FD-350 clipping re FBI excavation along Columbia River, with AP search photo
Document date 14 February 1980
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 78 pp. 409–410 (DB Cooper-34287–34288), News clipping, dated 14 Feb 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-78%3A409-410
FR-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)
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Cooper caper still baffles FBI
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — FBI agents armed with sifting screens and accompanied by a backhoe conducted a $200,000 treasure hunt along the Colum- bia River on Wednesday, seeking more of a mysterious hijacker's loot and maybe the remains of D.B. Cooper himself.
The agents tore up the sandy beach where an 8-year-old boy found several thousand dollars in crumbling $20 bills over the weekend. The FBI identified the cash through serial numbers.
A GAPING PIT, about 20 yards from the water's edge, showed the spot where Brian In- gram found the three packages of bills on Sunday. On Tuesday, agents digging as deep as 3 feet came up with more bits and pieces of $20 bills from the spot that is sometimes under water as the river level fluctuates.
Any would-be treasure seekers were barred from the area by a sheriff's deputy and a locked gate. The only spectators were three local fishermen, a crowd of reporters and a herd of dairy cattle that munched away in a pen about a hundred yards from the digging.
The mystery of what happened to the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 appeared little closer to solution.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press St. Paul, Minnesota page 2
Date: 2/14/80 Edition:
Title: Cooper caper still baffles FBI
Character: NORJAK or Classification: Submitting Office: Minneapolis
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DB Cooper-34287
FBI agents search near Portland, Ore., for money taken by D.B. Cooper in a 1971 hijacking.
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"It does probably raise as many questions as answers — perhaps more," said agent Paul Hudson, coordinator of the digging efforts. "In my own mind, I can rule out the possibility that it was buried here."
BUT HOW DID the money come to be unearthed on the sandy shore where hundreds of persons come to fish during the breeding runs of salmon and steelhead?
"That beach is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974," said FBI spokesman Bill Williams in Portland. "But the dredge will not accept anything as large as a body. A small satchel could go through."
But he said the money could have been swept down river after the dredging.
"We simply don't know the significance of that information," he said.
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DB Cooper-34288
Serials: NORJAK