NR002 Washington Field to Acting Director (Laboratory) and Seattle re bill serial number examination
Document date 3 May 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-25:143-144 Document: Teletype NR002 Washington Field to Acting Director (Laboratory) and Seattle re bill serial number examination Id: Cooper-Part-25:143-144 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-25%3A143-144 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 25 pp. 143–144 (DB Cooper-8121–8122), Teletype, dated 3 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3017 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-25%3A143-144
NR 002 WF PLAIN 107PM URGENT 5-3-72 SKA TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-2111) ATTENTION FBI LABORATORY SEATTLE (164-81) FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) P
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Sect 406 Seattle [guess: F] leg
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NORJAK
RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND WFO DATED MAY ONE LAST. RE ARTICLE APPEARING IN QUOTE SEATTLE FLAG UNQUOTE NEWSPAPER:
COPY OF QUOTE SEATTLE FLAG UNQUOTE NEWSPAPER RECEIVED FROM PILOT COURIER BY ALEXANDRIA DIVISION MAY TWO LAST AND FURNISHED WFO SAME DATE.
ON MAY THREE INSTANT, [REDACTED - b6/b7C], COUNTERFEIT DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON, D.C., PERSONALLY EXAMINED COPY OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE APPEARING ON PAGE TWO OF CAPTIONED NEWSPAPER AND ADVISED SERIAL NUMBER DOES BEAR CORRECT MATHEMATICAL RELATION- SHIP WITH CHECK LETTER AND QUADRANT NUMBER APPEARING IN UPPER END PAGE ONE
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164-81-3017 SEARCHED .... INDEXED .... SERIALIZED ... FILED ... MAY 30 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-8121
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b6 b7C
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PAGE TWO LEFT HADN CORNER. HE NOTED THAT ALTERATION OF ANY DIGITS OTHER THAN FIRST FOUR DIGITS WOULD NOT CHANGE THIS MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP.
[REDACTED] STATED THAT THE SEVENS AND THREES APPEARING IN SERIAL NUMBER ON BILL IN QUESTION APPEAR PECULIAR TO HIM. HE NOTED THAT SERIAL NUMBERS ON GENUINE CURRENTY NOT ALWAYS ON STRAIGHT LINE BUT THAT THREE IN SERIAL NUMBER ON BILL IN QUESTION COULD POSSIBLY BE ALTERED EIGHT. HE SUGGESTED FBI LABORATORY ENLARGE THREE ON BILL IN QUESTION ALONG WITH DIGIT THREE ON BILL KNOWN TO BE AUTHENTIC TO DETERMINE IF IDENTICAL WHEN SUPERIMPOSED ON EACH OTHER.
COPY OF CAPTIONED NEWSPAPER HAND DELIVERED TO BUREAU TODAY.
REQUEST OF THE BUREAU THE FBI LABORATORY IS REQUESTED TO EXPEDITIOUSLY CONDUCT ABOVE SUGGESTED EXAMINATION.
UNSUB CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. END)
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-8122
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3017, WF 164-169