Nitel SAC Sacramento to Acting Director and Seattle re buried canvas pack (file copy, serial 4014)
Document date 22 October 1972
Also filed at: Part 28 pp. 240–242
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-28:243-245 Document: Nitel SAC Sacramento to Acting Director and Seattle re buried canvas pack (file copy, serial 4014) Id: Cooper-Part-28:243-245 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-28%3A243-245 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 28 pp. 243–245 (DB Cooper-9779–9781), Teletype, dated 22 Oct 1972, serial SE 164-81-4014 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-28%3A243-245
NR 001 SC PLAIN 9:00PM NITEL 10-22-72 WCH TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SACRAMENTO (164-50) 3P
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Sub 5/6 RE F WSWB [illegible] N [illegible] RCVD
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UNSUB, AKA: DAN COOPER: NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE ELEVEN - TWENTYFOUR - SEVENTYONE CAA - HIJACKING, EXTORTION OO: SEATTLE.
RE SC LET TO SEATTLE TEN TWENTY SEVENTYTWO AND SC TELCALL TO SEATTLE TEN TWENTYTWO INSTANT.
ON OCT. TWENTYONE, NINETEEN SEVENTYTWO [REDACTED - b6/b7C] CA. ADVISED WAS HUNTING WITH HIS FATHER NEAR TRUCKEE, CA. WHEN HE DISCOVERED A PARACHUTE CANOPY PACK. HE STATED HE DECIDED TO CALL THE FBI WHEN HE REMEMBERED NORJAK.
AREA WHERE PACK LOCATED SEARCHED BY BUAGENTS, OCT. TWENTY- TWO INSTANT. LOCATED APPROXIMATELY THIRTY-NINE DEGREES THIRTY- THREE MINUTES NORTH AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DEGREES FOUR MINUTES WEST, WHICH IS ABOUT FIFTEEN MILES DUE SOUTH OF HALLELUJAH JUNCTION, CA. THIS IS DUE EAST OF CHRYSTAL PEAK APPROX. ONE MILE INTO THE TOIYABE NATIONAL FORREST IN DOG VALLEY. THE PACK WAS LOCATED ON THE SIDE OF THE HILL AT AN ELEVATION OF APPROX. SEVEN THOUSAND FEET AND APPROX. SEVENTYFIVE YARDS DOWNHILL FROM FORREST SERVICE FIRE ROAD. AREA HAS BEEN REFORRESTED AFTER APPARENT FIRE AND/OR LOGGING APPROX. FOUR YEARS AGO. END PAGE ONE
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[guess: 164-81-4014]
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SEARCHED____INDEXED____ SERIALIZED____FILED____ OCT 21 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-9779
PAGE TWO SC 164-50
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NEW GROWTH OF TREES VARY FROM THREE TO TEN FT. FEW TALL TREES IN IMMEDIATE AREA WHERE PACK RECOVERD AND NONE GAVE INDICATION OF BRANCHES BEING BROKEN BY FALLING OBJECT. AREA IS FURROWED FOR REFOR- RESTATION AND PACK WAS DISCOVERED ON RIDGE OF FURROW. WAS BURIED TWO INCHES UNDER SOIL WITH ONLY ONE STRAP PROTRUDING. ALSO LOCATED BY BUAGENTS WERE SEVERAL STRAPS POSSIBLY FROM PACK.
PACK IS DESCRIBED AS OLIVE DRAB CANVAS MATERIAL WITH FOLLOWING MARKINGS: QUOTE DATE OF MFG AUG. ONE NINE FIVE ZERO, NO. FOUR SEVEN R SEVEN SIX THREE ZERO TWENTYEIGHT FEET B END QUOTE. ALSO THE NUMBER FIVE ZERO DASH SEVEN THREE SEVEN THREE OR EIGHT. ALSO A CIRCULAR
STAMP WITH THE NUMBERS S P EIGHT. STRAPS ON PACK HAD APPARENTLY BEEN CUT. IT IS NOTED THAT COMPLAINANT'S FATHER [REDACTED] WHEN INTERVIEWED STATED HE RECALLED THAT THERE WERE EIGHTEEN INCHES OF SNOW ON GROUND AT TRUCKEE CALIF. THANKSGIVING LAST. THE PACK WAS LOCATED AT A HIGHER ELEVATION APPROX. TWENTYFIVE MILES DISTANT.
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-9780
PAGE THREE SC 164-50 LEADS: SEATTLE UPON RECEIPT OF ABOVE DESCRIBED PACK WILL DISPLAY TO APPROPRIATE WITNESSES FOR IDENTIFICATION. DETERMINE FROM KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURCES IF ABOVE DESCRIBED PACK EVER IN POSSESSION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO FURNISHED CHUTE PACKS TO HIJACKER. THEREAFTER IF ADVISABLE FORWARD TO FBI LAB.
SACRAMENTO CONTINUE INVESTIGATION IN AREA WHERE PACK LOCATED.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS END
DCA FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-9781
Serials: 164-2111, SC 164-50, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4014