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DB Cooper-45175Serials NO 164-136, SE 164-81

Document date 23 December 1971

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 100 p. 227 (DB Cooper-45175), Teletype, dated 23 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-100/pages/227

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NR009 NO PLAIN 632 PM NITEL 12-23-71 RDC TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM NEW ORLEANS (164-136) (P)

NORJAK

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[guess: Rodney] Don TURNER 72 E|im

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RE MOBILE TELETYPE TO NEW ORLEANS DECEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE.

[REDACTED], LA., CONFIRMED DECEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE, THAT DONALD E. TURNER WAS WORKING FOR HIM ON RIG SIX, EIGHTY MILES SOUTH OF INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA., IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. TURNER WAS WORKING ON RIG TWELVE HOURS PER DAY FROM NOVEMBER NINETEEN, SEVENTYONE TO DECEMBER FOUR, SEVENTYONE. [REDACTED] STATES VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TURNER TO LEAVE RIG WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE.

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[REDACTED], LA., ADVISED DECEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE, THAT HE IS CO-WORKER OF DON TURNER AND TURNER WAS ON OFFSHORE OIL RIG IN GULF OF MEXICO, LOCATED SOUTH OF INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA., WHEN [REDACTED] REPORTED FOR START OF SEVEN DAY WORK SHIFT, NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX, SEVENTYONE. TURNER REMAINED ON OIL RIG TO DECEMBER THREE, SEVENTYONE. [REDACTED] EXHIBITED ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF UNSUB IN CAPTIONED MATTER AND STATED TURNER IS NOT SAME.

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DB COOPER-45175

SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 28 1971

[handwritten] Sub. 72 [handwritten] 164/-81-[illegible]523

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Teletype header identifying this as an FBI NITEL message sent at 6:32 PM on December 23, 1971, from the New Orleans field office (case 164-136) to the Seattle field office (case 164-81), under the NORJAK case designation (D.B. Cooper investigation). Handwritten annotation in upper right margin, apparently indexing or routing the document. Appears to identify subject 'Don Turner', with '72' likely a suspect sequence number and 'Elim' (or 'E/im') likely meaning 'eliminated' as a suspect. A redacted individual in Louisiana confirmed on December 23, 1971 that Donald E. Turner was employed on Rig Six, approximately eighty miles south of Intracoastal City, LA in the Gulf of Mexico. Turner worked twelve-hour days from November 19 to December 4, 1971. The source stated it was virtually impossible for Turner to have left the rig without his knowledge, effectively providing Turner an alibi for the November 24, 1971 D.B. Cooper hijacking. A second redacted co-worker corroborated that Don Turner was on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico south of Intracoastal City, LA when the source began a seven-day work shift on November 26, 1971. Turner remained on the rig until December 3, 1971. The co-worker was shown an artist's conception of the D.B. Cooper unsub and stated Turner is not the same person, further eliminating Turner as a suspect. File reference stamp identifying this document as DB COOPER-45175. Administrative processing stamps showing the document was searched, indexed, serialized, and filed on December 28, 1971. Handwritten annotations reference Sub(ject) 72 and a serial number under case 164-81.

Typed teletype text is clear and legible
Multiple redaction blocks (b6/b7C) obscure names throughout
Handwritten annotations at top and bottom are mostly legible
Bottom file stamp partially obscured but largely readable

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