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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-78)

FBI

TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☐ ________ ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ UNCLAS E F T O ☐ UNCLAS Date ________

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PAGE TWO PD 164-41 UNCLAS

DIGITS AND WAS NOT A HIT. [REDACTED], WHO HAD BEEN CALLING FROM COIN TELEPHONE FROM VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, CALLED BACK AT APPROXIMATELY 5:30 P.M. TO DETERMINE RESULTS OF NCIC CHECK AND WAS TOLD FBI WAS INTERESTED IN THE MONEY. APPOINTMENT WAS MADE FOR HIM TO BRING MONEY TO PORTLAND OFFICE, 9:00 A.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1980. AT APPROXIMATELY 9:45 A.M., FEBRUARY 12, 1980, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], APPEARED AT PORTLAND OFFICE AND FURNISHED PORTLAND CASE AGENT, SA RALPH P. HIMMELSBACH, WITH PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING SEVERAL CLUMPS OF $20 BILLS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SERIAL NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY CHECKED, AND ADDITIONAL NUMBERS CONTAINED ON RANSOM LIST AND IDENTIFIABLE AS RANSOM. [REDACTED] STATED THEY HAD BEEN ON FAMILY OUTING ON BEACH OF COLUMBIA RIVER NEAR LAKE VANCOUVER, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 10, 1980, WHEN [REDACTED] DECIDED TO BUILD A BONFIRE. HE ASSEMBLED SOME DRIFTWOOD, AND AS HE STARTED TO PLACE IT ON THE BEACH SAND TO BUILD A FIRE, [REDACTED] BENT DOWN AND, WITH HIS HANDS, SMOOTHED THE SAND TO CLEAR A PLACE TO BUILD THE FIRE. AT THAT MOMENT, [REDACTED] WITH HIS HANDS, A BUNDLE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE MONEY IN THIS MATTER. THE MONEY, AT THAT

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Approved: ________ Transmitted ________ Per ________ (Number) (Time) FBI/DOJ DB Cooper-43237