Seattle to Director and Minneapolis re Army authority to resume search at Ft. Lewis
Document date 6 April 1972
Also filed separately as sections:
Report a problem
Email this to [email protected]
Id: Cooper-Part-24:230-232
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-24:230-232 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director and Minneapolis re Army authority to resume search at Ft. Lewis Id: Cooper-Part-24:230-232 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A230-232 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 24 pp. 230–232 (DB Cooper-7628–7629), Teletype, dated 6 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2625 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A230-232
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 4/6/72
Transmit the following in ______ (Type in plaintext or code)
Via TELETYPE NITEL (Priority)
---
TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P-) NORJAK.
[REDACTED], U.S. ARMY, FT. LEWIS, WN., ADVISED TODAY AUTHORITY HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE ARMY TO RESUME SEARCHING. HE SAID HIS INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO QUOTE CLEAN IT UP ENQUOTE BUT TO HAVE ALL THE TROOPS OUT OF THE AREA BY APRIL TWENTYONE NEXT. HE IS MOVING ADVANCE GUARD OF TROOPS INTO AREA TODAY, AND WILL MOVE THE REST OF THEM TOMORROW A.M. ARMY WILL USE SAME TROOPS AS UTILIZED PRE- VIOUSLY.
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND PORTLAND WERE TELEPHONICALLY INSTRUCTED TO HAVE THEIR AGENTS MEET WITH ME AND PERSONNEL FROM THIS OFFICE AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, AT EIGHT PM, THIS DATE, FOR BRIEFING.
IT IS CONTEMPLATED THAT ALL PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SEARCH WILL BE UNDER WAY NOT LATER THAN ONE PM, APRIL SEVEN NEXT.
---
PRB:klb 164-81-2625 Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent MP-11:03 PM Per OCA
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: [number]er-7627
---
S a b [illegible] b6 b7C
NR013 SE PLAIN 11:03 PM NITEL 4/6/72 DCA TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) FROM SEATTLE (164-81) (P) IP
---
NORJAK
---
[REDACTED] U.S. ARMY, FT. LEWIS, WN., ADVISED TODAY AUTHORITY HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE ARMY TO RESUME SEARCH- ING. HE SAID HIS INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO QUOTE CLEAN IT UP ENQUOTE BUT TO HAVE ALL THE TROOPS OUT OF THE AREA BY APRIL TWENTYONE NEXT. HE IS MOVING ADVANCE GUARD OF TROOPS INTO AREA TODAY, AND WILL MOVE THE REST OF THEM TOMORROW A.M. ARMY WILL USE SAME TROOPS AS UTILIZED PREVIOUSLY. SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND PORTLAND WERE TELEPHONICALLY INSTRUCTED TO HAVE THEIR AGENTS MEET WITH ME AND PERSONNEL FROM THIS OFFICE AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, AT EIGHT PM, THIS DATE, FOR BRIEFING. IT IS CONTEMPLATED THAT ALL PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SEARCH WILL BE UNDER WAY NOT LATER THAN ONE PM, APRIL SEVEN NEXT. E N D FBI MP BLB CLR
---
DB Cooper-7628 164-81-2625
---
b6 b7C
NR013 SE PLAIN 10:37 PM NITEL 4/6/72 DCA TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) FROM SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 1P
---
NORJAK
[REDACTED], U.S. ARMY, FT. LEWIS, WN., ADVISED TODAY AUTHORITY HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE ARMY TO RESUME SEARCH- ING. HE SAID HIS INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO QUOTE CLEAN IT UP ENQUOTE BUT TO HAVE ALL THE TROOPS OUT OF THE AREA BY APRIL TWENTYONE NEXT. HE IS MOVING ADVANCE GUARD OF TROOPS INTO AREA TODAY, AND WILL MOVE THE REST OF THEM TOMORROW A.M. ARMY WILL USE SAME TROOPS AS UTILIZED PREVIOUSLY.
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND PORTLAND WERE TELEPHONICALLY INSTRUCTED TO HAVE THEIR AGENTS MEET WITH ME AND PERSONNEL FROM THIS OFFICE AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, AT EIGHT PM, THIS DATE, FOR BRIEFING.
IT IS CONTEMPLATED THAT ALL PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SEARCH WILL BE UNDER WAY NOT LATER THAN ONE PM, APRIL SEVEN NEXT. E N D EJF FBI WASH DC 2. FBIYFJLKR7
---
b6 b7C
---
DB Cooper-7629 164-81-2625
Serials: 164-2111, MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2625