Interview of finder of $20 bills reported to Portland FBI 2/11/80
Transcribed 4 March 1980
Also filed at: Part 46 pp. 43–44
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Id: Cooper-Part-96:339-340
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-96:339-340 Document: FD-302 interview of finder of $20 bills reported to Portland FBI 2/11/80 Id: Cooper-Part-96:339-340 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A339-340 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. 339–340 (DB Cooper-43274), FD-302 interview, transcribed 4 Mar 1980, serial PD 164-41-1810 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A339-340
FD-302 (REV. 3-8-77)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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Date of transcription 3/4/80
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At approximately 5:30 p.m., on February 11, 1980, [REDACTED], Vancouver, Washington, telephonically contacted the below listed agent at the Portland FBI Office to advise that he had called 30 minutes earlier and had spoken to a girl in the office and had given her the serial numbers to some $20 bills that he had found, and asked her to check them to see if they were "hot". [REDACTED] was advised that the FBI is interested in the money and was asked if it was pos- sible for him to bring the money into the office. He advised that he could and that he would appear at the Portland Office and bring the money at approximately 9:00 a.m. the following day, February 12, 1980.
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At approximately 9:45 a.m., February 12, 1980, [REDACTED] appeared at the Portland FBI Office with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] at which time he brought with him a small plastic sandwich baggie containing some obviously decomposed $20 Federal Reserve Notes. Immediate examination of the money disclosed that bills bearing the following serial numbers were contained within the parcel:
SERIAL NUMBER YEAR
L 30706882 B 1963 A I 02442844 A 1969 K 03654750 A 1969 I 02591811 A 1969 J 20209868 A 1963 A L 55376548 B 1963 A L 20301456 A 1969 L 51236377 B 1963 A D 27112759 A 1969
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[REDACTED] related that on Sunday afternoon, February 10, 1980, approximately 3:00 to 3:30 p.m., [REDACTED]
He decided [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] this point, [REDACTED] said, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]
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Investigation on 2/11-12/80 at Portland, Oregon File # PD 164-41 - 1810 SA RALPH P. HIMMELSBACH [REDACTED] 2/19/80 by [REDACTED] Date dictated [REDACTED]
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 your agency.
DB Cooper-43274
PD 164-41
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[REDACTED]. As he did so, [REDACTED], which was a [REDACTED] picked up the money and they looked at it and determined that it had once been $20 bills.
The money was badly decomposed [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
They had no idea at this time where the money had come from.
The following day, February 11, 1980, when [REDACTED] went to work he told his fellow employees at the U-Cart Manufacturing Company at 63rd and Andresen, Vancouver, where he is a [REDACTED], about the incident. The fellow employees told him of the Northwest Airlines hijacking that occurred some years ago and is known as the "D. B. Cooper" case. He then called the Portland FBI Office.
Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-1810