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Bruce:

The money find at Tina's bar just happens to be the same amount (three packs of $20 or $6,000) that DB offered the Flight Crew and they refused it! What would DB do then with the three packs of $20 as he has the bag tied up and around his waist? I think he put the three packs into the paper sack he brought on-board, rolled it up and stuffed it into his shirt. While jumping into the "blast", the paper bag could have been blown out of the shirt and be the carrier that took the three packs to some trees and then over the years to Tina's Bar. The sack would have provided floatation and protection for the three packs and kept them all together until time and weather left only the three pack in the sand. To me this is a logical explanation as to how the money got to Tina's Bar with out any "Monkey Business" on the part of the FBI and explains why the three packs were all stacked together as the bag kept them that way until dissolved.

Bob Sailshaw
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So what year did the neatly stacked three bundles get planted on Tina Bar, with what tool?

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Im expressing my deep frustration that "Tres Bundolas" has been fixicated in the lexicon. Let's cover some historical
territory: (you have no idea how much work it took me to :dredge: the following quotes out. 

Vancouver WASH/UPI Feb20 1980: Only one money "bundle" from the $200,000 hijacking ransom given master
criminal D.B. Cooper eight years ago has been found, the FBI said today. "It's all from one bundle",  said John
Pringle, assistant special agent in charge . . . . 

book: "After Ingram's find of part of one bundle FBI agents found a few more dirty fragments of bills . . .

Daily Record Feb 15, 1980...: "This is the area where a Vancouver picnicking family last Sunday stumbled on a
tattered wad of bills buried three to six inches of sand. The wad had remains of a rubber band around it... 

Spokane Wash February 15, 1980 ... "Pringle disagreed with Himmelsbach's idea on when the money arrived ...
the total amount  that was there prior to the find is undetermined ...

Spokesman Review, 20 Feb 1960: "Meanwhile the FBI said geologists concluded the less than one bundle . . . 

Portland, Feb 20 1980: 'The boy ..... turned up three bundles of money ... appeared to be wrapped with rubber
bands ..... a short distance below the surface.'

Only one bundle the FBI said today has been found at the new location ...

Post Standard Feb 14, 1980: "FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach said more money was dug up by agents Tuesday
afternoon and Wednesday morning" ... "The first money was found in three packages all bound together by
rubber bands" ... "One agent at the site said he also dug up a formless fist-size clump of money he described
as "a wadded up bunch of rotted #20 dollar bills."

'The conservator at the auction company said she has identified 15 more serial numbers, and parts of others,
for a total of perhaps 25 new numbers, and she wonders what additional serial numbers the insurance company
and the FBI money would reveal. It's obviously something more than $5800 which was the published figure.

Im sorry for the margin wrap problems - have no idea and frankly no longer care to solve it - it is what it is.

You musta magically fixed it.  I don't see any margin wrap problem in this post.

I think the possibility should be considered of there being "bundles" and "bundles."  What if there were "packets" (bundles) each containing about $2000, and that some numbers of these were bundled together.

Bruce:

The money find at Tina's bar just happens to be the same amount (three packs of $20 or $6,000) that DB offered the Flight Crew and they refused it! What would DB do then with the three packs of $20 as he has the bag tied up and around his waist? I think he put the three packs into the paper sack he brought on-board, rolled it up and stuffed it into his shirt. While jumping into the "blast", the paper bag could have been blown out of the shirt and be the carrier that took the three packs to some trees and then over the years to Tina's Bar. The sack would have provided floatation and protection for the three packs and kept them all together until time and weather left only the three pack in the sand. To me this is a logical explanation as to how the money got to Tina's Bar with out any "Monkey Business" on the part of the FBI and explains why the three packs were all stacked together as the bag kept them that way until dissolved.

Bob Sailshaw
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One hypothesis about the money find that has not received any attention as far as I know is the notion that the FBI planted the money at Tina Bar to throw the public and us off the trail.  Consider this:

We know that the ground search in the Ariel area was modest in the extreme.  It was conducted primarily by the locals and the feds called them off after four days.  According to the under-sheriff who coordinated the ground search, his groups only covered about one square mile out of about 20. 

At the same time we now know that the feds spent two weeks searching in the Washougal, according to Special Agent Gary Tallis at the Portland Symposium.

Also, Rataczak told me his was east of Victor 23 and Himms says that Bill told him he was flying over the Washougal when Cooper jumped.

So consider that the feds got a good lead on Cooper on the upper slopes of the Washougal or captured him directly. Then some major spin game commenced and pick your favorite reason for a Cooper cover-up - covert ops in Vietnam, funky SAGE radar, or Cooper had pix of J Edgar in corpus delecti.

This angle suggests the Ariel ground search was superfluous and merely a ploy to keep the locals and lookie-loos out of the feds' hair.

So maybe the FBI got everything eventually up on the Washougal - the money, the body, all the chutes and stuff, and then decided to keep quiet about it all. As icing on the cake, they planted twenties at Tina Bar as a major mind-fuck to anyone looking closely.

Wild?  Yeah, but it connects so many dots.

Consider this- If you had a really big secret to keep secret what would you do?  How far would you go?  How far do you think the feds are willing to go to protect powerful people, Nat Security, etc?

Bruce, the FBI did not plant the money on Tina Bar ... any more than they planted the Moon in its orbit!

The only "Three Bundles" is in people minds ....

Okay, Georger, let's say you are 100% correct, and the feds didn't plant a thing.  Then why do we have so many inconsistencies about the ground search and the money find? Why was the immediate search in Ariel and Amboy so modest?  Why were the feds up in the Washougal for an extra week or two when they called off the ground search in Ariel? How come there was no substantive plume field at Tina Bar area? Where are the shards that Himms claims his team dug out of the sand?

I can accept the notion that the feds didn't plant the money, but plenty of other questions still await an answer.  I'm just trying to connect the dots; you make the call.

A "bundle" of strapped cash a/k/a a "brick" contains 1,000 notes.

The 1,000 notes are a "bundle" of 10 "straps" of a single denomination of currency or notes.

Each strap contains 100 notes of single denomination. Therefore a "bundle" contains 10 straps X 100 notes which equal 1,000 notes.
If the notes are $20s (as in this example) then the value of 1 Strap = $2,000 and the value of 1 Bundle = $20,000.

100 notes is the worldwide standard count for one strap - regardless of denomination. 10 straps always = one bundle.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury packages twenty dollar bills in bundles of one-hundred. One bundle of twenty dollar bills is equal to $2,000. Bills packaged by the treasury department are bundled with paper straps fixed across their width.

didn't Carr say the "bundles" were different to make it appear the money was quickly put together? has the FBI ever concluded 100 bundles were in the bag?

Yes, Georger, our work on Norjak may be only an advanced course in Zen unemotionality.  So many questions, so few facts and even fewer answers.

But don't you think there is a compelling symmetry to the notion that the feds buried the money and were running a spin job cover-up?