Part 9, page 206

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FD-50 (Rev. 12-5-78)

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[Top right box:] Duplicate page, name of newspaper, city and state. San Diego Union, San Diego, Ca.; A-4 Date: Thurs., 2/14/80 Edition: Home

Title: D. B. COOPER

Character: or Classification: 164-91 Submitting Office: San Diego

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More $20 Bills Found, Tied To D. B. Cooper

PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — FBI agents found wadded up $20 bills yesterday in muck dredged from the Columbia River six years ago and said the money was part of the $200,000 ransom collected in 1971 by D.B. Cooper before he parachuted into folklore from a hijacked jetliner.

The first money from Cooper's haul was found Sunday on a sandy beach on the north shore of the Columbia 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., by children on a family outing. It totaled about $3,000 and the serial numbers checked matched numbers on the bills given Cooper.

FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach said more money was dug up by agents Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning.

"We have the Army Corps of Engineers and geologists out there," Himmelsbach said. "An agent who was out there said it looks like they'll be able to help us out."

One agent at the site said he dug up a formless fist-size clump of money he described "a wadded up bunch of $20 bills."

Himmelsbach said the geologists and corps scientists probably will be able to determine whether the shore material where the money was found came from the middle of the Columbia River, washed downstream from the Washougal River or was carried upstream from the mouth of the Lewis River and dumped at the site.

The FBI said it had learned that section of the Columbia was last dredged in 1974.

The FBI long believed Cooper parachuted into the drainage of the Lewis River, which empties into the Columbia downstream from Vancouver. The location in which the money was found indicated he landed 20 miles or more away in the drainage of the Washougal River which enters the Columbia upstream from the site.

Before he learned the shore material was dredging spoils from the river, Himmelsbach said the $20 bills had been buried on the shore "probably for several years."

FBI agents Tuesday, digging three feet deep, found more fragments of bills but no more packets from the $200,000 given to Cooper at Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 when he hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727.

Nor was there any trace of the [text truncated at clipping edge]

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SEAR[CHED] SERIALIZED FILED FEB [14] 1980 FBI—SAN DIEGO [8]