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350 (Rev. 12-5-78) “st ~_— (Mount Clipping in Space Below) =-15-GOOPER DEAD? ——~ Some Skyjack Loot Found But ‘Trail Still Cold” ‘From The Soa Diego Union's News Services PORTLAND, Ore. — Children dig: ging in the sand during a family picnic uncovered up to $3,000 of the $200,000 taken by D.B. Cooper in a 1971 jet hijacking in which the hi- jacker escaped by parachute, the FBI said yesteday. FBI officials said the discovery of - the money on a Columbia River beach north of Portland reinforced their long-held theory that Cooper was killed in the daring plunge that Jhas made the aerial bandit a folk : hero in the Pacific Northwest. went ra F No trace has been found of the hijacker. At news conferences in Washing- ‘ton, Seattle and Portland, the FBI confirmed that the money — not counted but estimated at $3,000 or less — was part of the $200,000 in $20 * bills given Cooper on demand after he commandeered a Northwest -Orient Airlines 727 trijet on Thanksgiving eve 1971. . Aman using the name D.B. Coo- per boarded the jet in Portland, + threatened to blow it up, then forced ~ it to land in Seattle to collect the ransom. He allowed 36 passengers aboard the flight to leave the air- _craft, then ordered the crew to fly to Reno. When it landed in Reno, there was no trace of Cooper but the rear exit door under the tail was open. The FBI theorized at the time that Cooper, dressed only in a business suit and street shoes, jumped from the plane over southwest Washing- ton during a freezeing storm. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been on the Cooper case - Since the night of the skyjacking, “said the discovery of the money reduced to “less than 50-50” the odds that Cooper is alive. * h AS re a i rs pe. <P TEUA Cr UAIONET, SOUR TCOENN EN LEER IONE LIRLT TS CHOBE EN ‘onfSentinued ou A-5, Col.1) He +“. page, name of : aper, cily and state.) hn Diego Union, San Diego, Ca.; A-1 Date: Wed. , 2/13/80 Edition: Home . Title: D, B. COOPER Character: HIJACKING or “ Classification: 164-91 Submitting Office: San Diego Fel/ . DB Cooper- “806 ~~ weer EE © RE TET OLN CE oI By 9 FR Yew ay SN °