SAC Seattle to Bureau requesting authority to publish hijacker description and sketch in ALPA Pilot Bulletin
Document date 29 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-18:164-165 Document: Teletype SAC Seattle to Bureau requesting authority to publish hijacker description and sketch in ALPA Pilot Bulletin Id: Cooper-Part-18:164-165 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A164-165 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 18 pp. 164–165 (DB Cooper-5497–5498), Teletype, dated 29 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1719 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A164-165
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 12/29/71
Transmit the following in ___[handwritten: D/6]___ (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) SAC, WFO (164-169)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
NORJAK.
RE: WFO TEL DECEMBER TWENTYEIGHT, LAST.
RE: AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. (ALPA)
REFERENCED TELETYPE SETS FORTH THAT [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] ALPA, INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO PUBLISH b7C INFORMATION CONCERNING CAPTIONED MATTER IN MONTHLY PUBLISHED "PILOT BULLETIN".
BUREAU AUTHORITY IS REQUESTED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING NOTICE PUBLISHED IN JANUARY ISSUE OF PILOT BULLETIN:
ENCLOSED IS AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE HIJACKER WHO EXTORTED TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST. THIS MAN IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
RACE WHITE, SEX MALE, AGE MID FORTIES, HEIGHT FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TO SIX FEET, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY POUNDS, BUILD AVERAGE TO WELL BUILT, COMPLEXION OLIVE, LATIN APPEARANCE, MEDIUM SMOOTH; HAIR DARK BROWN OR BLACK, NORMAL STYLE, PARTED ON LEFT, COMBED BACK, SIDEBURNS, LOW EAR LEVEL; EYES POSSIBLY BROWN. DURING LATTER PART OF FLIGHT PUT ON DARK, WRAP AROUND SUNGLASSES WITH DARK RIMS.
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(1) JSD/slb [handwritten initials] Approved: [handwritten signature] Special Agent in Charge
Sent [handwritten: 05] 3/[handwritten: PM] Per [handwritten: 4/14/6]
64-81-1719 DB Cooper-5497 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971—413-138
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
Transmit the following in _______________ (Type in plaintext or code)
Via _______________ (Priority)
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SE 164-81 PAGE TWO
VOICE LOW, SPOKE INTELLIGENTLY, NO PARTICULAR ACCENT, POSSIBLY FROM MIDWEST SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES. CHARACTERISTIC HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH FILTER TIP CIGARETTES. WEARING APPAREL BLACK ~~OR BROWN~~ SUIT; WHITE SHIRT; NARROW BLACK TIE; BLACK DRESS SUIT; BLACK RAIN DASH TYPE OVERCOAT OR DARK TOP COAT; DARK BRIEFCASE OR ATTACHE CASE; CARRIED PAPER BAG FOUR INCHES BY TWELVE INCHES BY FOURTEEN INCHES; BROWN SHOES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO THE IDENTITY OF THIS INDIVIDUAL, PLEASE CONTACT THE NEAREST FBI OFFICE.
IF APPROVED, A GLOSSY PICTURE OF UNSUB WITH AND WITHOUT GLASSES SHOULD BE FORWARDED BY THE BUREAU TO WFO TO ACCOMPANY THE ARTICLE.
FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, THE ABOVE WORDING IS THE SAME AS WAS APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE "PARACHUTIST'S MAGAZINE" AND "SKYDIVER".
SEATTLE INDICES CONTAIN NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION CONCERNING ALPA. WFO ADVISE RESULTS OF INDICES CHECK REGARDING ALPA AND ANY REASON FOR NOT ACCEPTING OFFER.
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Approved: _______________ Sent _______________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-138 DB Cooper-5498
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1719, WF 164-169