Nitel SAC Sacramento to Seattle re orange parachute found in Plumas County
Document date 26 October 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-28:265-266 Document: Nitel SAC Sacramento to Seattle re orange parachute found in Plumas County Id: Cooper-Part-28:265-266 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-28%3A265-266 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. 265–266 (DB Cooper-9802–9803), Teletype, dated 26 Oct 1972, serial SE 164-81-4026 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-28%3A265-266
NR 06 SC CODED 9:13 PM NITEL 10-26-72 ERD TO: SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SACRAMENTO (164-50) 2P
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
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ORANGE PARACHUTE UNSUB: [guess: A] IN Plumas County Found 1/N Sub 520
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RE TELCALL OF [REDACTED], SACRAMENTO WITH SEATTLE OCT. TWENTYSIX, INSTANT. FOR CONFIRMATION, [REDACTED] PLUMAS COUNTY SO, [REDACTED] QUINCY, CALIF., REPORTED THIS DATE THAT ONOCT. TWENTYFIVE, LAST, HE [guess: SOURCE] FOUND ORANGE PARACHUTE IN AREA KNOWN AS BEAR CREEK NEAR BUCKS LAKE IN PLUMAS COUNTY. THIS LOCATION IS STATED TO BE TWENTYFIVE MILES NORTH OF FLIGHT PATH OF VICTIM AIRPLANE IN THIS CASE. HE ADVISED THERE WAS NO PARACHUTE PACK AT SITE. IT APPEARED SOMEONE HAD PLACED CHUTE UNDER MANZANITA BRUSH OR WIND COULD HAVE BLOWN CHUTE TO ITS LOCATION. THERE WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN TO TWENTY FEET OF ELECTRICAL WIRE, SIX STRANDS TAPED TOGETHER IN ONE LINE. THERE WAS ALSO MICROSWITCH. [REDACTED] BRIEF SEARCH OF AREA FAILED TO DISCLOSE FURTHER INFO. RUGGED TERRAIN NOT SUITABLE FOR MILITARY JUMP OPERA- TION, AND NO RECENT FOREST FIRES IN AREA IN WHICH PERSONNEL OR SUPPLIES MAY HAVE BEEN DROPPED BY PARACHUTE. END PAGE ONE
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164-81- 4026 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [checked] FILED [checked] OCT 26 1972
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DB Cooper-9802
SC 164-50 PAGE TWO
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SACRAMENTO AT PLUMAS COUNTY, WILL SECURE PARACHUTE, WIRE AND SWITCH, AND FORWARD DIRECTLY FROM SUSANVILLE RA TO SEATTLE FOR DIS- PLAY TO APPROPRIATE WITNESSES.
SACRAMENTO WILL CONDUCT SEARCH IN VICINITY OF CHUTE FOUND OCT. TWENTYFIVE, LAST.
END.
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DCA FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-9803
Serials: SC 164-50, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4026