Los Angeles to New Haven and Seattle re sky diving club suspect leads

Document date 2 December 1971

Part 70pages 143–1453 pagesDB Cooper-29909, DB Cooper-29910, DB Cooper-29915

Part of: Los Angeles to New Haven and Seattle re skydiving club suspects · 2 December 1971 · Part 100 pp. 371–377

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 70 pp. 143–145 (DB Cooper-29909, DB Cooper-29910, DB Cooper-29915), Teletype, dated 2 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-70%3A143-145

NR 035 LA PLAIN 1041 PM NITEL 12-2-71 NEE TO NEW HAVEN (164-77) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497)

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UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION, OO SEATTLE.

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RE LOS ANGELES TELS TO SEATTLE NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX, DECEMBER ONE AND DECEMBER TWO INSTANT. NEW HAVEN TEL TO BUREAU, SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES DECEMBER ONE LAST.

RE: [REDACTED] SET FORTH LOS ANGELES TEL NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST.

ON DECEMBER ONE LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED HE IS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] DOES NOT MATCH PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF SUBJECT AND HE WOULD DEFINITELY DISCOUNT [REDACTED] AS POSSIBLE SUSPECT THIS MATTER. END PAGE ONE

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[signature: illegible initials] 164-81-3[illegible] SEARCHED .......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED ......... FILED .......... DEC 2 1971 FBI - SEATTLE [initials]

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DB Cooper-29909

LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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ON DECEMBER ONE LAST, [REDACTED] VIEWED THE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF UNSUB AND STATED [REDACTED] DOES NOT LOOK LIKE SKETCH.

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ON NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST, [REDACTED], WHO PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED THE NAME OF [REDACTED] AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT THIS MATTER, WAS INTERVIEWED AND ADVISED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION DOES NOT RESEMBLE [REDACTED] IN ANYWAY, STATING HE RECALLS [REDACTED] FACE MORE ROUNDER. IT IS NOTED [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] [REDACTED]

NONE OF ABOVE BEING CONSIDERED SUSPECT BY LOS ANGELES.

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RE SUSPECT [REDACTED]

ON NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED]

[LARGE REDACTED BLOCK]

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READ OF HIJACKING AND BELIEVED COOPER'S DESCRIPTION FAMILIAR TO UNSUB.

END PAGE TWO

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DB Cooper-29910

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LA 164-497 PAGE SEVEN

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[REDACTED] AND THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBERS, WHO WERE MEMBERS OF CLUB. HE DESCRIBED CLUB MEMBERSHIP AS BETWEEN TEN AND TWENTY MOST FROM EAST LOS ANGELES AREA. [REDACTED] SAID DISCUSSION AMONG GROUP APPEARED TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN NORMAL INTEREST OF SKY DIVERS ABOUT CRIME WHERE HIJACKERS JUMP FROM AIRPLANE AND NONE OF CLUB MEMBERS HAD ACTED SUSPICIOUS SINCE HIJACKING. THIS CLUB DESCRIBED AS LOCAL IN NATURE AND NOT NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.

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SEATTLE, AT FERNDALE, WASHINGTON, CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION THROUGH LAST ADDRESS OF DONALD ERN NELSON, BOX ONE NINE THREE, FERNDALE OR [REDACTED] COMPANY TO LOCATE AND ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF NELSON DURING PERTINENT PERIOD.

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LOS ANGELES AT [REDACTED], CALIFORNIA, WILL ASCERTAIN IF [REDACTED] KNOWN TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OR IF NAME MAINTAINED IN RECORDS PARACHUTE CLUB LOS ANGELES AREA.

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AT EAST LOS ANGELES, WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED], [REDACTED], FOR ALL INFORMATION CONCERNING MEMBERSHIP OF CLUB AND DISPLAY ARTIST CONCEPTION TO [REDACTED].

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END RECD. FOUR TELS DCA FBI SE HOLD

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DB Cooper-29915

Serials: 164-77, LA 164-497, SE 164-81