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Tattered pants found Cooper probed on in county

By DAVID KERN Columbian Staff Writer

ARIEL — Seven FBI agents searched 3½ hours without success today for clues in the D.B. Cooper sky- jacking case following the discovery of a pair of tattered, moss-stained pants in a tree three miles southeast of Merwin Dam.

"We searched and we didn't find anything else," said John Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office. "There's no way anybody can say whether his body is in there. The undergrowth is ex- tremely thick and it's been five years and you never know."

Pringle said they were calling off the search at least for the time being and would probably return to Seattle.

The agents, carrying shovels and axes and wearing coveralls, were seen by one resident as they got out of their cars about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday on Lynch road in the Green Mountain area of northern Clark County and begin searching the woods. The gray-blue glen plaid pants were said by the FBI to have been found late last month by William Lynch, a Woodland-area hunter, as they were hanging about 25 feet above the ground in a Douglas-fir.

Authorities were quick to warn that the pants found by Lynch might not be Cooper's and that the discovery

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Date: 11-24-76 Edition: Author: Editor: [guess: R.C. Campbell] Title:

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