News clippingFBI routing slip 0-20 with UPI story re retirement of SA Ralph Himmelsbach6 August 19801 page
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Part 7, page 16

Document date 6 August 1980

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 7 p. 16, News clipping, dated 6 Aug 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-07/pages/16

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0-20 (Rev. 9-5-78) Exec AD Adm. ___ Exec AD Inv. ___ Exec AD LES ___ Asst. Dir.: Adm. Servs. ___ Crim. Inv. [guess: 069] Ident. ___ Intell. ___ Laboratory ___ Legal Coun. ___ Plan. & Insp. ___ Rec. Mgnt. ___ Tech. Servs. ___ Training ___ Public Affs. Off. ___ Telephone Rm. ___ Director's Sec'y ___

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PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI) -- FBI AGENT RALPH HIMMELSBACH RETIRES FRIDAY, GIVING UP HIS EIGHT-YEAR HUNT FOR ONE OF AMERICA'S LEGENDARY CRIMINALS -- SKYJACKER D.B. COOPER, WHO PARACHUTED FROM A JET WITH $200,000 IN RANSOM. THE FBI, OF COURSE, WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE COOPER BUT HIMMELSBACH, 54, IS TURNING IN HIS CREDENTIALS SEVEN MONTHS EARLY, USING ACCUMULATED SICK LEAVE TO GET FAVORABLE RETIREMENT BENEFITS. "IF I HAD MY CHOICE, I'D STAY ON," HE SAID. "I'M IN TOP PHYSICAL SHAPE."

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164-5132A- ACT RECORDED 33 1980

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[illegible — appears to be an agent's signature or initials]

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55 08 AUG 06 1980

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WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE

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