Anonymous tip letter to FBI Seattle re D.B. Cooper, with mailing envelope postmarked Bend, Oregon

Document date 22 March 1989

Part 49pages 233–2342 pagesDB Cooper-20373–20374

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-49:233-234

Document: Anonymous tip letter to FBI Seattle re D.B. Cooper, with mailing envelope postmarked Bend, Oregon
Id: Cooper-Part-49:233-234
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-49%3A233-234

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 49 pp. 233–234 (DB Cooper-20373–20374), Letter, dated 22 Mar 1989, serial SE 164-81-8970 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-49%3A233-234

INDICES MANUAL FORMS [illegible] CONFIDENTIAL

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Sub I, J

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FBI SEATTLE, WASH.

IF THERE IS AN AGENT STILL DOING WORK ON THE D.B. COOPER MATTER, HERE IS SOMETHING THAT MAY BE/OF INTEREST. DURING THE 60'S AND 70'S, THERE WAS A [REDACTED] SUPPOSEDLY AN [REDACTED] FROM THE [REDACTED] PACIFIC NORTHWEST. [REDACTED] OF THAT AREA AND OF ALASKA, AND [REDACTED] ETC. ALL OVER THE USA. HAD [REDACTED] BUT, CANNOT FIND THAT [REDACTED] NOW. DID HEAR THAT SAME VOICE . . . IT IS GRAVELLY AND SORT OF LIKE THE OLD EVERETT DIRKSEN VOICE. LO AND BEHOLD . . . RECENTLY HEARD THIS VERY SAME VOICE [REDACTED] OVER IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY. THEY WERE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT VANCOUVER WASHINGTON, BY PORTLAND. WOULD YOU BELIEVE . . . THIS [REDACTED] HAS THE NAME [REDACTED] ! FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN HIS LAST NAME. AM POSITIVE THAT THIS IS THE VOICE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IF THIS MEANS IT IS THE D.B. COOPER THAT YOU WANT . . . THAT WOULD BE A STRANGE ONE . . .

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Rev. 5/16/89 NO LEADS (W)

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164-81 - 8970 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED ____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ MAR 24 1989

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w/ENC.

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-20373

[Postmark circle:] BEND, OR PM 22 MAR 1989

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F.B.I 909 1st AVE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98174

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ATTN J.B. COOPER CASE

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ [illegible] _____

MAR 24 1989

FBI [illegible]

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DB Cooper-20374

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b6 b7C

Serials: SE 164-81-8970