Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Butte, Las Vegas and Portland re paratrooper suspect
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Original title: Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Butte, Las Vegas and Portland re WWII paratrooper suspect
Document date 5 June 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-26:221-223
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-26:221-223 Document: Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Butte, Las Vegas and Portland re paratrooper suspect Id: Cooper-Part-26:221-223 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A221-223 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 26 pp. 221–223 (DB Cooper-8616–8618), Teletype, dated 5 Jun 1972, serial SE 164-81-3503 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A221-223
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI Date: 6/5/72
Transmit the following in ______ (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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TO : SACS BUTTE (164-26), LAS VEGAS (164-60), and PORTLAND (164-41) [handwritten: read LVO] FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
NORJAK [REDACTED]
RE: SUSPECT (FNU) [REDACTED]
ON JUNE FIVE INSTANT, [REDACTED] (PROTECT IDENTITY AS SOURCE), SEATTLE, ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MENTIONED ON JUNE THREE LAST, THAT SHE IS FIRMLY CONVINCED [REDACTED] IS D.B. COOPER. SHE WOULD NOT FURNISH [REDACTED] AND APPARENTLY IS UNWILLING TO CONTACT FBI OR OTHER AUTHORITIES TO REPORT [REDACTED] THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS WHAT [REDACTED] KNOWS OF [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAS RESIDED FOR SOME YEARS [REDACTED] MONTANA, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] APPARENTLY MAKES [REDACTED] IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA AND HAS BEEN LIVING THERE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. 164-81-3503
[REDACTED] STATED THAT [REDACTED] RESEMBLES THE ARTISTS CONCEPTION; THAT HE FITS THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HIJACKER AND SAID, QUOTE [REDACTED] ENQUOTE.
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CEF:klb (3) Approved [signature] Special Agent in Charge
Sent [REDACTED] Per [REDACTED] DB Cooper-8616 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-136 R(i)iv
SE 164-81
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HE WAS ALSO A PARATROOPER IN WORLD WAR II. IT IS NOT KNOWN IF HE HAS BEEN A PILOT.
ADDITIONALLY [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT SHE REGULARLY HEARD FROM [REDACTED] UP TO NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYTWO, BUT HAS NOT HEARD FROM HIM SINCE. [REDACTED] ALSO ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] MONTANA, IS JUST AS CONVINCED THAT [REDACTED] IS D.B. COOPER.
[REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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BUTTE, [REDACTED] MONTANA. IDENTIFY [REDACTED] POSSIBLY THROUGH BIRTH RECORDS AND THEREAFTER WILL INTERVIEW HER AND OBTAIN A PHOTO [REDACTED] EXERCISE DISCRETION SO AS NOT TO DISCLOSE THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION.
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IMMEDIATELY AFTER DETERMINING THE FIRST NAME [REDACTED] BUTTE WILL ADVISE LAS VEGAS AND PORTLAND. LAS VEGAS AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. AFTER OBTAINING THE COMPLETE NAME OF THIS SUSPECT, WILL DETERMINE HIS WHEREABOUTS AND EVALUATE WHETHER OR NOT HE IS IN FACT A GOOD SUSPECT. IF HE DOES BECOME A GOOD SUSPECT, SET OUT IMMEDIATELY LEADS FOR PORTLAND TO CHECK HOTELS AND MOTELS FOR ANY REGISTRATION AT PORTLAND, ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE.
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DB Cooper-8617
SE 164-81
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PORTLAND, AT PORTLAND. COPY BEING FURNISHED IN EVENT LEADS ARE SET OUT BY LAS VEGAS.
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DB Cooper-8618
Serials: BT 164-26, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3503