TeletypeUrgent teletype Portland to Director and Seattle re NORJAK11 January 19751 page
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Part 118, page 85

DB Cooper-54062Serials SE 164-81-6439

Document date 11 January 1975

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 118 p. 85 (DB Cooper-54062), Teletype, dated 11 Jan 1975, serial SE 164-81-6439 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-118/pages/85

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MR 003 PD PLAIN 3:30 P M URGENT 1-11-75 LJQ TO: DIRECTOR SEATTLE (L64-8L) FROM: PORTLAND (L64-4L) (P) NORJAK.

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FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU AND SEATTLE, A SKULL OF A MALE HUMAN CAUCASIAN WAS FOUND SEVERAL DAYS AGO IN THE RIPPLE BROOK RANGER AREA, MT. HOOD NATIONAL FOREST, EASTERN CLACKAMAS COUNTY, ORE., BY U.S. FOREST SERVICE. OREGON STATE MEDICAL INVESTIGATOR, [REDACTED], STATES SKULL APPEARS TO BE THAT OF A PERSON APPROXIMATELY EARLY 30'S IN AGE. AREA WHERE SKULL FOUND NOW UNDER THREE FEET OF SNOW. DUE TO FACT SKULL FOUND WITHIN HALF MILE OF TREE IN WHICH METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT PARACHUTE HAS BEEN HANGING FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS, SPECULATION AROSE AS TO POSSIBILITY SKULL THAT OF UNSUB THIS MATTER. THIS UNWARRANTED SPECULATION CAME TO ATTENTION OF PRESS AND NUMEROUS INQUIRIES BEING RECEIVED FROM PRESS REPRESENTATIVES. NOTE THAT LOCATION WHERE SKULL FOUND IS GREAT DISTANCE FROM EITHER DROP ZONE OR FLIGHT PATH

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Sub 745 (repeated a second time near bottom right)

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164-81-6439 SEARCHED ..... INDEXED SERIALIZED ..... FILED JAN 1 3 1975 FBI - SEATTLE - DB COOPER-54062