Part 16, page 54

Serials DL 164-191, SE 164-81

Document date 13 December 1971

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 12-13-71

Transmit the following in ____PLAINTEXT____ (Type in plaintext or code)

Via __TELETYPE__ NITEL (Priority)

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TO MILWAUKEE FROM DALLAS (164-191)

[REDACTED - b6, b7C, b7D]

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

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[REDACTED] (TREAT CONFIDENTIAL), ADVISED TODAY THAT ARTIS SKETCH OF HIJACKER IS "DEAD RINGER" FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BELIEVED [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] IS DESCRIBED AS A WHITE, MALE [REDACTED] YEARS OF AGE, FIVE TEN TO FIVE ELEVEN, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED SIXTY POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, HAIR AND EYES NOT RECALLED BUT HAIR RECEDING AS SHOWN IN ARTIST SKETCH, [REDACTED] IS NOT KNOWN.

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164-81-//8/

1-DALLAS WJU/TPR d-MINNEAPOLIS (AM) d-SEATTLE (AM) JGS

Approved: ________ Sent _________ M · Per _________ Special Agent in Charge GPO: 1970 O - 402-735

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SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ DEC 1 5 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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Standard FBI teletype form header FD-36, dated December 13, 1971, sent via teletype at NITEL priority in plaintext. Teletype from Dallas field office (file 164-191) to Milwaukee regarding the UNSUB aka Dan Cooper, the Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hijacking on November 24, 1971. Office of Origin is Seattle. A confidential source (name redacted) advised that the artist sketch of the hijacker is a 'dead ringer' for a person whose name is redacted. Additional details about what is believed are also redacted. Physical description of the suspected individual: white male, age redacted, 5'10" to 5'11", 155 to 160 pounds, slender build, hair and eye color not recalled but hair receding as depicted in the artist sketch. The subject is not known to someone (name redacted). File number, distribution list (Dallas, Minneapolis by airmail, Seattle by airmail), and approval/sending block at bottom of form. Initials WJU/TPR and JGS noted. FBI Seattle filing stamp dated December 15, 1971, indicating the document was searched, indexed, serialized, and filed.

Multiple redacted blocks with b6/b7C/b7D exemption markings on right margin
Redactions obscure name of tipster, suspect identity, and age range

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