Seattle to Director re parachutist organizations and Latin Sky-Divers lead (3:34PM copy)
This copy: Part 90 pp. 158–160Also filed at Part 11 pp. 67–69 (primary) · Part 11 pp. 70–72 · Part 11 pp. 73–75 · Part 11 pp. 76–78 · Part 11 pp. 79–81 · Part 53 pp. 371–373
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Seattle to Director and offices re parachutist organizations including Latin Sky-Divers
Document date 29 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-90:158-160 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director and offices re parachutist organizations including Latin Sky-Divers Id: Cooper-Part-90:158-160 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A158-160 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. 158–160 (DB Cooper-40154–40156), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial PD 164-41-63 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A158-160
NR008-SE PLAIN 3:19PM URGENT 11/29/71 VAB TO DIRECTOR DETROIT LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND FROM SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 5P
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RE: UNSUB: NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE NAUGHT FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE; CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION; OO: SEATTLE.
RE SFTEL TO BUREAU NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST RE US PARACHUTE ASSN. (USPA)
SF AMSD TO SE THE LIST OF AFFILIATED CLUBS OF USPA. SE ANTICIPATES HAVING ALL THESE CONTACTED IN PERSON BY AGENTS OF VARIOUS DIVISIONS WHERE LOCATED WITH FACTS THIS CASE AND COMPOSITE LIKENESS.
SF ALSO DETERMINE SOONEST ISSUE "THE PARACHUTIST" IN WHICH ITEM RE UNSUB AND PHOTO COULD BE INCLUDED AND WHETHER THIS IS FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE TO USPA. BUREAU AUTHORITY THIS REGARD WILL BE SOUGHT.
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164-41- 63 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED [guess: NOV] 3 0 1971 FBI — PORTLAND
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DB Cooper-40154
PAGE TWO 164-81
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LA IDENTIFY REPORTED "LATIN SKY-DIVERS," AN ORGANIZATION IN LA ALLEGEDLY COMPOSED EXCLUSIVELY OF PARACHUTISTS OF LATIN DESCENT OR BACKGROUND, AND DETERMINE IF THIS IS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WITH PUB- LICATION IN WHICH ITEM RE UNSUB MIGHT BE PLACED. IF ONLY LOCAL, LA DISPLAY COMPOSITE PHOTO WHICH IS BEING FORWARDED AMSD BY R/S, TO RE- SPONSIBLE OFFICERS OF CLUB AND ANY OTHERS THEY SUGGEST.
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COPIES COMPOSITE PHOTO ALSO BEING SENT PORTLAND AND IS TO BE DISPLAYED TO PROPER SOURCES AT DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST OFFICE, RED- MOND AIR BASE, AND AT SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST OFFICE, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, FOR POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION AND SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHERE AND TO WHOM LIKENESS MIGHT ALSO BE PROFITABLY DISPLAYED. LIKELIHOOD EXISTS SUBJECT HAD EXPERIENCE IN PARACHUTING AS FOREST FIRE FIGHTER, AND FOREGOING ARE BASES FOR THIS ACTIVITY.
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DETROIT CONTACT [REDACTED], [REDACTED] "OVER FORTY SO- CIETY," AKA "POPS," ALLEGEDLY AN ELITIST GROUP OF PARACHUTISTS FORTY END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-40155
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PAGE THREE 164-81
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AND OVER, FOR INFO AS TO CHAPTERS AND THEIR LOCATIONS, AND WHETHER ORGANIZATIONS HAS PUBLICATION THROUGH WHICH PUBLICITY RE UNSUB MIGHT BE CIRCULATED. "POPS" HEADQUARTERS AT TWENTYTHREE FORTYFIVE PANDY (?), FLINT, MICHIGAN. PHOTOS FOLLOW.
FOR INFO OFFICES RECEIVING, UNSUB HI-JACKED NORTHWEST AIRLINES SEVEN TWENTYSEVEN NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST AND PARACHUTED FROM THIS FLIGHT WITH TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS EXTORTED FROM NORTHWEST ON THREAT TO BLOW UP THE SHIP, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SEATTLE AND RENO, NE- VADA. CIRCUMSTANCES INDICATE UNSUB EXPERIENCED AND WELL VERSED IN ALL PHASES OF PARACHUTING, POSSIBLY AS SKY-DIVER OR FIRE FIGHTER. DESCRIBED AS WHITE, MALE, MID FORTIES, FIVE TEN TO SIX FEET, ONE SE- VENTY TO ONE EIGHTY, OLIVE COMPLEXION, LATIN APPEARANCE, DARK BROWN OR BLACK HAIR, NORMAL STYLE, PARTED ON LEFT AND COMBED STRAIGHT BACK, SMOKED RALEIGH CIGARETTES. END
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CORR: SHD BE 3P INSTEAD OF 5P END
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REC OK FBI PORTLAND CLR TU
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DB Cooper-40156
Serials: PD 164-41-63, SE 164-81