Document date 8 December 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.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 15 p. 52 (DB Cooper-3852), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-931 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-15/pages/52
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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NR049 WA PLAIN
7:31PM NITEL 12-8-71 LRS
TO ALL SACS
FROM DIRECTOR 2P
NORJAK
FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS
ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE."4
-559RNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT
A "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERIAL-NUMBERED BILLS THAT WERE
GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE
ZERO FIVE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, HAS
BEEN PREPARED AND IS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY THE FBI THROURTOUT
THE COUNTRY.
FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER ADVISED THAT THE "RANSOM
LIST," THIRTY FOUR PAGES IN LENGTH, CONTAINS THE SERIAL NUMBERS
OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES WHICH WERE PAID TO THE
HIJACKER FOR THE RELEASE OF THIRTY SIX PASSENGERS AND TWO CREW
MEMBERS. THE HIJACKER BOARDED THE FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON,
AND HIJACKED THE PLANE JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL IN SEATTLE,
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