Urgent teletype Portland to Director, Seattle and Los Angeles re witness description of suspect and vehicle

Document date 2 December 1971

Part 12pages 348–3503 pagesDB Cooper-2527–2529

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-12:348-350

Document: Urgent teletype Portland to Director, Seattle and Los Angeles re witness description of suspect and vehicle
Id: Cooper-Part-12:348-350
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 12 pp. 348–350 (DB Cooper-2527–2529), Teletype, dated 2 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-4222 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A348-350

NR 004 PD PLAIN 12:41 PM URGENT 12-2-71 LJO TO: DIRECTOR SEATTLE (164-91) LOS ANGELES FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 3P

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[guess: Surp] [redacted] [guess: Vincent] at [redacted] / Calif.

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION, OO: SEATTLE.

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ON DECEMBER ONE, SEVENTYONE, AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M., [redacted] [redacted] REPORTED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: HE REMEMBERED SEEING A PERSON CLOSELY RESEMBLING THE UNSUB IN THIS CASE. HE RECALLED SEEING THIS PERSON APPROXIMATELY [redacted] [redacted] CALIFORNIA, AIRCRAFT BUSINESS DISTRICT NEAR [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] ADDRESS WAS [redacted] HE BELIEVES THIS PERSON WAS [redacted] BUSINESS AND MENTIONED [redacted] END PAGE ONE

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164-81- 4222 SEARCHED ......... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... [illegible] ... FILED ...[illegible] DEC 9 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-2527

PD 164-41 PAGE TWO

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RECALLS THIS BECAUSE [redacted] THIS PERSON EVIDENTLY WAS CONDUCTING BUSINESS. [redacted] DESCRIBED THE PERSON AS FOLLOWS: WHITE, MALE, AMERICAN, FORTY TO FORTYFIVE YEARS OF AGE, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY TO ONE HUNDRED SIXTYFIVE POUNDS, SIX FEET TALL, THIN BUILD, DARK HAIR PARTED ON LEFT SIDE, EXPENSIVE DRESSER, [redacted] MOUTH, POSSIBLY [redacted] SCAR [redacted] AUTOMOBILE NINETEEN SIXTYSIX OR NINETEEN SIXTYSEVEN DARK GRAY LINCOLN CONTINENTAL, FOUR-DOOR, BLACK VINYL TOP, CALIFORNIA LICENSE PLATES. [redacted] BELIEVES HE LAST SAW THE UNSUB DURING [redacted] [redacted] RETURNED [redacted] [redacted] CALIFORNIA, AND [redacted] [redacted] RECOMMENDS THAT A [redacted] [redacted] WOULD BE A LOGICAL PERSON TO CONTACT BECAUSE [redacted] KNOWLEDGE OF MOST INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES [redacted] LOCATED IN THE [redacted] AREA. [redacted] LAST SAW [redacted] AFTER [redacted] [redacted]

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DB Cooper-2528

PD 164-41 PAGE THREE

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FOR MANY YEARS IN THE [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES AT [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA. WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE [REDACTED] TO DETERMINE THE IDENTITY AND EMPLOYMENT OF PERSON DESCRIBED ABOVE. END JJT FBI SF

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DB Cooper-2529

Serials: PD 164-41, SD 164-91, SE 164-81-4222