Urgent teletype Acting Director to Seattle and Las Vegas re NORJAK lead from NWA pilot in Cuernavaca, Mexico
Document date 2 March 1973
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-30:136-138 Document: Urgent teletype Acting Director to Seattle and Las Vegas re NORJAK lead from NWA pilot in Cuernavaca, Mexico Id: Cooper-Part-30:136-138 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-30%3A136-138 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 30 pp. 136–138 (DB Cooper-10779–10781), Teletype, dated 2 Mar 1973, serial SE 164-81-4467 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-30%3A136-138
NR 003 WA PLAIN 2:00AM URGENT 03-02-73 JRM TO SEATTLE LAS VEGAS FROM ACTING DIRECTOR 3P
NORJAK.
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RE BUREAU TELCALLS MARCH ONE, SEVENTYTHREE, AND BUREAU AIRTEL DECEMBER SIX, SEVENTYONE.
[REDACTED], NORTHWEST AIRLINES PILOT, VACATIONING IN [REDACTED] CUERNAVACA, MEXICO, RESIDING [REDACTED] TELEPHONE NUMBER [REDACTED] TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED BUREAU EVENING MARCH ONE, SEVENTYTHREE, FROM CUERNAVACA, MEXICO, (APPROXIMATELY FIFTY MILES SOUTH OF MEXICO CITY), ADVISING THAT HE WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF [REDACTED] IN CAPTIONED CASE AND HAD PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED IN DETAIL THE HIJACKING BY AND DESCRIPTION OF D. B. COOPER WITH THESE INDIVIDUALS. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HIS PRESENT PLANS ARE TO BE IN CUERNAVACA UNTIL A.M. OF MARCH THREE, SEVENTYTHREE. END PAGE ONE
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#1 ADV. 3/1/73 (DcA)
164-81-4467 SEARCHED......SERIALIZED......FILED...... MAR 1 1973
DB Cooper-10779
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ON THE MORNING OF MARCH ONE, SEVENTYTHREE, [REDACTED] AND TWO ASSOCIATES INVITED AN INDIVIDUAL AT THE TIME UNKNOWN TO THEM TO JOIN THE GROUP FOR A FOURSOME. THIS INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS [REDACTED] AND ADVISED HE LIVED IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CUERNAVACA, MEXICO. HE STATED THIS INDIVIDUAL APPEARED TO BE A LONER, CONVERSED VERY LITTLE WITH THE REST OF THE GROUP, AND FIT THE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF D. B. COOPER, AND THAT [REDACTED] WAS DRIVING [REDACTED] NEVADA LICENSE [REDACTED] WITH A NINETEEN SIXTYNINE PLATE BEARING A NINETEEN SEVENTYTHREE STICKER. LAS VEGAS ADVISED THIS LICENSE PLATE REGISTERED TO ONE [REDACTED] LAS VEGAS, PURPORTEDLY TO [REDACTED] BE [REDACTED], LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, BORN [REDACTED] FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE FIVE FIVE POUNDS, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR.
NCIC, BUREAU INDICES AND RECORDS OF IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FAIL TO INDICATE ANY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION CONCERNING [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-10780
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ABOVE INFORMATION WAS TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHED TO LEGAT MEXICO CITY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO PROMPTLY CONTACT [REDACTED] AND IMMEDIATELY INSTITUTE NECESSARY INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS [REDACTED] CHECKING APPROPRIATE RECORDS b6 RELATIVE TO [REDACTED], HOW LONG HAS [REDACTED] BEEN IN b7C MEXICO, BANK ACCOUNTS, CONTACTS, EMPLOYMENT, DESCRIPTION OF FAMILY MEMBERS OR OTHER ASSOCIATES TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THA[T] [REDACTED] HAS ALREADY MADE INITIAL CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] AND IN VIEW OF FACT THAT [REDACTED] EMPLOYED BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES, THIS COMPANY MAY CONSIDER, IF FEASIBLE, ALLOWING [REDACTED] TO FURTHER DEVELOP HIS ASSOCIATION WITH [REDACTED] IN ORDER TO CLEARLY RESOLVE WHETHER OR NOT [REDACTED] IS, IN FACT, D. B. COOPER.
LAS VEGAS IMMEDIATELY OBTAIN DETAILED BACKGROUND OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] (CONSIDER POSSIBILITY INDIVIDUAL IN MEXICO COULD BE b6 UTILIZING [REDACTED] IDENTIFICATION), OBTAIN FINGERPRINTS OF b7C [REDACTED] FROM APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES AND SUBMIT SAME TO FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FOR EXAMINATION WITH AVAILABLE LATENTS THIS CASE.
LEGAT MEXICO CITY ADVISED SEPARATELY. END DCA FBI SEATTLE CLR TU
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DB Cooper-10781
Serials: SE 164-81-4467