Portland to Director and Seattle re status of Oregon air search
Document date 30 November 1971
Also filed at: Part 12 pp. 224–225 · Part 65 pp. 89–90
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-12:222-223 Document: Teletype Portland to Director and Seattle re status of Oregon air search Id: Cooper-Part-12:222-223 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A222-223 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. 222–223 (DB Cooper-2389–2390), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-358 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A222-223
CC SEARCH sub. l.
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NR 013 PD PLAIN 6:35 PM URGENT 11-30-71 AJW TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) 2P
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UNSUB, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
FOLLOWING IS STATUS OF AIR SEARCH IN OREGON WHICH HAS BEEN COMPLETED WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. A SIX MILE CORRIDOR ALONG FLIGHT TRACK AS PLOTTED BY RADAR GENERALLY ALONG VICTOR TWENTYTHREE AIRWAY FOLLOWED BY NWAL FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SALEM WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY USE OF TWO HELICOPTERS CONTAINING THREE ARMY PERSONNEL AND TWO AGENTS EACH AND TWO FIXED WING AIRCRAFT MANNED BY TWO AGENTS EACH. THE SALEM TO EUGENE LEG WAS COVERED BY SAME TWO HELICOPTERS AND ONE FIXED WING PLANE MANNED BY TWO AGENTS. IN ADDITION, PART OF THE ROUTE (SALEM TO EUGENE AREA) WAS SEARCHED BY BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION HELICOPTER PERSONNEL WHO WERE IN VICINITY ON POWER LINE PATROL END OF PAGE ONE
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164-81 - 358 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ NOV 30 1971 FBI - SEATTLE SA C [illegible]
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DB Cooper-2389
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PD 164-41
DUTIES. THE GRANTS PASS TO MEDFORD AREA WAS SEARCHED BY ONE AGENT AND A FAA PILOT IN A FIXED WING AIRCRAFT. FROM EUGENE SOUTH TO GRANTS PASS AREA WAS COVERED BY ONE AGENT AND CIVILIAN PILOT IN FIXED WING AIRCRAFT. THE AREA BETWEEN EUGENE AND MEDFORD IS FORESTED, MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS AND LARGELY COVERED BY SNOW MAKING ANY FURTHER SEARCH BY AIR IMPRACTICAL. AIR SERVICES IN THE EUGENE TO MEDFORD AREAS WHO REGULARLY FLY THIS ROUTE HAVE BEEN ALERTED AND REQUESTED TO REPORT ANY SIGHTINGS PERTINENT TO THIS CASE.
THE SEARCH NOW COMPLETED BY THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN SEVERELY DELAYED BY STORMY AND LOW CEILING WEATHER.
UNSUB ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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RECD 006, 007 & 013
FEE
FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-2390
Serials: 164-2111, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-358