Document date 26 November 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.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 11 p. 35 (DB Cooper-1929), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-166 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-11/pages/35
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
NR009 SE PLAIN
5:34M PM URGENT 11/26/71 JJT
TO DIRECTOR
LAS VEGAS
MINNEAPOLIS
PORTLAND
FROM SEATTLE (164-81)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING;
EXTORTION, OO:SEATTLE.
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EARL J. COSSEY, MASTER PARACHUTE RIGGER, AND JUMP
INSTRUCTOR, INTERVIEWED THIS DATE. STATES HE PACKED THREE
PARACHUTES GIVEN TO SUBJECT, AND FROM AVAILABLE INFORMATION,
HAS DETERMINED MISSING BACK PACK IS A MODEL N B SIX
(NAVY BACK PACK SIX). CONTAINER IS SAGE-GREEN, NYLON,
AND PARACHUTE IS TWENTYEIGHT FT. NYLON WHITE FLIGHT CIRCULAR
(NON STEERABLE). BACK PACK EQUIPPED WITH SPECIAL FOAM
CUSHION AND HAS SAGE-GREEN NYLON HARNESS WITH NO. "D" PINS [guess: RINGS]
TO MOUNT CHEST PACK.
COSSEY STATES CHEST PACK USED BY SUBJECT IS DUMMY
TRAINING RIG, WHICH IS INOPERABLE. COSSEY SPECULATES SUBJECT
USED CHEST PACK FOR MONEY.
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