Part 7, page 21

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0-19 (Rev. 1-27-78)

Assoc. Dir. ___ Dep. AD Adm. ___ Dep. AD Inv. ___ Asst. Dir.: ___ Adm. Servs. ___ Crim. Inv. OEQ 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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Eight Years Then Irony

Ralph Himmelsbach is reluctantly retiring from the FBI without having closed the case on the skyjacker called D.B. Cooper. Himmelsbach, based in Portland, Ore., pursued more than a thousand potential suspects and thousands of leads that took him nowhere in the eight years since a man who identified himself as Dan Cooper commandeered a Northwest Airlines jetliner and demanded and received $200,000 and four parachutes. Said Himmelsbach: "We don't know who he was, but we do know a lot of people who he wasn't." Himmelsbach dismisses the idea that he's been on a kind of obsessed manhunt like Inspector Javert in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," but he admits that the case has seldom strayed from his mind over the last eight years. The discovery of some of the ransom money last week leads Himmelsbach "to assume more and more... the possibility that (Cooper) didn't make it." "Isn't it ironic, isn't it?" Himmelsbach asked, that "the first and only concrete bit of information comes only 17 days before I retire."

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The Washington Post ___ Washington Star-News A-2 Daily News (New York) ___ The New York Times ___ The Wall Street Journal ___ The Atlanta Constitution ___ The Los Angeles Times ___

Date 2-22-80

164-5137-1[illegible]

NOT RECORDED 18 AUG 21 1980

PERS. REC. UNIT

[handwritten initials, partially illegible]

FBI/DOJ

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119 68 AUG 22 1980