Facsimile transmittal and FBI Portland press release re discovery of Cooper ransom money
Document date 12 February 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-63:118-119 Document: Facsimile transmittal and FBI Portland press release re discovery of Cooper ransom money Id: Cooper-Part-63:118-119 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A118-119 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 63 pp. 118–119 (DB Cooper-26503–26504), Report, dated 12 Feb 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A118-119
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To: DIRECTOR, FBI (Bureau file ) ATTN: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR 2/12/80 SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) HOMER BOYNTON, JR From: Time: Transmitted . SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P) Subject: Initials - NORJAK SUBS: 6 [redacted] E,4,M
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SUBS 164 - 81- [illegible] SERIALIZED FILED FEB 12 1980
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DB Cooper-26503
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
In Reply, Please Refer to File No.
Portland, Oregon [guess: February] 12, 1980 SUBS: 6 E, G, M
PRESS RELEASE
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Arthur G. Barger, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for Oregon, has announced a development in a crime which began on the night of November 24, 1971, at Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon, and has become widely known since that time as the D. B. Cooper Hijacking Case.
On the night before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man who gave the name Dan Cooper bought a one-way ticket on Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. Upon departing Portland International Airport, Cooper notified a stewardess that he was hijacking the aircraft and displayed to her what he said was a bomb in his briefcase. The flight proceeded to Seattle, where after maintaining a holding pattern for several hours, it was permitted to land and refuel. After $200,000 and four parachutes demanded by the hijacker were brought on board, he released all of the passengers and all but four members of the crew. The flight then took off and proceeded south through Washington toward Reno, Nevada. The hijacker instructed that the flaps and gear remain lowered and the rear stair door open. As the aircraft passed over LaCenter, Washington, cabin
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SUB [guess: 6] 164-81-[illegible]
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DB Cooper-26504