Minneapolis to Director, Seattle and WFO re crew review of facial identification catalog

Document date 25 November 1971

Part 77pages 364–3652 pagesDB Cooper-33756–33757

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Document: Teletype Minneapolis to Director, Seattle and WFO re crew review of facial identification catalog
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 77 pp. 364–365 (DB Cooper-33756–33757), Teletype, dated 25 Nov 1971, serial MP 164-73-2 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-77%3A364-365

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Date: 11-25-71

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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO DIRECTOR, FBI SEATTLE WFO

FROM MINNEAPOLIS 164-NEW

UNSUB; NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.

RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO MINNEAPOLIS ELEVEN TWENTYFIVE SEVENTYONE AND MINNEAPOLIS TELEPHONE CALL TO BUREAU ELEVEN TWENTYFIVE SEVENTYONE [illegible handwritten insertion: MPDK. TELETYPE [illegible] re wife]. ELIMINATION PRINTS TAKEN FROM ALL MEMBERS OF CREW OF HIJACKED PLANE. [handwritten: Elim.] PRINTS AND COPY OF FACIAL IDENTIFICATION FACT SHEET BEING HAND DELIVERED BY PILOT, UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT FIVE SIX TWO, DEPARTING MINNEAPOLIS EIGHT FIFTY AM CST ELEVEN TWENTYSIX SEVENTYONE ARRIVING NATIONAL AIRPORT, WASHINGTON, DC ELEVEN FIFTYEIGHT AM EST ELEVEN TWENTYSIX SEVENTYONE. ARTIST'S CONCEPTION PREPARED BY BUREAU EXHIBITED TO PLANES CREW. ALL AGREE THAT ARTIST'S CONCEPTION IS EXCELLENT WITH EXCEPTION OF [REDACTED] WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH ARTIST'S CONCEPTION BUT THINKS THAT UNSUB LOOKS

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1-Minneapolis HAS:agl (1) Approved: __________ Special Agent in Charge [illegible]

Indexed ____ Filed ____ Sent ____ M Per ____

D: 2:48-0+PT D: USP-SE 9:50P- wfo

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b6 b7C

164·73·2

DB Cooper-33756

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Page two Mp 164-NEW

IDENTICAL TO KK FIVE ONE IN THE FACIAL IDENTIFICATION CATALOG EXCEPT EARS ARE TO WIDE AND HAIR SHOULD COME DOWN MORE IN FRONT. OTHER MEMBERS OF CREW AGREE WITH CONCEPTION BUT [handwritten: DON'T] [handwritten: THINK] AGREE THAT MORE HOLLOW BELOW CHEEK BONES. [handwritten: CHISELED] [handwritten: FILE INCLUDED IN] [handwritten: DISAGREEMENTS.]

SEATTLE XXX TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED OF [redacted] b6 b7C [redacted] FACIAL IDENTIFICATION.

WFO MEET UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT FIVE SIX TWO, ELEVEN FIFTYEIGHT AM, NATIONAL AIRPORT ELEVEN TWENTYSIX SEVENTYONE TO PICK UP ELIMINATION PRINTS AND COPY OF FACIAL IDENTI- FICATION FACT SHEET FROM CREW AND DELIVER TO BUREAU.

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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge

DB Cooper-33757

Serials: MP 164-73-2