SAC Seattle to SAC Portland re tipster contacting Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis
Document date 29 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-98:024-025 Document: Teletype SAC Seattle to SAC Portland re tipster contacting Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis Id: Cooper-Part-98:024-025 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A024-025 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 98 pp. 24–25 (DB Cooper-43924–43925), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A024-025
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI Date: 11/29/71
Transmit the following in FACSIMILC (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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TO : SAC, PORTLAND
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SE.
RESE TELECALL THIS DATE.
[REDACTED], NORTHWEST AIRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS, CALLED ON NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE INSTANT. HE SAID A[REDACTED] OF PORTLAND, TELEPHONE [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED], OR IN CARE OF THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, HAD CALLED NORTHWEST IN MINNEAPOLIS. HE SAID THAT A MAN NAMED TED MAYFIELD, A WELL KNOWN SKY JUMPER IN THE PORTLAND AREA, LOOKED LIKE THE ARTIST CONCEPTION AND WAS AN EXCELLENT SUSPECT. HE SAID THAT MAYFIELD IS IN DIRE FINANCIAL STRAIGHTS; THAT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAD TO REPOSSESS SOME OF HIS THINGS AND THAT HE CURRENTLY LIVES ON A HOUSEBOAT JUST NORTH OF THE PORTLAND AIRPORT.
PORTLAND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION RE MAYFIELD AND ADVISE BY SUTEL.
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PRB:klb (1) [initials] [handwritten: Recd.] 164-81- [illegible] Sub. 3
Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent 10 ES/A M Per Sea
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003 DB COOPER-43924
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b6 b7C b7D
SE 164-81
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This information previously furnished to ASAC VINNIE RUEHL, Portland, who said he believes MAYFIEDD had been eliminated as a suspect already, but that he would appreciate getting a teletype and he will give us an official statement by return teletype.
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DB COOPER-43925
Serials: SE 164-81