San Francisco to Seattle and WFO re suspect James D. Booth (duplicate copy)
Document date 2 December 1971
Also filed at: Part 99 pp. 52–53
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-24:610-611 Document: Teletype San Francisco to Seattle and WFO re suspect James D. Booth (duplicate copy) Id: Cooper-Part-24:610-611 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A610-611 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 24 pp. 610–611 (DB Cooper-2651–2652), Teletype, dated 2 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-462 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A610-611
NR 009 SF PLAIN 3:32PM URGENT 12/2/71 MAH TO: SEATTLE (164-81) WASHINGTON FIELD FROM: SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (P) 2P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA-HIJACKING;EXTORTION.
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RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO SAN FRANCISCO DECEMBER ONE, LAST. REFERENCED TELETYPE ADVISES AS FOLLOWS: RE SUSPECT JAMES D. BOOTH. BOOTH IS BEING CONSIDERED A SUSPECT IN THIS CASE AS HIS APPEARANCE MEETS THE GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HIJACKER. INVESTIGATION AT SEATTLE REVEALS BOOTH'S WHEREABOUTS AT THIS TIME UNKNOWN, HOWEVER, HE IS A LICENSED MERCHANT SEAMAN, Z NUMBER SIX THREE NINE ONE TWO SIX, WITH SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FOUR SEVEN THREE TWO TWO FIVE SIX NINE ONE. BOOTH WAS BORN DECEMBER ONE, NINETEEN TWENTY-SEVEN, AT DULUTH, MINNESOTA, AND WAS ISSUED HIS Z NUMBER IS SAN FRANCISCO IN NINETEEN FORTYNINE. BOOTH WAS ISSUED A CHIEF ENGINEERS LICENSE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN JUNE, SIXTYNINE. BOTH LICENSES HAVE BEEN RENEWED AT SEATTLE, HOWEVER, NO PHOTO AVAILABLE. END PAGE ONE
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164-81 - 462 CARBON/ED INDEXED SERIALIZED/FILED DEC 02 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-2651
PAGE TWO SF 164-220
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[REDACTED] UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, SAN FRANCISCO, ADVISES THAT THE REQUESTED INFORMATION WOULD BE AVAILABLE AT THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD MERCHANT VESSEL PERSONNEL SECION, WASHINGTON, D.C.
WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE OBTAIN MOST RECENT PHOTO OF BOOTH AND ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE HIS CURRENT SHIP ASSIGNMENT ON NOVEMBER TWENTY- FOUR, LAST.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END
VA B FBI SEATTLE F CLR
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DB Cooper-2652
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-462, SF 164-220