Anonymous letter from Los Angeles to FBI Portland claiming psychic impressions re Cooper, with hand-drawn 'check area' map and mailing envelope
Document date 9 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-91:359-362 Document: Anonymous letter from Los Angeles to FBI Portland claiming psychic impressions re Cooper, with hand-drawn 'check area' map and mailing envelope Id: Cooper-Part-91:359-362 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A359-362 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. 359–362 (DB Cooper-40758–40761), Letter, dated 9 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A359-362
Los Angeles, California December 9, [stamped]: INDEXED SERIALIZED___FILED___ DEC 1 6 1971 FBI -- PORTLAND
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F. 3. I.
Gentlemen:
Yesterday I dropped you a line or two about the case of the missing $200,000 air Jack. I mentioned the word settler or settlers had come thru me and today the word railroad came thru me and I remember the word came thru me the nite of the Hijack. Just what it means I don't know, but I started to make out a little map showing the railroads and I think the spirit felt sorry for me and now I am sure I have the hottest clue to the case yet. The word came thru loud and clear. It said 90 miles. I think this is very definitely something to go to work on. I don't know the exact glide path of the plane from Seattle-Tacoma airport and I don't know for sure if I am right with my crude map, but you might have an expert check the right map and ascertain where the district is just (90-miles from Seattle airport). I get it around the Kalama river region or possibly around pigeon springs in Cowlitz county, Washington. You were all looking around Woodland and I get it about 12 miles or so above Woodland. The fact that the spirit said he was sitting in a seater might mean he is sitting in a ditch or creek in there dead or then too, he might be sitting in a swivel chair in some office laughing at the world with the two hundred grand. According to what my guardian angel said- He wasn't in the plane long and 'He never made it' seems to reaffirm √ to me that 90 miles might be just about the right distance, because it don't take a plane long to fly this distance. How many minutes does it take? Then the caper was first pulled about even two days before it the spirit had spoken thru me about a Spring. Do you remember in one of my first previous letters? I thot it was a spring down near Mill city, but when I measured the distance on my crude map- it came out pigeon spring. I thot the word union might have meant two railroads or two rivers coming together. Between Rainier and [guess: by] Washington the N. P. runs a railroad line and then another spur track runs below it and parallel to it as I have drawn on the map of mine. I think the tip of the day now. is the idea- of 90-miles from takeoff. Avery good clue. Sometimes I get words that don't have anything to do with this case as for instance two days ago I was walking down the street and the spirit said'subs'. Today I saw the headlines in the paper-Russian Sub fired on by Pakistan. When I woke up this morning the spirit manifested thru me and said they are 'going to bomb the buildings again' This means another rash of bombings. Once before when the spirit said this-- They bombed the Bank of America at Isle of Vista up near San Francisco. Spirit also said this morning that Fidel Castro was raiding us. This means that somebody from mainland Cuba is slipping into our country and is highly skilled at the use of explosives. I wish I had a camp and about 100 young men about or between the age of 20 and 40 and I would train them to have the holy ghost. If I had it now I could tell you many things. It takes about a year of training to produce men with the holy ghost and they will never know under the existing conditions. Hope my new clue spirit gave me (90 miles) will crack the case. Sincerely,
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DB Cooper-40758 b6 b7C
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I notice the Southern Pacific runs a railroad coming in from the south--Maybe Mr. Cooper went over the city of Portland and hopped out south of the city and caught a freight train the nite of [guess: caper]. (Just supposition)
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/ [guess: 12-v-1] 380 [illegible]
[Hand-drawn map of south-central Washington state showing roads, rivers, and towns]
Labeled locations on map: ROY McKENNA PUYALLUP ORTING RAINIER DESCHUTES RIVER PARK VAIL CENTRALIA CHECK AREA CHEHALIS SNOQUALMIE NATL FOREST PIGEON SPRINGS KALAMA RIVER DESHUTES RIVER NISQUALLY RIVER SKOOKUMCHUCK RIVER AIRPORT CM ST P RY [Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railway] NP RY [Northern Pacific Railway]
Handwritten annotation (upper left): SPUR TRACK MIGHT BE THE [guess: SEATER] IT LOOKS LIKE A HAMMOCK (IN RED)
Handwritten annotation (right side, boxed): CHECK AREA 90 AIR MILES = FROM SEATTLE TACOMA AIRPORT VERY HOT NOW PIGEON SPRINGS KALAMA RIVER IF THIS IS 90 AIR MILES FROM SEATTLE ?
Handwritten annotation (lower center): 90 MILES FROM SEATTLE —ON FOOT—
Bottom right corner: DB Cooper-40759
[Postage stamps: Three United States stamps depicting Thomas Jefferson, plus one United States flag stamp marked 8¢] [Postmark: partially legible, reads "CALIF" with circular cancellation mark] [Airmail marking: "VIA AIR"]
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Portland Branch Portland Oregon
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-40760
[illegible or blank page]
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[illegible stamp text, partially visible letters ED and possibly IEA or similar]
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DB Cooper-40761