SAC Seattle to SAC Portland re suspect tip via Northwest Airlines Minneapolis

Document date 29 November 1971

Part 11pages 23–242 pagesDB Cooper-1916–1917

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-11:023-024

Document: Teletype SAC Seattle to SAC Portland re suspect tip via Northwest Airlines Minneapolis
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 11 pp. 23–24 (DB Cooper-1916–1917), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-161 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A023-024

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Date: 11/29/71

Transmit the following in FACSIMILE .(Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO : SAC, PORTLAND

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SE.

RESE TELECALL THIS DATE.

[REDACTED] NORTHWEST AIRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS, CALLED ON NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE INSTANT. HE SAID A [REDACTED] OF PORTLAND, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OR IN CARE OF THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, HAD CALLED NORTHWEST IN MINNEAPOLIS. HE SAID THAT A MAN NAMED [REDACTED] IN THE PORTLAND AREA, LOOKED LIKE THE ARTIST CONCEPTION AND WAS AN EXCELLENT SUSPECT. HE SAID THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THAT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAD [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THE PORTLAND AIRPORT.

PORTLAND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION RE

[REDACTED] AND ADVISE BY SUTEL.

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PRB:klb (1) [handwritten initials/routing marks]

164-81-161

Approved: ______[signature]_______ Sent 10:55/A M Per _[stamp: Sta]___ Special Agent in Charge

DB Cooper-1916

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b6 b7C

b6 b7C b7D

b6 b7C

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003 SusP

SE 164-81

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This information previously furnished to [REDACTED] ASAC VINNIE RUEHL, Portland, who said he believes [REDACTED] b6 had been eliminated as a suspect already, but that he would b7C appreciate getting a teletype and he will give us an official statement by return teletype.

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DB Cooper-1917

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-161