Memo · Press inquiry statement re total of recovered D.B. Cooper ransom bills · 28 February 1980 · 1 pageAIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 28 February 1980AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 p. 323 (DB Cooper-43258), Memo, dated 28 Feb 1980, serial PD 164-41-1802 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-96/pages/323
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Portland, Oregon
February 28, 1980
PRESS INQUIRY
Arthur G. Barger, Special Agent in Charge of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation for the State of Oregon,
announced today the $20 bills located on a sandy beach near
Vancouver, Washington, on February 10, 1980, and verified
as a portion of the ransom money given to the hijacker of
a 727 jetliner at Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971,
has been examined by the Laboratory Division of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. The results of the examination
place the amount recovered at approximately $5800. As
expected, no fingerprints were present on the bills.
The examination reveals that the bills had, in fact, been
immersed in water for an extended period and silt deposits
among the bills indicate a probability that they were
washed onto the site where they were found rather than
having been dredged from the Columbia River.
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