SAC Seattle to Director re Seattle-First National Bank ransom bill serial numbers
Document date 25 November 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-10:459-460
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-10:459-460 Document: Airtel SAC Seattle to Director re Seattle-First National Bank ransom bill serial numbers Id: Cooper-Part-10:459-460 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-10%3A459-460 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 10 pp. 459–460 (DB Cooper-1692–1693), Airtel, dated 25 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-58 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-10%3A459-460
11/25/71
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AIRTEL AIRMAIL
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-NEW)
SUBJECT: UNSUB; Northwest flight 305 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
Re Seattle teletype, 11/25/71.
Enclosed herewith is one box of Recordak Microfilm (developed) for use in a Recordak Reliant 600K microfilm viewer.
On November 25, 1971, [REDACTED] Seattle-First National Bank, 4th and Madison, Seattle, Washington, provided SA [REDACTED] with a microfilm canister containing photographs of the serial numbers of $250,000 worth of notes, in various denominations. [REDACTED] advised that the Bureau should only be concerned with the serial numbers of the $20 bills. The extortion package which was given to the hijacker contained only bills of $20 denomination. [REDACTED] said the microfilm contained the serial numbers of $230,000 of $20 bills. He provided a list of serial numbers of the $20 bills which were on the microfilm, itself, but were not included in the extortion money package which the Unsub received. These $20 bills are packed in packets of 100 bills; and [REDACTED] provided the first and last serial numbers in each of these packets of 100 bills. He advised that these serial numbers
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3 - Bureau (Enc. 1) (1 - hand-carried package by courier) (2)- Seattle PKM:bfr (5)
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Searched...... Serialized...... Indexed...... Filed......
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[guess: CM] 164 - 81 - 58[illegible] FARREL
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DB Cooper-1692
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b6 b7C
SE 164-NEW
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as well as the 98 serial numbers contained between each of these first and last serial numbers should be subtracted from the rest of the $20 serial numbers to obtain the serial numbers of the $200,000 worth of $20 bills which the Unsub actually received. These serial numbers are as follows:
E 50344994A through E 50344506A B 07656937B through L 05419634A E 22084591A through L 66634223B L 52807604A through L 01043096 L 19538120A through L 72860402B G 98535159A through L 14348843A L 34429987A through L 19556442A L33474929A through L 09819218A L 38139808A through L 00934693 L 34346374A through L 33449321A L 41197159A through E 12561828B L 33639577A through L 20458572A J 02051511 through I 00466866 L 33410247A through L 32378753A C 05722105A through G 16813690A
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DB Cooper-1693
Serials: SE 164-81-58