Seattle to Director and SACs re circulating composite to parachute clubs and national forest offices

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Original title: Teletype SAC Seattle to Director and SACs re circulating composite to parachute clubs and Forest Service offices

Document date 29 November 1971

Part 11pages 65–662 pagesDB Cooper-1966–1967

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Document: Teletype Seattle to Director and SACs re circulating composite to parachute clubs and national forest offices
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 11 pp. 65–66 (DB Cooper-1966–1967), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-183 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A065-066

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Via TELETYPE URGENT Sub Pub (Priority)

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI SACS DETROIT, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCSCO, PORTLAND

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

RE: UNSUB: NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE NAUGHT FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE; CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION; OO: SEATTLE

RE SFTEL TO BUREAU NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST RE US PARACHUTE ASSN. (USPA)

SF AMSD TO SE THE LIST OF AFFILIATED CLUBS OF USPA. SE ANTICIPATES HAVING ALL THESE CONTACTED IN PERSON BY AGENTS OF VAR- IOUS DIVISIONS WHERE LOCATED WITH FACTS THIS CASE AND COMPOSITE LIKENESS.

SF ALSO DETERMINE SOONEST ISSUE "THE PARACHUTIST" IN WHICH ITEM RE UNSUB AND PHOTO COULD BE INCLUDED AND WHETHER THIS IS FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE TO USPA. BUREAU AUTHORITY THIS REGARD WILL BE SOUGHT.

LA IDENTIFY REPORTED "LATIN SKY-DIVERS," AN ORGANIZATION IN LA ALLEGEDLY COMPOSED EXCLUSIVELY OF PARACHUTISTS OF LATIN DESCENT OR BACKGROUND, AND DETERMINE IF THIS IS NATIONAL ORGANIZ- ATION WITH PUBLICATION IN WHICH ITEM RE UNSUB MIGHT BE PLACED. IF ONLY LOCAL, LA DISPLAY COMPOSITE PHOTO WHICH IS BEING FORWARDED AMSD BY R/S, TO RESPONSIBLE OFFICERS OF CLUB AND ANY OTHERS THEY SUGGEST.

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2 - Seattle (1 164-81 sub C) KCH:kh (2) Approved: ________ Sent ___5-26-10-3/4___ Per ___Vab___ Special Agent in Charge Howe 164-81 - 183

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DB Cooper-1966

ST 164-81

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COPIES COMPOSITE PHOTO ALSO BEING SENT PORTLAND AND IS TO BE DISPLAYED TO PROPER SOURCES AT DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST[illegible]FFICE, REDMOND A[illegible]R BASE, AND AT SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST OFFICE, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, FOR POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION AND SUGGESTION S AS TO WHERE AND TO WHOM LIKENESS MIGHT ALSO BE PROFITABLY DISPLAYED. LIKELIHOOD EXISTS SUBJECT HAD EXPERIENCE IN PARACHUTING AS FOREST FIRE FIGHTER, AND FORE- GOING ARE BASES FOR THIS ACTIVITY.

DETROIT CONTACT "OVER FORTY SOCIETY," AKA "POPS," ALLEGEDLY AN ELITIST GROUP OF PARACHUSTISTS FORTY AND OVER, FOR INFO AS TO CHAPTERS AND THEIR LOCATIONS, AND WHETHER ORGANIZATION HAS PUBLICATION THROUGH WHICH PUBLICITY RE UN- SUB MIGHT BE CIRCULATED. "POPS" HEADQUARTERED AT [guess: A] PANDY (?), FLINT, MICHIGAN. PHOTOS FOLLOW.

FOR INFO OFFICES RECEIVING, UNSUB HI-JACKED NORTHWEST AIR- LINES S[illegible]VEN T[illegible]ENTYSEVEN NOVEMBER [guess: TWENTYFOUR] LAST AND [illegible] PARA- CHUTED FROM THIS FLIGHT WITH TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS EXTORTED FROM NORTHWEST ON THREAT TO BLOW UP THE SHIP, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SEATTLE AND RENO, NEVADA. CIRCUMSTANCES INDICATE UNSUB EXPERIENCED AND WELL VERSED IN ALL PHASES OF PARA CHUTING, POSSIBLY AS SKY-DIVER OR FIRE FIGHTER. DESCRIBED AS WHITE, MALE, MID FORTIES, FIVE TEN TO SIX FEET, ONE SEVENTY TO ONE EIGHTY, OLIVE COMPLEXION, LATIN APPEAR- ANCE, DARK BROWN OR BLACK HAIR, NORMAL STYLE, PARTED ON LEFT AND COMBED STRAIGHT BACK, SMOKED RALEIGH CIGARETTES.

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DB Cooper-1967

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Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-183, ST 164-81

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