SAC Las Vegas to Director (Attn: FBI Laboratory) re anonymous letters to Reno Evening Gazette
This copy: Part 65 pp. 43–44Also filed at Part 14 pp. 192–193 (primary) · Part 66 pp. 289–290
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SAC Las Vegas to Director/FBI Laboratory re Reno Evening Gazette letters and elimination prints
Document date 3 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-65:043-044 Document: Airtel SAC Las Vegas to Director/FBI Laboratory re Reno Evening Gazette letters and elimination prints Id: Cooper-Part-65:043-044 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-65%3A043-044 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 65 pp. 43–44 (DB Cooper-27259–27260), Airtel, dated 3 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-65%3A043-044
12/3/71 SuB - G AIRMAIL - E. [illegible]
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AIRTEL AIRMAIL
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) (ATTN: FBI LABORATORY)
FROM: SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P)
UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper HIJACKING NORTHWEST FLIGHT #305 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION OO: Seattle
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Transmitted, under separate cover, is one towel containing hair or fiber obtained from seat 18-E where the hijacker was sitting, and contents of ashtray near seat occupied by hijacker and elimination fingerprints of employees of the Reno Evening Gazette known to have handled first letter received by that newspaper from D. R. COOPER, which was determined to contain no latent prints.
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The FBI Laboratory is requested to conduct appropriate examination of the towel and hair fiber and such evidence as available which could be utilized in possible future identification or elimination of potential suspect when and if same is taken into custody. The Laboratory is also requested to examine the ashtray contents and specifically process any Raleigh filter tip cigarette butts for possible fingerprint identification or comparison, it being noted that hostess [redacted] recalled that subject smoked same almost incessantly.
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3 - Bureau (1cc Package) (1)- Seattle 4 - Las Vegas HEH:jr (5)
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SEARCHED ......... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... FILED ... DEC 7, 1971 FBI - SE [illegible]
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164-81-[illegible] DB Cooper-27259
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LV 164-60
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The Laboratory is requested to make appropriate disposition of the elimination fingerprints, either filing same in civilian section of Bureau for future comparison or retaining in event of future receipt of anonymous letters by the Reno Evening Gazette.
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The Bureau should furnish any pertinent information obtained as a result of above examinations to Seattle and Las Vegas Divisions.
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All of the above enclosures may be destroyed at the Bureau upon completion of examination.
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DB Cooper-27260