Nitel Denver to Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and San Francisco re Lemhi, Idaho source and composite identification
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SAC Denver to Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and San Francisco re Lemhi, Idaho informant on Cooper identity
Document date 8 September 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-60:018-021
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-60:018-021 Document: Teletype SAC Denver to Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and San Francisco re Lemhi, Idaho informant on Cooper identity Id: Cooper-Part-60:018-021 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-60%3A018-021 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 60 pp. 18–21 (DB Cooper-2467, DB Cooper-24666, DB Cooper-24668, DB Cooper-24669), Teletype, dated 8 Sep 1972, serial LA 164-497-553 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-60%3A018-021
JR 5B 2[redacted]AIN 515PM NITEL 9-8-72 RDE TO: SEATTLE (164-81) LOS ANGELES (264-497) SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) SAN FRANCISCO (264-220) FROM: DENVER (164-98) (P) (4P)
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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE. SUSPECT -- [REDACTED]
RE SALT LAKE CITY TELETYPE SEPTEMBER SIX LAST.
FOR INFORMATION, DENVER RECENTLY LEARNED [REDACTED] HAD COMMENTED TO VARIOUS PERSONS HE HAD STRONG SUSPICIONS RE IDENTITY D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] WHO RESIDES [REDACTED] LEMHI, IDAHO, WAS INTERVIEWED USA'S OFFICE, DENVER, SEPTEMBER SEVEN LAST, WHERE HE HAD APPEARED FOR [REDACTED]
FBI NOT INVOLVED IN THAT CASE. END PAGE ONE
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164-497-/553 SEARCHED __ INDEXED __ SERIALIZED __ FILED __ 13 SEP 8 1972 [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-24666
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COOPER, COMPOSITE SHOWN [REDACTED] WHO STATED PICTURE IS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WERE FORMERLY [REDACTED] WITH FLYING TIGER AIRLINES BASED DENVER IN FIFTIES.
[REDACTED] WAS NOT CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED BY FLYING TIGER AIRLINES BUT [REDACTED] OFF AND ON UNTIL ABOUT SIXTYFOUR. NOTE THAT [REDACTED] HAS NOT SEEN [REDACTED] SINCE SIXTYFIVE BUT HAS [REDACTED]
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ACQUAINTANCES.
[REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAD SEVEN TWENTYSEVEN AIRCRAFT TRAINING WITH FLYING TIGER AND IS FORMER [REDACTED] WITH PARACHUTE TRAINING. HE BELIEVES [REDACTED] ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF HIJACKING. TO BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDGE [REDACTED] POSSIBLY WORKING [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] SAID [REDACTED] SHORTLY PRIOR TO NORJAK AND WAS IN SEATTLE ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACKING. WHILE IN SEATTLE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WITH ALASKAN AIRLINES BASED IN SEATTLE. [REDACTED] HAS HEARD FROM [REDACTED] THAT END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-2467
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[REDACTED] LEFT SEATTLE SUDDENLY ABOUT TIME OF HIJACKING. IT IS BELIEVED [REDACTED] ALSO VISITED [REDACTED] IN LOS ANGELES VICINITY JUST PRIOR TO OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIJACKING. [REDACTED] IS ALSO FORMER [REDACTED] NOW EMPLOYED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WITH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES IN LOS ANGELS. BOTH [REDACTED] SHOULD HAVE MORE CURRENT INFORMATION RE [REDACTED] WHEREABOUTS AND ACTIVITIES ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACKING. [REDACTED] SAID [REDACTED] BELIEVED TO LIVE [guess: IN] SAN FRANCISCO, AND PRESENTLY EMPLOYED [REDACTED] WITH FLYING TIGER AIRLINES. [REDACTED] THINKS [REDACTED] OF [REDACTED] WHILE WITH THE FLYING TIGER AIRLINES, [REDACTED] WAS BASED AT [REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE SIXTYFIVE POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, BLACK HAIR, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, APPROXIMATELY FORTY EIGHT YEARS OLD. HE SAID [REDACTED] IS ADVENTUROUS, WELL EDUCATED AND EXTREMELY COOL. FROM DETAILS HE HAS HEARD OF HIJACKING, HE IS EVEN MORE CONVINCED [REDACTED] COULD HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME. END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-24668
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AMSA, DENVER, HAS REQUESTED THAT EVERY EFFORT BE MADE TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] AS SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
SEATTLE CONTACT [REDACTED] ALASKAN AIRLINES CONCERNING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THE TIME OF HIJACKING.
LOS ANGELES LOCATE [REDACTED] CONTINENTAL AIRLINES. DEVELOP ANY INFORMATION RE [REDACTED] FROM FLYING TIGER AIRLINES IF THAT COMPANY IS HEADQUARTERED IN LOS ANGELES.
SALT LAKE CITY DEVELOP INFORMATION FROM FLYING TIGER AIRLINES REGARDING [REDACTED] IF THAT COMPANY STILL OPERATING OR STILL LOCATED IN SALT LAKE CITY.
SAN FRANCISCO ATTEMPT TO LOCATE [REDACTED] [guess: B]ELIEVED TO [REDACTED] FLYING TIGER AIRLINES. [REDACTED] BELIEVED TO HAVE CURRENT INFORMATION REGARDING [REDACTED] WHEREABOUTS. NOTE THAT [REDACTED] MAY BE UNCOOPERATIVE.
DENVER WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-24669
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Serials: DN 164-98, LA 164-497-553, SE 164-81, SU 164-24