Document date 17 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.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 62 p. 208 (DB Cooper-25915), News clipping, dated 17 Feb 1980, serial LA 164-497-1008 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-62/pages/208
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Despite the chance dis-
covery of ragged bundles
of the skyjacker's loot by
a picnicking Vancouver,
Wash., family last week
on the banks of the Col-
umbia River, Cooper re-
mains as much a mystery
in the Pacific Northwest
as Bigfoot.
"It's perplexing," Him-
melsbach said, jamming
an index finger into a
leather couch at the Port-
land FBI headquarters.
"It's really a perplexing
question."
Yet the tightly built, 54-
year-old special agent
boasts an analytical de-
tachment from the vex-
ing Cooper case. He seems
more bothered by his
pending retirement.
"I'd rather not retire