Teletype · Portland to Director re BPA helicopter search expenses, NWA Flight 305 · 30 November 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 30 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.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 117 p. 18 (DB Cooper-32033), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-395 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-117/pages/18
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11/30/71
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TELETYPE NITEL
TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)
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[underlined number, possibly] 5L3 [or 503] - EXPENSES Sub 5
4 - SEARCH Sub E
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UNSUB, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER
TWENTY FOUR LAST, CAA - HIJACKING, OO SEATTLE. HELICOPTER
EXPENSE.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE NWAL HIJACKING NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR
LAST, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION (BPA), DEPARTMENT OF
INTERIOR, PORTLAND, OREGON, WAS ASKED TO ASSIST WITH AIR
SEARCH IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF STATE OF WASHINGTON BY FLYING
THEIR HELICOPTERS OVER THE LAKE MERWIN, WASHINGTON, AREA.
SINCE U. S. GOVERNMENT HELICOPTERS WERE INVOLVED, NO QUESTION
OF COST WAS INITIATED BY BPA OR FBI.
HARRY WINLESS, WHO MADE THE ARRANGEMENTS, IS NOW
CONTACTING THIS OFFICE EXPLAINING THAT HE IS EMBARRASSED TO
LEARN THAT HIS AGENCY HAS NO OPERATION AGAINST WHICH TO CHARGE
EXPENSES OF FBI HELICOPTER SEARCH AND IS COMPELLED TO INQUIRE
IF FBI CAN EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY ACCOUNTING TRANSACTION ASSUME