Part 78, page 405

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

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Boy on picnic discovers D. B. Cooper hijack loot

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Twelve weathered stacks of $20 bills — part of the $200,000 given to legendary airline hijacker "D. B. Cooper" be- fore he parachuted from an airliner more than eight years ago — were produced Tuesday by the FBI.

But agents said they still have no trace of Cooper.

"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office.

He said wads of the money, bound by rubber bands, were found Sunday while Harold Ingram, his wife, Patricia, and their 8-year-old son, Bri-

an, were preparing to build a picnic fire along the Columbia River, five miles northwest of the Interstate 5 bridge linking Portland and Van- couver, Wash., where the Ingrams live.

Ingram said at a press conference here that, the money was found about 20 yards from the river's edge under a thin layer of sand.

"MY SON ran up and said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy,' " Ingram said. "He raked a place out in the sand and there it was. There were three bundles" of money.

Baker said officials estimated there were sev- eral thousand dollars in the wads, but it was im- possible to make an accurate estimate because

See Cooper, Page 9.

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D. B. Cooper Artist's sketch of hijacker

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)

St. Paul Pioneer Press St. Paul, Minnesota pages 1 and 9

Date: 2/13/80 Edition:

Title: NORJAK

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Minneapolis

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FBI/DOJ DB Cooper-34283