Document date 20 December 1982AIDates: 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 97 p. 25 (DB Cooper-43436), Memo, dated 20 Dec 1982, serial PD 164-41-1890 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-97/pages/25
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
NEWS INQUIRY
In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.
Portland, Oregon
December 20, 1982
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The FBI has been informed that during a dredging operation
of the Columbia River items were located that could have been portions
of a parachute and a money bag. There is speculation by some sources
that these items could be the parachute and money bag of D. Cooper,
the Northwest Airlines hijacker of November 24, 1971.
These items have not been made available to the FBI for
examination; however, from a description of them published by the
news-media, they do not conform with the known description of the
parachute and money container with which Cooper exited the airplane.
NOTE: On 12/20/82, an article by UPI indicated that [redacted], Oregon, [redacted]
located what appeared to be parts of a parachute and a money
bag [redacted] the Columbia River. A review of the file
discloses that the parachute taken by Cooper was white, not
olive drab, and there was no money sack as described by [redacted]