Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Director re witnesses and no plane landing (164-81-707)

Document date 4 December 1971

Part 13pages 400–4012 pagesDB Cooper-3265–3266

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Document: Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Director re witnesses and no plane landing (164-81-707)
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 13 pp. 400–401 (DB Cooper-3265–3266), Teletype, dated 4 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-707 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-13%3A400-401

FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI Date: 12-4-71

Transmit the following in ______ (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) FROM: SEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.

OO: SE.

RE PHONE CALLS FROM BUREAU TO SEATTLE, 12/4/71.

THE [REDACTED] MENTIONED IN REFERENCED PHONE CALLS,

[REDACTED]

[REDACTED] HAVE ALL BEEN INTERVIEWED BY AGENTS. [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] HAS ALSO BEEN INTERVIEWED AND OTHER

INDIVIDUALS IN THE VICINITY OF THE AIR STRIP. IT HAS BEEN RE- [strikethrough: SOLVED] [handwritten correction: APPEARS] THAT THE PLANE WHICH LANDED ON THE AIR STRIP, ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] HAS ALSO BEEN INTERVIEWED BY BUAGENTS. THE LANDING BY [REDACTED] WAS ON 11/23/71 AFTER CIRCLING AROUND AIR FIELD [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED [REDACTED] LANDED AT NEARBY AIRSTRIP ON 11/23/71 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NO MARKINGS OR REGISTRATION ON THESE PLANES WERE OBTAINED BY INDIVIDUALS OBSERVING BUT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHICH WAS THAT TYPE ON PLANE LANDING AT NDS/njs

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Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent 4/18 PM Per OA

164-81-707 DB Cooper-3265

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI Date:

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SE 164-81 PAGE TWO

[REDACTED] WHICH WAS OBSERVED BY [REDACTED] b6 MENTIONED ABOVE. [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] NO b7C PLANE LANDED [REDACTED] 11/24/71. AT THIS POINT INVESTIGATION DOES NOT DISCLOSE THAT PLANE FIGURES IN CAPTIONED MATTER.

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DB Cooper-3266

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Approved: ___________________ Sent _____________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge

Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-707