Las Vegas to Butte and Seattle re Ben Franklin Stephens location
Document date 7 June 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-111:378-380
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:378-380 Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Butte and Seattle re Ben Franklin Stephens location Id: Cooper-Part-111:378-380 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A378-380 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. 378–380 (DB Cooper-50791–50793), Teletype, dated 7 Jun 1972, serial SE 164-81-3506 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A378-380
NR003 LV PLAIN 1210 PM URGENT 6-7-72 JEG TO BUTTE (164-26) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P) 3 PAGES
NORJACK; 00: SEATTLE.
RE BUTTE TEL, JUNE FIVE LAST. ARTLEY C. STEPHENS ADVISED BEN FRANKLIN STEPHENS PRESENTLY AT FLAT HEAD LAKE, KALISPELL, MONTANA AREA, AND HAD CALLED HIM ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO STATING HE WOULD VISIT LAS VEGAS IN ABOUT THIRTY DAYS. HAS NO TELEPHONE WHERE SUSPECT CAN BE LOCATED, DOES NOT KNOW CURRENT EMPLOYMENT. SUSPECT HAS [REDACTED] MONTANA, AND BROTHER ALBERT STEPHENS, LONG VIEW WASHINGTON. FATHER OPERATED FALLS HOTEL, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, FROM WHICH RETIRED IN NINETEEN FIFTYEIGHT, LEAVING IT TO [REDACTED] WHO WERE NOT OPERATING SAME AT PROFIT AND SOLD HOTEL ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO. END PAGE ONE
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serb 436 164-81-3506 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED /2 FILED Q JUN 7 1972 FOI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-50791
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DOES NOT KNOW EMPLOYMENT FOR BEN SINCE THAT TIME, BUT HEARD THAT HE HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS IN MISSOULA, MONTANA. STATES SUSPECT'S [REDACTED] FATHER b6 b7C CONCERNED THAT SUSPECT MAY BE IN TROUBLE AND IN VIEW OF ADVANCED YEARS, WAS GIVEN NO INDICATION OF REASON FOR BUREAU INTEREST.
SERIES OF PHOTOS OBTAINED, BEING COPIES AND WILL BE FORWARDED AMSD AS SOON AS AVAILABLE.
FATHER ADVISED THAT BOTH SONS WERE EXPERIENCED PARATROOPERS AND THAT SUSPECT WAS MAJOR WITH ONE HUNDRED FIRST AIRBORNE DURING WORLD WAR TWO. SUSPECT GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE, BOONSVILLE, MISSOURI, ENTERING ARMY AS COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
BUTTE ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP MORE CURRENT INFORMATION THROUGH [REDACTED] AND ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN b6 b7C LOCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF SUSPECT AT KAISPELL.
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DB COOPER-50792
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SEATTLE ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS OF ALBERT STEPHENS AT LONG VIEW.
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VAB
FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-50793
Serials: BT 164-26, LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3506