Denver to Seattle and Salt Lake City re Wyoming source on hijacker sketch
Document date 27 January 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-105:237-239
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-105:237-239 Document: Teletype Denver to Seattle and Salt Lake City re Wyoming source on hijacker sketch Id: Cooper-Part-105:237-239 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-105%3A237-239 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 105 pp. 237–239 (DB Cooper-47800–47802), Teletype, dated 27 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-8065 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-105%3A237-239
NR003 DN PLAIN 457V PM URGENT 1-27-72 JSG TO: SEATTLE (164-81) SALT LAKE CITY FROM: DENVER (164-98) 3P
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RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO DENVER DATED JANUARY TWENTY FIVE LAST. ON JANUARY TWENTY SIX INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALPINE, WYOMING, ADVISED HE SAW ARTIST SKETCH OF HIJACKER IN SALT LAKE CITY "TRIBUNE". SKETCH GOOD LIKENESS OF HAROLD COOPER, FORMERLY BELLHOP AT NEWHOUSE HOTEL, FOUR SOUTH AND MAIN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, IN FIFTY FOUR. HE STATED COOPER WORKED AS A BELLHOP AT ABOVE HOTEL UNTIL FIFTY FOUR AND THEN JOINED U. S. NAVY WHERE HE WAS AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHER. HE ALSO RECEIVED PARACHUTE JUMP TRAINING IN THE NAVY. IN APPROXIMATELY FIFTY SEVEN, COOPER WENT TO WORK FOR HERCULES POWDER PLANT, SOUTH OF SALT LAKE CITY. END PAGE ONE
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Sub. 310 164-81-8065 SEARCHED... INDEXED... SERIALIZED... FILED... JAN 28 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-47800
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DN 164-98 PAGE TWO
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WHERE HE WORKED AS PHOTOGRAPHER. AFTER THAT, [REDACTED] LOST CONTACT WITH COOPER UNTIL APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO WHEN HE SAW COOPER IN A BAR IN SALT LAKE CITY. AT THAT TIME, COOPER SAID HE HAD CHANGED HIS NAME TO TOM COOPER AND WAS ENGAGED IN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND "FLEW OVER WYOMING ONCE IN AWHILE". COOPER GAVE THE IMPRESSION HE HAD PILOT'S LICENSE. [REDACTED] HAS HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH COOPER.
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HE DESCRIBED COOPER AS WHITE MALE, FOUR THREE YEARS, FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE SIX FIVE POUNDS, SANDY BROWN HAIR, HIGH FOREHEAD, SHARP NOSE, SQUEAKY VOICE, POSSIBLY HAZEL EYES. HE STATED COOPER [REDACTED] IN SALT LAKE CITY, [REDACTED] (LNU). HE COULD FURNISH NO ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND.
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FD THREE ZERO TWOS FOLLOW. PORTLAND FURNISHED COPY OF INSTANT COMMUNICATION BY AIRMAIL. END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-47801
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DN 164-98 PAGE THREE
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THIS INDIVIDUAL IS BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXTORTION OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ON NORTHEAST AIRLINES BY THREATENING THE CREW OF THE AIRLINES WITH A PACKAGE WHICH HE STATED CONTAINED A BOMB. HE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.
SALT LAKE CITY AT NEW HOUSE HOTEL AND HERCULES POWDER PLANT. ATTEMPT TO GAIN ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND RE COOPER.
(END TELE) P VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-47802
Serials: DN 164-98, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8065