Urgent teletype Butte to Seattle, San Francisco and Denver re reported parachutists near Flathead Lake
Document date 6 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-14:207-213 Document: Urgent teletype Butte to Seattle, San Francisco and Denver re reported parachutists near Flathead Lake Id: Cooper-Part-14:207-213 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A207-213 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. 207–213 (DB Cooper-3571–3577), Teletype, dated 6 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-80 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A207-213
PNR 004 BT PLAIN 4:37 PM URGENT 12-6-71 LKS TO SEATTLE (164-81) SAN FRANCISCO DENVER FROM BUTTE (164-26) (P) 6P
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UNSUB.; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
RE PHOENIX NITEL DECEMBER FOUR LAST.
RE SUSPECT FNU [REDACTED] REFERENCED TEL STATED [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] WMA, AGE [REDACTED] FIVE FEET TEN, ONE EIGHTFIVE LBS., BROWN CREW CUT HAIR, RUDDY COMPLEXION, [REDACTED]
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END PAGE ONE
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164-81 -80 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ DEC 6 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-3571
PAGE TWO BT (164-26)
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[REDACTED — large block, entire content withheld]
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[REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED DECEMBER THREE INSTANT THAT ON DECEMBER TWO LAST, AT ABOUT SEVEN A. M., [REDACTED]
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END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-3572
BT (164-26) PAGE THREE
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[REDACTED — entire content withheld under FOIA exemptions b6, b7C, b7D]
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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., END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-3573
PAGE FOUR BT (164-26)
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FIVE FEET ELEVEN, BROWN GRAYING HAIR, [redacted] [redacted] HAIR WAS UNTIDY AS IF NOT COMBED SINCE SLEEPING.
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[redacted] UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY FURTHER INFORMATION. NO OTHER WITNESSES TO ABOVE INCIDENT [redacted] [redacted] PRESENT WHEREABOUTS OF TRUCK DRIVER UNKNOWN.
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ON DECEMBER FOUR LAST PHOENIX INVESTIGATION REFLECTED ARIZONA LICENSE [redacted] [redacted] IS ASSIGNED A NINETEEN SEVENTY CHEVROLET P/U TRUCK BELONGING TO A [redacted] [redacted]
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ON DECEMBER THREE LAST, [redacted] [redacted] TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE FLAGSTAFF RA AT WHICH TIME HE FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE LAST, BETWEEN TWO AND THREE PM, [redacted] WERE DRIVING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY NINETYTHREE BETWEEN [redacted] WHEN THEY OBSERVED TWO PARACHUTISTS LANDING AMONG TREES AND BOULDERS
END PAGE FOUR
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DB Cooper-3574
BT (164-26) PAGE FIVE
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BETWEEN HIGHWAY NINETYTHREE AND FLATHEAD LAKE. [REDACTED] FURTHER DESCRIBED THIS LOCATION AS BEING APPROXIMATELY IN THE NORTH ONE-THIRD OF FLATHEAD LAKE ON HIGHWAY NINETYTHREE. THERE WERE POWER LINES ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY, TELEPHONE LINES ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY, WITH APPROXIMATELY A THIRTY PERCENT INCLINE FROM THE HIGHWAY TO THE LAKE.
[REDACTED] INDICATED THE PARACHUTISTS LANDED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THREE OR FOUR LOG CABIN-TYPE HOUSES IN A COVE ON THE LAKE.
[REDACTED] STATED BOTH PARACHUTISTS WERE USING SPORTING-TYPE PARACHUTES WHICH WERE RED, WHITE, AND POSSIBLY BLUE IN COLOR. ONLY ONE OF THE PARACHUTISTS WAS CLOSELY OBSERVED AND IT WAS DETERMINED HE WAS WEARING A COLORED CRASH HELMET, GOGGLES, AND A GREENISH-BLUE ALL WEATHER OUTFIT.
[REDACTED] FELT THIS INCIDENT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE RELATED TO CAPTIONED MATTER IN VIEW OF THE FACT THE PARACHUTISTS HAD MADE THEIR JUMP IN EXTREMELY POOR WEATHER CONSISTING OF A LOW CLOUD COVER, HIGH WINDS, AND INTERMITTENT SNOW. IT WAS HIS BELIEF THAT EXPERIENCED SKY DIVERS WOULD NEVER MADE A JUMP IN SUCH BAD WEATHER.
END PAGE FIVE
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-3575
BT (154-26) PAGE SIX
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INASMUCH AS THIS INCIDENT TOOK PLACE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO [REDACTED] SUPPOSEDLY THE PRESENT RESIDENCE OF [REDACTED] IT IS FELT FURTHER INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PARACHUTE JUMP SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] BUTTE, [REDACTED] WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] REGARDING ANY KNOWLEDGE OF CAPTIONED MATTER. WILL CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION IN AN EFFORT TO SECURE FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING MTHE PARACHUTE JUMP MADE BY THE ABOVE DESCRIBED TWO MEN ON THE AFTERNOON OF NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE LAST."
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[REDACTED] ADVISED DECEMBER SIX, INSTANT, [REDACTED]
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END PAGE SIX
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DB Cooper-3576
PAGE SEVEN BT (164-26)
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[REDACTED - b6/b7C]
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[REDACTED] STATED HAS ONLY SEEN [REDACTED] ONE OCCASION AND DOES RESEMBLE COMPOSITE OF UNSUB. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED THIN AND IN THIRTIES. NO FURTHER DESCRIPTION.
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[REDACTED] NOVEMBER TWO ONE TO TWO EIGHT LAST AND LEFT [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED - b6/b7C]
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DENVER, LOCATE [REDACTED] AT ABOVE ADDRESS AND INTERVIEW RE STATEMENTS MADE [REDACTED]
SAN FRANCISCO, AT [REDACTED] ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION. ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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END.
RECD TWO
VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-3577
Serials: BT 164-26, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-80