FD-350 clipping, The Oregonian, 'Search for Cooper goes on' (Tosaw river search)
Document date 29 November 1982
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 97 p. 24 (DB Cooper-43435), News clipping, dated 29 Nov 1982 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-97%3A024-024
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) The Oregonian Portland, Ore. Date: 11/29/82 Edition:
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Character: or Classification: 164-41-Sub/ Submitting Office: Portland
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164-41-1889
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DEC 9 1982
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Search for Cooper goes on
By DENISE MEYER VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — If Dan Cooper still is alive, he's prob- ably laughing at all the hoopla that some people are raising over his dra- matic airplane hijacking 11 years ago Thanksgiving eve.
The hoopla has been expensive for Richard Tosaw, a retired lawyer and former FBI agent from Ceres, Calif., who estimates he has paid $25,000 in the past year in efforts to find the enigmatic folk hero.
"I intend to search until I find him," Tosaw said Wednesday after a fruitless 2½ hours spent dragging the Columbia River near here.
Nov. 24, 1971, a man calling him- self Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines jet and then parachuted out over Southwest Washington with $200,000 he extorted from the airline. Nothing has been found of Cooper since, except for $5,800 in soggy $20 bills that a boy found on the shore of the Columbia in February 1980.
The incident is the only unsolved jetliner hijacking in U.S. history. Tosaw, 57, says he has spent $125 a day for most of the past two weeks for a diver to drag the Columbia near the spot where 11-year-old Brian In- gram, now of San Bernadino, Calif., found the extorted bills.
"The plane went right over here," Tosaw said as he gestured toward the Columbia Wednesday afternoon. "If we're lucky, we'll snag something. We feel a chute is very snaggable."
Tosaw says the money that [guess: Brian] found surfaced when the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the river and deposited silt on the bank.
Although Tosaw claims to be seri- ous about finding Cooper's parachute or other belongings, his hired diver is dragging the river at a painstakingly slow pace with a large steel rake at- tached to a rope.
Tosaw says he is willing to invest another $25,000 to find a trace of Cooper. He says he has written 100 of the projected 150 pages of a book on Cooper. He's publishing it himself and says the $4.50 paperback should be available in stores in eight weeks.
Is Cooper still alive?
"If he could have undone his para- chute and untied the money bag, I think he could have made it," Tosaw says. "The water is so cold, though. I think he had military training, but that water is too cold to last more than about three minutes. And you can't swim very far in three minutes."
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DREDGING FOR DAN — Richard Tosaw demon- strates dredging tool he is using to drag Columbia River for signs of Dan Cooper. He is watched by Brian Ingram, who in February 1980 found $5,800 of the marked $20 bills that Cooper supposedly parachuted with from an airliner. Blake Payne is the pilot.
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DB Cooper-43435
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Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-1889, PD 164-41-SUB