WFO to Director and field offices re suspect 'The Hero', seventeen pages
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-100:062-071 Document: Teletype WFO to Director and field offices re suspect 'The Hero', seventeen pages Id: Cooper-Part-100:062-071 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A062-071 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 100 pp. 62–71 (DB Cooper-44975, DB Cooper-44976, DB Cooper-44977, DB Cooper-44991), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-690 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A062-071
DECLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY DERIVED FROM: FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIFICATION GUIDE DATE 09-26-2024 BY: [redacted]
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NR009 WA CODE
3:20AM 12-4-71 DCW
3:07AM 12-4-71
URGENT 12-3-71 MWM
TO DIRECTOR ALEXANDRIA (MAIL) BUTTE LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS (MAIL) NEWARK NORFOLK (MAIL) PHOENIX (MAIL) RICHMOND (MAIL) SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE
ALL OFFFICES VIA WASHINGTON
FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) (SEVENTEEN PAGES)
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SUSP: [redacted] [redacted] "
SUB "
BOEING TECH DATA PARACHUTES.
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION, 00:SE.
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RE PHOENIX AIRTEL TO SEATTLE NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE LAST; SEATTLE TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND WFO DECEMBER ONE LAST; SAN FRANCISCO TELETYPE TO SEATTLE AND WFO DECEMBER TWO LAST; LOS ANGELES NITEL TO PHOENIX, SEATTLE, AND WFO DECEMBER TWO, LAST; WFO TELEPHONE CALL TO LOS ANGELES DECEMBER THREE INSTANT; NEWARK TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND OTHERS DECEMBER THREE INSTANT.
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164-81-690 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 4 1971 FBI - SEATTLE [signature/initials illegible] DB COOPER-44975
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DB COOPER-44976
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DB COOPER-44977
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RE: SUSPECT "THE HERO" REFERRED TO IN REFERENCED LOS ANGELES [REDACTED] TO PHOENIX, SEATTLE, AND WFO, DATED DECEMBER TWO LAST:
TODAY, [REDACTED] SHERATON CARLTON HOTEL, SIXTEENTH AND K STREETS, NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDC) TELEPHONE NUMBER (AREA CODE [REDACTED] [REDACTED], ADVISED SUITE [REDACTED] WHICH INCLUDES ROOMS [REDACTED]
HOTEL RECORDS DISCLOSED THAT ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVEN LAST, [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] SPRINGFIELD", STATE b6 b7C NOT LISTED, RECIEVED CONFIRMATION OF RESERVATIONS FOR TWO NIGHTS STAY BEGINING ON SAME DATE. RECORDS FURTHER REFLECTED THAT [REDACTED] CHECKED IN HOTEL AND REGISTERED IN SUITE [REDACTED], NOVEMBER TWENTYSEVEN LAST. AT TIME OF REGISTRATION, [REDACTED] LISTED HOME ADDRESS AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] INDIANA, AND REFLECTED HIS EMPLOYMENT AS [REDACTED] NO ADDRESS LISTED.
FURTHER REVIEW OF HOTEL RECORDS DISCLOSED THAT ON NOVEMBER TWENTY EIGHT LAST, [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] [REDACTED] REPRESENTING [REDACTED] CHECKED IN HOTEL AT [REDACTED] AND REGISTERED IN SUITE [REDACTED] FOR TWO NIGHTS STAY. FROM HOTEL RECORDS IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE AFORMENTIONED [REDACTED] WAS ORIGINALLY REGISTERED IN ROOM [REDACTED] AND SUBSEQUENTLY MOVED TO SUITE [REDACTED] UPON [REDACTED] ARRIVAL. END PAGE FIVE
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RECORDS ALSO REVEAL (FIRST NAME UNKNOWN (FNU))
[REDACTED] JOINED [REDACTED] IN SUITE [REDACTED] ON DECEMBER TWO LAST BUT THAT [REDACTED] MOVED INTO SUITE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FROM ANOTHER ROOM WHICH HE INITIALLY OCCUPIED ON AN UNKNOWN DATE. IN THIS REGARD, HOTEL RECORDS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE BUT ARE BEING LOCATED BY [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] SUITE [REDACTED] WAS ALSO OCCUPIED BY ANOTHER UNKNOWN WHITE MALE AMERICAN, DESCRIBED AS "DEAN MARTIN" TYPE, SIX FEET, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY POUNDS, WHITE HAIR, WHO SPOKE WITH A TEXAS ACCENT AND WHO ALWAYS WORE SWEATER AND SLACKS AND PRESENTED SUAVE APPEARANCE.
[REDACTED] PROVIDED FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION CONCERNING OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN SUITE [REDACTED] [REDACTED], BUT UNABLE TO POSITIVELY ASSOCIATE NAMES WITH DESCRIPTIONS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
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WFO 164-169
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A CHECK WITH METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT, WDC, DISCLOSED THAT SOMETIME BETWEEN ONE OCLOCK A.M. AND EIGHT OCLOCK A.M., DECEMBER ONE LAST, SUITE [REDACTED] WAS BURGLARIZED AND THREE ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS AND TEN TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS WERE TAKEN FROM WALLET WHICH WAS THE PROPERTY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED], WHITE MALE, DATE OF BIRTH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RESIDING [REDACTED] WORTH, TEXAS, TELEPHONE NUMBER (AREA CODE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] EMPLOYMENT IS LISTED ON POLICE REPORT AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
SEARCH OF SUITE [REDACTED] BY BUREAU AGENT REVEALED THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:
NUMBEROUS WDC NEWSPAPERS FROM WHICH HEADLINES AND OTHER LARGE PRINT HAVE BEEN CLIPPED, SUCH AS, FOOD ADVERTISEMENTS, ETC.
FOUR EMPTY BOTTLES WHICH APPARENTLY CONTAINED VARIOUS
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WFO 164-169
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VALIDATED STAMP. NEW [REDACTED] ISSUED ACCORDINGLY. LICENSED
AS [REDACTED] b6 per USCG b7C per USCG AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ON [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] LICENSE NUMBER [REDACTED]
THE FILE CONTAINED NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
ON DECEMBER ONE LAST A SEARCH WAS MADE AT THE
[REDACTED], UNITED STATES COAST b6 per USCG GUARD HEADQUARTERS AND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS b7C per USCG
OBTAINED:
ON OCTOBER TWENTY ONE, LAST [REDACTED]
[REDACTED], SEATTLE, WASHINGTON OF WHICH [REDACTED] b6 per USCG b7C per USCG [REDACTED]
[REDACTED], BOUND FROM THE PORT OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ONE
OR MORE PORTS IN THE FAR EAST, EITHER DIRECT OR VIA
ONE OR MORE PACIFIC COAST PORTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND
CANADA INCLUDING ALASKA AND SUCH OTHER PORTS AND PLACES IN
ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE MASTER MAY DIRECT, AND BACK
TO A FINAL PACIFIC COAST PORT OF DISCHARGE IN THE
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WFO 164-169
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CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, FOR A TERM OF TIME NOT EXCEEDING NINE CALENDAR MONTHS." [REDACTED] SIGNED OFF THE [REDACTED] LAST. [REDACTED] LISTS HIS NEXT OF KIN AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THE
RECORDS CONTAIN NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
WFO SENDING FACSIMILE PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] TO SEATTLE WITH THIS COMMUNICATION. RE: SUSPECT [REDACTED] INVESTIGATION AT CENTRAL OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (INS), WDC, DISCLOSED INS FILE [REDACTED] CONCERNS [REDACTED] AND FILE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BOTH FILES ARE CURRENTLY CHARGED OUT TO INS, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
BASED ON AVAILABLE INFORMATION, NO RECORD LOCATED AT PASSPORT OFFICE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE (USDS), END PAGE FIFTEEN
WFO 164-169
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WDC, IDENTIFIABLE WITH [REDACTED] DATE OF BIRTH [REDACTED]
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LEADS
[REDACTED]
LOS ANGELES AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. WILL CONTACT [REDACTED] RE INFORMATION CONCERNING SUSPECT "THE HERO."
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NEWARK AT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. WILL CONTACT INS' AND REVIEW INS FILES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] PERTAINING TO [REDACTED] RESPECTIVELY.
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SAN DIEGO, AT IMPERIAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA. WILL CONTACT [REDACTED] AND DETERMINE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OF [REDACTED] SUSPECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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DB COOPER-44991
Serials: SE 164-81-690, WF 164-169