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Exec AD Adm. ___ Exec AD Inv. ___ Exec AD LES ___ Asst. Dir.: ___ Adm. Servs ___ Crim. Inv. ___ Ident. ___ Intell. ___ Laboratory ___ Legal Coun. ___ Plan. & Insp. ___ Rec. Mgt. ___ Tech. Servs. ___ Training ___ Public Affs. Off. ___ Telephone Rm. ___ Director's Ser. ___

[handwritten: A61?] [handwritten case number: 164-5137-A] [handwritten signature/initials: illegible]

N083 RA NOT RECORDED [stamp: 18 AUG 21 1980]

DB COOPER

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VANCOUVER, WASH. (AP) -- THE FBI TODAY CALLED OFF THE SEARCH ALONG A COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH FOR MORE OF THE $200,000 MISSING FROM THE 1971 D.B. COOPER HIJACKING.

"NOT A THING" WAS FOUND THURSDAY AS AGENTS FINISHED SIFTING THE SANDS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE RIVER, SAID JACK PRINGLE, ASSISTANT AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE SEATTLE OFFICE.

"THEY REALLY HAVE NO FURTHER PLACES TO SEARCH" THE BEACH, PRINGLE SAID. IN ADDITION, HE NOTED THE AREA WAS COVERED BY A FRESH SNOWFALL.

HE SAID ANY DECISION ON EXTENDING OR MOVING THE SEARCH TO OTHER AREAS WOULD NOT BE MADE UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK.

KEN MOORE, THE SEATTLE AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE DIGGING, SAID THE MONEY PROBABLY WAS WASHED DOWNSTREAM INTO THE COLUMBIA; MOST LIKELY FROM THE WASHOUGAL RIVER OR FROM ONE OF SEVERAL SMALLER STREAMS IN THE AREA IN WHICH COOPER PROBABLY LANDED.

"TOURISTS WHO WANT TO LOOK FOR MORE COOPER MONEY PROBABLY SHOULD LOOK ON THE WASHOUGAL RIVER," MOORE SAID.

THE FBI SAID A GEOLOGIST HAD CONCLUDED THAT SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS FOUND SUNDAY BY A YOUNG BOY HAD BEEN DEPOSITED ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH AFTER 1974.

THE SEARCH BEGAN TUESDAY THREE MILES SOUTHWEST OF VANCOUVER AFTER A COMPARISON OF SERIAL NUMBERS CONFIRMED THE BOY'S FIND WAS PART OF THE COOPER RANSOM. ADDITIONAL SCRAPS OF MONEY WERE FOUND ON WEDNESDAY.

NO TRACE OF COOPER, THE FIRST PERSON TO HIJACK AN AIRLINER FOR MONEY, HAS BEEN FOUND.

FBI AGENTS HAD BELIEVED HE PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHERE THE CRUMBLED AND WEATHERED BILLS WERE FOUND.

HOWEVER, MOORE SAID IT WAS UNLIKELY THAT THE BILLS HAD WASHED DOWN THE LEWIS RIVER AND THEN BEEN PUSHED UP THE COLUMBIA BY TIDAL ACTION.

"THERE IS NOTHING INFALLIBLE ABOUT OUR ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF WHERE HE LANDED," PRINGLE SAID. "BECAUSE OF STRONG WIND CURRENTS AND [guess: DOING] VARIABLES, WE COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE OFF IN OUR ORIGINAL ESTIMATES."

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