Three-page teletype Washington Field to Director and Seattle re suspect Galope background
Document date 6 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-102:231-233 Document: Three-page teletype Washington Field to Director and Seattle re suspect Galope background Id: Cooper-Part-102:231-233 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A231-233 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 102 pp. 231–233 (DB Cooper-46213–46215), Teletype, dated 6 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A231-233
NR 010 WF PLAIN 7:02 PM URGENT 12-6-71 ASW TO DIRECTOR SEATTLE FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) THREE PAGES
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UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWESTERN AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA-HI JACKING; EXTORTION. OO SEATTLE.
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RE SUSPECT RALPH V. GALOPE: ON DECEMBER SIX, INSTANT, [REDACTED] (PROTECT IDENT- ITY), WASHINGTON, D.C., ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT GALOPE BEARS A GOOD RESEMBLANCE TO COMPOSITE OF UNKNOWN SUBJECT IN CAPTIONED MATTER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. AT THAT TIME, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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sub 163 164-81-[guess: 977] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ DEC 6 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-46213
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[REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED [REDACTED] GALOPE USED AN ALIAS OF COOPER AND CLAIMED PREVIOUS MILITARY DUTY WITH THE EIGHTY SECOND AIRBORNE DIVISION. [REDACTED] FUR- NISHED THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIVE DATA IN REFERENCE TO GALOPE: RALPH V. GALOPE, THE V. POSSIBLY INITIAL FOR VINCENT; WHITE MALE, FORTY TWO YEARS OLD; DATE OF BIRTH, JULY SEVEN, NINETEEN TWENTY NINE; PLACE OF BIRTH, WASHINGTON, D.C.; MEDIUM HEIGHT; ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POUNDS; THINNING BROWN HAIR; DEEP FIRM VOICE; ITALIAN EXTRACTION; HEAVY SMOKER AND DRINKER. IN NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN, GALOPE'S MOTHER, VIRGINIA, POSSIBLY RESIDED AT SIX EIGHT ONE SEVEN GEORGIA AVENUE, NW, WASH- INGTON, DC. THE WHEREABOUTS OF HIS FATHER, FRANCISCO GALOPE ARE UNKNOWN.
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ACCORDING TO [REDACTED], GALOPE LEFT THE WASHINGTON, DC., AREA SOMETIME LAST YEAR AND HIS PRESENT WHEREABOUTS ARE UN- KNOWN. END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-46214
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INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY WFO DISCLOSED GALOPE HAS PRIOR RECORD FOR DRUNK, MAIL FRAUD, AND UNPAID BOARD BILL. WFO HAS REQUESTED GALOPE'S FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION RECORD UNDER FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION NUMBER FOUR SIX SEVEN - NINE ZERO ONE F.
FACSIMILE PHOTOGRAPH OF GALOPE BEING FURNISHED SEATTLE HEREWITH.
LEAD: SEATTLE DISPLAY PHOTOGRAPHS OF GALOPE TO CREW MEMBERS OF CAPTIONED FLIGHT AND ADVISE WFO OF RESULTS.
IF GALOPE DEEMED IDENTICAL OR SIMILIAR TO UNKNOWN SUBJECT WFO WILL INSTUTUTE INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE HIS PRESENT WHEREABOUTS. P.
UNKNOWN SUBJECT CONSIDERED DANGEROUS
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FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-46215
Serials: SE 164-81, WF 164-169