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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)

(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 4A Minneapolis Tribune Minneapolis, Minn. Date: 2/14/80 Edition: Morning

Title: D.B. Cooper

Character: or Classification: 164-73 Submitting Office: Minneapolis

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FBI digs for more D.B. Cooper loot

Associated Press

Vancouver, Wash. FBI agents used sifting screens and a backhoe Wednesday in a $200,000 treasure hunt along the Columbia River. They were seeking more of D.B. Cooper's loot and and perhaps the remains of the mysterious hi- jacker.

The agents tore up the beach where an 8-year-old boy found several thou- sand dollars in crumbling $20 bills over the weekend. The FBI identi- fied the cash by serial numbers.

Would-be treasure seekers were barred from the area by a sheriff's deputy and a locked gate. The only spectators were three local fisher- men and reporters.

The mystery of what happened to the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jet on Thanksgiving eve 1971 appeared little closer to solu- tion.

"In my own mind, I can rule out the possibility that it (the money) was buried here," said agent Paul Hud- son, coordinator of the digging ef- forts.

FBI spokesman Bill Williams said that the beach where the money was found "is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974. But the dredge will not accept anything as large as a body. A small satchel could go through."

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He added that "we simply don't know the significance of that infor- mation."

The spot, about 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., is several miles downstream from the jet's path on its way to Reno, Nev. The flight originated in Portland, Ore. Once the jet was airborne, the hijacker, who signed on the flight as Dan Cooper, displayed what appeared to be a bomb and demanded the money and four parachutes. Somewhere over southwest Washington, the man who has come to be known as D.B. Coo- per disappeared out the back en- trance with the money and a para- chute.

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FBI/DOJ

DB Cooper-34286