To SAC Seattle re twenty-dollar bills passed at Seattle-First National Bank checked against PINAP list
Document date 29 December 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-29:203-204 Document: Memo to SAC Seattle re twenty-dollar bills passed at Seattle-First National Bank checked against PINAP list Id: Cooper-Part-29:203-204 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A203-204 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 29 pp. 203–204 (DB Cooper-10285–10286), Memo, dated 29 Dec 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A203-204
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (7-568) DATE: 12/29/72 FROM : SA [REDACTED] SUBJECT: PINAP [REDACTED]
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The following investigation was conducted on 12/26/72 at the Seattle-First National Bank, 2010 N.W. Market Street, Seattle, following receipt of information from Seattle PD that two unknown suspects, a male and female, had just exchanged a total of 95 twenty dollar bills, some of which were identical to the serial numbers listed in the PINAP ransom list:
On 12/26/72, [REDACTED], Seattle [REDACTED] Street Police Dept., home address [REDACTED] Seattle, home phone [REDACTED] P.D. phone [REDACTED] advised he is employed by the S.P.D. and works from 7:00 PM until 3:00 AM. He was off-duty, awaiting his shift, and was located in the parking lot of the above-named bank shortly after 3:00 PM when one of the bank's [REDACTED] came out of the bank and advised him that a suspicious man was in the bank exhanging a large number of twenty-dollar bills for 100-dollar bills. [REDACTED] went into the bank and talked shortly with bank [REDACTED] who advised him that the suspects, a male and female, had come into the bank and acted suspicious so the bank camera was activated. She stated that the male had a very large roll of twenty dollar bills which he was exhanging for one hundred dollar bills. [REDACTED] observed the two suspects exchanging the bills and then followed them out of the bank and observed them enter a nearby Washington Federal Savings and Loan bank. [REDACTED] followed them in and talked with [REDACTED] who told him that the suspects came into the bank asking to exchange $20's for $100's. [REDACTED] told them that the bank would not be able to help them and refered them back to the Seattle-First bank.
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[REDACTED] then followed them back to the Seattle - First bank where the suspects again engaged the tellers to exchange more $20's. The suspects then departed the bank, with [REDACTED] following, and the male got into [REDACTED] license [REDACTED] The female left, on foot, and the male drove off. [REDACTED] went back into the bank and again talked with [REDACTED] She stated at that time that some of the bills exchanged [illegible partial line]
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2-7-568 JWM:jm (2) [initials]
[Handwritten:] [guess: attach] w/ [illegible] 70 [guess: SER] [illegible] [guess: Bills] Run [guess: Misc]
SEARCHED _______ INDEXED ___[checkmark] SERIALIZED __[checkmark] FILED ___[checkmark]
DEC 2 9 1972 [guess: COL. SEATTLE]
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-10285
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Sus [guess: INSURS], [guess: w/to] [guess: exch]- [guess: 95] [guess: 20] [guess: AT] [guess: NAT/Bank]. [guess: FIRST] [REDACTED]
SE 7-568
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by the two suspects were checked against the list of ransom bills used in the PINAP case. She also showed him a bulletin put out by Seattle-First National Bank regarding the PINAP case and listed the ransom bills paid in that case.
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Shortly thereafter, [REDACTED] came to the front entrance to the bank and told [REDACTED] that the two suspects were seen heading toward what he believed to be the [REDACTED] located nearby. [REDACTED] stated he would check [REDACTED] He did and found that the suspects were not there. Walking further down the block [REDACTED] spotted the suspects in a grocery store and returned to [REDACTED] to advise him of this fact.
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[REDACTED] went to the grocery store and talked to [REDACTED] (LNU) who told him that the suspects had already made one purchase and used a $20 bill to make the purchase. [REDACTED] took the bill and, when the two suspects exited the store, he drew his gun and told them to put their hands up on the wall, that they were under arrest for [REDACTED] At that point the male suspect turned toward the female suspect and stated, "Gee, I'm sorry about this, honey." [REDACTED] then patted them down and escorted them to the police car.
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A subsequent check of the bills passed by the two suspects at the bank and comparison with the FBI ransom list used in PINAP revealed that none of the bills passed were listed in the list of ransom bills. The comparison was made by SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] and SA [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-10286
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