Urgent teletype Sacramento to Seattle and Portland re Redding sighting, polyethylene bag and stolen 1965 Plymouth
This copy: Part 66 pp. 305–309Also filed at Part 100 pp. 98–102 (primary) · Part 12 pp. 171–175 · Part 68 pp. 59–63 · Part 90 pp. 182–186 · Part 98 pp. 196–200
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Sacramento to Seattle and Portland re Redding sighting, polyethylene bag and stolen Plymouth station wagon
Document date 29 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-66:305-309 Document: Teletype Sacramento to Seattle and Portland re Redding sighting, polyethylene bag and stolen Plymouth station wagon Id: Cooper-Part-66:305-309 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-66%3A305-309 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 66 pp. 305–309 (DB Cooper-28166–28170), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-66%3A305-309
SUSP: [REDACTED] SUSP; ILLUMINATED BENTON, AIRPORT REDDING CALIF [box - empty] CC - Eudence
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NR 010 SC PLAINTEXT 643PM URGENT 11-29-71 LCH TO SEATTLE (164-81) PORTLAND FROM SACRAMENTO (164-50) (5P)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, CAA - HIGHJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX LAST; AND SACRAMENTO TELEPHONE CALL TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE INSTANT.
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, REPORTED HAVING OBSERVED WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE AN ILLUMINATED OBJECT DRIFTING IN THE AREA OF BENTON AIRPORT, REDDING, AT APPROXIMATELY TEN TEN P.M., NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, AFTER WHICH THE OBJECT DESCENDED RAPIDLY AS IF FALLING TO THE GROUND. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE OBSERVED THIS AFTER BEING ALERTED TO THE SKY BY NOISES FROM AN AIRPLANE. END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ NOV 30 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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dub. X 1641-81-324
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DB Cooper-28166
PAGE TWO SC 164-50
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ON NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE INSTANT, [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
REDDING, CAME TO THE REDDING RESIDENT AGENCY AND RELEASED TO SA [REDACTED] ONE OPAQUE POLYETHYLENE BAG APPROXIMATELY TWENTY THREE INCHES BY FIFTY INCHES WHICH BAG WAS RECOVERED BY HIM ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVEN LAST, AT A POINT IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BENTON AIRPORT ON THE SIDE OF A SANITARY LAND FILL. [REDACTED], WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE OBSERVED THE SEVEN TWO SEVEN AIRCRAFT INVOLVED IN INSTANT MATTER FLY OVER REDDING AT APPROXIMATELY TEN P.M., NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, ADVISED THAT HE HAS MADE INQUIRY CONCERNING
THIS BAG WITH EMPLOYEES OF HIGHES DASH AIRWEST, INC., REDDING, AND HAS OBTAINED THE OPINION FROM THEM THAT THIS BAG IS SIMILAR TO AND COULD BE A DISPOSAL END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-28167
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SC 164-50
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CAN LINER FROM A SEVEN TWO SEVEN PASSENGER AIRCRAFT. ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST, A SIXTY FIVE PLYMOUTH STATION WAGON REPORTED STOLEN AT ROSEBURG, OREGON, ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, WAS RECOVERED ABANDONED NEAR BENTON AIRPORT WHERE VEHICLE HAD BEEN DRIVEN APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY FIVE FEET INTO HEAVY MANZANITA BRUSH IN AN OBVIOUS ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL ITS LOCATION. A SEARCH OF THIS VEHICLE DISCLOSED THE PRESENCE OF TWO STRAPS, ONE OLIVE DRAB CANVAS MATERIAL AND THE OTHER OF YELLOW NYLON MATERIAL NOT UNLIKE MATERIAL USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARACHUTES. SEVERAL LATENT FINGERPRINTS WERE LIFTED FROM THE INTERIOR OF THIS VEHICLE.
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ON NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE INSTANT, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TELE- PHONICALLY ADVISED THAT HE HAD OBSERVED THE COMPOSITE DRAWING OF UNSUB AND HE CONSIDERS THE COMPOSITE TO BE END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-28168
PAGE FOUR SC 164-50
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SIMILAR IN MANY RESPECTS TO THE APPEARANCE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHEN LAST OBSERVED IN NINETEEN [REDACTED],
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE INSTANT, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] [REDACTED] APPEARED AT THE REDDING RESIDENT AGENCY AND NAMED [REDACTED], AS A SUSPECT IN INSTANT MATTER. NO SPECIFIC REASONS EXCEPT THAT [REDACTED], RESEMBLED DESCRIPTIONS AND WAS [REDACTED]
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ON NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE INSTANT, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], OREGON, APPEARED IN REDDING AND RECOVERED
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DB Cooper-28169
PAGE FIVE SC 164-50
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A SIXY FIVE PLYMOUTH STATION WAGON REFERRED TO ABOVE AT WHICH TIME HE ADVISED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS STOLEN FROM THE PARKING LOT OF A HOSPITAL IN ROSEBURG, OREGON, ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER TWENTY THREE DASH TWENTY FOUR, LAST, [REDACTED], TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED THE STRAPS AS HAVING BEEN IN THE VEHICLE PRIOR TO ITS THEFT.
AS REQUESTED BY SEATTLE, WILL FORWARD POLYETHYLENE BAG TO FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FOR COMPARISON WITH OTHER MATERIAL SUBMITED IN INSTANT MATTER.
WILL CONTACT OWNER OF SIXY FIVE PLYMOUTH TO DETERMINE IF STRAPS WERE IN VEHICLE PRIOR TO THEFT OF SAME, AND IF NOT, WILL FORWARD TO SEATTLE. E N D FEE FBI SEATTLE HOLD
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DB Cooper-28170