Re witness account of 2/10/80 discovery of Cooper ransom money
This copy: Part 96 pp. 336–337Also filed at Part 46 pp. 46–47 (primary)
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Interview of Vancouver woman present at Cooper money find 2/10/80
Dictated 19 February 1980Transcribed 4 March 1980
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Id: Cooper-Part-96:336-337
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-96:336-337 Document: FD-302 interview of Vancouver woman present at Cooper money find 2/10/80 Id: Cooper-Part-96:336-337 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A336-337 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 96 pp. 336–337 (DB Cooper-43271–43272), FD-302 interview, dictated 19 Feb 1980, serial PD 164-41-1808 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A336-337
FD-302 (REV. 3-8-77)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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Date of transcription 3/4/80
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[REDACTED], Vancouver, Washington, telephone [REDACTED], telephonically contacted the below listed agent on February 13, 1980, to furnish the following information:
She was present with [REDACTED], Washington, on Sunday afternoon, February 10, 1980, when the ransom money from the "D. B. Cooper" skyjacking case was found. She stated that the accounts she had read of the finding of the money in the newspapers were slightly inaccurate and she stated that the actual finding went as follows:
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[REDACTED — large block of text redacted under b6/b7C exemptions]
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[REDACTED] was asked whether all of the money that was found had been turned in, and she asked what if it were not. The importance of turning in all of the money was explained to her and she stated that if there were any further money, she would attempt to obtain it and turn it in.
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On February 14, 1980, [REDACTED] telephonically advised SA HIMMELSBACH that she desired to visit the FBI Office in Portland and bring in additional bills from the ransom. An appointment was made and subsequently [REDACTED] appeared at the Portland FBI Office and handed over an envelope containing four more of the bills bearing the following serial numbers:
SERIAL NUMBER YEAR
G 03072381 B 1969 L 10919321 A 1969 L 55066857 A 1969 L 32987392 A 1969
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Investigation on 2/13-14/80 at Portland, Oregon File# PD 164-41 -1808
by SA RALPH P. HIMMELSBACH Date dictated 2/19/80
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside their agency.
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DB Cooper-43271
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PD 164-41
[REDACTED] stated that to the best of her know- ledge, the four above additional bills were the only ransom money that had not previously been turned in to the FBI by the [REDACTED]. She reiterated at that time, her earlier account of the finding of the money [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-43272
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b6 b7C
Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-1808