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Baker said one of the first chores for the agency
will be to attempt to find how the money got to the
beach. He said the FBI believes the money was washed
up on the shoreline at a time when the Columbia was
running high.
He said experts in hydrology and topography
would be consulted to determine how the money got to
the beach. The FBI has meticulously reconstructed
flight conditions that existed at the time Cooper is
believed to have jumped.
The FBI believes Cooper jumped out over the
small Washington town of La Center, about 20 miles
north of Vancouver. In nearby Ariel, Wash., a tiny
town that has adopted Cooper as a folk hero, city
fathers hold "Cooper Caper Days" each year on the