Las Vegas to Seattle re search along hijacked aircraft flight route over Nevada
This copy: Part 101 pp. 52–53Also filed at Part 14 pp. 164–165 (primary) · Part 14 pp. 166–167 · Part 54 pp. 331–332
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Las Vegas to Seattle, Phoenix, WFO and Los Angeles re Cooper hijacking
Document date 7 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-101:052-053 Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Seattle, Phoenix, WFO and Los Angeles re Cooper hijacking Id: Cooper-Part-101:052-053 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A052-053 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 101 pp. 52–53 (DB Cooper-45483), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-786 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A052-053
NR 003 LV CODE 1155 AM URGENT 12-7-71 EB TO SEATTLE 164-81 [PHOENIX] WASHINGTON FIELD LOS ANGELES 164-497 FROM LAS VEGAS 164-60
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, SEVENTY-ONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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RE SEATTLE NITEL DECEMBER SIX LAST CONCERNING INFORMATION FROM [REDACTED].
IT IS NOT FELT THAT INFORMATION FROM SOURCE THAT UNSUB [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. AS STATED IN LAS VEGAS TEL NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX LAST, FAA, RENO, MADE INITIAL CONTACT WITH INSTANT FLIGHT AT FRENCHMAN'S RESERVIOR, CALIFORNIA, TEN THIRTY- TWO PM. AT THIS POINT FLIGHT TURNED DUE EAST TO THE NEVADA BORDER AND PROCEEDED DUE EAST TO A POINT TWELVE MILES INSIDE BOUNDARY OF NEVADA. IT THEN PROCEEDED DIRECTLY SOUTH TO RENO, A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FIVE MILES. FLIGHT CIRCLED BRIEFLY IN THE RENO - SPA[K]RS, NEVADA, AREA BEFORE LANDING.
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164/-81-[guess: 786] SEARCHED ——— INDEXED SERIALIZED ——— FILED DEC 7 1971 FBI • SEATTLE DB COOPER-45483
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LV .164-S0
AT TIME OF INITIAL CONTACT INSTANT FLIGHT MAINTAINED ALTITUDE OF ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET AND WAS NOT AT A LOW ALTITUDE UNTIL THE TIME THAT IT CIRCLED OVER THE SPARKS - RENO AREA. IT MADE TWO CIRCLES OVER THIS AREA AND THIS AREA IS A HEAVILY POPULATED AREA WITH RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS TYPE STRUCTURES.
LAS VEGAS COMPLETED DETAILED SEARCH OF ENTIRE ROUTE OF TRAVEL OF HIGHJACKED AIRCRAFT IN NEVADA FROM SMALL LOW FLYING SLOW SPEED AIRCRAFT SUPLEMENTED BY FOUR WHEEL DRIVE LAND VEHICLE IN ANY AREA DEEMED NOT TO HAVE BEEN COVERED BY AIRCRAFT OBSERVATION. SEARCH REVEALED NO INDICATION OF PARAPHERNALIA WHICH OR INDIVIDUAL WHO MIGHT BE CONNECTED WITH CAPTIONED HIJACKING.
AS STATED FLIGHT PROCEEDED DUE EAST AND THE ONLY TIME IT COULD BE SAID THAT [REDACTED - b7D/b7E] WAS WHEN IT WAS OVER ABOVE - MENTIONED RENO - SPARKS AREA. END
JFK FBI SEATTLE CLR
Serials: LA 164-497, LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-786