Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle re anonymous cut-and-paste letter to Sky Marshals
Document date 22 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-17:156-157
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-17:156-157 Document: Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle re anonymous cut-and-paste letter to Sky Marshals Id: Cooper-Part-17:156-157 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-17%3A156-157 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 17 pp. 156–157 (DB Cooper-4987–4988), Teletype, dated 22 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1489 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-17%3A156-157
NR 009 PD PLAIN 3:55 PM URGENT 12-22-71 LJP TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 1P
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[REDACTED] PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FURNISHED ANONYMOUS LETTER MAILED AT PORTLAND 12/16/71 AND ADDRESSED TO "SKY MARSHALLS PORTLAND AIRPORT". LETTER WAS SLIP OF PAPER UPON WHICH FOLLOWING MESSAGE IN LETTERS CLIPPED FROM [guess: NEWSPAPER] MOUNTED WITH SCOTCH TAPE: "D.B. COOPER CONFIDENTIAL [REDACTED] BASED UPON ASSUMPTION LETTER SUGGESTS [REDACTED] AS SUSPECT, P[guess: OR]TLAND CHECKED INDICES, METROPOLITAN AREA CITY AND TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES, RECORDS OF PORTLAND PD AND MULTNOMAH COUNTY SO, ALL WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. SUGGEST SEATTLE DO SAME INVESTIGATION THAT AREA. XEROX COPIES OF LETTER BEING FORWARDED SEATTLE BY MAIL.
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END RECD FIVE VA3 FBI SEATTLE CLP
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164-81 - 1489 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED..../[guess: 77]1....FILED...... DEC 22 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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[illegible handwritten annotation, partially reads:] lead [illegible] to [illegible] [guess: attempt] to [guess: steal]
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DB Cooper-4987
NR 009 PD PLAIN 3:55 PM URGENT 12-22-71 LJQ TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P) IP
NORJAK
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[REDACTED] PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FURNISHED ANONYMOUS LETTER MAILED AT PORTLAND 12/16/71 AND ADDRESSED TO"SKY MARSHALLS PORTLAND AIRPORT". LETTER WAS SLIP OF PAPER UPON WHICH FOLLOWING MESSAGE IN LETTERS CLIPPED FROM NEWSPAPER MOUNTED WITH SCOTCH TAPE: "D.B. COOPER CONFIDENTIAL [REDACTED] BASED UPON ASSUMPTION LETTER SUGGESTS [REDACTED] AS SUSPECT, PORTLAND CHECKED INDICES, METROPOLITAN AREA CITY AND TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES, RECORDS OF PORTLAND PD AND MULTNOMAH COUNTY SO, ALL WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. SUGGEST SEATTLE DO SAME INVESTIGATION THAT AREA. XEROX COPIES OF LETTER BEING FORWARDED SEATTLE BY MAIL.
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END RECD FIVE VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR
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164-81 - 1489 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 20 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-4988
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b6 b7C
Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1489