NITEL SAC Seattle to SAC Charlotte re discreet inquiry on possible Cooper suspect

Document date 7 December 1971

Part 24pages 640–6423 pagesDB Cooper-3600–3602

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Document: NITEL SAC Seattle to SAC Charlotte re discreet inquiry on possible Cooper suspect
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 24 pp. 640–642 (DB Cooper-3600–3602), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-816 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A640-642

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Date: 12/7/71

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TO : SAC, CHARLOTTE

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81 SUB 20)

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORT- LAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.

UNSUB BOARDED CAPTIONED FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, HIJACKED PLANE ENROUTE SEATTLE, ALLOWED PASSENGERS TO DEPART SEATTLE AFTER PLANE REFUELED AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR PAYMENT MADE. AT SEVEN THIRTY FIVE PM PLANE TOOK OFF FOR FLIGHT TO RENO, NEVADA AND UNSUB MISSING FROM PLANE UPON ARRIVAL RENO. UNSUB DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, IN FORTY'S, FIVE FEET TEN-SIX FEET, ONE SEVEN ZERO-ONE EIGHT ZERO, OLIVE COMPLEXION, DARK BROWN - BLACK HAIR, WORE DARK GLASSES, HAD LOW VOICE AND SPOKE INTELLIGENTLY WITH NO ACCENT AND HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH FILTER TIP CIGARETTES.

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SEVERAL PERSONS HAVE ADVISED [REDACTED] FORMERLY [REDACTED] FITS DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB. [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED]

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REC:set (1) Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent 33[illegible] M Per ________

164-81-816 DB-Cooper-3600

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PAGE TWO

[REDACTED - large block, content withheld under b6, b7C, b7D]

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] OBTAINED FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] EXHIBITED TO WITNESS, [REDACTED] WHO ADVISED THERE IS A GOOD LIKENESS OF [REDACTED] TO UNSUB, HOWEVER, HE COULD NOT MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.

RECORDS, VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL, SEATTLE, ON [REDACTED] REFLECT [REDACTED] b7C Per Dept of VA

[REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS IN ABOVE HOSPITAL FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FOR TREATMENT FOR [REDACTED] AS HAVING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RECORD REFLECTS [REDACTED] SERVED IN U. S. [REDACTED] FROM [REDACTED] TO [REDACTED] AND IN U. S. [REDACTED] AS A FIGHTER PILOT IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO [REDACTED] CLAIMED HONORABLE DISCHARGE.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] CLOSELY RESEMBLES THAT OF UNSUB HIJACKER.

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Approved: _______________ Sent ___________M Per ____________DB-Cooper-3601 Special Agent in Charge

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PAGE THREE

CHARLOTTE AT [REDACTED] NORTH CAROLINA. WILL MAKE

DISCREET INQUIRY TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER [REDACTED]

WAS EMPLOYED [REDACTED] DURING DAY OF HIJACKING,

NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. HIS SOCIAL

SECURITY NO. IS [REDACTED]

[REDACTED]

SUTEL. P.

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Approved: ________ Sent ________ M Per ________ DB-Cooper-3602 Special Agent in Charge

Serials: SE 164-81-816