Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to SAC Butte re Montana caller's suspect lead

Document date 28 November 1971

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Document: Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to SAC Butte re Montana caller's suspect lead
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 11 p. 411 (DB Cooper-1894), Teletype, dated 28 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-150 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A411-411

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Date: 11/28/71

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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO: SAC, BUTTE

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALL THIS DATE.

[REDACTED], MONTANA, HOME PHONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BUSINESS PHONE [REDACTED] TELEPHONED SEATTLE OFFICE THIS DATE STATING COMPOSITE DRAWING APPEARING IN NEWSPAPER RESEMBLED ONE [REDACTED] LAST KNOWN TO BE LIVING IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

FOR INFORMATION BUTTE, HIJACKER DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, MID FORTIES, FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TO SIX FEET, ONE SEVENTY TO ONE EIGHTY POUNDS, AVERAGE TO WELL BUILT.

BUTTE, DETERMINE IF POSSIBLY IDENTICAL AND IF UNABLE TO ELIMINATE, OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH, FORWARD TO SEATTLE AND [strikethrough: MINNESOTA] [handwritten correction: MINNEAPOLIS] TO DISPLAY TO WITNESSES.

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164-81 - 150

Approved: ________ Sent [stamp] M Per [signature] Special Agent in Charge

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DB Cooper-1894

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Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-150