FD-350 clipping re FBI Columbia River search, Minneapolis Tribune
Document date 14 February 1980
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 78 p. 408 (DB Cooper-34286), News clipping, dated 14 Feb 1980, serial MP 164-73-643 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-78%3A408-408
FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 4A Minneapolis Tribune Minneapolis, Minn. Date: 2/14/80 Edition: Morning
Title: D.B. Cooper
Character: or Classification: 164-73 Submitting Office: Minneapolis
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FBI digs for more D.B. Cooper loot
Associated Press
Vancouver, Wash. FBI agents used sifting screens and a backhoe Wednesday in a $200,000 treasure hunt along the Columbia River. They were seeking more of D.B. Cooper's loot and and perhaps the remains of the mysterious hi- jacker.
The agents tore up the beach where an 8-year-old boy found several thou- sand dollars in crumbling $20 bills over the weekend. The FBI identi- fied the cash by serial numbers.
Would-be treasure seekers were barred from the area by a sheriff's deputy and a locked gate. The only spectators were three local fisher- men and reporters.
The mystery of what happened to the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jet on Thanksgiving eve 1971 appeared little closer to solu- tion.
"In my own mind, I can rule out the possibility that it (the money) was buried here," said agent Paul Hud- son, coordinator of the digging ef- forts.
FBI spokesman Bill Williams said that the beach where the money was found "is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974. But the dredge will not accept anything as large as a body. A small satchel could go through."
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He added that "we simply don't know the significance of that infor- mation."
The spot, about 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., is several miles downstream from the jet's path on its way to Reno, Nev. The flight originated in Portland, Ore. Once the jet was airborne, the hijacker, who signed on the flight as Dan Cooper, displayed what appeared to be a bomb and demanded the money and four parachutes. Somewhere over southwest Washington, the man who has come to be known as D.B. Coo- per disappeared out the back en- trance with the money and a para- chute.
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FBI/DOJ
DB Cooper-34286
Serials: MP 164-73, MP 164-73-643