TeletypePortland to Director and Seattle re discovery of NORJAK ransom moneyFebruary 1980page 5 of 6
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Part 65, page 133

DB Cooper-27372Serials PD 164-41

Document date February 1980

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 65 p. 133 (DB Cooper-27372), Teletype, dated Feb 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-65/pages/133

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ON FEBRUARY [redacted], 198[redacted], [REDACTED] TELE- PHONICALLY CONTACTED SA [REDACTED], ADVISING THAT SHE HAD HEARD ON THE RADIO THAT THE FBI WAS MAKING AN AWARD TO [REDACTED] FOR HAVING FOUND THE MONEY. SHE WANTED TO CONFIRM THIS. SHE WAS TOLD THAT THE PORTLAND DIVISION HAD NO SUCH INFORMATION. SHE THEN ASKED IF [REDACTED] HAD VISITED THE PORTLAND OFFICE, WHICH WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, AND SHE ASKED IF [REDACTED] BROUGHT ANYTHING WITH HER, AND THIS WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, AND SHE THEN ASKED HOW MANY, AND WAS TOLD FOUR. SHE THEN SAID THAT SHE AND [REDACTED] HAD KEPT TWO BILLS EACH FROM THE RANSOM MONEY FOUND FOR SOUVENIRS NOT REALIZING WHAT IT WAS, AND THAT WHEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE EX- PLAINED TO THEM, THEY, [REDACTED], RETURNED THE MONEY TO THE PORTLAND FBI OFFICE. [REDACTED] THEN REITERATED THE ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] AS TO THE FINDING OF THE MONEY BY [REDACTED], AND STATED THAT [REDACTED] WAS NOT AT THE POINT PLAYING WITH [REDACTED] WHEN THE MONEY WAS FOUND. SHE STATED THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME ANIMOSITY IN THE FAMILY INASMUCH AS [REDACTED]

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