SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re source's views on hijacker's survival
Document date 1 March 1977
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-10:166-167 Document: Airtel SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re source's views on hijacker's survival Id: Cooper-Part-10:166-167 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-10%3A166-167 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 10 pp. 166–167 (DB Cooper-1392–1393), Airtel, dated 1 Mar 1977, serial SE 164-81-1624 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-10%3A166-167
FD-36 (Rev. 2-14-74)
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Date: 3/1/77
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Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL - (Precedence)
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK (OO: Seattle)
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Re information from [REDACTED]
On 2/22/77, [REDACTED] Seattle, Washington, was interviewed at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] by SA [REDACTED] furnished the following information:
On the night of 11/24/71, during the hijacking in this matter, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He became aware of the hijacking [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Northwest Flight 305, which was being hijacked, and that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] flown by Northwest Flight 305 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] the Northwest flight when it arrived at Portland.
[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] he recalls that night of 11/24/71, as being [REDACTED]
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(2) - Seattle (2) - Portland RPH:kdth (4)
Approved: ___________ Sent ________ M Per ________ Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-1392
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[guess: Serialized] Indexed [guess: Filed] M
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GPO: 1975 O - 590-992 164-81-1624
PD 164-41
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[REDACTED] advised that he has thought considerably about the hijacking in this matter and has concluded that it is not realistic to assume that the hijacker survived the jump. He said that in view of the very dense terrain in the drop zone area, he can understand why the hijacker's remains have not been found. He suggested that one way this might be facilitated
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Information available to Portland indicates the wind believed to be in effect in the drop zone area at the time the hijacker parachuted was coming from the southwest. If that is the case and the Northwest engineers who computed the location of the drop zone and the prime line along which UNSUB presumably fell were using southwest wind information, then the calculations of the location of the drop zone may not be accurate. A shift of wind from the west to the south would push the east end of the prime line to the north in a counter-clockwise direction. It could cause previously unsearched territory to the west of the drop zone to be included in a new, amended drop zone.
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LEAD
SEATTLE
AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. Will consider causing a dicussion of this matter with the Northwest Airlines engineers who computed the drop zone in this matter to determine whether the information from [REDACTED] is of any significance.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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DB Cooper-1393
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Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1624