Las Vegas to Director, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City re former Top Ten fugitive as suspect
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Las Vegas to Director and offices summarizing hijacking for Los Angeles lead
Document date 29 November 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 98 pp. 64–66 (DB Cooper-44104, DB Cooper-44106), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A064-066
NR004 LV PLAIN 247 PM URGENT 11-29-71 JEG TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTEL (164-81) - PORTLAND LOS ANGELES - SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, PORTLAND, OREGON. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
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FOR INFORMATION LOS ANGELES, CAPTIONED FLIGHT HIJACKED BY UNSUB NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, AFTER BOARDING FLIGHT FROM PORTLAND TO SEATTLE. ALLOWED PASSENGERS TO DEPLANE AT SEATTLE AND AFTER RECEIVING TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TOOK OFF IN PLANE WITH CREW CONSISTING OF THREE MALES AND ONE HOSTESS. FURNISHED SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS AS TO AIR SPEED, DIRECTION, AND AFTER CONVERSATIONS WITH HOSTESS INSTRUCTED PLANE TO LAND AT RENO FOR A NECESSARY REFUELING STOP. INDICATED TO HOSTESS THAT HE WOULD GO TO MEXICO CITY.
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FOLLOWING RECEIPT OF MONEY AND WHILE IN AIR UNSUB APPARENTLY OPENED REAR DOOR OF CAPTIONED PLANE AND DEPRESSED STAIRS. HAD END PAGE ONE
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164-81-[illegible] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ NOV 2 9 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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PREVIOUSLY INSTRUCTED PILOT TO FLY WITH HIS LANDING GEAR AND FLAPS DOWN. UNSUB APPARENTLY PARACHUTED FROM PLANE AT AN UNKNOWN TIME FOLLOWING TAKEOFF FROM SEATTLE. CREW OF PLANE STATES THEY TALKED TO HIJACKER VIA THE INTERCOM AT EIGHT ZERO FIVE PM BUT HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH HIM. PLANE LANDED AT RENO, NEVADA, ELEVEN ZERO ONE PM, PST, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, WITH ONLY CREW ABOARD.
[REDACTED] AKA, FORMER TOP TEN, IO NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAS BEEN SUGGESTED AS SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER IN VIEW OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. SALT LAKE CITY DIVISION CONTACTED [REDACTED], SALT LAKE CITY, WHO HAS STATED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DEPARTED SALT LAKE CITY AREA ABOUT TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO [REDACTED], EXACT DESTINATION NOT KNOWN BUT POSSIBLY [REDACTED] STATED HE BELIEVED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY IN NEAR FUTURE BUT EXACT DATE UNKNOWN.
LYON COUNTY, NEVADA, SHERIFF'S OFFICE ADVISED THIS DATE THEY HAVE INFORMATION THAT [REDACTED] END PAGE TWO
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[REDACTED], CALIFORNIA, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO. INFORMATION AVAILABLE INDICATES HE WAS HEADING FOR LOS ANGELES AND THAT THE BARSTOW SHERIFF'S OFFICE WAS AWARE OF THIS. IT WAS THOUGHT POSSIBLY THE BARSTOW SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAD SOME SORT OF COVERAGE ON [REDACTED].
LOS ANGELES AT BARSTOW CONTACT SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR ANY DETAILS CONCERNING [REDACTED] AND ATTEMPT TO LOCATE HIM IF LOCATED, ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE.
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