Portland to Los Angeles and Seattle re pickup-truck suspect lead

Document date 30 November 1971

Part 90pages 226–2283 pagesDB Cooper-40228–40230

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Document: Teletype Portland to Los Angeles and Seattle re pickup-truck suspect lead
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 90 pp. 226–228 (DB Cooper-40228–40230), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial PD 164-41-108 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A226-228

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TO LOS ANGELES SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM PORTLAND (164-41) (P) P

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.

CAPTIONED FLIGHT WITH BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN AIRCRAFT WAS HI- JACKED BY INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED AS: SIX FOOT ONE; ONE SEVENTY TO ONE SEVENTYFIVE POUNDS; MID-FORTIES; OLIVE COMPLEXION; BROWN EYES; BLACK HAIR; CONVENTIONAL STYLE, PARTED ON LEFT SIDE; SLIM BUILD; BLACK SUIT, TIE AND TOP COAT. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PAID TO HIJACKER AT SEATTLE AND ON FLIGHT FROM SEATTLE TO RENO, HE PARA- CHUTED FROM AIRCRAFT, POSSIBLY ABOUT EIGHT P.M., NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, IN BAD WEATHER. NO TRACE OF HIJACKER HAS BEEN FOUND TO DATE. 164-41-108 PORTLAND OFFICE TELEPHONICALLY RECEIVED A CALL ON NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, SEVENTYONE, FROM [REDACTED] WHO SAID [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BEARS A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO ARTIST'S CON-

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1- PORTLAND / JWR:tms (1)

Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge

Sent SE 6:28 M Per [signature] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135

DB Cooper-40228

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PD 164-41

PAGE TWO

CEPTION OF HIJACKER AND HAS, IN THE PAST, [REDACTED].

ON NOVEMBER THIRTY, SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED] ADVISED

[REDACTED] NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE.- [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] A SIXTYFIVE CHEVROLET PICKUP, OREGON LICENSE [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] IS DESCRIBED AS DOB [REDACTED]

[REDACTED]; SIX FOOT ONE; ONE SIXTY POUNDS; SHORT, DARK, RECEEDING HAIR WITH NO SIDEBURNS AND PARTED ON LEFT SIDE; MEDIUM COMPLEXION; WEARS PRESCRIPTION SUNGLASSES; NEAT DRESSER AND, [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT A DOCTOR AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, CONTACTED HIM TELE- PHONICALLY NOVEMBER TWENTYEIGHT, SEVENTYONE, AND ADVISED THAT STATED [REDACTED] [REDACTED], HAD BEEN PICKED UP BY FEDERAL AGENTS FOR

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Approved: ______________ Sent ______________ M Per ______________ Special Agent in Charge ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-40229

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PD 164-41

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ATTEMPTING TO ENTER A ROPED OFF AREA AT A HOSPITAL THAT WAS BEING DEDICATED BY MAMIE EISENHOWER ON NOVEMBER [redacted] SEVENTYONE.

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LOS ANGELES AT [redacted] CALIFORNIA:

CONTACT [redacted] HOSPITAL AND OBTAIN ANY INFORMATION ON [redacted] [redacted] AS TO HIS WHEREABOUTS DURING THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE.

ATTEMPT TO PHOTOGRAPH [redacted] AND SEND SAME TO SEATTLE. [guess: AFLD TRLO]

WILL DETERMINE IF SUBJECT WAS IN POSSESSION OF ABOVE-MENTIONED PICKUP.

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Sent ________ M Per ________

☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135

DB Cooper-40230

Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-108, SE 164-81