Part 78, page 410
Document date 14 February 1980
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 78 p. 410 (DB Cooper-34288), News clipping, dated 14 Feb 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-78/pages/410
Transcript
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FBI agents search near Portland, Ore., for money taken by D.B. Cooper in a 1971 hijacking.
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"It does probably raise as many questions as answers — perhaps more," said agent Paul Hudson, coordinator of the digging efforts. "In my own mind, I can rule out the possibility that it was buried here."
BUT HOW DID the money come to be unearthed on the sandy shore where hundreds of persons come to fish during the breeding runs of salmon and steelhead?
"That beach is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974," said FBI spokesman Bill Williams in Portland. "But the dredge will not accept anything as large as a body. A small satchel could go through."
But he said the money could have been swept down river after the dredging.
"We simply don't know the significance of that information," he said.
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DB Cooper-34288