Los Angeles to Seattle and Pittsburgh re Santa Maria witness on TWA Flight 209

Document date 23 December 1971

Part 17pages 196–1972 pagesDB Cooper-5026–5027

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Id: Cooper-Part-17:196-197

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-17:196-197

Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Seattle and Pittsburgh re Santa Maria witness on TWA Flight 209
Id: Cooper-Part-17:196-197
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-17%3A196-197

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 17 pp. 196–197 (DB Cooper-5026–5027), Teletype, dated 23 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1510 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-17%3A196-197

NR005 LA PLAIN 536PM NITEL 12-23-71 DCB TO SEATTLE (164-81) PITTSBURGH FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 2P

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RE SUSPECT [REDACTED] THIS DATE, [REDACTED] SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SO, SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA, STATES [REDACTED] RETURNING FROM PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA ON DECEMBER ELEVEN LAST, LEAVING PITTSBURGH AT EIGHT FORTYFIVE AM ON TWA FLIGHT TWO ZERO NINE, AND ARRIVING IN LOS ANGELES AT TEN THIRTY AM.

[REDACTED] STATES AN INDIVIDUAL CAME TO HIS ATTENTION SITTING DIRECTLY ACROSS ISLE WHO LOOKED FAMILIAR TO HIM.

HE ADDS THAT BECAUSE OF FAMILIAR APPEARANCE, AFTER LEAVING PLANE, HE OBSERVED THIS MAN AT BAGGAGE COUNTER PICK UP SUITCASE BEARING NAME [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PENNSYLVANIA. HE ADVISES THAT

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164-81- 1510 SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ DEC 23 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-5026

LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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AFTER READING NEWSPAPER ARTICLES RE HIJACKING, HE TENDED TO DISCOUNT POSSIBILITY HIJACKER WOULD USE NAME OF [REDACTED] AGAIN AND DUE TO RECENT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAD NOT REPORTED MATTER PREVIOUSLY.

HE DESCRIBED THE PERSON OBSERVED ON THE AIRPLANE AS WHITE MALE, MID-FORTIES, FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TO ONE HUNDRED SEVENTYFIVE POUNDS, MEDIUM BUILD, DARK COMPLEXION, DARK HAIR, AND OVERHEARD MAN SPEAK IN VOICE DESCRIBED AS "VERY NASAL SOUNDING".

PITTSBURGH, [REDACTED] PENNSYLVANIA: ASCERTAIN IF INDIVIDUAL NAMED [REDACTED] IS OR HAS RESIDED AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD.

UNKNOWN SUBJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. END

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DB Cooper-5027

Serials: LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1510

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