Urgent teletype Minneapolis to Director and Seattle re stewardess evaluation of artist's composite

This copy: Part 98 pp. 139–140Also filed at Part 12 pp. 377–378 (primary) · Part 12 pp. 379–380 · Part 69 pp. 273–274

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Minneapolis to Director and Seattle re stewardesses' comments on artist's sketch

Document date 30 November 1971

Part 98pages 139–1402 pagesDB Cooper-44195–44196

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 98 pp. 139–140 (DB Cooper-44195–44196), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A139-140

58;.NR003 MP PLAIN 1020 MP URGENT 11-30-71 MPC TO DIRECTOR SEATTLE (164-81) FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)

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[guess: Send] H [guess: aerial] [guess: sketch] cc. ARTIST'S SKETCH

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

INSTANT DATE PHOTOGRAPHS AND FACIMILES OF NINE MALES INCLUDING A PHOTOGRAPH OF GARY EVAN JOSEPH SAMDEL AND FACIMILES OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WERE DISPLAYED TO [REDACTED] STEWARDESS ON CAPTIONED FLIGHT. [REDACTED] ADVISED NONE OF THE DISPLAYED PICTURES RESEMBLED THE HIJACKER. SHE ADVISED SAMDELS FACE TOO FULL AND HE WAS TO YOUNG AND GOOD LOOKING. SHE ADVISED [REDACTED] WAS TOO YOUNG LOOKING AND ALSO TOO GOOD LOOKING.

[REDACTED] ALSO A STEWARDESS ON CAPTIONED FLIGHT VIEWED A DISPLAY OF PHOTOS AND FACIMILES INCLUDING A FACIMILE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED NONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS RESEMBLED THE HIJACKER. SHE ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] WAS YOUNGER LOOKING AND WAS A MORE HANDSOME MAN THAN THE HIJACKER. BOTH [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] NOV 30 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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SOG [guess: 164-81] [guess: July 10]

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DB COOPER-44195

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AND [REDACTED] DESCRIBED THE HIJACKER AS LOOKING HOMELY. [REDACTED] ALSO SHOWN ARTIST SKETCH BUR ONE SIX FOUR DASH TWO ONE ONE ONE, DATE ELEVEN THIRTY, SEVENTYONE. [REDACTED] REMARKS WERE: ON A SCALE OF FAIR, GOOD, VERY GOOD, EXCELLENT-

A FAIR RESEMBLANCE; CHIN SHOULD NOT BE SO SQUARED OFF ; UPPER LIPS TOO THICK, LOWER LIP NEEDS SHAVING DOWN; LINES ON EITHER SIDE OF NOSE ARE TOO PRONOUNCED; UPPER HEAD GOOD. [REDACTED] REMARKS WERE: LIKES DRAWING VERY MUCH, WOULD CLASSIFY AS GOOD; CHIN SHOULD BE MORE POINTED, MOUTH AND LIPS OK, TOP LINE ABOVE EYES SHOULD NOT BE SO PRONOUNCED, UPPER HEAD GOOD. END FEE FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB COOPER-44196

Serials: 164-2111, MP 164-73, SE 164-81