Director to Seattle and WFO re Legat London suspect surveillance
Document date 22 August 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-45:307-309 Document: Teletype Director to Seattle and WFO re Legat London suspect surveillance Id: Cooper-Part-45:307-309 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A307-309 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 45 pp. 307–309 (DB Cooper-18519–18521), Teletype, dated 22 Aug 1980, serial SE 164-81-8485 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A307-309
VZCZCHR0063 OO SE WF DE HQ #0063 2351815 ZNR UUUUU O 221657Z AUG 80 FM DIRECTOR FBI TO FBI SEATTLE IMMEDIATE FBI WASHINGTON FIELD IMMEDIATE BT UNCLAS
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Suspect [guess: Telecal] to WFO, [illegible] [guess: tt] from WFO 8/22/[guess: 80] [illegible] [guess: Already done -] [illegible] Seattle [illegible] No [illegible] re [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] legat [guess: contacts] [illegible]
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NORJAK; CAA. OO: SEATTLE
BY TELETYPE DATED AUGUST 22, 1980, LEGAT LONDON ADVISED:
RETELCALL OF SA [REDACTED] TO LEGAT, LONDON AUGUST 20, 1980.
ON AUGUST 22, 1980 [REDACTED] FUR-
NISHED COPY OF [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] ALIAS D.B. COOPER
BORN [REDACTED] IS THE BELIEVED HIJACKER OF A NORTH WEST AIRLINE JET ON 24/11/71. HIJACKER PARACHUTED OUT OF THE PLANE WITH $200,000 OVER MOUNTAINOUS TERRITORY. HIJACKER HAS MANAGED TO AVOID ARREST TO THIS TIME. BECAUSE OF LACK OF HIS FINGERPRINTS AT
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164-81-8485 #5 [illegible] [stamp:] [guess: SEARCHED] [illegible] [guess: FILED] AUG [guess: 27] 1980 DB Cooper-18519
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Sept. 4, 1980
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PAGE TWO DE HQ 0063 UNCLAS TIME OF THE HIJACKING IT IS ESSENTIAL TO APPREHEND HIJACKER WITH MONEY RETRIVED AS A RESULT OF ACTS OF AIR PIRACY. WE RECEIVED INFOR- MATION FROM THE FBI THAT THE SUSPECTED HIJACKER PLANS TO ARRIVE AT LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT AT 7:25A.M. ON PANAM FLIGHT NO. 106 ON 4/9/80 THE FBI BELIEVES THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS TRIP IS TO RETRIVE MONEY OBTAINED IN HIJACKING OF 24/11/71. FBI IN WASHINGTON D.C. NOTIFIED FBI'S LEGAL ATTACHE IN LONDON CONCERNING THIS MAN. PLEAS CONDUCT DISCRETE SURVEILLANCE OF SUBJECT TO DETERMINE HIS MOVEMENTS. INCLUDING WHICH FINANCIAL INSTITUTION OR BANKS HE CONTACTS, IF HE WITHDRAWS LARGE SUMS OF MONEY, AND ADVISE THIS OFFICE OF TIME, DATE AND PLACE HE WILL RETURN TO U.S.A. FBI BELIEVES SUBJECT MAY TRAVEL TO NETHERLANDS OR PORTUGAL PRIOR TO HIS RETURN TO U.S.A. DESCRIPTION WHITE MALE 6 FT TALL 200 PONDS. BLUE EYES EXCELLENT PHYSICAL SHAPE, LONG WHITE HAIR. THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND FINGERPRINTS WILL BE SENT BY DISPATCH LETTER IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ARREST BASED ON THIS NOTICE."
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IN RETELCALL, SA [REDACTED] ADVISED COMMUNICATION WOULD BE SENT TO LEGAT, LONDON WITH BACKGROUND AND REQUESTED INVESTIGATION. TO DATE, LONDON HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY COMMUNICATION THROUGH BUREAU CHANNELS. AT THIS JUNCTURE [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-18520
PAGE THREE DE HQ 0063 UNCLAS
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IF BUREAU AND WASHINGTON FIELD DESIRE LEGAT, LONDON TO PARTICI- PATE IN THIS INVESTIGATION, AN APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION SHOULD BE SENT ADVISING OF HOW [REDACTED] SUSPECTED TO BE D.B. COOPER, SOURCE OF INFORMATION THAT [REDACTED] COMING TO LONDON TO RETRIEVE MONEY OBTAINED IN NOVEMBER 24, 1971 HIJACKING, SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND REASON FOR CONTINUING ON TO [REDACTED] WHETHER FISUR WILL BE REQUESTED OF [REDACTED] PHOTO OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF REQUESTED FISUR. LEGAT, LONDON SUGGESTS FORWARDING WITH CREW OF DULLES-LONDON AIRLINE. BT #0063
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DB Cooper-18521
Serials: SE 164-81-8485