Butte re Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr. and Big Fork postmaster inquiry
This copy: Part 111 pp. 381–382Also filed at Part 94 pp. 317–318 (primary)
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Nitel Butte to Seattle, Las Vegas and Portland re Stephens and Mrs. Johnson alibi
Document date 7 June 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:381-382 Document: Nitel Butte to Seattle, Las Vegas and Portland re Stephens and Mrs. Johnson alibi Id: Cooper-Part-111:381-382 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A381-382 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. 381–382 (DB Cooper-50794–50795), Teletype, dated 7 Jun 1972, serial SE 164-81-3505 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A381-382
NR 004 BT PLAIN 6:05. PM NITEL 6-7-72 DDR TO: SEATTLE (164-81) LAS VEGAS (164-60) PORTLAND (164-41) FROM: BUTTE (164-26) TWO PAGES
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NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.
RE SUSPECT BEN FRANKLIN STEPHENS, SR. REMYNITEL TO SEATTLE, JUNE FIVE LAST, AND LAS VEGAS TELETYPE TO BUTTE, JUNE SEVEN INSTANT. POSTMASTER, BIG FORK, MONTANA, ADVISED, JUNE SEVEN INSTANT, SUSPECT RENTED P.O. BOX TWO TWO FOUR, JUNE NINE, ONE NINE SEVEN ONE. USUALLY PICKS UP MAIL EVERY DAY, BUT HAS NOT BEEN IN POST OFFICE SINCE MAY THREE ZERO LAST. NO IDEA WHERE SUSPECT LIVES, BUT CAN BE REACHED AT TELEPHONE NO. EIGHT THREE SEVEN - FOUR FOUR THREE SEVEN. MRS. SOPHRONIA JOHNSON, SUBSCRIBER TO TELEPHONE NO. EIGHT THREE SEVEN - FOUR FOUR THREE SEVEN, RESIDING EAST LAKE SHORE, FLATHEAD LAKE, MONTANA, AN ELDERLY WIDOW, ADVISED, JUNE SEVEN INSTANT, SUSPECT, WHO IS RETIRED, RESIDES ON HER PLACE. SUSPECT LEFT FIVE OR SIX DAYS AGO FOR SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND MRS. JOHNSON HAS NO IDEA WHERE HE CAN BE LOCATED IN SPOKANE OR WHEN END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED ... FILED ... JUN 7 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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[guess: put] 436
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164-81-3505
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DB COOPER-50794
BT 164-26 PAGE TWO
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HE WILL RETURN TO FLATHEAD LAKE. MRS. JOHNSON IS CERTAIN SUSPECT WAS WITH HER ON THANKSGIVING DAY, NOVEMBER TWO FIVE, ONE NINE SEVEN ONE.
LAS VEGAS, ATTEMPT TO INTERVIEW THROUGH FATHER, IN EVENT SUSPECT GOES TO LAS VEGAS FROM SPOKANE.
BUTTE WILL CONTINUE EFFORTS TO LOCATE SUSPECT AT BIG FORK, MONTANA.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
END
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DB COOPER-50795
Serials: BT 164-26, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3505