Part 118, page 3

DB Cooper-53977Serials 164-2111, MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6657

Document date 27 August 1975

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 118 p. 3 (DB Cooper-53977), Teletype, dated 27 Aug 1975, serial SE 164-81-6657 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-118/pages/3

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NR0C4 MB PLAIN 10:55PM NITEL AUGUST 27, 1975 DCW TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE BUFILE 164-2111. RE ANCHORAGE AIRTEL TO SEATTLE, DATED MAY 2, 1975.

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OFFICER [REDACTED], AIRPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT (APD), MINNEAPOLIS- ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS DATE THAT A DOROTHY M. O'BRIEN, AMBERY, WISCONSIN, DOB DECEMBER 23, 1922, TELEPHONE NUMBER (715) 759-5734, AT 2:30PM, HAD STOPPED AT THE APD AND ADVISED THE FOLLOWING:

MRS. O'BRIEN HAD BEEN VISITING [REDACTED] [REDACTED], YELM, WASHINGTON, TELEPHONE NUMBER [REDACTED] PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERN- ING A RENTER OF THE [REDACTED] WHO WAS KNOWN AS DAVID COOPER:

DAVID COOPER IS REPORTEDLY A RETIRED U.S. ARMY DOCTOR, WITH FIVE YEARS PARACHUTE EXPERIENCE. HE IS CURRENTLY MARRIED TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. PRIOR TO NORJAK, DAVID COOPER WAS ENGAGED IN AN EXTENSIVE PHYSICAL FITNESS TRAINING PROGRAM. COOPER WAS NOT SEEN BY [REDACTED] ON THE DAY OF NORJAK.

AT TIME OF NORJAK, COOPER WAS RENTING PROPERTY FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND LIVING A MEAGER LIFE. HE NEVER ALLOWED ANY PICTURES TO BE

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Sub 738 [lower right, near stamp] Sect 738 164-81-6657 [lower left] Lead to [REDACTED box] [near bottom stamp] WOW!!

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SEARCHED..... INDEXED..... SERIALIZED..... FILED..... AUG 27 1975

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DB COOPER-53977

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Teletype routing header identifying this as a NITEL (night teletype) message sent from the FBI Minneapolis field office to Seattle on August 27, 1975, referencing the NORJAK case file and a prior Anchorage airtel to Seattle dated May 2, 1975. Body of the teletype: a Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Police officer relayed a tip from Dorothy M. O'Brien of Ambery, Wisconsin, who reported information from an unnamed source in Yelm, Washington about a renter known as 'David Cooper' — described as a retired U.S. Army doctor with five years of parachute experience, recently engaged in intensive physical fitness training, who was not seen on the day of the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) hijacking and who never allowed photographs to be taken of himself. Several names/addresses are redacted (b6/b7C privacy exemptions). Text is cut off mid-sentence at bottom of page ('HE NEVER ALLOWED ANY PICTURES TO BE'). Handwritten case-file routing annotations, including a sub-file/section number '738', a case serial number '164-81-6657', a 'Lead to' notation pointing to a redacted name/office, and an informal exclamation ('WOW!!') scrawled near the processing stamp. Standard FBI file-processing stamp recording that the document was searched, indexed, serialized, and filed, dated August 27, 1975. FBI Vault archival file/page identifier printed at the bottom of the page.

Overall typed text is fairly clear, but page has scan noise/speckling throughout.
Several fields are covered by redaction boxes (blank rectangles), consistent with FOIA release redactions (b6/b7C exemption codes visible in right margin).
Top of page has two solid black circular marks of unclear origin (possibly hole punches, routing dots, or scan artifacts).
Some handwritten annotations are faint or stylized and partly uncertain.

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