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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 12/22/82

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SERIOUS ABOUT FINDING COOPER'S PARACHUTE OR OTHER BELONGINGS, HIS [REDACTED] THE RIVER AT A PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW PACE WITH A LARGE STEEL RAKE ATTACHED TO A ROPE."

ON DECEMBER 16, 1982, A NEWS SOURCE ADVISED THAT TOSAW RENEWED HIS PUBLICITY EFFORTS, AND THAT A WIRE SERVICE STORY WAS GOING OUT REPORTING FINDINGS OF PORTIONS OF A PARACHUTE AND MONEY SACK, PROBABLY THAT OF COOPER'S. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FINDINGS WERE FURNISHED BY THE SOURCE. THE "EVIDENCE" CONSISTED OF NYLON CORD AND A BRIGHT GREEN PORTION OF NYLON CLOTH SIMILAR TO THAT USED ON SAILBOATS. PARACHUTES FURNISHED TO COOPER WERE WHITE, AND THERE WAS NO MONEY SACK ASSOCIATED WITH THE CASE.

PORTLAND HAS CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO NEITHER INTERFERE WITH TOSAW'S RIGHT TO PUBLISH A BOOK AND DO RESEARCH ON COOPER, NOR TO INAPPROPRIATELY SPEND GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOLLOWING UP ON MATTERS CLEARLY NOT ASSOCIATED WITH KNOWN FACTS BUT WHICH APPEAR TO BE DERIVED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF A PRIVATE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE. AS A RESULT, PORTLAND RESPONDED TO THE DELUGE OF NEWS INQUIRIES BY SIMPLY STATING THAT THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ITEMS FOUND DID NOT MATCH THE PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE THAT LEFT THE AIRPLANE WITH MR. COOPER.

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Approved: ____________ Transmitted ____________ Per ____________ (Number) (Time) U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1982 0 - 369-895 DB Cooper-43445