Document date 13 February 1980AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 p. 204 (DB Cooper-908), News clipping, dated 13 Feb 1980, serial SD 164-91-170 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-09/pages/204
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[Indicate page, name of]
[sp]r, city and state.)
[San] Diego Evening Tribune
San Diego, Ca.; A-3
Date: Wed., 2/13/80
Edition: Final
Title: D. B. COOPER
Character:
or
Classification: 164-91
Submitting Office: San Diego
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BREAK IN D.B. COOPER CASE
FBI hunts more
[S]kyjacker loot near river
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PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — Children playing in the sand along the Columbia River found tattered remains of part of the loot paid to skyjacker D.B. Cooper. The find has triggered a search for more of the $200,000 ransom.
Discovery of the money was the first break in the case since Cooper bailed out of a plane into a rainy night in 1971.
FBI agents dug up more fragments of wet $20 bills late yesterday along the river on the Fazio Ranch five miles west of Vancouver, Wash. Agents continued the search today.
FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been on the case since the Thanksgiving Eve hijacking, said the finding of the money reduces to "less than 50-50" the odds that Cooper is still alive.
Cooper's case is the nation's only unsolved aerial hijacking for ransom. Since then, 13 persons have [text truncated]
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D.B. COOPER
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