SAC Seattle to Director (Attn: Laboratory) and SAC Las Vegas re D. B. Cooper letter to Seattle Times
Document date 13 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-101:261-262 Document: Airtel SAC Seattle to Director (Attn: Laboratory) and SAC Las Vegas re D. B. Cooper letter to Seattle Times Id: Cooper-Part-101:261-262 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A261-262 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. 261–262 (DB Cooper-45730–45731), Airtel, dated 13 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A261-262
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12/6/71
AIRTEL AIR MAIL
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI [guess: SACS], FBI LABORATORY SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-[illegible]) (P)
FROM: [guess: SAC, SEATTLE] RE: HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305 11/24/71 [guess: OO] - MINNEAPOLIS NORJAK
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Re Las Vegas [illegible] to the Bureau, 12/[illegible].
[guess: Enclosed] for the Laboratory [guess: is a] [illegible] [guess: coating], "Plan Ahead" [guess: for enclosures] [guess: from] D. B. Cooper, and [guess: envelope addressed] to "Tom Cooper" [illegible] [guess: previously] [guess: forwarded] to Bureau, [guess: received] on [REDACTED] [illegible], 1971, and [illegible] of [illegible] [guess: phone] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] [guess: Two] [illegible] [guess: County] [illegible], b6 on [guess: 12/03/71], [illegible] and [illegible] [guess: Bureau] [illegible] b7C [illegible] as to the [illegible] in the [guess: aforementioned] [illegible] 12/[illegible]. [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] one letter and that [REDACTED] had [guess: mailed] the letter.
[illegible] [guess: Post Office], [illegible], [guess: Las Vegas], [guess: advised] [REDACTED] b6 the [guess: forwarding] [guess: address] and copies [guess: referenced] [illegible]. b7C
[REDACTED] [guess: prints] [guess: two] [guess: books], [guess: sent] to the Laboratory with [guess: previous] [illegible]. The Laboratory is [guess: requested] to [guess: search] [guess: the] [guess: above] [guess: mentioned] [guess: latent] [guess: file] and [guess: process] for [guess: latent] [guess: fingerprints].
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[circled 3] 1 - Bureau (Enc. [illegible]) [circled 2] - [illegible] (Enc.) 1 - [illegible] (Info) [circled 4]
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pub 130 164-81-H84 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 1 3 1971 FBI — SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-45730
DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) 12-13-71 Attention: FBI Laboratory
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)(P)
NORJAK
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Enclosed is one copy of a letter and the envelope in which it was mailed, received this date by the Managing Editor of the Seattle Times Newspaper, Seattle, Washington.
Instant letter is signed D. B. COOPER and indicates that copies of that letter were sent to the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
The writer of the letter claims, among other things, that he is not a boasting man; that he left no fingerprints; that he wore a toupee; and that he wore putty make-up.
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The letter itself was possibly handled by [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] the Seattle Times. They are [REDACTED] b7C
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The Laboratory is requested to make an examination of the enclosed letter, in order to determine any similar letters that have been forwarded. The Laboratory is also requested to determine if the paper on which the letter is written could conceivably be from government stock, noting that it resembles the carbon copy of the airtel material used by the Field Offices.
It is also requested that the enclosed letter and envelope be processed for latent fingerprints.
WFO, New York and Los Angeles have also been requested to obtain the copies of these letters sent to the indicated newspapers and forward them to the Bureau.
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2 - Bureau (Enclosures 2) 3 - Seattle
CEF/kew (5)
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sub 130 164-81-H64
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DB COOPER-45731
Serials: 164-2111, 164-401, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-H64, SE 164-81-H84