Portland to Seattle re ticket agent's account of selling ticket to 'Dan Cooper' and suspect description
Document date 26 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-90:088-089 Document: Teletype Portland to Seattle re ticket agent's account of selling ticket to 'Dan Cooper' and suspect description Id: Cooper-Part-90:088-089 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A088-089 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 90 pp. 88–89 (DB Cooper-40080), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971, serial PD 164-41-17 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A088-089
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 11/26/71
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Via __TELETYPE__ URGENT OO9 (Priority)
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TO: SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) PAGES 2
UNSUB; HIGHJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE; NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR SEVENTY ONE; OO: SEATTLE.
RE SEATTLE TEL TO PORTLAND, NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX SEVENTY ONE.
[REDACTED] NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATELY TWO P.M., NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR SEVENTY ONE, WHITE MALE CAME UP TO HIM IN REGULAR ROTATION IN A LONG LINE OF CUSTOMERS AND SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT, "CAN I GET ON YOUR FLIGHT TO SEATTLE?" NO NERVOUSNESS OR FIDGETING NOTED. [REDACTED] ASKED IF HE WANTED ONE WAY COACH AND HE SAID "YES." PAID WITH TWENTY DOLLAR BILL, PROBABLY WITH RIGHT HAND FOR TWENTY DOLLAR FARE. SOURCE OF MONEY FROM POCKETS NOT NOTED. WHEN ASKED NAME, PERSON SAID "COOPER, DAN COOPER." WHEN ASKED IF HE HAD BAGGAGE, HE SAID "NO." UNNOTICED WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS CARRYING ANYTHING. AFTER RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO FLIGHT AREA, PERSON DEPARTED FROM TICKET COUNTER AREA DIRECTION UNNOTICED. NEVER SEEN BEFORE NOR SINCE.
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1-PORTLAND KBM:CSW WPL (1) (CSC)
Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent ___14/P___ M Per (CW)
Handwritten: 164-41-17 Handwritten marginal notes: b6, b7C
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PD 164-41
PAGE TWO
DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE AMERICAN, MID THIRTIES, POSSIBLY OLDER, FIVE FEET TEN OR ELEVEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY POUNDS, MEDIUM BUILD, SOFT VOICE, SLIGHTLY DARKER POSSIBLY OLIVE COMPLEXION, DARK HAIR, NO GRAY NOTED, DARK CLOTHING, BUT ONLY RECALLED WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE A CASUAL JACKET, HEADWEAR UNNOTICED, NOT NOTED WEARING GLASSES, OVERALL IMPRESSION OF LABORING TYPE MAN AS OPPOSED TO OFFICE WORKER.
[REDACTED] UNSURE IF HE WOULD RECOGNIZE AGAIN AS THIS MAN WAS ONE OF MANY HE HANDLED THAT DAY.
TWENTY DOLLAR BILL CO-MINGLED AND UNAVAILABLE.
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES PORTLAND DIVISION.
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Approved: _______________ Sent _______________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-40080
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b6 b7C
Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-17, SE 164-81