Document date 23 December 1982AIDates: 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.
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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SERIOUS ABOUT FINDING COOPER'S PARACHUTE, OR OTHER BELONGINGS,
HIS [REDACTED] THE RIVER AT A PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW
PACE WITH A LARGE STEEL RAKE ATTACHED TO A ROPE."
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ON DECEMBER 16, 1982, A NEWS SOURCE ADVISED THAT [REDACTED]
RENEWED HIS PUBLICITY EFFORTS, AND THAT A WIRE SERVICE STORY WAS
GOING OUT REPORTING FINDINGS OF PORTIONS OF A PARACHUTE AND MONEY
SACK, PROBABLY THAT OF COOPER'S. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FINDINGS WERE
FURNISHED BY THE SOURCE. THE "EVIDENCE" CONSISTED OF NYLON CORD
AND A BRIGHT GREEN PORTION OF NYLON CLOTH SIMILAR TO THAT USED ON
SAILBOATS. PARACHUTES FURNISHED TO COOPER WERE WHITE, AND THERE
WAS NO MONEY SACK ASSOCIATED WITH THE CASE.
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PORTLAND HAS CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO NEITHER INTERFERE WITH
[REDACTED] AND DO RESEARCH ON COOPER, NOR
TO INAPPROPRIATELY SPEND GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOLLOWING UP ON MATTERS
CLEARLY NOT ASSOCIATED WITH KNOWN FACTS BUT WHICH APPEAR TO BE
DERIVED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF A PRIVATE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.
AS A RESULT, PORTLAND RESPONDED TO THE DELUGE OF NEWS INQUIRIES
BY SIMPLY STATING THAT THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ITEMS FOUND DID
NOT MATCH THE PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE THAT LEFT
THE AIRPLANE WITH MR. COOPER.