Teletype · Portland to Director and Seattle re discovery of NORJAK ransom money · February 1980 · page 3 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 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.
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
PART THREE PD 164-41 UNCLAS
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TIME, WAS IN A PARCEL EASILY HELD TOGETHER BY DECOMPOSED RUBBER-
BANDS WHICH CRUMBLED AND FELL AWAY UPON BEING HANDLED. VARIOUS
MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY EXAMINED AND HANDLED THE MONEY WHICH THEY
THEN TOOK HOME WITH THEM THAT EVENING. THE FOLLOWING DAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 1980, [REDACTED] RELATED THE STORY OF THE FINDING OF
THE MONEY TO FELLOW EMPLOYEES AT U-CART MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
VANCOUVER, WHERE [REDACTED] AND THEY TOLD HIM ABOUT THE
COOPER SKYJACKING CASE AND POSSIBILITY THAT THE MONEY MAY HAVE
COME FROM THIS RANSOM. HE THEN CONTACTED THE PORTLAND FBI OFFICE
UPON GETTING OFF OF WORK THAT DAY.
AT APPROXIMATELY 3:00 P.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1980, [REDACTED]
APPEARED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE PORTLAND FBI OFFICE AT WHICH
TIME [REDACTED] RELATED TO THE PRESS THE ABOVE STORY RELATING TO THE
FINDING OF THE MONEY. ON FEBRUARY 13, 1980, [REDACTED]
[REDACTED], VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, TELEPHONICALLY
CONTACTED SA [REDACTED] AT THE PORTLAND FBI OFFICE TO ADVISE
THAT THE STORY OF THE FINDING OF THE MONEY BY [REDACTED] WAS
NOT ENTIRELY ACCURATE. SHE STATED THAT THE MONEY HAD ACTUALLY
BEEN FOUND BY [REDACTED]