Portland letterhead memo re Daily Telegraph article on Qantas hoax 'Mr. Brown'
Document date 8 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-01:005-005 Document: Portland letterhead memo re Daily Telegraph article on Qantas hoax 'Mr. Brown' Id: Cooper-Part-01:005-005 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-01%3A005-005 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 1 p. 5, Memo, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial 164-2111-265 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-01%3A005-005
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
In Reply, Please Refer to File No.
Portland, Oregon
December 8, 1971
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UNKNOWN SUBJECT, also known as Dan Cooper, Northwest Airlines Flight #305, Portland to Seattle, November 24, 1971
"The Daily Telegraph", a London, England, newspaper, contained an article on May 28, 1971, on Page 4, describing a plot by an unknown subject using the name "Mr. Brown". This individual hoaxed the Qantas Airline at the Sydney International Airport, apparently in Australia, into paying 235,000 pounds ransom money after a bomb threat. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707 Airliner. "Mr. Brown" is not described in the article, but an "Identikit" picture of him bears a resemblance to an artist's sketch of an unknown subject who hijacked an airliner between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, and extorted $200,000 from Northwest Orient Airlines. This individual is described as white male, 6'1" tall, 170-175 pounds, age-mid-forties, olive complexion, brown eyes, black hair, conventional cut, parted on left; slender build.
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ENCLOSURE
Serials: 164-2111-265