Nitel teletype Seattle to Charlotte re suspect matching UNSUB description and VA hospital records

Document date 8 December 1971

Part 98pages 286–2883 pagesDB Cooper-44357–44359

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Document: Nitel teletype Seattle to Charlotte re suspect matching UNSUB description and VA hospital records
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 98 pp. 286–288 (DB Cooper-44357–44359), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-816 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A286-288

NR001 SE PLAIN 3:36 AM NITEL 12/8/71 SWD TO CHARLOTTE FROM SEATTLE (164-81 SUB20) (3P)

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.

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UNSUB BOARDED CAPTIONED FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, HIJACKED PLANE ENROUTE SEATTLE, ALLOWED PASSENGERS TO DEPART SEATTLE AFTER PLANE REFUELED AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR PAYMENT MADE. AT SEVEN THIRTY FIVE PM PLANE TOOK OFF FOR FLIGHT TO RENO, NAVADA AND UNSUB MISSING FROM PLANE UPON ARRIVAL RENO. UNSUB DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, IN FORTY'S, FIVE FEET TEN-SIX FEET, ONE SEVEN ZERO-ONE EIGHT ZERO, OLIVE COMPLEXION, DARK BROWN - BLACK HAIR, WORE DARK GLASSES, HAD LOW VOICE AND SPOKE INTELLIGENTLY WITH NO ACCENT AND HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH FILTER TIP CIGARETTES. END OF PAGE ONE

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164-81 -816 DB COOPER-44357

PAGE TWO SE 164-81

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SEVERAL PERSONS HAVE ADVISED [REDACTED] FORMERLY [REDACTED], FITS DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB.

[REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED]

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] OBTAINED FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] EXHIBITED TO WITNESS, [REDACTED] WHO ADVISED THERE IS A GOOD LIKENESS OF [REDACTED] TO UNSUB, HOWEVER, HE COULD NOT MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. END OF PAGE TWO

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DB COOPER-44358

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SE 164-81

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RECORDS, VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL, SEATTLE, ON [REDACTED] REFLECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED], WAS IN ABOVE HOSPITAL FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FOR TREATMENT FOR [REDACTED] AS HAVING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RECORD REFLECTS [REDACTED] SERVED IN U.S. [REDACTED] FROM [REDACTED] TO [REDACTED] AND IN U.S. [REDACTED] AS A FIGHTER PILOT IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO [REDACTED], CLAIMED HONORABLE DISCHARGE. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] CLOSELY RESEMBLES THAT OF UNSUB HIJACKER. CHARLOTTE AT [REDACTED], NORTH CAROLINA. WILL MAKE DISCREET INQUIRY TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER [REDACTED] WAS EMPLOYED, [REDACTED] DURING DAY OF HIJACKING, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NO. IS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SUTEL. -P-

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DB COOPER-44359

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-816