Memo · ASAC Bibler to SAC Seattle re artist's conception and search personnel · 30 November 1971 · page 2 of 2AIType, 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.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 13 p. 16 (DB Cooper-2800), Memo, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-519 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-13/pages/16
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SE 164-81
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I told him that we had used only law enforcement
personnel; that this was extremely rugged terrain and not the
kind of territory you could lay off in a grid and search
minutely at arm's length. He said to include in our next
teletype something about the terrain.
4. He also said to include in our next teletype
something about weather conditions in the drop area at the time
the drop occurred.
5. He also wanted to know if we had given
consideration to hiring a professional parachutist or make a
simulated drop with a dummy and following it to the ground.
He wondered if anything could be gained by such a maneuver.
I pointed out to him that anything we did by way of
simulating the conditions would be a very broad approximation
since we didn't know exactly where the plane was, assuming
that the hijacker did go out at 8:12 PM, when they felt the
"oscillation", Since this would vary with such factors as
wind direction; which side of the flyway the plane happened
to be on at the time, etc. He said he understands this but
he would like us to think about it.