Urgent teletype Seattle to Portland re suspect Ron White, Northwest Reforestation Products

Document date 1 December 1971

Part 100pages 216–2172 pagesDB Cooper-45165

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 100 pp. 216–217 (DB Cooper-45165), Teletype, dated 1 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-279 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A216-217

NR007 SE PLAIN 11:00AM URGENT 12/1/71 VAB TO PORTLAND (164-41) FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SE- ATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

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DURING THE LATE EVENING HOURS OF NOVEMBER THIRTY, SEVENTYONE, AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NAME OF [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D], [REDACTED], WASHINGTON, APPEARED AT THE YAKIMA, WASHINGTON PO- LICE DEPARTMENT AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD INFORMATION CONCERNING PER- SON WHO HIJACKED CAPTIONED AIRPLANE. [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED BY FBI AGENT AND FURNISHED PHOTOGRAPH OF AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NAME RON WHITE WHOM [REDACTED] STATES IS A HELICOPTER DASH CROP DUSTER PILOT WHO RESIDES IN THE SALEM, OREGON, AREA. PHOTOGRAPH BEARS VERY STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO ARTIST CONCEPTION DRAWING OF UNSUB. [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D] STATES

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DB COOPER-45165 164-81-Sub. 70 279

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THAT WHITE WORKED FOR THE NORTHWEST REFORESTATION PRODUCTS, COMPANY OUT OF SALEM, OREGON AND HAS FAA LICENSE. HE STATED THAT WHITE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN, NOR HEARD OF FROM [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D], WHO RESIDES ON [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D], OREGON FOR AT LEAST [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D]. [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D] STATES THAT WHITE IS A WHITE, MALE, AMERICAN, ABOUT THIRTY- SIX YEARS OF AGE, SIX FEET TALL, AND HAS FLOWN FROM SALEM, OREGON, AREA TO THE LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON AREA IN HIS BUSINESS AND IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT AREA. THE PHOTOGRAPH FURNISHED BY [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D] IS ONE OF WHITE [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D]. PORTLAND AT [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D], OREGON. IMMEDIATELY CONTACT [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D] ON [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D] FOR RECENT CLEAR PHOTOGRAPH OF RON WHITE AND ANY AND ALL BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON HIM. END

Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-279