Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle re suspect Just Trippet composite resemblance

Document date 1 December 1971

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Date: 12/1/71

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TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

SUSP

TO: SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 1 P

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, SEVENTY ONE; CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION; OO: SEATTLE.

ON DECEMBER ONE, SEVENTY ONE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], PORTLAND, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS OFFICE [REDACTED] COMPOSITE SKETCH OF UNSUB WHICH APPEARED IN THE PORTLAND NEWSPAPERS CLOSELY RESEMBLES AN INDIVIDUAL, JUST TRIPPET, [REDACTED] IN PORTLAND.

[REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS BEING SIX FEET ONE INCH TALL, MIDDLE AGED, SLENDER BUILD, SOFTSPOKEN, LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE WINLOCK, WASHINGTON. [REDACTED] STATED TRIPPET IS AVID OUTDOORSMAN WHO IS ALWAYS ATTEMPTING SOMETHING SPECTACULAR.

SEATTLE AT WINLOCK, WASHINGTON. CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTI- GATION TO LOCATE JUST TRIPPET. [handwritten, partially illegible: ARE DESIROUS OF IDENTICAL WITH OR [illegible] 59]

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1-Portland JJS[signature] (1) [initialed signature] Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge

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[Stamp box:] 1164-81-332 SEARCHED............INDEXED...... SERIALIZED.........FILED........ DEC 11 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

[FOIA exemption markers:] b6 b7C

[Bottom right:] DB COOPER-45013

[Footer:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1971-418-133 [FOIA exemption markers:] b6 b7C

Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81