Nitel Salt Lake City to Director, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle re Salt Lake suspect
Document date 21 January 1972
Also filed at: Part 56 pp. 61–64 · Part 93 pp. 90–93 · Part 98 pp. 48–51
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-20:098-101 Document: Nitel Salt Lake City to Director, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle re Salt Lake suspect Id: Cooper-Part-20:098-101 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-20%3A098-101 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 20 pp. 98–101 (DB Cooper-6053, DB Cooper-6056, DB Cooper-6057, DB Cooper-6058), Teletype, dated 21 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-2008 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-20%3A098-101
NR004 SU PLAIN 5:55PM NITEL 1/21/72 LSB TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) LOS ANGELES (164-497) PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) 4P
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NORJAK. OO SE.
RE SU AIRTEL TO SEATTLE AND BUREAU, JANUARY SEVENTEEN LAST; LV TEL TO BUREAU, LA, SE AND PD, NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE LAST; BUTEL TO SU, JANUARY TWENTY LAST.
RE: SUSPECT [REDACTED]
FOR INFO LA AND PD, [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, ADVISED JANUARY SIXTEEN LAST HE STRONGLY SUSPECTS [REDACTED] AS PERSON RESPONSIBLE HIJACKING CAP- TIONED MATTER AND STATED A FRIEND OF HIS, [REDACTED] WITH [REDACTED], INDICATED [REDACTED] WENT TO OREGON APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO HIJACKING AND RENTED HOUSE APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF SEATTLE AND SHORTLY AFTER HIJACKING END PAGE ONE
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164-81-2008 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ JAN 20 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-6053
PAGE TWO SU 164-24
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[REDACTED] WENT TO MEXICO, AND [REDACTED] THEORIZES PURPOSE WAS TO EXCHANGE MONEY. [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED [REDACTED] IS KNOWN AS MAKE-UP EXPERT AND HE HAS LEARNED [REDACTED] RECENTLY PURCHASED HOME, SALT LAKE CITY, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WOULD NOT DIVULGE NAME OF PERSON, A WOMAN, WHO HAS BEEN TALKING TO HIM ABOUT [REDACTED] IT IS NOTED SEATTLE EXHIBITED PHOTOS OF [REDACTED] TO WITNESSES, WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.
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[REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, ADVISED JANUARY TWENTY LAST, SUSPECT [REDACTED] WHO DEPARTED SALT LAKE CITY EARLY NOVEMBER LAST, TO BEST OF HIS RECOLLECTION. HE STATED ONE [REDACTED] MADE INQUIRY CONCERNING [REDACTED] IN DECEMBER LAST. HE FURTHER ADVISED HE BELIEVED SUSPECT IN CALIFORNIA BUT EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN TO HIM, AND [REDACTED] DID HAVE DEALINGS WITH WESTERN MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY, FOUR FIVE FIVE EAST FOURTH SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY.
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[REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, ADVISED JANUARY TWENTY LAST, [REDACTED] END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-6056
PAGE THREE SU 164-24
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[REDACTED] AND THAT SUSPECT, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DEPARTED SALT LAKE CITY LATE OCTOBER LAST FOR CALIFORNIA, EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN TO HER. SHE STATED RECEIVED ONE LETTER WHILE SUSPECT, ET AL, WERE ENROUTE CALIFORNIA BUT COULD NOT RECALL POSTMARK.
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[REDACTED] NATIONWIDE FINANCE COMPANY, THREE TWO THREE SOUTH STATE STREET, SALT LAKE CITY, ADVISED [REDACTED] EMPLOYED BY HIS COMPANY BUT CURRENTLY OUT OF CITY. [REDACTED] STATED HIS COMPANY ATTEMPTED TO TRACE SUSPECT AND DETERMINED AS OF APPROXIMATELY MID-DECEMBER LAST EMPLOYED BY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, BUT UPON MAKING INQUIRY THAT COMPANY, IT WAS DENIED SUSPECT EMPLOYED.
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[REDACTED] WESTERN MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY, SALT LAKE CITY, ADVISED CURRENT LOCATION OF SUSPECT UNKNOWN; HOWEVER ON OCTOBER TWENTY-TWO LAST HE WAS PAID BY CHECKS IN AMOUNTS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FOR WORK PERFORMED AS A CONTRACTOR, AND SHE BELIEVED HE DEPARTED SALT LAKE CITY THAT SAME OR FOLLOWING DAY. END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-6057
PAGE FOUR SU 164-24
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RECORDS INDICATE ABOVE CHECKS NEGOTIATED OCTOBER TWENTY-TWO LAST AT FIRST SECURITY BANK, SALT LAKE CITY, AND WERE SIGNED [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES RECORDS, SALT LAKE CITY, INDICATE REGISTRATION OF NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE THUNDERBIRD TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] UTAH LICENSE [REDACTED] ANOTHER VEHICLE, NINETEEN SIXTY-FOUR PONTIAC, VIN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WITH UTAH LICENSE [REDACTED]
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LA DIVISION AT [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, MAKE INQUIRY [REDACTED] IN EFFORT TO LOCATE SUSPECT AND DETER- MINE EXACT LOCATION OF SUSPECT ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR LAST, AND PER BUREAU INSTRUCTIONS CONDUCT ANY ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION TO POSITIVELY ELIMINATE SUSPECT BASED ON INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM [REDACTED] ABOVE. LA ALSO HANDLE LEAD SET FORTH REFERENCED LV TEL, IF NOT ALREADY HANDLED. SUBMIT RESULTS BY NITEL.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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END P DCA FBI SE CLR
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DB Cooper-6058
Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2008, SU 164-24