New York to Director and field offices re suspect background and leads
Document date 3 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-12:089-093 Document: Teletype New York to Director and field offices re suspect background and leads Id: Cooper-Part-12:089-093 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A089-093 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 12 pp. 89–93 (DB Cooper-2731–2735), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-496 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A089-093
NR019 NY PLAIN 0500PM IMMEDIATE 12-3-71 JAH TO DIRECTOR 164-2111 MINNEAPOLIS NEWARK NORFOLK RICHMOND SEATTLE WASHINGTON FIELD FROM NEW YORK 164-697 5P
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Note LD. P. 4.
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOURTH, SEVENTYONE, CAA- HIJACKING. OO SEATTLE
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RE NEWARK TEL TO BUREAU, DECEMBER SECOND, LAST. FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHITE, MALE, PREVIOUSLY RESIDING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NEW YORK, NEW YORK, HAD [REDACTED]
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TELEPHONE CALLS FROM INDIVIDUAL USING NAME [REDACTED] REQUESTING [REDACTED] INVESTIGATION AT NEW YORK END PAGE ONE
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164-81-496 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... DEC/ 8 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-2731
PAGE TWO ASCERTAINED [REDACTED] IS A WHITE MALE, BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND AS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE HAD DESCRIBED HIMSELF ON EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION [REDACTED] AS FIVE FEET, ELEVEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, BROWN EYES. [REDACTED] INDICATED HE HAD [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND WAS IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS EMPLOYED BY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HIS EMPLOYMENT. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FELT THAT ARTIST [guess: SKETCH] OF [guess: UNSUB] CLOSELY RESEMBLED [REDACTED]
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-2732
PAGE THREE POST OFFICE [REDACTED] VIRGINIA. NYS DMV RECORDS INDICATE [REDACTED] ON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] A STATE OF VIRGINIA DRIVERS LICENSE. [REDACTED] DOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IS DESCRIBED AS A WHITE, FEMALE, FIVE FEET, SIX INCHES, BROWN EYES, CONTINUES TO RESIDE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MADE A PRETEXT b6 TELEPHONE CALL TO [REDACTED] REGARDING POSSIBLE b7C EMPLOYMENT FOR [REDACTED] SHE ADVISED THAT AS OF [REDACTED] b7D [REDACTED] HAD CONTACTED HIM AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AS SHE HAD RECEIVED MESSAGE THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND MAY BE LIVING WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FELT ARTIST SKETCH OF UNSUB CLOSELY RESEMBLED [REDACTED] HAS BACKGROUND [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] AND HE BELIEVES [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-2733
PAGE FOUR
[redacted]
INQUIRY AT NORTHWEST AIRLINES ASCERTAINED THAT THAT FIRM'S [redacted] IS IN POSSESSION OF ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO HIS FLIGHT. FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ORIGINATED AT WDC. MYO DOES NOT FEEL [redacted] SHOULD BE CONTACTED UNTIL OTHER EFFORTS ARE EXHAUSTED TO LOCATE PHOTOGRAPH OF [redacted] FOR DISPLAY TO AIRLINE PERSONNEL FOR POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION.
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LEADS
MINNEAPOLIS WILL DETERMINE FROM NORTHWEST [redacted] [redacted] ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING CONTACT ADDRESS USED BY DAN COOPER WHO BOARDED FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE AT PORTLAND AND CONSIDER POSSIBILITY COOPER MAY HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN ON FLIGHT WHICH ORIGINATED AT WDC.
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2. WILL DETERMINE HOME ADDRESSES OF STEWARDESS AND OTHER FLIGHT PERSONNEL WHO MAY HAVE BEEN SPOKEN TO BY UNSUB AND SET OUT LEAD TO HAVE THESE INDIVIDUALS QUESTIONED REGARDING [redacted] [redacted] WILL RECONTACT [redacted] [redacted] TO DETERMINE IF [redacted] MAY HAVE POSED FOR ANY GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS [redacted] [redacted]
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b6 b7C b7D
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DB Cooper-2734
PAGE FIVE
[REDACTED] WILL CONDUCT DISCREET INVESTIGATION [REDACTED] DETER- MINE IF [REDACTED] STILL EMPLOYED AT [REDACTED] VIRGINIA, NOTING THAT PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED FOR DISPLAY TO FLIGHT PERSONNEL.
?. WILL CONDUCT INVESTIGATION TO IDENTIFY SUBSCRIBER TO POST OFFICE [REDACTED] VIRGINIA WHERE [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] RECEIVED MAIL UP THROUGH [REDACTED]
RICHMOND WILL FURNISH RESULTS OF CHECK OF VIRGINIA DRIVERS LICENSE RECORDS FOR CURRENT ADDRESSES OF [REDACTED] b6 b7C ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE PHOTOGRAPHS AND DETERMINE IF HE HAS VEHICLES REGISTERED UNDER HIS NAME.
WASHINGTON FIELD WILL REVIEW UNITED STATES INS RECORDS
FOR [REDACTED] DO?, [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] DOR, [REDACTED] b7C [REDACTED]
?. WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE RECORDS OF UNITED STATES PASSPORT BEING ISSUED TO [REDACTED] DOB, [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] AND OBTAIN PHOTO OF [REDACTED] AND SEND SAME IMMEDIATELY TO NYO AND SEATTLE THROUGH FACSIMILE COPIES.
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PLEASE REPEAT LIXXXXLAST TWO LINES ON PAG
SE PLS RPT WHAT CORR DID U WANT GA PLS LAST TWO LINES ON PAGE TWO
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GA THATS FINE THANKY YOU JJT FBI SEATTLE CLP
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DB Cooper-2735
Serials: 164-2111, 164-697, SE 164-81-496