From two Tacoma citizens to Director FBI with paper 'Dan B. Cooper's ILLUSIONS' and mailing envelope
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-39:059-061 Document: Letter from two Tacoma citizens to Director FBI with paper 'Dan B. Cooper's ILLUSIONS' and mailing envelope Id: Cooper-Part-39:059-061 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A059-061 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 39 pp. 59–61 (DB Cooper-15218–15220), Letter, serial SE 164-81-7286 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A059-061
The following information is only a small fraction of the information that we have compiled, on Dan B. Cooper, and we feel that you must understand the main plot of the "Caper" before we go into the finer details of this fine stage production.
"ACTIONS ARE DETERMINED BY MOTIVES. ONCE YOU KNOW THE MOTIVE, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE ACTION."
If you understand the above quote, you should have no trouble whatsoever in determining the idenity of your Mr. Dan B. Cooper.
Our names are [REDACTED] from Tacoma WA, and you can reach us by calling [REDACTED]
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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164-81-[guess: 72]86 SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED [illegible] SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] DEC 30 1976 FBI-SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-15218
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The following outline is the result of many hours of research by [REDACTED] and we be- live that this information will lead to the arrest and conviction of "Dan B. Cooper", and the return of the money taken.
Dan B. Coopers "ILLUSIONS"
A. The public and the FBI believe the following:
1. On November 24, 1971 Northwest Orient flight 305 left Washington DC for Portland Oregon, then Seattle Washington.
2. Shortly before landing in Seattle a note was given to a stewardess to relay the following information to the pilot
a. I have a bomb in my briefcase;
b. Do the following: Relay I will exchange all 36 passengers for $200,000 in twenty dollar bills, and 4 parachutes.
3. All the passengers, plus 2 stewardesses were released in exchange for the above.
4. Money and chutes on board, Cooper positively identified as being on board the aircraft - Aircraft now lifts off.
a. 8 fighter jets now tail the aircraft at slow speed, with the door in the tail section of the aircraft open, all the way to Reno Nevada.
1. All the fighter pilots report that no one left the aircraft
b. The aircraft now lands, FBI agents and police engulf the aircraft and are convinced that Cooper did not get off the aircraft in Reno Nevada.
c. Lodigicol assumption is to assume that Cooper had to parachut off the aircraft between Seattle and Reno Nevada.
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DB Cooper-15219
[REDACTED - return address blacked out]
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[REDACTED - recipient name/address partially obscured] [US flag postage stamp visible]
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Clarence Kelly % FBI Headquarters Washington DC
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CERTIFIED No. 638445 MAIL
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DB Cooper-15220
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[blank / back of envelope]
Serials: SE 164-81-7286