Part 43, page 316
DB Cooper-17543Serials SE 164-81-8295
Document date 2 March 1980
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 43 p. 316 (DB Cooper-17543), News clipping, dated 2 Mar 1980, serial SE 164-81-8295 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-43/pages/316
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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) p.A8 Seattle Times Seattle, Wa. Date: 3/2/80 Edition: Sunday
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Title: Agent in D.B. Cooper
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle
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Agent in D.B. Cooper case retires
PORTLAND — For more than eight years, Ralph Himmelsbach, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, followed a narrow trail of clues and tips in his quest of a legendary hijacker called D.B. Cooper. But the first real break in the case didn't come until Himmelsbach's F.B.I. career was drawing to a close.
After 29 years with the bureau, Himmelsbach retired as of Friday, a few months before he reaches the mandatory-retirement age of 55.
Himmelsbach was the agent regarded as the bureau's expert on the puzzling case that started when the still-unknown sky pirate leaped from a Northwest Airlines 727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two parachutes on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
Nothing has been heard of Cooper; and nothing was seen of the money until an 8-year-old boy found about $5,800 of it mixed in the sand along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash., February 10.
"It's been an interesting case and I have enjoyed the investigation because of the things that have happened," Himmelsbach said. "It altered my life because of all the attention I have received."
But, he added, "I think I'll walk away from it and it will never bother me."
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