SAC Las Vegas to Director and FBI Laboratory re crank letter to Reno newspaper mentioning D.B. Cooper
Title revised to match the document’s own text.
Original title: Airtel SAC Las Vegas to Director and FBI Laboratory re crank letter to Reno Evening Gazette mentioning D.B. Cooper
Document date 6 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-16:059-059 Document: Airtel SAC Las Vegas to Director and FBI Laboratory re crank letter to Reno newspaper mentioning D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-16:059-059 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-16%3A059-059 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 16 p. 59 (DB Cooper-4363), Airtel, dated 6 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-184 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-16%3A059-059
12/6/71
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AIRTEL AIR MAIL Sub 130
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI ATTN: FBI LABORATORY FROM: SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P)
SUBJECT: UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING EXTORTION
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Re Las Vegas teletype to the Bureau, 12/2/71.
Enclosed for the Laboratory is a note reading, "Plan Ahead for Retirement Income D. B. Cooper", and envelope addressed to "Reno Cassette", Reno, Nevada, postmarked US Postal Service CA, 956, [guess: Flt.] Dec 1, 1971, and one set of elimination prints of [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] "Reno Evening Cassette", on 12/12/71, advised above described letter had been received at the Cassette in the afternoon mail, 12/2/71. He said that he himself had touched the letter and that another employee, [REDACTED] had handled the letter.
Post Office, Reno, Nevada, advised that 956 is the Sacramento master and covers numerous towns.
[REDACTED] prints have been sent to the Laboratory with previous note. The Laboratory is requested to search note through anonymous letter file and process for latent impressions.
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3 - Bureau (Encs. 3) 1 - Portland (Info) 2 - Seattle (Info) 1 - Sacramento (Info) 2 - Las Vegas JAM:mke (9)
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SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 1 3 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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1-64-81-1/84
-BB Cooper-4363
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b6 b7C b6 b7C b6 b7C
Serials: LV 164-60, SE 164-81-184