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30 (Rev. 12-5-78) ar Date: Wed. Edition: (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: San Diego Pe Os er ee oe a. | Sty ayy: Levy Ty a i ba tiem: ye 10% a antes ’ tot D. 8B. Cooper’ | Loot. Found by Family on Outing . By RONALD J. OSTROW spaper, city and state.) A hoom page, name of WASHINGTON—A young Van- couver, Wash., family on an outing ; along the Columbia River last Sunday i suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks of “moldering money—part of the $200,- “000 that the notorious airline hijacker . '"D. B. Cooper” made off with more ‘than cight years ago, the FBI said j Tuesday. : With the bills now having been traced definitely to the Cooper loot, . 30 agents from the Portland and i Seattle FBI offices have begun an ex- tensive search of the area for more of , the money--and possibly for some ; sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re- mains. The money—“several thousand dollars,” according to one official— - ' was found in Washington about five I miles northwest of the Interstate 5 ' bridge that spans the Columbia and » separates Washington from Oregon, FBI agent William M. Baker told a news conference in Portland. v. Discovery of the money by Harold . * wh tA Fea vt . “wo eqstd. tye . ETE PRENES WG HEM Tg ow I Re We PREF ee IEE REPRE mRNA SMELL HEED EE ARE NL A SRR ER PY Boom NE Foes er] ¥ "4 Times Stott Writer . A Soe 2 ad age e wage Bes? Dwayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia, 26, and their sons, 8 and 3, marked the latest twist in the bizarre saga of the now-legendary Cooper, who pa-. rachuted from a Northwest Airlines jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, never to be seen or heard from again.. When found by the Ingrams, the stacks of $20 bills were bound by de- composing rubber bands, the FBI said. But there was “no trace of D. B. Cooper,” according to the agency.” ‘ Shortly after the hijacking, a cult sprang up around D, B. Cooper, a name that never has been traced to its origins. A private club was named in his honor, D. B. Cooper T-shirts were manufactured, bumper stickers were run off and anniversary parties were held. Baker said in Portland that wheth- er Cooper got away with the rest of the money was an open question. Law enforcement authorities long . Please Turn to Page 14, Col, 2 vote bee EL Et JA TIMES, Los Angeles, Ca.; Part I, Pg. lL 2/13/80 Final D. B. COOPER 164-91 IGY-G]~|be SEARCHED.. INDEXED SERIALIZED WD Fep Jorrt | FES 2g 734 FEI — SAN DIEGO FBI/O023 DB Cooper-904