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FD-850 (Rev. 12-5-78) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 2/13/80 Edition: Wednesday. Latest

Title: D.B. AND THE MONE[Y]

Character: or DAMV Classified Submitting Los Angeles b6 b7C

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D.B. and the money

VANCOUVER, Wash. — William M. Baker, assistant agent Twelve packets of $20 in charge of the Portland FBI bills, used eight years office, said discovery of the money ago as part of the $200,- lends credence to the FBI theory 000 paid to airline hijacker "D.B. that Cooper died in the hijacking Cooper," have been found on a attempt. Columbia River beach near here, Cooper's extortion effort was the the FBI announced yesterday. first time a jet had been hijacked Harold D. Ingram, 27, his wife, for ransom. A number of hijack- Patricia, 26, and their two sons, ings for cash have been carried out were picnicking on what is known since the Cooper escapade. as Tena's Bar last Sunday when Baker said the FBI could not be their older son discovered the certain how much money was in money. the packets, but said it amounted Eight-year-old Brian Ingram was to "several thousand dollars." helping his father gather firewood The money has been sent to the and had scooped out sand for a FBI laboratory in Washington, fire. As his father was about to D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will drop an armload of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the Ingram said, "Wait a minute, bills, which could lead to the Daddy." suspect. Recalling his find yesterday, "That would be a hell of a Brian said, "I seen that money, I break," he said. thought, wow." But his parents remained calm, the son recalled. They thought it was counterfeit. The tattered and worn bills young Ingram found were the first to be recovered by law enforce- ment agencies since Nov. 24, 1971, when a passenger hijacked a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727. The man, identified on the flight list as Dan Cooper, parachuted out of the airliner somewhere over southwestern Washington. The serial numbers on the bills discovered by young Ingram matched those on the money given Cooper by the FBI in 1971.

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Subs B; [redacted] b6 b7C

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[redacted] 16-1-91-8215 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED...... FEB 19 1980

SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED...... FEB 1 [guess: 8] 1980 FBI — LOS ANGELES

FBI/DOJ

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DB Cooper-17356 ORIGINAL TO THE BUREAU