Teletype · Portland to Director re interviews of finders of the ransom money · 20 February 1980 · page 2 of 6AIType, title and date: 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.
Document date 20 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.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 43 p. 178 (DB Cooper-17383), Teletype, dated 20 Feb 1980, serial SE 164-81-8226 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-43/pages/178
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DIGITS AND WAS NOT A HIT. [REDACTED] WHO HAD BEEN CALLING FROM COIN
TELEPHONE FROM VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, CALLED BACK AT APPROXIMATELY
5:30 P.M. TO DETERMINE RESULTS OF NCIC CHECK AND WAS TOLD FBI WAS
INTERESTED IN THE MONEY. APPOINTMENT WAS MADE FOR HIM TO BRING MONEY
TO PORTLAND OFFICE, 9:30 A.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1980. AT APPROXIMATELY
9:45 A.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1980, [REDACTED]
APPEARED AT PORTLAND OFFICE AND FURNISHED PORTLAND CASE
AGENT, SA [REDACTED] WITH PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING
SEVERAL CLUMPS OF $20 BILLS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SERIAL NUMBERS
PREVIOUSLY CHECKED, AND ADDITIONAL NUMBERS CONTAINED ON RANSOM
LIST AND IDENTIFIABLE AS RANSOM. [REDACTED] STATED THEY HAD
BEEN ON FAMILY OUTING ON BEACH OF COLUMBIA RIVER NEAR LAKE VANCOUVER,
VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12, 1980, WHEN
[REDACTED] DECIDED TO BUILD A BONFIRE. HE ASSEMBLED SOME DRIFTWOOD,
AND AS HE STARTED TO PLACE IT ON THE BEACH SAND TO BUILD A FIRE,
[REDACTED] BENT DOWN AND, WITH
HIS HANDS, SMOOTHED THE SAND TO CLEAR A PLACE TO BUILD THE FIRE.
AT THAT MOMENT, [REDACTED] WITH HIS HANDS, A BUNDLE THAT
TURNED OUT TO BE THE MONEY IN THIS MATTER. THE MONEY, AT THAT