Las Vegas to Seattle, Minneapolis and Portland re suspect Ben Leibson investigation
Document date 2 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-90:346-350
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-90:346-350 Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Seattle, Minneapolis and Portland re suspect Ben Leibson investigation Id: Cooper-Part-90:346-350 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A346-350 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. 346–350 (DB Cooper-40362–40365), Teletype, dated 2 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A346-350
NR 007 LV PLAIN 304 PM URGENT 12-2-71 EB TO SEATTLE 164-81 MINNEAPOLIS PORTLAND 164-41 FROM LAS VEGAS 164-60
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Ben Leibsen SUSPECT
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UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, HIJACKING, NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, SEVENTY-ONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
BEN LEIBSON, WHITE MALE, DOB JULY FOUR, TWENTYNINE, NEW YORK, NY, FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE FIFTYFIVE - ONE SIXTY POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES, SSAN FIVE TWO SIX - THREE ZERO - EIGHT FIVE THREE FIVE. RESIDES AT NINE SIX ONE ARMORY LANE, CARSON CITY, NEVADA WITH [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED]. CARSON CITY SO FINGERPRINTED LEIBSON DECEMBER, SIXTYEIGHT FOR A WORKCARD PERMIT AS A DEALER IN LOCAL CASINO. FINGERPRINTS RETURNED FROM FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION MARKED NO RECORD. LEIBSON HAS CII NUMBER ONE-THREE SIX THREE-FIVE NINE THREE.
DMV, CARSON CITY RECORDS REFLECT LEIBSON REGISTERED AND LEGAL OWNER SIXTYEIGHT VOLKSWAGEN, TWO DOOR STATIONWAGON, VIN THREE SIX EIGHT ZERO SIX FOUR ONE FIVE, NEVADA LICENSE END PAGE ONE
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SEE SER III [illegible]
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16c/-4/1-81 [guess: RECORDED] [illegible] [guess: SEARCH] [illegible] 1971 [illegible]
PGE TWO LV 164-S2
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ONE ONE TWO SIX. LEIBSON HAS NEVADA DRIVERS LICENSE [guess: DL] TWO NINE ZERO SEVEN ZERO FOUR ISSUED JULY FOURTEEN, SIXTYTHREE. HE HAD PRIOR CALIFORNIA DRIVERS LICENSE D SIX THREE EIGHT TWO THREE FIVE.
RECORDS FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CARSON CITY, REFLECT LEIBSON OPENED CHECKING ACCOUNT FOUR EIGHT FIVE -FIVE SIX EIGHT-ZERO IN MARCH, SEVENTY, AND CLOSED ACCOUNT NOV. TWENTYTWO LAST WITH PERSONAL CHECK OF APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN DOLLARS, NO REASON GIVEN FOR CLOSING ACCOUNT. FORMERLY BANKED FIRST NATIONAL BANK, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.
RECORDS CARSON CITY NUGGET CASINO REFLECT LEIBSON EMPLOYED AS DEALER DEC. TWENTYTWO, SIXTYEIGHT TO MARCH THIRTY, SIXTYNINE, AND AGAIN JUNE [guess: SEVENTEEN], SEVENTY TO AUGUST TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTY. CEASED EMPLOYMENT BY FAILING TO SHOW FOR WORK.
OBSERVATIONS AT NINE SIX ONE ARMORY LANE, CARSON CITY, DEC. ONE, LAST, REFLECT TWO VEHICLES PARKED AT RESIDENCE: SIXTYEIGHT VOLKSWAGEN STATIONWAGON, NEVADA [guess: CHE] ONE TWO SIX AND SEVENTYONE DATSUN, GOLD-BROWN, TWO DOOR SEDAN, NEVADA LICENSE END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-40362
PAGE THREE LV 164-68
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OR [REDACTED]. LATTER VEHICLE REGISTERED TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED], RESIDES [REDACTED] STATED LEIBSON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] UNEMPLOYED. [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] STATED RESIDENCE WELL FURNISHED AND LEIBSON APPEARS TO LIVE COMFORTABLY WITHOUT ANY SOURCE OF INCOME. LEIBSON CLAIMED TO HAVE CANDLE FACTORY IN CARSON CITY WHICH [REDACTED] STATES OPERATED FOR ABOUT ONE MONTH IN EARLY SEVENTYONE AND IS NOW CLOSED. [REDACTED] STATED LEIBSON [REDACTED] HAVE HIPPIE TYPE VISITORS, BLACKS AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS. ONE VEHICLE OBSERVED AS VISITOR IS WHITE, LATE MODEL, MUSTANG WITH UNKNOWN OREGON PLATES.
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[REDACTED], STATES LEIBSON [REDACTED] DEPARTED RESIDENCE NOV. TWENTY, LAST, WITH TWO END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-40363
PAGE FOUR LV 164-66 [REDACTED] TRAVEL TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. THEY RETURNED [REDACTED]. VOLKSWAGEN STATIONWAGON NOT OBSERVED AT RESIDENCE UNTIL DEC. ONE, LAST. [REDACTED] DID NOT OBSERVE LEIBSON [REDACTED] AT RESIDENCE DURING FEW DAYS BEFORE THANKSGIVING UNTIL DEC. ONE, LAST. DEP. SHERIFF [REDACTED], CARSON CITY SO ADVISED HE ANSWERED COMPLAINT ON NOV. TWENTYNINE, LAST, MADE BY BEN LEIBSON WHO REPORTED VANDALISM FROM CLOTHESLINE AT [guess: MINE] SIX ONE AMATORY LAKE DURING LEIBSON'S ABSENCE FROM THE RESIDENCE, PERIOD OF ABSENCE UNKNOWN TO [REDACTED]. [REDACTED], CLOSELY ACQUAINTED WITH [REDACTED] WITH WHOM LEIBSON IS NOW RESIDING. [REDACTED] THAT [REDACTED] LEIBSON PLAN TO MOVE TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA OR POSSIBLY TO AN ISLAND OFF WASHINGTON COAST IN NEAR FUTURE. [REDACTED] STATED HE PROBABLY CAN OBTAIN ANY FUTURE ADDRESS FOR LEIBSON [REDACTED]. END PAGE FOUR
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DB Cooper-40364
PAGE FIVE LV 164-69 RECORDS NEVADA SKYDIVING, INV., CARSON CITY, REFLECT NO RECORD FOR LEIBSON. PHOTO OF LEIBSON DISPLAYED TO MEMBERS WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.
PHOTOS OF LEIBSON FURNISHED [guess: ASED] ON NOV. THIRTY, LAST DIRECT FROM CARSON CITY RA TO MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND AND SEATTLE.
ADVISE RESULTS DISPLAY OF PHOTO OF LEIBSON TO WITNESSES. END LJQ
REC OK FBI PORTLAND CLA TU
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DB Cooper-40365
Serials: LV 164-60, LV 164-66, LV 164-68, LV 164-69, PD 164-41, SE 164-81
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