AirtelSAC Charlotte to Director re Wilmington caller reporting man resembling Cooper sketch9 November 19731 page
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Part 116, page 388

DB Cooper-53468Serials 164-2111, BA 164-103, CE 164-101, NK 164-196, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-5029

Document date 9 November 1973

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 116 p. 388 (DB Cooper-53468), Airtel, dated 9 Nov 1973, serial SE 164-81-5029 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-116/pages/388

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 11/9/73

Transmit the following in _______________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via AIRTEL (Priority) --------------------------------------------------

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM: SAC, CHARLOTTE (164-101)(P)

SUBJECT: UNSUB; Aka. Dan Cooper, Northwest Airlines Flight #350 Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

(OO: SEATTLE)

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On 11/1/73, an individual who identified himself as [REDACTED] Wilmington, N. C., telephone [REDACTED] telephonically contacted the Wilmington RA and advised that he knows an individual who resembles the artist's conception of COOPER, the individual who hijacked the airplane on the west coast about two years ago. He requested that he be shown the artist's conception of COOPER.

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On 11/7/73, after receipt of artist's conceptions from Charlotte, [REDACTED] was contacted at his residence and was shown these pictures. He advised that the drawings of the unknown subject, also known as DAN COOPER, do not look like the artist's conception of COOPER he saw in the Wilmington, Delaware, newspaper which appeared several days after the hijacking. The drawings shown [REDACTED] on 11/7/73, were a black and white conception with dark glasses and two color artist's conceptions, one with glasses and one without glasses. [REDACTED] advised that these drawings do not look like the individual he had in mind but that the drawings seen by him in the Wilmington, Delaware, paper looked exactly like an individual known to him without his glasses.

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2 - Bureau (164-2111) (2)- Seattle (164-81) 2 - Baltimore (164-103) 2 - Newark (164-196) 2 - Charlotte CFW:sjw (10)

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SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... NOV 1 4 1973 [illegible] SEATTLE

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164-81-5029

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DB COOPER-53468