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50 (Kev. 12-5-78) _ PR aod a tee ie ee ee ped agents found wadded up $20 bills yesterday in muck dredged from the Columbia River six years ago and said the money was part of the 5 $200,000 ransom collected in 1971 by D.B. Cooper before he parachuted , PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — FBI into folklore from a hijacked jet- liner. .~ The first money from Cooper’s haul was found Sunday on a sandy - beach on the north shore of the Columbia 5 miles northwest of Van- couver, Wash., by- children on a family outing. Jt totaled about $3,000 and the serial numbers checked » matched numbers on the bills given Cooper. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach * gaid more money was dug up by agents Tuesday afternoon and yes- terday morning. “We have the Army Corps of Engineers and geologists out there,” Himmelsbach said. “An agent who. was out there said it looks like they’ll be able to help us out.” One agent at the site said he dug up a formless fist-size clump of money he described ‘“‘a wadded up bunch of $20 bills.” Himmelsbach said the geologists and corps scientists probably will be able to determine whether the shore material where the money was found came from the middle of the - Columbia River, washed down- »« Stream from the Washougal River or was carried upstream from the mouth of the Lewis River and a-—Sumped at the site. cmecr e WAL cue. * S eel ape mem at Ene Sa NNR NRO "roe r Sn atm The FBI said it had learned that section of the Columbia was last . dredged in 1974. The FBI long believed Cooper , parachuted into the drainage of the Lewis River, which empties into the * Columbia downstream from Van- couver. The location in which the money was found indicated he land- ed 20 miles or more away in the drainage of the Washougal River which enters the Columbia upstream from the site. Before he learned the shore mate-° rial was dredging spoils from the river, Himmelsbach said the $20 ° bills had been buried on the shore “probably for several years.” FBI agents Tuesday, digging 4 three feet deep, found more frag- ments of bills but no more packets *~ from the $209,000 given to Cooper at : Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 when he hijacked a Northwest Air- ; lines 727, 8 = wee ae oa Blame, Bele a _ Nor, was there any trace omnes" zyme wee icate page, nume of ears city and state.) Diego, Ca. A-4 Date: Thurs. , 271 80 Edition: Home Title: D. B. COOPER Character: or Claseification: a MY oe 6 Submitting Office: Ss » Sn Snnttinn meahald Le i lien ol ic Retail bi aac Diego Union, San 4-9 an 1 Diego 14 -% (-\71 T SEA Asano 7 pene awe 4 a; _ SRA TD, 7 Coa ou FRI—SAN DIEGO “Ss FBI/D002 IB. OORET EO & >