TeletypeLas Vegas to Seattle re search along hijacked aircraft flight route over Nevada7 December 1971page 1 of 2
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Part 101, page 52

DB Cooper-45483Serials LA 164-497, LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-786

Document date 7 December 1971

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 101 p. 52 (DB Cooper-45483), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-786 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-101/pages/52

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NR 003 LV CODE 1155 AM URGENT 12-7-71 EB TO SEATTLE 164-81 [PHOENIX] WASHINGTON FIELD LOS ANGELES 164-497 FROM LAS VEGAS 164-60

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

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RE SEATTLE NITEL DECEMBER SIX LAST CONCERNING INFORMATION FROM [REDACTED].

IT IS NOT FELT THAT INFORMATION FROM SOURCE THAT UNSUB [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. AS STATED IN LAS VEGAS TEL NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX LAST, FAA, RENO, MADE INITIAL CONTACT WITH INSTANT FLIGHT AT FRENCHMAN'S RESERVIOR, CALIFORNIA, TEN THIRTY- TWO PM. AT THIS POINT FLIGHT TURNED DUE EAST TO THE NEVADA BORDER AND PROCEEDED DUE EAST TO A POINT TWELVE MILES INSIDE BOUNDARY OF NEVADA. IT THEN PROCEEDED DIRECTLY SOUTH TO RENO, A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FIVE MILES. FLIGHT CIRCLED BRIEFLY IN THE RENO - SPA[K]RS, NEVADA, AREA BEFORE LANDING.

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164/-81-[guess: 786] SEARCHED ——— INDEXED SERIALIZED ——— FILED DEC 7 1971 FBI • SEATTLE DB COOPER-45483

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