TeletypeUrgent teletype WFO to Director and Seattle re Secret Service Counterfeit Division check on twenty dollar bill2 May 19721 page
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Part 111, page 176

DB Cooper-50527Serials 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3015, WF 164-169

Document date 2 May 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 111 p. 176 (DB Cooper-50527), Teletype, dated 2 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3015 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-111/pages/176

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NR011 WF PLAIN 419PM URGENT 5-2-72 SKA TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) P

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RE SEATTLE NITEL TO BUREAU AND WFO MAY ONE LAST. RE ARTICLE APPEARING IN QUOTE SEATTLE FLAG UNQUOTE NEWSPAPER.

TODAY CONTACT WITH COUNTERFEIT DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE, WASHINGTON, D.C. DISCLOSED TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE DESCRIBED IN RE NITEL BEARS SERIAL NUMBER WHICH DOES CORRESPOND WITH QUANDRANT NUMBER, QUOTE D ONE UNQUOTE APPEARING IN UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER FACE OF BILL. AS BROUGHT OUT BY SECRET SERVICE, THE PROPER MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERIAL NUMBER AND QUANDRANT NUMBER DOES NOT IN ITSELF PROVE AUTHENTICITY OF BILL.

LEAD. WASHINGTON FIELD AT WASHINGTON, D.C. UPON RECEIPT OF COPY OF ABOVE NEWSPAPER, WILL HAVE COPY OF TWENTY DOLLAR BILL IN QUESTION EXAMINED BY UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE COUNTERFIET DIVISION AND SLASH OR BUREAU OF END PAGE ONE

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Sub. 406 164-81-3015 SEARCHED ......... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... [illegible] FILED ... [illegible] MAY 2 01972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-50527