Nitel teletype SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK drop zone near La Center and request to conduct ground search
Document date 8 March 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-23:098-100 Document: Nitel teletype SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK drop zone near La Center and request to conduct ground search Id: Cooper-Part-23:098-100 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-23%3A098-100 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 23 pp. 98–100 (DB Cooper-7245–7247), Teletype, dated 8 Mar 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-23%3A098-100
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FBI Date: 3/8/72
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Sub - E S Sear[ch] 3/13/72
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
NORJAK.
EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED THUS FAR HAS NOT DEVELOPED INFORMATION RE IDENTITY OF SUSPECT NOR HAVE IN SPITE OF EXTENSIVE CIRCULARIZATION ANY OF THE BILLS PAID TO HIJACKER SHOWED UP. THROUGH DETAILED ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT LOGS, TIME AND FLIGHT PATH BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES, U. S. AIR FORCE, TOGETHER WITH SIMULATION OF FLIGHT CONDITIONS BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES USING ACTUAL AIRPLANE USED IN HIJACKING, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT VERY LIKELY UNSUB LEFT THE PLANE AT SITE NEAR VICINITY OF LA CENTER, WASH. AT APPROXIMATELY EIGHT TWELVE P.M. ON NIGHT IN QUESTION. APPROXIMATE SITE OF DROP, ALLOWING FOR DRIFT THROUGH WIND AND DELAY OF OPENING PARACHUTE, ESTABLISHES THAT UNSUB VERY LIKELY CAME DOWN SOMEWHERE IN A WOODED AREA APPROXIMATELY THREE AND ONE HALF MILES WIDE AND SIX MILES LONG. SOME OF AREA HAS BEEN CLEARED, OTHER PARTS HAVE SECOND GROWTH TIMBER, AND BALANCE VIRGIN TIMBER, A GREAT PERCENTAGE OF WHICH IS ACCESSIBLE BY FOOT. I PERSONALLY HAVE TRAVERSED THIS AREA AND FEEL IT IS POSSIBLE TO THOROUGHLY SEARCH AREA BY SUBSTANTIAL FORCE OF MEN IN EFFORT TO LOCATE BODY OF UNSUB IF HE DID NOT MAKE A SUCCESSFUL JUMP.
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JEM:eon (1) Approved: __________ Sent 12:45 7 M Per DCA Special Agent in Charge 164-81-[illegible] DB Cooper-7245
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FOREST SERVICE PERSONNEL ADVISE THAT IF SEARCH IS TO BE MADE, IT MUST BE MADE WITHIN NEXT TWO WEEKS OR SPRING FOLIAGE WOULD MAKE SEARCH EXCEPTIONALEY DIFFICULT. FURTHER, LIKELIHOOD OF INCLEMENT WEATHER IN AREA IS REDUCED SOMEWHAT, MAKING IT FEASIBLE TO MAKE SEARCH NOW.
IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH SEARCH IN MINIMUM TIME, RECOMMEND BUREAU AUTHORIZE ME PERSONALLY CONTACTING GENERAL ALEXANDER BOLLING, COMMANDANT, FT. LEWIS, WASH, FOR ARMY ASSISTANCE, CONSISTING OF SELF-SUFFICIENT AND SUSTAINING COMPANY OF ARMY TROOPS SUPPLEMENTED BY TWENTY AGENTS TO MAINTAIN INTEGRITY AND TO INSURE THOROUGHNESS OF SEARCH, ONE AGENT TO BE ASSIGNED TO EACH ARMY SQUAD CONSISTING OF TEN MEN. OF TWENTY AGENTS, TEN WOULD BE FROM SEATTLE OFFICE, BUREAU TO ASSIGN ON TEMPORARY [guess: duty] ADDITIONAL TEN FROM NEIGHBORING OFFICES, ALL AGENTS TO COME EQUIPPED WITH HEAVY SHOES, OUTDOOR CLOTHING AND RAIN GEAR, PREFERABLY YOUTHFUL AGENTS WHO HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO TRAVERSING MOUNTAIN AREAS SINCE AREA TO BE SEARCHED IS HILLY, MUCH OF IT COVERED WITH UNDERGROWTH AND SOME OF SEARCH TO BE UNDOUBTEDLY CONDUCTED DURING RAIN.
AGENTS WOULD BE QUARTERED AT LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON, IN MOTEL IN AN ESTIMATED PER DIEM OF TWENTYONE DOLLARS PER DAY EACH, AND
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Approved: __________ Sent __________ M Per __________ Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-7246
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[guess: seattle] furnished BE CARRIED TO SITE BY BUCARS, ARMY COMPANY TO PROVIDE OWN COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSPORTATION, AND PHYSICAL FACILITIES. IF APPROVED, I WOULD PERSONALLY REQUEST ASSISTANCE FROM MAJOR BOLLING AND BUREAU REQUESTED TO HAVE AGENTS FROM NEIGHBORING OFFICES AVAILABLE AT LONGVIEW RA NO LATER THAN SIX O'CLOCK P.M., MARCH FOURTEEN NEXT.
IT IS ESTIMATED SEARCH WITH COMPANY OF ARMY PERSONNEL AND TWENTY AGENTS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED IN APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS OR LESS.
I WOULD PERSONALLY BE PRESENT DURING EARLY STAGES OF SEARCH AND WOULD SPEND AS MUCH TIME AS OTHER COMMITMENTS PERMIT AND IN [handwritten insertion: on relief] MY ABSENCE, DIRECTION WOULD BE BY SENIOR RESIDENT AGENT THOMAS J. MANNING, A MATURE, ABLE AGENT AT LONGVIEW,
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who is intimately acquainted with terrain and case. [illegible] Individuals residing on land in area involved will be contacted in advance of search for permission to search their land.
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Approved: ________ Special Agent in Charge Sent ________ M Per ________ DB Cooper-7247