Portland to Director, Seattle and Sacramento re private river search and press inquiries
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Original title: Teletype Portland to Director, Seattle and Sacramento re private Columbia River search and press inquiries
Document date 23 December 1982
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 47 pp. 46–50 (DB Cooper-19326, DB Cooper-19328, DB Cooper-19329, DB Cooper-19330), Teletype, dated 23 Dec 1982 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A046-050
PDO005 3571038Z RR HQ SE SC DE PD R 230100Z DEC 82
FM PORTLAND (164-41) TO DIRECTOR (164-211) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE SACRAMENTO (164-50) ROUTINE UNCLAS BT COOPER
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REF PORTLAND TELCAL TO FBIHQ UNIT CHIEF [REDACTED] CID, AND SUPERVISOR SEATTLE, THIS DATE.
PORTLAND DIVISION HAS RECEIVED MANY INQUIRIES INTO THE IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CERES, CALIFORNIA, RESULTING FROM FREQUENT STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE [REDACTED] AND CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION. IN FREQUENT [REDACTED]. [REDACTED], AND ALLUDES TO AN ONGOING ASSOCIATION WITH SAME AND CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION. [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] WHICH HE HOPES TO RELEASE EARLY IN
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RWB DB-Cooper-19326
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[REDACTED] SOME PRESS SOURCES HAVE HEADLINED HIS ACIVITIES AS [REDACTED] AND [guess: HIS] SEARCH FOR COOPER GOES ON," TO THE EXTENT WHERE PORTLAND HAS FOUND IT NECESSARY TO CLARIFY THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] (FBIHQ PERSONNEL DIVISION ADVISED [guess: SA] [REDACTED] ON NOVEMBER 4, 1982 THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED], AND [REDACTED] [guess: YEARS] AGO.)
PORTLAND HAS BEEN ADVISED BY LOCAL NEWS MEDIA SOURCES THAT [REDACTED] AND USING THE PRESS AND HIS "SEARCH" FOR FREE PUBLICITY. FOR THAT REASON MANY LOCAL TV, RADIO STATIONS, AND "THE OREGONIAN" HAVE RECENTLY REFUSED TO CARRY STORIES CONCERNING HIS ACTIVITIES. THE OREGONIAN, PORTLAND'S MAJOR NEWSPAPER, DID NOT CARRY THE RECENT UPI WIRE SERVICE STORY. SOME PREVIOUS ARTICLES WERE CRITICAL ALMOST RIDICULING, AS THE OREGONIAN ARTICLE OF NOVEMBER 24, 1982, WHICH STATES "ALTHOUGH [REDACTED] CLAIMS TO BE
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SERIOUS ABOUT FINDING COOPER'S PARACHUTE, OR OTHER BELONGINGS, HIS [REDACTED] THE RIVER AT A PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW PACE WITH A LARGE STEEL RAKE ATTACHED TO A ROPE."
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ON DECEMBER 16, 1982, A NEWS SOURCE ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] RENEWED HIS PUBLICITY EFFORTS, AND THAT A WIRE SERVICE STORY WAS GOING OUT REPORTING FINDINGS OF PORTIONS OF A PARACHUTE AND MONEY SACK, PROBABLY THAT OF COOPER'S. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FINDINGS WERE FURNISHED BY THE SOURCE. THE "EVIDENCE" CONSISTED OF NYLON CORD AND A BRIGHT GREEN PORTION OF NYLON CLOTH SIMILAR TO THAT USED ON SAILBOATS. PARACHUTES FURNISHED TO COOPER WERE WHITE, AND THERE WAS NO MONEY SACK ASSOCIATED WITH THE CASE.
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PORTLAND HAS CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO NEITHER INTERFERE WITH [REDACTED] AND DO RESEARCH ON COOPER, NOR TO INAPPROPRIATELY SPEND GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOLLOWING UP ON MATTERS CLEARLY NOT ASSOCIATED WITH KNOWN FACTS BUT WHICH APPEAR TO BE DERIVED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF A PRIVATE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE. AS A RESULT, PORTLAND RESPONDED TO THE DELUGE OF NEWS INQUIRIES BY SIMPLY STATING THAT THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ITEMS FOUND DID NOT MATCH THE PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE THAT LEFT THE AIRPLANE WITH MR. COOPER.
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DB Cooper-19328
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PORLAND IS CONCERNED THAT THE NEEDS OF THE BUREAU AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS INVESTIGATION OBJECTIVELY BE MET. PORTLAND IS AWARE OF AND SENSITIVE TO THE NEED TO FULLY RESOLVE ANY PENDING INVESTIGATION, INCLUDING OBTAINING AND ASCERTAINING ANY PERINENT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE PERTAINING TO SAME. WE ARE COGNIZANT ALSO THAT [REDACTED] EFFORTS, OR ANY OTHER PRIVATE ENDEAVOR, DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE DISCOVERY OF ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION OR EVIDENCE. HOWEVER, ANY INFORMATION, LEAD DATA, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, ETC., WILL BE EVALUATED IN THE CONTEXT OF KNOWN FACTS, REASONABLENESS, AND ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION WHICH WILL NOT UNNECESSARILY DIMINISH THE INTEGRITY OF OUR INVESTIGATIVE EFFORTS, PARTICULARLY IN THE KIND OF PUBLIC FORUM GENERATED IN THIS KIND OF CASE.
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DB Cooper-19329
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SINCE NEITHER THE GREEN CLOTH OR MONEY SACK COULD BE PART OF THIS CASE IT IS RECOMMENDED NO FURTHER ACTION CONCERNING THEM. BE TAKEN. IT IS FURTHER THE RECOMMENDATION UACB, THAT ANY LEADS, RESULTING FROM [REDACTED] "SEARCH" BE CLOSELY EVALUATED BY THE RECEIVING OFFICE TO DETERMINE THEIR VALUE IN RELATION TO KNOWN FACTS. ANY RESULTANT ACTION SHOULD BE CAREFULLY CONDUCTED TO AVOID UNNECESSARY PUBLICITY WHICH WOULD [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THAT HE IS ACTING IN ANY WAY AS A [REDACTED], OR WHICH WOULD FURTHER SERVE AS AN AVENUE OF PUBLICITY TOWARD [REDACTED] NO PUBLIC COMMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WHICH WOULD JEOPARDIZE HIS ENDEAVOR; HOWEVER, UPON DEMAND LOCAL SOURCES WILL STILL BE APPRISED OF THE FACTS WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE DURING THIS ELEVEN YEAR INVESTIGATION. BT
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DB Cooper-19330
Serials: PD 164-41, SA 164-211, SC 164-50, SE 164-81
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