Director to All SACs re press release on 34-page ransom serial number list
Document date 8 December 1971
Also filed at: Part 54 pp. 383–384 · Part 91 pp. 257–258
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-08:036-037 Document: Teletype Director to All SACs re press release on 34-page ransom serial number list Id: Cooper-Part-08:036-037 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-08%3A036-037 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 8 pp. 36–37 (DB Cooper-53), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial SD 164-91-16 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-08%3A036-037
NP 349 WA PLAIN 8:56PM NITEL 12-8-71 LPS TO ALL SACS FROM DIRECTOR 2P
NORJAK
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE HAS ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT A "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERIAL-NUMBERED BILLS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, HAS BEEN PREPARED AND IS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY THE FBI THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER ADVISED THAT THE "RANSOM LIST," THIRTY FOUR PAGES IN LENGTH, CONTAINS THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES WHICH WERE PAID TO THE HIJACKER FOR THE RELEASE OF THIRTY SIX PASSENGERS AND TWO CREW MEMBERS. THE HIJACKER BOARDED THE FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HIJACKED THE PLANE JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL IN SEATTLE, END PAGE ONE
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SAC [illegible] ASAC [illegible] [additional handwritten signature, illegible]
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· 164-91-16 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 8 1971 EGO
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DB Cooper-53
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WASHINGTON. HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PARACHUTED FROM THE BOEING SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AIRCRAFT WHILE IT WAS IN FLIGHT FROM SEATTLE TO RENO, NEVADA.
MR. HOOVER ADVISED THAT COPIES OF THE "RANSOM LIST" ARE BEING FURNISHED TO FBI OFFICES AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS. HE REQUESTED ANYONE HAVING ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE NEAREST OFFICE OF THE FBI, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF WHICH MAY BE FOUND ON THE FIRST PAGE OF MOST TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES. END
DDC FBI SAN DIEGO CUL
Serials: SD 164-91-16
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