Director to All SACs re press release on 34-page ransom serial number list

This copy: Part 54 pp. 383–384Also filed at Part 8 pp. 36–37 (primary) · Part 91 pp. 257–258

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Director to all SACs re NORJAK ransom serial number list press release

Document date 8 December 1971

Part 54pages 383–3842 pagesDB Cooper-22850

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Document: Teletype Director to all SACs re NORJAK ransom serial number list press release
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 pp. 383–384 (DB Cooper-22850), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial LA 164-497-107 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A383-384

NR049 WA PLAIN 8:55PM NITEL 12-8-71 LRS TO ALL SACS FROM DIRECTOR 2P

NORJAK

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE.

ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT A "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERIAL-NUMBERED BILLS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, HAS BEEN PREPARED AND IS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY THE FBI THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER ADVISED THAT THE "RANSOM LIST," THIRTY FOUR PAGES IN LENGTH, CONTAINS THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES WHICH WERE PAID TO THE HIJACKER FOR THE RELEASE OF THIRTY SIX PASSENGERS AND TWO CREW MEMBERS. THE HIJACKER BOARDED THE FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HIJACKED THE PLANE JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL IN SE[illegible due to stamp] END PAGE ONE

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SERIALIZED [illegible] 164-497-107 19[illegible] b6 b7C aes

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Page 2 of 2Part 54 p. 384

PAGE TWO WASHINGTON. HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PARACHUTED FROM THE BOEING SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AIRCRAFT WHILE IT WAS IN FLIGHT FROM SEATTLE TO RENO, NEVADA.

MR. HOOVER ADVISED THAT COPIES OF THE "RANSOM LIST" ARE BEING FURNISHED TO FBI OFFICES AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS. HE REQUESTED ANYONE HAVING ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE NEAREST OFFICE OF THE FBI, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF WHICH MAY BE FOUND ON THE FIRST PAGE OF MOST TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES. END

NEE FB LOS ANGELES CLR

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Serials: LA 164-497-107

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