Urgent teletype Acting Director to Seattle and Las Vegas re pilot's Van Holton tip
Document date 2 March 1973
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-115:420-422 Document: Urgent teletype Acting Director to Seattle and Las Vegas re pilot's Van Holton tip Id: Cooper-Part-115:420-422 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-115%3A420-422 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 115 pp. 420–422 (DB Cooper-52928–52930), Teletype, dated 2 Mar 1973, serial SE 164-81-4467 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-115%3A420-422
NR 003 WA PLAIN 2:00AM URGENT 03-02-73 JRM TO SEATTLE LAS VEGAS FROM ACTING DIRECTOR 3P
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NORJAK.
RE BUREAU TELCALLS MARCH ONE, SEVENTYTHREE, AND BUREAU AIRTEL DECEMBER SIX, SEVENTYONE.
[REDACTED], NORTHWEST AIRLINES PILOT, VACATIONING IN CUERNAVACA, MEXICO, RESIDING [REDACTED] TELEPHONE NUMBER [REDACTED], TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED BUREAU EVENING MARCH ONE, SEVENTYTHREE, FROM CUERNAVACA, MEXICO, (APPROXIMATELY FIFTY MILES SOUTH OF MEXICO CITY), ADVISING THAT HE WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF [REDACTED] IN CAPTIONED CASE AND HAD PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED IN DETAIL THE HIJACKING BY AND DESCRIPTION OF D. B. COOPER WITH THESE INDIVIDUALS. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HIS PRESENT PLANS ARE TO BE IN CUERNAVACA UNTIL A.M. OF MARCH THREE, SEVENTYTHREE. END PAGE ONE
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Sub 6/2 16 4-81-4467 SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED [guess: CA] FILED [guess: AL] MAR 1 1973 FBI SEADLI [guess: SEATTLE]
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DB COOPER-52928
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ON THE MORNING OF MARCH ONE, SEVENTYTHREE, [REDACTED] AND TWO ASSOCIATES INVITED AN INDIVIDUAL AT THE TIME UNKNOWN TO THEM TO JOIN THE GROUP FOR A FOURSOME. THIS INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS VAN HOLTON AND ADVISED HE LIVED IN APARTMENT OFF SEVENTH FAIRWAY OF CLUB DEGULF, CUERNAVACA, MEXICO. HE STATED THIS INDIVIDUAL APPEARED TO BE A LONER, CONVERSED VERY LITTLE WITH THE REST OF THE GROUP, AND FIT THE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF D. B. COOPER AND THAT VAN HOLTON WAS DRIVING A YELLOW JAGUAR, NEVADA LICENSE C TWO ZERO THREE TWO THREE, WITH A NINETEEN SIXTYNINE PLATE BEARING A NINETEEN SEVENTYTHREE STICKER. LAS VEGAS ADVISED THIS LICENSE PLATE REGISTERED TO ONE ROBERT VAN HOLTON, SIX ONE FIVE HOGAN DRIVE, LAS VEGAS, PURPORTEDLY TO BE A PIT BOSS IN TROPICANA HOTEL CASINO, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, BORN JUNE FOUR, TWENTYSEVEN, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE FIVE FIVE POUNDS, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR.
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NCIC, BUREAU INDICES AND RECORDS OF IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FAIL TO INDICATE ANY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION CONCERNING ROBERT VAN HOLTON. END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-52929
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ABOVE INFORMATION WAS TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHED TO LEGAT MEXICO CITY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO PROMPTLY CONTACT [REDACTED] AND IMMEDIATELY INSTITUTE NECESSARY INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS VAN HOLTON CHECKING APPROPRIATE RECORDS RELATIVE TO APARTMENT RENTAL, HOW LONG HAS VAN HOLTON BEEN IN MEXICO, BANK ACCOUNTS, CONTACTS, EMPLOYMENT, DESCRIPTION OF FAMILY MEMBERS OR OTHER ASSOCIATES TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THAT [REDACTED] HAS ALREADY MADE INITIAL CONTACT WITH VAN HOLTON AND IN VIEW OF FACT THAT [REDACTED] EMPLOYED BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES, THIS COMPANY MAY CONSIDER, IF FEASIBLE, ALLOWING [REDACTED] TO FURTHER DEVELOP HIS ASSOCIATION WITH VAN HOLTON IN ORDER TO CLEARLY RESOLVE WHETHER OR NOT VAN HOLTON IS, IN FACT, D. B. COOPER.
LAS VEGAS IMMEDIATELY OBTAIN DETAILED BACKGROUND OF ROBERT VAN HOLTON (CONSIDER POSSIBILITY INDIVIDUAL IN MEXICO COULD BE UTILIZING VAN HOLTON'S IDENTIFICATION), OBTAIN FINGERPRINTS OF VAN HOLTON FROM APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES AND SUBMIT SAME TO FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FOR EXAMINATION WITH AVAILABLE LATENTS THIS CASE.
LEGAT MEXICO CITY ADVISED SEPARATELY.
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DCA FBI SEATTLE CLR TU
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DB COOPER-52930
Serials: SE 164-81-4467