To SAC Seattle re check of martinizing laundries on laundry code A-317
Document date 27 January 1977
Also filed at: Part 121 p. 177
Copies may differ in what was redacted.
Part of: SA Seattle to SAC Seattle re laundry-mark check on trousers found at Amboy, Washington
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Id: Cooper-Part-121:176-176
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-121:176-176 Document: Memo to SAC Seattle re check of martinizing laundries on laundry code A-317 Id: Cooper-Part-121:176-176 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-121%3A176-176 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 121 p. 176 (DB Cooper-55779), Memo, dated 27 Jan 1977, serial SE 164-81-2333 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-121%3A176-176
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 1/27/77
FROM : SA [redacted]
SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE BUfile 164-2111
RE: UNSUB; TROUSERS FOUND IN AMBOY, WASHINGTON 11/23/76 SUB 858
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On 1/17/77, a check was made with several laundries that specialize in martinizing in the Seattle area, and it was learned that laundry tickets are customarily stapled to trousers and other items as they are received from the customer for cleaning. The number and letters on these tickets correspond with a code which is a sequential numbering system. The first character in the code is an alphabetic letter and the second character in the code is a number, ranging from 1 to 10,000.
When a customer brings in an item for cleaning, such as a pair of trousers, he fills out a cleaning form requesting cleaning and putting his name on the form. The date of pickup and the cross reference number also appears on this form. The number on the form could be A-1 through 10,000 and a corresponding tag would then be stapled to the trousers with that number A-1 through 10,000, so that the trousers could be located in the event the customer does not show up to claim his cleaning items.
Most laundries vary the first letter from A-1 through 10,1000 [sic] to B-1 through 10,000, etc., until the end of the year, at which time they normally start over again with A-1 through 10,000; however, this is not a hard and fast rule and with just a number such as found on the trousers in this case, A-317, it would be impossible to determine who the customer was who had the trousers cleaned. It might be possible in some cleaning establishments to determine the customer if the trousers were recently cleaned by checking past ticket
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RNN/jcb (3) [handwritten, illegible initials]
ELIM ORD [guess: ELIM ORD] (handwritten, largely illegible)
SAC [handwritten signature/initials, illegible]
Sub 858 (handwritten, upper right of stamp block)
164-81-2333 (handwritten, boxed)
SEARCHED......INDEXED...... [SE]RIALIZED......FILED...... [illegible date] FBI - SEATTLE
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
5010-110
DB COOPER-55779
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2333