Seattle to Director and Denver re Sea-Tac police report on Cooper lookalike
Document date 9 July 1974
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-117:328-329 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director and Denver re Sea-Tac police report on Cooper lookalike Id: Cooper-Part-117:328-329 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A328-329 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 117 pp. 328–329 (DB Cooper-53833), Teletype, dated 9 Jul 1974, serial SE 164-81-6295 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A328-329
NR005 SE PLAIN 822 PM NITEL JULY 9, 1974 FEE TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) DENVER (164-98) FROM SEATTLE (164-81)(P) 2P
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
RE SEATTLE TELCALL TO DENVER, JULY 9, 1974. AT 12:15 P.M., JULY 9, 1974, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, SEATTLE, WA., ADVISED THEY HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM OFFICER [REDACTED] SEATTLE TACOMA AIRPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT, SEATTLE, THAT HE HAD SEEN A PERSON BOARDING CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FLIGHT 988 ON JULY 9, 1974, WHO HE THOUGHT, RESEMBLED THE COMPOSITE OF D. B. COOPER. SUSPECT BOARDED CONTINENTAL FLIGHT 988 DESTINED FOR HOUSTON, TEXAS, WITH FIRST STOP AT 3:20 P.M. AT DENVER, COLORADO. FLIGHT DEPARTED 12 NOON WITH 98 PASSENGERS. SUSPECT DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, 40-45 YEARS, 6', 160-170 POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, BLACK RECEEDING HAIR, BALDING TOWARD CENTER OF HEAD. WEARING REDDISH BROWN BUSINESS SUIT, NO GLASSES. CARRYING AN OLIVE BROWN BRIEFCASE APPROXIMATELY 12" LONG, 10" HIGH, 6" THICK. END PAGE ONE
PAGE TWO SF (164-81)
OFFICER LATER RECALLED SUSPECT HAD [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED b6/b7C]
CONTINENTAL AIRLINE REPRESENTATIVE DETERMINED THAT SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS [REDACTED] WHO ARRIVED SEATTLE ON JULY 9, 1974, ON UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 144 FROM VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA. HE HAD ROUND TRIP TICKET VANCOUVER TO SEATTLE TO HOUSTON WITH SPACE OPEN ON RETURN.
UNITED AIRLINE AT VANCOUVER DETERMINED THAT TICKET AGENT REMEMBERED TRANSACTION BUT NOTHING OUTSTANDING ABOUT PURCHASER AND NOT A REGULAR CUSTOMER. RECALLED THAT HE USED A CANADIAN CHECK MADE IN U.S. FUNDS. HIS CONTACT WAS TELEPHONE [REDACTED b6/b7C] VANCOUVER, B.C.
DENVER WAS REQUESTED TO ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SUSPECT IS OR IS NOT IDENTICAL WITH SUBJECT OF CAPTIONED CASE.
SEATTLE WILL IDENTIFY SUBSCRIBER OF CONTACT TELEPHONE.
END RDE FBI D[illegible]
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DB COOPER-53833
Serials: 164-2111, DN 164-98, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6295, SF 164-81