Portland to Director, Las Vegas and Seattle re Greyhound bus passenger suspect

Document date 3 December 1971

Part 91pages 81–833 pagesDB Cooper-40451–40453

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Document: Teletype Portland to Director, Las Vegas and Seattle re Greyhound bus passenger suspect
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 91 pp. 81–83 (DB Cooper-40451–40453), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-218 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A081-083

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Date: 12/3/71 PLAINTEXT Transmit the following in ___________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO: DIRECTOR LAS VEGAS SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)(P) (3 P)

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

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ON NOVEMBER THIRTY, SEVENTYONE, AT ELEVEN TEN A.M., [REDACTED]

PORTLAND, OREGON, REPORTED [REDACTED] SHE HAD MET A MAN ON FRIDAY, NOV- EMBER TWENTYSIX, SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED] TEN [REDACTED] A.M. AT [REDACTED] LOCAL BUS STATION WHO MATCHED THE DESCRIPTION OF THE HIJACKER. SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS [REDACTED]: WHITE, MALE, AMERICAN, APPROXIMATELY [REDACTED] YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FOOT TEN INCHES TALL, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, DARK EYES, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, CLOTHING WAS A WOOL SPORT COAT, SMALL CHECK, BROWN AND DARK GREEN, CARRYING A REDDISH- TAN LUGGAGE BAG. THIS MAN ENGAGED HER IN CONVERSATION WHILE [REDACTED]

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Approved: [signature] _______ Sent _______ M — Per ________ Special Agent in Charge

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

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DB Cooper-40451

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[handwritten] OC3 [handwritten near TO: line] 15 M [illegible]

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PD 164-41

PAGE TWO

BOTH TRAVELED FROM PORTLAND TO SEATTLE VIA GREYHOUND BUS LINES.

HE GAVE HIS NAME AS [REDACTED] AND STATED HE WAS FROM VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA AND HAD [REDACTED] IN RENO, NEVADA. SHE [REDACTED] RECEIVED IMPRESSION

FROM THE CONVERSATION THAT HE REALLY KNEW VERY LITTLE ABOUT RENO. b6 b7C HE MENTIONED THAT HE HAD STAYED AT THE MAPES HOTEL IN RENO. HIS

INTERESTS WERE [REDACTED] HE WAS [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] AND HE WORKED [REDACTED] IN CLAIMED VANCOUVER B.C. HE MENTIONED THAT HE [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] IN VANCOUVER B.C. HE MENTIONED THAT HE WAS [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] HE WENT TO RENO [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] HE WAS A NERVOUS, COMPULSIVE

SPEAKER, AND SMOKED CANADIAN CIGARETTES. WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN

SEATTLE, HE UNEXPECTEDLY DEPARTED AFTER PUTTING ON A LARGE PAIR

OF DARK GLASSES EVEN THOUGH THE WEATHER WAS CLOUDY AND OVERCAST.

A CHECK WITH GREYHOUND BUS LINES SHOWED THE ROUTE OF GREYHOUND

BUS SCHEDULE NINE TWO TWO ORIGINATED IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA, [REDACTED]

STOPPED IN RENO, NEVADA AT FIVE O'CLOCK P.M., NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE,

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Approved: _______________ Sent _______________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-138

DB Cooper-40452

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PD 164-41

PAGE THREE

SEVENTYONE, BEFORE CONTINUING ON TO OREGON.

LAS VEGAS AT RENO, NEVADA. [redacted] ENDEAVOR TO DETERMINE [redacted]

ACTIVITIES OF [redacted] WHILE IN THE RENO AREA AND VERIFY HIS

STAY AT THE MAPES HOTEL. [redacted] CHECK THE GREYHOUND BUS DEPOT TO

DETERMINE IF SUBJECT DEPARTED RENO ON BUS SCHEDULE NINE TWO TWO

ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE, SEVENTYONE.

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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-40453

Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-218, SE 164-81