SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle re Sea-Tac sighting and Continental Flight 988 to Denver
Document date 10 July 1974
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-34:323-324 Document: Memo SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle re Sea-Tac sighting and Continental Flight 988 to Denver Id: Cooper-Part-34:323-324 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-34%3A323-324 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 34 pp. 323–324 (DB Cooper-12967–12968), Memo, dated 10 Jul 1974, serial SE 164-81-6297 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-34%3A323-324
* OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 7-10-74
FROM : SA CHARLES E. FARRELL [REDACTED] b6 b7C
SUBJECT: NORJAK
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RE: [REDACTED] Vancouver, B.C., Canada
At 12:15 PM, 7-9-74, [REDACTED] FAA, Boeing Field, advised that he had just been informed by the FAA office at Sea Tac Airport that Police Officer [REDACTED] had observed a passenger boarding Continental Flight/988 bound for Houston, who, the officer thought, resembled the composite of D.B. COOPER. [REDACTED] said he was calling the FBI at the same time that one of the representatives at the airport was contacting Continental Airlines.
Continental Airlines flight 988 departed at 12:00 Noon bound for Houston with a first stop at Denver, Colorado at 3:20 PM.
The basic information provided by [REDACTED] is set forth in a teletype sent by Seattle to Denver requesting that they endeavor to interview the passenger who was iden- tified as [REDACTED]
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The following additional information is set forth in this memo, which might not have been included in the tele- type.
Suspect reportedly was sitting in the Smoking Section of the airplane.
The writer telephonically contacted [REDACTED] at the Vancouver Office of United Airlines, through the UAL switchboard at Sea-Tac, to determine what background they might have on [REDACTED] who had purchased his ticket through UAL, Vancouver, B.C. [REDACTED] in a return call, said he had identified the ticket agent who sold the ticket but the agent remembered nothing outstanding about [REDACTED] although the agent did not feel [REDACTED] was a regular customer. The transaction was recalled because it was a Canadian check, apparently converted to U.S. funds. [REDACTED] had a contact telephone in Vancouver of [REDACTED]
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SEARCHED...............INDEXED........[illegible] SERIALIZED..........[illegible]FILED......[illegible] [illegible] 1 0 1974 FBI — SEATTLE
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CEF:1dk (1)
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164-81-6297
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-12967 5010-110
At 12:23 PM, the above information was furnished to SA [REDACTED] Denver FBI, who advised they would endeavor to identify and interview the passenger at Denver.
The plane involved was a DC 10, with 98 passengers.
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-12968
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6297