Nitel teletype SAC Seattle to SAC Oklahoma City re hijacker's aviation knowledge

This copy: Part 75 p. 75Also filed at Part 74 p. 264 (primary)

This copy’s own title

SAC Seattle to SAC Oklahoma City re hijacker's aviation knowledge (NORJAK)

Document date 17 May 1972

Part 75page 751 pageDB Cooper-32504

Another copy of this document is the primary, most legible copy: Part 74 p. 264.

Copies may differ in what was redacted.

Part of: SAC Seattle to SAC Oklahoma City re FAA pilot license records · 17 May 1972 · Part 25 pp. 281–282

Open in FBI Vault (Part 75, page 75 of the PDF)
Report a problem

Email this to [email protected]

Id: Cooper-Part-75:075-075

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-75:075-075

Document: Teletype SAC Seattle to SAC Oklahoma City re hijacker's aviation knowledge (NORJAK)
Id: Cooper-Part-75:075-075
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-75%3A075-075

What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)?


What does the scan show?

Open in email app

A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 75 p. 75 (DB Cooper-32504), Teletype, dated 17 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-33653 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-75%3A075-075

FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 5/17/72

Transmit the following in _______________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE NITEL (Priority)

---

TO : SAC, OKLAHOMA CITY (164-56)

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P-)

NORJAK.

THROUGHOUT THE HIJACKING, THE SUBJECT APPEARED TO HAVE EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FLYING IN GENERAL; ABOUT THE OPERATION OF THE BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN AND ABOUT FAA AND CONTROL TOWER RULES AND REQUIREMENTS.

BASED ON THIS FACT IT MIGHT BE REASONED THAT SUBJECT IS OR WAS A LICENSED PILOT, POSSIBLY WITH EXPERIENCE IN OPERATION OF THE BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN OR COMMERCIAL AVIATION.

LEADS. OKLAHOMA CITY AT OKLAHOMA. OKLAHOMA IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT FAA AND EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF CHECKING FAA RECORDS ALONG THE LINES SET OUT BELOW FOR ANY INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT AID IN IDENTIFYING THE HIJACKER:

ONE. HOW MANY FILES OF LICENSED PILOTS FAA MAINTAINS.

TWO. CAN INFORMATION BE EXTRACTED FROM THEIR FILES BY AGE GROUP.

THREE. DO THEY HAVE PHOTOS OF EACH LICENSED PILOT.

---

EE [guess: sub]. [illegible] 164-81-33653

---

CEF:klb (3) Approved: ______________ Sent ___________M Per ______________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-32504

Serials: OC 164-56, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-33653