NITEL Phoenix to Seattle re suspicious individual purchasing cashier's check
Document date 6 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-14:092-093
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-14:092-093 Document: NITEL Phoenix to Seattle re suspicious individual purchasing cashier's check Id: Cooper-Part-14:092-093 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A092-093 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 14 pp. 92–93 (DB Cooper-3401–3402), Teletype, dated 6 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-753 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A092-093
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NR 03 PX PLAIN 1056 PM NITEL 12-6-71 WJG TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM PHOENIX (164-100) 2P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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RE BUREAU AIRTEL TO ALL OFFICES, NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE LAST. ON INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED] PHOENIX, ARIZONA ADVISED THAT ON DECEMBER FOUR LAST A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CAME INTO ONE [REDACTED] BRANCHES AND PURCHASED A CASHIERS CHECK IN THE AMOUNT [REDACTED]
THE BANK EMPLOYEE ISSUING THE CASHIERS CHECK WAS SUSPICIOUS [REDACTED] BEHAVED IN A STRANGE MANNER.
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12/7/71.
I advised SA [REDACTED] in Phoenix to check these numbers through the NCIC.
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164-81-753 SEARCHED___ INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___ FILED___ DEC 6 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-3401
PAGE TWO PX 164-100
[REDACTED] FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] WHITE MALE, SIX FEET, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, LIGHT BROWN HAIR, MID FIFTIES TO EARLY SIXTIES, WORE GLASSES, [REDACTED] TYPE CLOTHING.
THE PHOENIX DIVISION HAS SECURED A LIST OF THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF THE TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS USED BY [REDACTED] TO PURCHASE THE CASHIERS CHECK.
THE PHOENIX DIVISION IS PRESENTLY RETAINING THE LIST OF SERIAL NUMBERS OF THE TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS. IN THE EVENT OFFICE OF ORIGIN HAS COMPILED A LIST OF THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF THE TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS USED TO COMPRISE THE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR RANSOM THESE SERIAL NUMBERS SHOULD BE FURNISHED TO THE PHOENIX DIVISION FOR COMPARISON.
NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION WILL BE CONDUCTED BY THE PHOENIX DIVISION IN THIS REGARD UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUESTED BY THE OFFICE OF ORIGIN.
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PENDING.
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FBI SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-3402
Serials: PX 164-100, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-753