San Francisco to Director and Seattle re helicopter/aircraft sighting report
Document date 26 November 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-11:319-320
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-11:319-320 Document: Teletype San Francisco to Director and Seattle re helicopter/aircraft sighting report Id: Cooper-Part-11:319-320 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A319-320 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 11 pp. 319–320 (DB Cooper-1790–1791), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-109 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A319-320
NP 010 SF PLAINTEXT 8:45PM URGENT 11/26/71 JAK TO DIRECTOR SEATTLE FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) 1P
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UNSUB; AKA, DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN, SEVENTYONE CAA - AIR PIRACY.
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[REDACTED] WASHINGTON, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED INSTANT DATE THAT HE IS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WASHINGTON. APPROXIMATELY TEN DAYS AGO A HELICOPTER WAS HEARD BY HIM [REDACTED] 7:30 P.M. AT APPROXIMATELY SEVEN THREE ZERO P.M. ON SUCCESSIVE EVENINGS. ON THE FIRST OCCASION TRAVELLING [REDACTED] AND RETURNING AND ON THE SECOND EVENING TRAVELLING [REDACTED] WITH NO RETURN. [REDACTED] ADVISED IT APPEARED TO BE EXTREMELY LOW ALTITUDE AND HE HAS NEVER HEARD A HELICOPTER IN THAT AREA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A YEARLY CHECK OF THE POWER LINES WHICH IS ALWAYS ON ONE OCCASION IN THE SPRING AND DURING DAY LIGHT HOURS. [REDACTED] STATED HELICOPTER WAS TRAVELLING AT EXTREMELY LOW RATE OF SPEED AS THOUGH PILOT WAS LOOKING OVER TERRAIN. [REDACTED] COULD FURNISH NO IDENTIFYING DATA AS TO HELICOPTER.
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[guess: Inlet] Cal [guess: Sea] Copy
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b6 b7C b7D
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END... HOLD [illegible handwritten text, partially obscured]
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SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED /M/ FILED /___ NOV 206 1971 FBI - SEATTLE MBALDINBLITT [guess: processing initials]
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DB Cooper-1790
R3 010 SF PLAINTEXT 8:45PM URGENT 11/26/71 JAK TO DIRECTOR SEATTLE FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) 1P
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UNSUB; AKA, DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN, SEVENTYONE CAA - AIR PIRACY.
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HELICOPTER NEAR [redacted] EVENING [illegible] DAYS PRIOR ABOUT 11-16-71 b6 b7C b7D
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[REDACTED] WASHINGTON, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED [REDACTED] INSTANT DATE THAT HE IS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WASHINGTON. APPROXIMATELY TEN DAYS AGO A HELICOPTER WAS HEARD BY HIM AT APPROXIMATELY SEVEN THREE ZERO P.M. ON SUCCESSIVE EVENINGS. ON THE FIRST OCCASION TRAVELLING [REDACTED] AND RETURNING AND ON THE SECOND EVENING TRAVELLING [REDACTED] WITH NO RETURN. [REDACTED] ADVISED IT APPEARED TO BE EXTREMELY LOW ALTITUDE AND HE HAS NEVER HEARD A HELICOPTER IN THAT AREA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A YEARLY CHECK OF THE POWER LINES WHICH IS ALWAYS ON ONE OCCASION IN THE SPRING AND DURING DAY LIGHT HOURS. [REDACTED] STATED HELICOPTER WAS TRAVELLING AT EXTREMELY LOW RATE OF SPEED AS THOUGH PILOT WAS LOOKING OVER TERRAIN. [REDACTED] COULD FURNISH NO IDENTIFYING DATA AS TO HELICOPTER.
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END... HOLD
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1/4-81 - 109 SEARCHED......... INDEXED........ SERIALIZED......... FILED........ NOV 26 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-1791
Serials: SE 164-81-109, SF 164-220