SA Seattle to SAC Seattle re man joking about parachute on 11/17/71 Western Airlines reservation

Document date 30 November 1971

Part 12page 1881 pageDB Cooper-2329

Also filed at: Part 68 p. 58

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Document: Memo SA Seattle to SAC Seattle re man joking about parachute on 11/17/71 Western Airlines reservation
Id: Cooper-Part-12:188-188
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 12 p. 188 (DB Cooper-2329), Memo, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-335 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A188-188

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)(P) DATE: 11/30/71

FROM : SA [REDACTED] b6 b7C

SUBJECT: UNSUB; aut. J Northwest Airlines Flight #305 11/24/71 CAA - Highjacking; Extortion

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On 11/30/71, at 12:50PM, [REDACTED] Western Airlines, 3rd Floor of Terminal, Seatac Air- port, Seattle, Washington, telephonically advised that [REDACTED] had told him the following:

On 11/17/71, a man, identifying himself as [REDACTED] and giving his telephone number (business) as [REDACTED] in Portland, Oregon, made reservations on Western Airlines Flight #645 to depart 11/17/71, from Portland to Los Angeles, and reservations to connect at Los Angeles on Continental Airlines Flight #56 to El Paso, Texas. [REDACTED] stated he intended to pick up a car at El Paso. [REDACTED] then, as though in jest, asked [REDACTED] if it would be alright for him to take a parachute aboard the airplane, in the event they were "highjacked".

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] is employed at the above terminal location. (telephone [REDACTED]) and works the shift from [REDACTED]

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TCM (1) 164-81-335 SLARCHED......INDEXED............... SERIALIZED....../ws..FILED..../.......... NOV 30 1971

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[Handwritten signature: [guess: Comm. Postlaw]]

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5010-108 DB Cooper-2329

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-335