SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle enclosing Reno radar tracking and aerial search insert

Document date 3 December 1971

Part 66pages 59–602 pagesDB Cooper-27786–27787

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-66:059-060

Document: Airtel SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle enclosing Reno radar tracking and aerial search insert
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 66 pp. 59–60 (DB Cooper-27786–27787), Airtel, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-H08 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-66%3A059-060

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Date: 12/3/71

Transmit the following in _______________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL (Priority)

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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60)

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper HIJACKING NORTHWEST FLIGHT #305, 11/24/71; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION OO: Seattle

Re Sacramento teletype, 12/2/71, requesting routing of hijacked plane from California to Nevada.

Enclosed, herewith, for Sacramento and Seattle are two copies of insert of investigation concerning same by SA[REDACTED] and one copy for each office of a map of the radar tracking on Northwest Flight #305 from Frenchmen's Reservoit, California, to Municipal Airport, Reno, Nevada.

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O- Seattle (Enc.2) 2 - Sacramento(Enc.2) 1 - Las Vegas HEH:jr (5)

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Sub F E. Course G. Sub. MAPS.

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164-81-H08 SEARCHED.........INDEXED....... SERIALIZED...1/3..FILED....1/3.... DEC 0 7 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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Approved: _______________ Sent _____ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-27786 ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-138

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b6 b7c Sub. F

LV 164-60 MTB:jhp 1

Period November 25- 26, 1971

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On November 25, 1971, [REDACTED] FAA, Tower Supervisor, Municipal Airport, Reno, Nevada, furnished SA [REDACTED] a map of the Radar Tracking of Northwest Flight Number 305, November 24, 1971, from Frenchmen's Reservoir California, to Municipal Airport, Reno, Nevada. This plane entered the State of Nevada at a point approximately twenty-five miles north and fourteen miles west of Reno, Nevada, airport.

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b6 Per FAA b7C Per FAA

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On November 26, 1971, SAs THOMAS G. DEMPSEY and [REDACTED] with Washoe County [REDACTED] [REDACTED] conducted an air search over the above flight pattern area of Nevada. Nothing pertient in this case was found.

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b6 Per FAA b7C Per FAA

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Sub. F. 164-81- [illegible] SEARCHED ......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED /M/ FILED /[illegible]/ DEC 6 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-27787 16 4. 60 - 53

Serials: LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-H08