Director to all SACs relaying Attorney General Mitchell press release on NORJAK

Document date 8 December 1971

Part 15pages 52–532 pagesDB Cooper-385, DB Cooper-3852

Also filed at: Part 64 pp. 14–15

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 15 pp. 52–53 (DB Cooper-385, DB Cooper-3852), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-931 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-15%3A052-053

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NR049 WA PLAIN 7:31PM NITEL 12-8-71 LRS TO ALL SACS FROM DIRECTOR 2P

NORJAK

FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE."4

-559RNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT A "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERIAL-NUMBERED BILLS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, HAS BEEN PREPARED AND IS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY THE FBI THROURTOUT THE COUNTRY.

FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER ADVISED THAT THE "RANSOM LIST," THIRTY FOUR PAGES IN LENGTH, CONTAINS THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES WHICH WERE PAID TO THE HIJACKER FOR THE RELEASE OF THIRTY SIX PASSENGERS AND TWO CREW MEMBERS. THE HIJACKER BOARDED THE FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HIJACKED THE PLANE JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL IN SEATTLE, END PAGE ONE

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164-81-931 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ DEC 8 1971 FBI-SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-3852

PAGE TWO WASHINGTON. HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PARACHUTED FROM THE BOEING SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AIRCRAFT WHILE IT WAS IN FLIGHT FROM SEATTLE TO RENO, NEVADA. MR. HOOVER ADVISED THAT COPIES OF THE "RANSOM LIST" ARE BEING FURNISHED TO FBI OFFICES AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS. HE REQUESTED ANYONE HAVING ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE NEAREST OFFICE OF THE FBI, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF WHICH MAY BE FOUND ON THE FIRST PAGE OF MOST TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES. END RECD THREE BAB FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB Cooper-385

Serials: SE 164-81-931

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