Director to All SACs re press release on 34-page ransom serial number list
This copy: Part 91 pp. 257–258Also filed at Part 8 pp. 36–37 (primary) · Part 54 pp. 383–384
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Nitel Director to all SACs re NORJAK ransom money list
Document date 8 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-91:257-258 Document: Nitel Director to all SACs re NORJAK ransom money list Id: Cooper-Part-91:257-258 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A257-258 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. 257–258 (DB Cooper-40644–40645), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-3174 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A257-258
NR049 WA PLAIN 9:25 PM NITEL 12-8-71 LRS TO ALL SACS FROM DIRECTOR 2P
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"Ransom List"
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NORJAK
FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT A "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERIAL-NUMBERED BILLS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, HAS BEEN PREPARED AND IS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY THE FBI THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER ADVISED THAT THE "RANSOM LIST," THIRTY FOUR PAGES IN LENGTH, CONTAINS THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES WHICH WERE PAID TO THE HIJACKER FOR THE RELEASE OF THIRTY SIX PASSENGERS AND TWO CREW MEMBERS. THE HIJACKER BOARDED THE FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HIJACKED THE PLANE JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL IN SEATTLE,
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164-41-3174 [redacted block] b6 b7C DB Cooper-40644
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[guess: 12/8/71] [illegible]
PAGE TWO WASHINGTON. HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PARACHUTED FROM THE BOEING SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AIRCRAFT WHILE IT WAS IN FLIGHT FROM SEATTLE TO RENO, NEVADA.
MR. HOOVER ADVISED THAT COPIES OF THE "RANSOM LIST" ARE BEING FURNISHED TO FBI OFFICES AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS. HE REQUESTED ANYONE HAVING ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE NEAREST OFFICE OF THE FBI, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF WHICH MAY BE FOUND ON THE FIRST PAGE OF MOST TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES. END TLA FBI PORTLAND CLR
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DB Cooper-40645
Serials: PD 164-41-3174
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