Document date 27 March 1972AIDates: 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 24 p. 85 (DB Cooper-7476), Teletype, dated 27 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-2542 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-24/pages/85
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NR007 SE PLAIN
746 PM NITEL 3/27/72 FEE
TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 2P
NORJAK.
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THE TERRAIN SEARCH COMMENCED SEVEN TWENTY A.M. WITH
APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN GROUND TROOPS. NO DEVELOPMENTS.
AT COB TODAY APPROXIMATELY THIRTY PERCENT OF ENTIRE AREA,
CONSISTING PRINCIPALLY OF SECOND GROWTH TIMBER AND BRUSH COMPLETED.
[REDACTED] ADVISED HE
INTENDS TO TERMINATE SEARCH WITH GROUND TROOPS AT NOON THIRTIETH
INST., RETURNING TROOPS TO FORT LEWIS, LEAVING TOKEN FORCE IN CAMP
TO PRESERVE OPERATION INTACT. HE WILL RETURN TO CAMP TO COMMENCE
SEARCH A.M. OF APRIL FOUR NEXT. HE EXPECTS THAT IN APPROXIMATELY
TWO DAYS AFTER APRIL FOUR ENTIRE AREA SOUTH OF LEWIS RIVER IN SEARCH
AREA WILL BE COMPLETED.
TO COMPLETE ENTIRE SEARCH AREA, INCLUDING THAT NORTH OF LEWIS
RIVER, WHICH IS EXTREMELY MOUNTAINOUS AND RUGGED WILL TAKE AN ESTIMATE
OF A MINIMUM OF TWO WEEKS WITH A MAXIMUM OF THREE WEEKS, AFTER
RETURN ON APRIL FOUR. AREA INVOLVED COMPRISES APPROXIMATELY
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