an interesting case and I have enjoyed the investiga- tion because of the things that have happened," Himmelsbach said. "It altered my life because of all the attention I have received."

But, he added, "I think I'll walk away from it and it will never bother me."

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