Butte to Director, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland re reliability of Celk source

Document date 4 December 1971

Part 91pages 107–1082 pagesDB Cooper-40477–40478

Open in FBI Vault (Part 91, page 107 of the PDF)
Report a problem

Email this to [email protected]

Id: Cooper-Part-91:107-108

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-91:107-108

Document: Teletype Butte to Director, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland re reliability of Celk source
Id: Cooper-Part-91:107-108
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A107-108

What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)?


What does the scan show?

Open in email app

A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 91 pp. 107–108 (DB Cooper-40477–40478), Teletype, dated 4 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A107-108

NR024 BT PLAIN 11:26 PM URGENT 12-4-71 ALH TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) MINNEAPOLIS PORTLAND FROM BUTTE (164-26)

---

HARRY WM CELK No [guess: Ptd] [guess: Mo] LEADS

---

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

RE SUSPECT HARRY WILLIAM CELK, AKA.

RE BUTTE TEL BUREAU DECEMBER THREE LAST AND SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALL BUTTE DECEMBER FOUR, INSTANT.

COSART VOLKSWAGEN, INC. IS SMALL DEALERSHIP ON OUTSKIRTS HELENA, MONTANA. COSART AND ONLY CLOSE NEIGHBOR, SKIDOO SNOW- MOBILE DEALERSHIP, CLOSED ONE P.M. UNTIL MONDAY NEXT.

CELK RESIDES IN FOUR APARTMENT COMPLEX. KARMANN GHIA WITH DEALER LICENSE PLATE PARKED OUTSIDE TODAY. [REDACTED], NOT AVAILABLE. [REDACTED], BELIEVED RELIABLE AND IN- TERVIEWED. CASUALLY KNOWS CELK BUT CANNOT DEFINITELY STATE CELK IN HELENA NIGHT OF HIJACKING.

END PAGE ONE

---

[stamp] SEARCHED ___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ [guess: DEC] [guess: 6] 1971 FBI — [guess: PORTLAND]

---

DB Cooper-40477

PAGE TWO 3T 164-26

---

DUE TO REPUTATION OF [REDACTED], DISCREE EFFORTS BEING MADE TO IDENTIFY AND ESTABLISH RELIABILITY [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

PD RECORDS SHOW ONLY TRAFFIC CITATION FOR CELK. NO RECORD [REDACTED] OR CELK BUTTE INDICES. INVESTIGATION CONTINUING. SUSPECT CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS SINCE REPORTEDLY CARRIES GUN. END RMB FBI PD CLR

---

DB Cooper-40478

---

b6 b7C

Serials: 164-2111, BT 164-26, SE 164-81