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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78) (dicate page, name of ¢% jspaper, city and state.) Diego Evening Tribune Jan Diego, Ca.; A-3 Date: Thurs., 2/14/80 Edition: Pinal (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Tite: D, Bp, COOPER Character: or Classification: 164—~9] Submitting Office: Gan Diego _ «Sea my it oa 1 at gmgee get ey ae . | ence eens Pi ed wry H FY as Blk I mBenencr uccatuce imaak= ~ BM ep EB avd ae A ERAA OIE LA Be BEPAHED GAWSsS dant ¥ asd DB. Cooper enigma PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — River __ lines jetliner on a rainy Thanksgiv- engineers and geologists analyzing ing Eve in 1971 was found Sunday by the mud around a wad of tattered _—_a picnicking family. ” bills may be able to pinpoint the spot FBI agents Tuesday and yester- where hijacker D.B. Cooper and at day found additional fragments of * least part of the $200,000 ransom he _ bills nearby, in dredged-up material . collected nine years ago parted com- _—on the-north shore of the Columbia pany, the FBI says. River. ’ The first trace of the money Coo- The river was last dredged in 1974, _ per took with him when he parachut- FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach said. ed out of a hijacked Northwest Air- He said Army Corps of Engineers ———? o-w-z--r Scientists and geologists will proba- wee = we wah - ™ 2 se3 => bly be able to determine whether the _ shore material surrounding the bills : came from the middle of the Colum- | bia River, washed downstream from - * the Washougal River or was carried ' upstream from the mouth of the | Lewis River and dumped at the site. , _ “We have the Army Corps of t i Engineers and geologists out there,” Hirnmelsbach said. “An agent who was out there said it looks like they'll be able to help us out.” ~ , The money found Sunday on the north shore of the Columbia River, about 5 miles northwest of Van- couver, Wash., was bound in packets with crumbling rubber bands. It to- taled about $3,000 and the serial numbers checked matched numbers: on the bills given to Cooper at Seat- tle when he hijacked a Northwest . Airlines 727. d The money’s location indicates the « **=-hijacker landed in the drainage of the Washougal River, which enters the Columbia upstream from the Site. _ Before learning the shore material » ~ | had been dredged from the river, Himmelsbach said the $20 bills found , by the children had been buried on | the shore “probably for several ; _ years.” Renin 4 — — <-- 2 ae Tee er es 2 - . rd E Bl é - eeeen OT ate he mee a ~ ~~ - ~ - “= ee en ent catedicne ot tndiahiinaina aaa t eden tie te eee nol a de a . TRE REE :