Nitel SAC Denver to Portland and San Francisco re interview of confused suspect
Document date 7 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-91:180-183
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-91:180-183 Document: Nitel SAC Denver to Portland and San Francisco re interview of confused suspect Id: Cooper-Part-91:180-183 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A180-183 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 91 pp. 180–183 (DB Cooper-40553–40556), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A180-183
NR 006 DN PLAIN 8-35PM NITEL 12-7-71 PJB
TO: PORTLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO FROM: DENVER (164-98)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA-HIJACKING. OO: SEATTLE (164-181)
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RE BUTTE TEL TO SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO AND DENVER DECEMBER SIX.
RE SUSPECT (FNU) [REDACTED]
FOR INFORMATION PORTLAND, BUTTE DEVELOPED INFO THAT DRIVER OF VEHICLE BEARING ARIZONA LICENSE [REDACTED], WAS HEARD ON DECEMBER TWO LAST MAKE REFERENCE TO [REDACTED] AS PERSON WHO POSSIBLY COMMITTED CAPTIONED CRIME.
INVESTIGATION REVEALED VEHICLE REGISTERED TO [REDACTED]
[REDACTED], WHO WAS CONTACTED DELTA, COLO. AND ADVISED AS FOLLOWS: STATED HE WAS [REDACTED] UNTIL DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING, THEN [REDACTED]
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END PAGE ONE
164-41-[illegible] [handwritten annotations] DB Cooper-40553
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[guess: SE] [guess: LETT] 1 - CAMPBELL, COVERD - ELIMINATION 1/3 [guess: Vila] SEND [guess: Tris] To DN, SE, SF [guess: BUTTE]
PAGE TWO DN 164-98
CLAIMED KNEW NO ONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO QUESTIONING STATED NONE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED - large block]
STATED RECALLED ALSO MENTIONING IN JOKING MANNER TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT THE START OF THE INTERVIEW.
END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-40554
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PAGE THREE DN 164-98
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[REDACTED] STATED HE HAD NOT SEEN [REDACTED]
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DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE AMERICAN, TWENTIES OR EARLY THIRTIES, SIX FEET ONE INCH TALL, ONE EIGHTY TO TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, MEDIUM BUILD. STATED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION DID NOT LOOK LIKE ANYONE KNOWN TO HIM.
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SAID HAD SEEN IN MISSOULA MONTANA TIMES THAT HIJACKER HAD WRITTEN A LETTER FROM OAKDALE, CALIFORNIA, TO A RENO, NEVADA, PAPER IN WHICH SAID "LANDED OKAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY". THIS MADE HIM THINK OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DENIED AND FURTHER KNOWLEDGE AND STATED HE HIMSELF KNEW NOTHING [REDACTED]
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END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-40555
PAGE FOUR DN 164-98
DURING INTERVIEW [REDACTED] SEEMED TO BE VERY CONFUSED AND UNABLE TO FURNISH DATES OR SPECIFICS OF ANY OF HIS ACTIVITIES. IT IS NOTED HE DOES NOT RESEMBLE ARTIST CONCEPTION IN ANY WAY.
PORTLAND WILL THROUGH GREYHOUND BUS COMPANY FURTHER IDENTIFY [REDACTED] NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR-TWENTYFIVE LAST, AND IF POSSIBLE SUSPECT THIS MATTER.
PORTLAND NOTE SAN FRANCISCO HAS LEAD IN RETEL TO IDENTIFY [REDACTED].
AIR MAIL COPY SEATTLE.
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NOTE ON THE FIRST PAGE THE SECOND INFORMATIVE PARAGRAPH, THE VEHICLE MENTIONED WAS REGISTERED TO A [REDACTED] I WASN'T SURE IF YOU GOT THE NAME BECAUSE OUR MACHINE DID NOT PRINT IT OUT PROPERLY GA PLS. RED'D IT OK TLA
FBI PORTLAND CLR
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-40556