ASAC Bibler to SAC Seattle re artist's conception and search personnel
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ASAC Bibler to SAC Seattle re new artist's conception and use of law enforcement personnel in search
Document date 30 November 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-65:087-088
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 65 pp. 87–88 (DB Cooper-27317–27318), Memo, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-547 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-65%3A087-088
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 11/30/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER
UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION OO: SEATTLE BUfile 164-2111
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On 11/30/71, the Bureau sent out a new artist's conception without glasses and requested we show it to witnesses. Subsequently I called [REDACTED] in Division 6, and told him witnesses [REDACTED] did not see subject's eyes; they saw him only with the dark glasses. I told him with regard to witness [REDACTED], that this witness thought the eyes were "good." This witness still maintains however, that the forehead should be slightly broader; the nose around the nostrils should be broadened and the cheeks were to flat and should be made rounder.
[REDACTED] requested that we send him a teletype on this and also forward the artist's conception in which our witness had drawn in his suggested changes. This was done.
[REDACTED] threw the following out for our guidance, instruction and consideration:
1. He said in our initial teletype, page 5, we have one witness saying that the subject carried a dark colored attache case and a paper bag 4"x12"x18". He wonders if this paper bag could have contained a jump suit and a pair of boots.
2. In the same teletype, there was mention that a witness scuffled with the subject. I told him that I had already discussed this with the Agents involved and this was a wrong choice of words and that the word should have been "hassel" and that there was actually no scuffle and the witness had not had to separate the two, but merely stepped in to end an argument.
3. [REDACTED] wanted to know if we had enlisted hiking clubs and other outdoor groups to aid in the search.
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED /M/ FILED 1-4/ FBI—SEATTLE
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3 - file PRB:klb
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Sub. E.
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DB Cooper-27317
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164-81 - 547
SE 164-81
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I told him that we had used only law enforcement personnel; that this was extremly rugged terrain and not the kind of territory you could lay off in a grid and search minutely at arm's length. He said to include in our next teletype something about the terrain.
4. He also said to include in our next teletype something about weather conditions in the drop area at the time the drop occurred.
5. He also wanted to know if we had given consideration to hiring a professional parachutist or make a simulated drop with a dummy and following it to the ground. He wondered if anything could be gained by such a maneuver.
I pointed out to him that anything we did by way of simulating the conditions would be a very broad approximation since we didn't know exactly where the plane was, assuming that the hijacker did go out at 8:12 PM, when they felt the "oscillation", Since this would vary with such factors as wind direction; which side of the flyway the plane happened to be on at the time, etc. He said he understands this but he would like us to think about it.
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DB Cooper-27318
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-547