Anonymous handwritten letter to FBI claiming knowledge of Cooper's identity, with routing sheet and envelope
Document date 12 February 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-09:459-461 Document: Anonymous handwritten letter to FBI claiming knowledge of Cooper's identity, with routing sheet and envelope Id: Cooper-Part-09:459-461 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A459-461 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 9 pp. 459–461 (DB Cooper-1183–1185), Letter, dated 12 Feb 1976, serial PD 164-41-1509 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A459-461
[b6/b7C redaction block] The [place?] [illegible name/text] al. [illegible]
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THIS IS THE [b6/b7C redacted name] WHO TALKED TO [b6/b7C redacted] 2/16/76 NO ACTION INDICATED. [initialed signature]
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164-41-1509
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SEARCHED INDEXED [initialed] SERIALIZED FILED [initialed]
FEB 17 1976
[blank box] AND [signature/initials]
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Letter torn when received 2-17-76 [initials]
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DB Cooper-1183
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[illegible — heavy black scan artifact columns]
FEB. 12, 1976
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I THINK I KNOW WHO D.B. COOPER IS. THIS IS NO CRANK LETTER, IT MAY BE THAT I AM WRONG. I AM NOT IMPLICATED.
I AM ASKING A CERTAIN FAVOR, NOT OF MYSELF, & ALSO THE REWARD MONEY. I AM WILLING TO COME FORWARD WITH THIS INFO., BUT YOU HAVE TO MEET CERTAIN CONDITIONS (ABOVE).
I WANT YOU TO PLACE AN AD IN THE PERSONEL MESSAGE COLUMN OF THE SUNDAY ORE[GONIAN] ACKNOWLEDGING THE LETTER & ARE WILLING TO MEET MY DEMANDS. DIRECT THE AD TO [REDACTED — b6/b7C/b7D] TIME IS IMPORTANT, IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE AD IS PLACED IN THE SUN. ORE. FEB 15, 1976, IF YOU DO SO I WILL CONTACT YOU [REDACTED — b6/b7C/b7D]
[REDACTED — b6/b7C/b7D]
I URGE YOU TO ACT PROMPTLY ON PLACING THE AD.
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DB Cooper-1184
PORTLAND. OR 97276 PM 12 FEB 1976
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 1500 S.W. 1ST AVE CITY 97201
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DB Cooper-1185
Serials: PD 164-41-1509