Memo · SA Thomas J. Manning to SAC Seattle re hijacking lead · 1 December 1971 · 1 pageAIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 1 December 1971AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/1/71
SA THOMAS J. MANNING
UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
OO: SE
A fixed wing aircraft was utilized today, to cover
Woodland in a northerly direction to Silver Lake and east
to west 20 miles, making a total area of 800 square miles
covered with negative results. It was found that this was
extremely rough terrain and no sightings were made of any
suspicious objects. Further, the Confer Road in the Kalama,
Washington area was covered by air with negative results.
MANNING advisedtthat last night (12/1/71) at 1:30 AM,
the Sheriff's Office called and said a hitchhiker [REDACTED - b6/b7C]
who gave his address in Longview, Washington, said he had
been picked up in [REDACTED - b6/b7C] by a white, male, driving a
red colored, late model foreign car, believed to be a Porshe.
The address he gave them, [REDACTED - b6/b7C], Longview, was
non-existent.
The Sheriff's Office deputy in a high speed chase
on I-5, caught the Porshe outside of Kalama. The car was
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SA [REDACTED - b6/b7C] is going to see [REDACTED - b6/b7C] today
(12/1/71). At this time he is not available.