Document date 22 October 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 28 p. 244 (DB Cooper-9780), Teletype, dated 22 Oct 1972, serial SE 164-81-4014 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-28/pages/244
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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SC 164-50
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NEW GROWTH OF TREES VARY FROM THREE TO TEN FT. FEW TALL TREES IN
IMMEDIATE AREA WHERE PACK RECOVERD AND NONE GAVE INDICATION OF
BRANCHES BEING BROKEN BY FALLING OBJECT. AREA IS FURROWED FOR REFOR-
RESTATION AND PACK WAS DISCOVERED ON RIDGE OF FURROW. WAS BURIED
TWO INCHES UNDER SOIL WITH ONLY ONE STRAP PROTRUDING. ALSO LOCATED
BY BUAGENTS WERE SEVERAL STRAPS POSSIBLY FROM PACK.
PACK IS DESCRIBED AS OLIVE DRAB CANVAS MATERIAL WITH FOLLOWING
MARKINGS: QUOTE DATE OF MFG AUG. ONE NINE FIVE ZERO, NO. FOUR SEVEN
R SEVEN SIX THREE ZERO TWENTYEIGHT FEET B END QUOTE. ALSO THE
NUMBER FIVE ZERO DASH SEVEN THREE SEVEN THREE OR EIGHT. ALSO A CIRCULAR
STAMP WITH THE NUMBERS S P EIGHT. STRAPS ON PACK HAD APPARENTLY BEEN
CUT. IT IS NOTED THAT COMPLAINANT'S FATHER [REDACTED]
WHEN INTERVIEWED STATED HE RECALLED THAT THERE WERE EIGHTEEN
INCHES OF SNOW ON GROUND AT TRUCKEE CALIF. THANKSGIVING LAST. THE
PACK WAS LOCATED AT A HIGHER ELEVATION APPROX. TWENTYFIVE MILES DISTANT.