Nitel Phoenix to Butte, Salt Lake City and Seattle re truck driver and parachutists

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Original title: Nitel Phoenix to Butte, Salt Lake City and Seattle re truck driver and Flathead Lake parachutists

Document date 4 December 1971

Part 13pages 220–2234 pagesDB Cooper-3055–3058

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-13:220-223

Document: Nitel Phoenix to Butte, Salt Lake City and Seattle re truck driver and parachutists
Id: Cooper-Part-13:220-223
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-13%3A220-223

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 13 pp. 220–223 (DB Cooper-3055–3058), Teletype, dated 4 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-611 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-13%3A220-223

NR 004 PX PLAIN 10:33PM NITEL 12-4-71 DLN TO: BUTTE (164-26) SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PHOENIX (164-100)

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SUSP: [REDACTED] X - A, 4

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY- FOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SALT LAKE CITY TEL TO PX AND SE DECEMBER THREE LAST. FOR INFO BUTTE, RE TEL ADVISED AS FOLLOWS:

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[REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED DECEMBER THREE INSTANT AS FOLLOWS:

[REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] MAN DESCRIBED AS WMA, AGE [REDACTED] FIVE FEET TEN, ONE EIGHTFIVE LBS., BROWN CREW CUT HAIR, RUDDY COMPLEXION, [REDACTED]

[REDACTED]

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END PAGE ONE

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164-81-611 SEARCHED ___ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ DEC 4 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-3055

PAGE TWO PX 164-100

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[REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] ADVISED DECEMBER THREE INSTANT THAT ON DECEMBER TWO LAST, AT ABOUT SEVEN A. M. [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED]

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END PAGE TWO

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DB Cooper-3056

PAGE THREE PX 164-100

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[REDACTED — entire content of bordered box is redacted/blank]

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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED DRIVER AS GROGGY, APPEARING AS IF HE HAD JUST AWAKENED; APPEARED COMPLETELY SANE AND SOBER, HOWEVER. FURTHER DESCRIBED HIM AS BEING A BIG TALKER AND AS BEING A WMA, AGE FORTYFIVE TO FIFTY, ONE EIGHTY TO ONE NINETY LBS., FIVE FEET ELEVEN, BROWN GRAYING HAIR, [REDACTED] HAIR WAS UNTIDY AS IF NOT COMBED SINCE SLEEPING. [REDACTED] UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY FURTHER INFORMATION. NO OTHER WITNESSES TO ABOVE INCIDENT [REDACTED] PRESENT WHEREABOUTS OF TRUCK DRIVER UNKNOWN."

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45-55 [over FORTYFIVE TO FIFTY] 180 -190 [over ONE EIGHTY TO ONE NINETY]

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ON INSTANT DATE, PHOENIX INVESTIGATION REFLECTED ARIZONA END PAGE THREE

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DB Cooper-3057

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b6 b7C b7D

X - P.U Truck

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PAGE FOUR PX 164-100

LICENSE [REDACTED] WITH SEVENTYONE TAG [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IS ASSIGNED A NINETEEN SEVENTY CHEVROLET P/U TRUCK BELONGING TO A [REDACTED] IN [REDACTED]

ATTEMPTS TO LOCATE [REDACTED] HAVE MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.

ON INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED] CHIEF OF POLICE, [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAS NOT BEEN SEEN IN THE [REDACTED] AREA FOR AT LEAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. [REDACTED] HAS BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE PAST BY [REDACTED] AREA.

FURTHER INQUIRIES INDICATE [REDACTED] IS PRESENTLY RESIDING WITH A [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

ON DECEMBER THREE LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE FLAGSTAFF RA AT WHICH TIME HE FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: 11-25-71 ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE LAST, BETWEEN TWO AND THREE PM, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WERE DRIVING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY NINETY- THREE [REDACTED] WHEN THEY OBSERVED

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-3058

Serials: BT 164-26, PX 164-100, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-611, SU 164-24