Urgent teletype Las Vegas to Sacramento and Seattle re Reno motel registration and Modesto lead (file copy)
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Urgent teletype Las Vegas to Sacramento and Seattle re Reno motel registration and Modesto lead
Document date 7 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-14:176-180 Document: Urgent teletype Las Vegas to Sacramento and Seattle re Reno motel registration and Modesto lead Id: Cooper-Part-14:176-180 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A176-180 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 14 pp. 176–180 (DB Cooper-3540–3544), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-79 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A176-180
NR004 LV PLAIN 3:55 PM URGENT 12-7-71 SGT TO SACRAMENTO SEATTLE FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P) 5P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINE FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, NOV. TWENTY FOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING. OO: SEATTLE.
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RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE, DEC. THREE, LAST. [REDACTED] TAXICAB, RENO, NEV., IS COLORED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHO DROVE A FARE FROM RENO, NEV., TO MODESTO, CALIF., NOV. TWENTY FIVE, LAST, WAS LOCATED TODAY AND FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION. [REDACTED] A FARE WHO GAVE HIS NAME AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NOV. TWENTY FIVE, LAST, AND DROVE THE FARE TO MODESTO, CALIF., ARRIVING ABOUT [REDACTED] NOV. TWENTYFIVE, LAST. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ [illegible] _____ DEC 7, 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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164-81-79/
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DB Cooper-3540
LV 164-60 PAGE TWO
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[REDACTED] AS WM, ABOUT FORTY ONE TO FORTY TWO, ABOUT SIX FEET, ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FIFTY LBS., SLENDER BUILD, DARK HAIR, RATHER LONG, RATHER HEAVY SIDEBURNS, WEARING A DARK SUIT. [REDACTED]
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END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-3541
LV 164-60 PAGE THREE
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[REDACTED] RESIDENCE WHERE HE LEFT [REDACTED] CANNOT RECALL THE ADDRESS IN MODESTO AND DOES NOT KNOW DIRECTIONS IN MODESTO BUT GAVE THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS TO [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED — large blank/redacted block, likely contained directions or address details]
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[REDACTED] AFTER VIEWING AN ARTIST" SKETCH OF UNSUB, DOES NOT BELIEVE [REDACTED] IS UNSUB. END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-3542
LV 164-60 PAGE FOUR
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RECORDS OXFORD MOTEL, RENO, REFLECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MADE A PREPAID RESERVATION NOV. FIFTEEN, LAST, FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. TWENTY FOUR, LAST; THURSDAY, NOV. TWENTY FIVE, LAST; AND FRIDAY, NOV. TWENTY SIX, LAST. HE CHECKED IN [REDACTED] NOV. TWENTY FOUR, LAST, ALONE, NO CAR, HAD ONE MEDIUM- SIZED SUITCASE. HE STAYED ONE NIGHT. [REDACTED] OXFORD MOTEL, WHO REGISTERED [REDACTED] AFTER VIEWING ARTIST'S SKETCH OF UNSUB, (DOES NOT) BELIEVE [REDACTED] IS UNSUB. [REDACTED] HOWEVER, CANNOT RECALL [REDACTED] WELL ENOUGH TO DESCRIBE HIM. [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] IT IS NOTED THAT THE MOTEL REGISTRATION CARD SHOWS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SAYS HE IS SURE THAT IN ERROR HE WROTE [REDACTED] INSTEAD OF [REDACTED].
SACRAMENTO AT MODESTO, THROUGH [REDACTED] AND THROUGH DIRECTIONS FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] LOCATE [REDACTED] IF UNABLE TO LOCATE [REDACTED] RESIDENCE, END PAGE FOUR
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DB Cooper-3543
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LV 164-60 PAGE FIVE
FROM DESCRIPTION FURNISHED, FURNISH STREET MAP OF MODESTO TO THE RENO RA SINCE [REDACTED] BELIEVES HE RECOGNIZE THE STREET IF HE HAS A MAP TO STUDY.
SEATTLE AT [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] LOCATE [REDACTED]
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VAB
FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-3544
Serials: LV 164-60, SE 164-81-79