TeletypePortland to Director re interviews of finders of the ransom money20 February 1980page 5 of 6
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Part 96, page 306

DB Cooper-43240Serials PD 164-41

Document date 20 February 1980

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 p. 306 (DB Cooper-43240), Teletype, dated 20 Feb 1980, serial PD 164-41-1791 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-96/pages/306

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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 FIVE PD 164-41 UNCLAS

ON FEBRUARY 20, 1980, [REDACTED] TELE- PHONICALLY CONTACTED SA HIMMELSBACH, ADVISING THAT SHE HAD HEARD ON THE RADIO THAT THE FBI WAS MAKING AN AWARD TO [REDACTED] FOR HAVING FOUND THE MONEY. SHE WANTED TO CONFIRM THIS. SHE WAS TOLD THAT THE PORTLAND DIVISION HAD NO SUCH INFORMATION. SHE THEN ASKED IF [REDACTED] HAD VISITED THE PORTLAND OFFICE, WHICH WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, AND SHE ASKED IF [REDACTED] BROUGHT ANYTHING WITH HER, AND THIS WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, AND SHE THEN ASKED HOW MANY, AND WAS TOLD FOUR. SHE THEN SAID THAT SHE AND [REDACTED] HAD KEPT TWO BILLS EACH FROM THE RANSOM MONEY FOUND FOR SOUVENIRS NOT REALIZING WHAT IT WAS, AND THAT WHEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE EX- PLAINED TO THEM, THEY, [REDACTED], RETURNED THE MONEY TO THE PORTLAND FBI OFFICE. [REDACTED] THEN REITERATED THE ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] AS TO THE FINDING OF THE MONEY BY [REDACTED], AND STATED THAT [REDACTED] WAS NOT AT THE POINT PLAYING WITH [REDACTED] WHEN THE MONEY WAS FOUND. SHE STATED THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME ANIMOSITY IN THE FAMILY INASMUCH AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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Approved: ___________ Transmitted ___________ Per ___________ (Number) (Time) FBI/DOJ DB Cooper-43240