Urgent teletype Sacramento to Seattle re smoke jumper Donald A. Brennan
Document date 15 August 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-99:078-080 Document: Urgent teletype Sacramento to Seattle re smoke jumper Donald A. Brennan Id: Cooper-Part-99:078-080 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-99%3A078-080 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 99 pp. 78–80 (DB Cooper-44503–44505), Teletype, dated 15 Aug 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-99%3A078-080
NR 14 SC PLAIN 4:48 PM URGENT 8/15/72 VLS TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SACRAMENTO (164-50) 3P
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO SEATTLE AND SACRAMENTO AUGUST ELEVEN LAST. RE SUSPECT DON BRENNAN.
ON INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED], NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FOREST SERVICE CENTER, REDDING, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THAT DONALD A. BRENNAN WORKED AS A REDDING SMOKE JUMPER DURING SUMMER OF ONE NINE FIVE EIGHT. ONLY AVAILABLE INDENTIFICATION OBTAINED VIA TELEPHONE CALL TO FEDERAL RECORDS CENTER, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, INSTANT WHICH REVEALED DATE OF BIRTH SEPTEMBER TWO THREE, ONE NINE THREE TWO, 1932 AND SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER FIVE THREE EIGHT DASH TWO SIX DASH THREE SEVEN FOUR FOUR. END PAGE ONE
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[illegible handwritten notes] 164 - 81 Sub 31 [guess: 3008]
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [guess: 14] FILED [arrow] AUG 1 5 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-44503
SC 164-58 PAGE TWO
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SMOKE JUMPER BOB CERSH, TWO SEVEN FIVE ONE RESERVOIR LANE, REDDING, ADVISED WHEN CAPTIONED MATTER FIRST OCCURRED, HE IMMEDIATELY STATED TO FRIEND THAT BRENNAN IS THE TYPE WHO WOULD ATTEMPT CAPTIONED MATTER AND ALSO ADVISED COMPOSITE OF UNSUB IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF SUSPECT. CERSH STATED BRENNAN LEFT REDDING DURING SUMMER OF ONE NINE FIVE EIGHT TO WORK AS SMOKE JUMPER IN FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. IN ONE NINE SIX TWO, BRENNAN ESTABLISHED FIREFIGHTING SCHOOL FOR CONVICTS NEAR EAST END OF SUSANVILLE, CALIFORNIA. SCHOOL BELIEVED CLOSED THIS YEAR.
IN ONE NINE SIX TWO, SUSANVILLE SHERIFF'S OFFICE CONTACTED CERSH BECAUSE BRENNAN CLAIMED HE HAD A PARACHUTE BELONGING TO HIM WHICH, IN FACT, WAS FOUND TO BE STOLEN BY BRENNAN.
CERSH RECEIVED A CHRISTMAS CARD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TEN YEARS THIS LAST CHRISTMAS. CARD POSTMARKED DECEMBER SIX, ONE NINE SEVEN ONE AT OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, AND SIGNED [REDACTED]
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END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-44504
SC 164-5.0 PAGE THREE
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[REDACTED] OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON.
SEATTLE AT OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE SUSPECT AND DETERMINE WHEREABOUTS DURING CRITICAL PERIOD.
SACRAMENTO AT SUSANVILLE, CALIFORNIA, WILL ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE SUSPECT'S EMPLOYMENT AND OBTAIN BACK GROUND.
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DB COOPER-44505