Urgent teletype Detroit re telegram to Northwest Orient Airlines and suspect 'Jim'

Document date 7 December 1971

Part 102pages 271–2755 pagesDB Cooper-46263–46267

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-102:271-275

Document: Urgent teletype Detroit re telegram to Northwest Orient Airlines and suspect 'Jim'
Id: Cooper-Part-102:271-275
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A271-275

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 102 pp. 271–275 (DB Cooper-46263–46267), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-854 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A271-275

NR005 DE PLAIN 3:05 PM URGENT 12-7-71 NMG

TO CINCINNATI MINNEAPOLIS PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM DETROIT (164-115) (P) 5P

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UNSUB, AKA., DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTY-FOUR, SEVENTY-ONE, CAA - HIGHJACKING; EXTORTION, OO: SEATTLE.

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RE TELEPHONE CALLS FROM DETROIT TO SEATTLE AND MINNEAPOLIS, DEC. TWO, LAST; DETROIT TELCALLS TO PITTSBURGH AND PHILADELPHIA, DEC. THREE, LAST. DETROIT TELCALLS PHILADELPHIA AND CINCINNATI THIS DATE.

ON NOV. THIRTY, LAST, [REDACTED], NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS, RECEIVED FOLLOWING TELEGRAM, [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED — large block redaction covering telegram content]

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[REDACTED] TELEGRAM SIGNED [REDACTED]

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64-81-854 RD. INDEXED. SERIALIZED [initials] FILED [initials] DEC 9 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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END PAGE ONE

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DE 164-115 PAGE TWO

ON DEC. ONE, LAST, [REDACTED] SENT TELEGRAM, CARE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED], ON DEC. TWO, LAST, [REDACTED]

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LATER ON DEC. TWO, LAST, [REDACTED] NWO HEADQUARTERS, MINNEAPOLIS, AND ARRANGED [REDACTED].

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END PAGE TWO

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DE 164-115 PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED] FORMER FBI AGENT MIKE ROCK. HE SAID [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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ROCK DIED ABOUT ONE YEAR AGO.

[REDACTED] STATED MAN BY NAME OF JIM, WHOSE LAST NAME HE WOULD NOT REVEAL, [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED]

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END PAGE THREE

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DE 164-115 PAGE FOUR

JIM HAS BEEN PILOT, PARACHUTE JUMPER AND SCUBA DIVER AND ACCORD- ING TO [REDACTED] DURING CONVERSATION, [REDACTED] SAID THAT JIM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HOWEVER, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] IF JIM IDENTIFIED, HE WOULD KNOW WHO

END PAGE FOUR

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DE 164-115 PAGE FIVE

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WAS INFORMANT AND IT WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED].

MINNEAPOLIS, REMAIN IN CONTACT WITH NWO OFFICIALS FOR ANY FURTHER INFO FROM [REDACTED].

PHILADELPHIA AND CINCINNATI CONDUCT INDICES CHECK ON CLYDE COPE [REDACTED] FOR ANY INFO IN FILE RELATIVE TO IDENTITY OF [REDACTED].

PITTSBURGH, CONDUCT INVESTIGATION AT [REDACTED] TO IDENTIFY [REDACTED], INCLUDING THOSE [REDACTED] [REDACTED], AND DETERMINE IF ANY HAVE [REDACTED] AND OBTAIN PICTURE OF ANY TO SUBMIT TO SEATTLE FOR POSSIBLE IDENT.

UNSUB ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

END

JFK FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB COOPER-46267

Serials: DE 164-115, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-854