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FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)

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No money, no fish Treasure hunters fail to find more Cooper loot

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — When the fellas gather at Tena Bar, fish stories abound. Hardly anyone wants to talk about the D.B. Cooper money that got away. Tena Bar isn't a local watering hole. It's a local fishing hole — and the sand bar on the Columbia River on which the D.B. Cooper loot was found recently. For awhile, all sorts of people gathered at the bar to search for some of the $200,000 ransom money taken by Cooper in the nation's first hijacking-for-profit nine years ago, after a boy found weathered packets of $20 bills in the sand. On Wednesday, however, the only evidence of last week's frantic search of the beach by FBI agents were mounds of sand turned up by the searchers. "We haven't seen anybody," said Bill Holcomb, a Vancouver resident and frequenter of Tena Bar. Holcomb was fishing there with Virgil Nichols and Ken Troupe, both of Vancouver. The trio made up the entire fishing population of Tena Bar on Wednesday. "We drag junk out of this river every day. Plastic, old shoes, things like that," said Nichols. "But never any money." "There may be money here, but there's no fish," Holcomb said. A long trench on the beach dug for use by river experts studying the layers of sand has been refilled, as has the large hole around the spot where 8-year-old Brian Ingram found the Cooper money. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines plane in 1971 and jumped from the back of the jet with $200,000. The Fazio Brothers, who own the beach next to their farming opera-

tion, seem glad it's over. "As soon as the FBI left Friday," said Richard Fazio, "Two people came, got stuck in the sand, and wanted me to pull them out. I did, and then I went up to close the gate." Meanwhile, local FBI agents assigned to the case are awaiting the results of tests of the money by the bureau's crime lab in Washington, D.C., and checking all the leads that invariably crop up when anything to do with the Cooper case is publicized. "Every time you have anything on the Cooper case that gets any publicity, the fallout is a great number of leads — look-a-like leads."

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Page B1 The Daily News Longview, Wa.

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Date: 2/22/80 Edition:

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Character: 164-81 or Classification: Submitting Office: SE

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SUBS: B,E,G,M SEARC / IDE SERIA / LE 19 FBI - SEATT

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