Philadelphia to Seattle, Kansas City and New York re former Leavenworth inmate as possible UNSUB
Document date 7 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:072-074 Document: Teletype Philadelphia to Seattle, Kansas City and New York re former Leavenworth inmate as possible UNSUB Id: Cooper-Part-111:072-074 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A072-074 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 111 pp. 72–74 (DB Cooper-3899–3901), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-956 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A072-074
SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ DEC > 7 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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RØ19 PH PLAIN 9:40PM 12-7-71 URGENT RJC TO SEATTLE KANSAS CITY (164-80)[redacted] NEW YORK FROM PHILADELPHIA (164-[redacted])
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, LAST, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION, OO SEATTLE. RE : [redacted]
FOR INFO OF NEW YORK, [redacted] [redacted] USP, LEAVENWORTH, KS., ADVISED HE FORMERLY HAD AN INMATE [redacted]
WHO FITS ARTIST COMPOSITE PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPER AND WHO HE BELIEVES IS CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT CAPTIONED CRIME. THE INMATE IS [redacted]
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[redacted — large block, approximately 8-10 lines of text fully obscured]
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[redacted] HIS BACKGROUND AND PHOTOS WERE ALSO TRANSFERRED.
RECORDS USP, LEWISBURG, PA., REFLECT THE FOLLOWING: [redacted]
[redacted] RECEIVED USP, LEWISBURG, ON FIVE
EIGHTEEN SIXTYSEVEN, SENTENCED THREE TWENTYTHREE SIXTYTWO, USDC, OMAHA
NEBRASKA, TO TWENTY YEARS FOR BR. THE FILE REFLECTS [redacted] AND ACCOM-
PLICE ON NIGHT OF EIGHT SEVEN SIXTYONE, AT GUNPOINT, BLINDFOLDED AND
END PAGE ONE
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DB Cooper-3899
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164-81-956
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GAGED MANAGER OF THE FIRST WESTSIDE BANK, OMAHA, AND HIS WIFE IN THEIR
HOME. MANAGER BEATEN AND HIS LIFE THREATENED, TO SECURE INFO RE BANK AND VAULT. ON EIGHT EIGHT SIXTYONE, MANAGER AND WIFE FORCED TO ACCOM-
PANY [REDACTED] AND ACCOMPLICE TO BANK WHERE ROBBERY COMMITED. [REDACTED] TRANSFERRED TO FEDERAL PRISON CAMP, ALLENWOOD, PA., ON TWO
TEN SEVENTYONE, AND RELEASED ON PAROLE TEN TWENTYEIGHT SEVENTYONE. HIS DESTINATION AT TIME OF RELEASE LISTED AS [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] WHERE HE WAS TO LIVE WITH PARENTS, [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] RELEASE PLAN INDICATED SAWYER WOULD BE EMPLOYED BY HIS BROTHER [REDACTED] AND
HE WOULD BE SUPERVISED BY US PROBATION OFFICE, TWO ZERO SEVEN US COURTHOUSE, FOLEY SQUARE, N.Y., N.Y., UNTIL FIVE SIX EIGHTYONE. OTHER LISTED RELATIVES OF [REDACTED] ARE BROTHER [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] AND SISTER [REDACTED]
[REDACTED], AKA [REDACTED], DESCRIBED AS W/M, DPOB [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED], SIX FEET ONE INCH, ONE HUNDRED NINTY LBS., BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR, OCCUPATION SECRETARY, EDUCA-
TION, TWO YEARS COLLEGE, SCARS AND MARKS: LARGE BURN SCAR ON RIGHT INNER FOREARM, TATTOO REMOVAL SCAR LEFT WRIST AND LEFT INNER ARM. END PAGE TWO
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b6 per BOP b7C per BOP b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-3900
[Two hole punches visible at top of page; upper left corner contains faint text, possibly a routing or classification mark, largely illegible]
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PAGE THREE
TATTOO OF THE INITIALS [REDACTED] ON LEFT FOREARM, AND THE LETTERS [REDACTED - b6 per FBI and BOP / b7C per FBI and BOP] [REDACTED] WITH NUMBERS [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] ON LEFT UPPER ARM.
LEADS: NEW YORK AT [REDACTED] CONTACT RELATIVES OF [REDACTED] AND US PROBATION OFFICE, SDNY, IN EFFORT TO ESTABLISH HIS WHEREABOUTS ON ELEVEN TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE.
PHILADELPHIA WILL FORWARD PHOTO TO SEATTLE.
A R M E D A N D D A N G E R O U S
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JRW FBI SE CLR
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DB Cooper-3901
Serials: KC 164-80, SE 164-81-956