MemoTo SAC Seattle re twenty-dollar bills passed at Seattle-First National Bank checked against PINAP list29 December 1972page 1 of 2
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Part 29, page 203

DB Cooper-10285

Document date 29 December 1972

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (7-568) DATE: 12/29/72 FROM : SA [REDACTED] SUBJECT: PINAP [REDACTED]

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The following investigation was conducted on 12/26/72 at the Seattle-First National Bank, 2010 N.W. Market Street, Seattle, following receipt of information from Seattle PD that two unknown suspects, a male and female, had just exchanged a total of 95 twenty dollar bills, some of which were identical to the serial numbers listed in the PINAP ransom list:

On 12/26/72, [REDACTED], Seattle [REDACTED] Street Police Dept., home address [REDACTED] Seattle, home phone [REDACTED] P.D. phone [REDACTED] advised he is employed by the S.P.D. and works from 7:00 PM until 3:00 AM. He was off-duty, awaiting his shift, and was located in the parking lot of the above-named bank shortly after 3:00 PM when one of the bank's [REDACTED] came out of the bank and advised him that a suspicious man was in the bank exhanging a large number of twenty-dollar bills for 100-dollar bills. [REDACTED] went into the bank and talked shortly with bank [REDACTED] who advised him that the suspects, a male and female, had come into the bank and acted suspicious so the bank camera was activated. She stated that the male had a very large roll of twenty dollar bills which he was exhanging for one hundred dollar bills. [REDACTED] observed the two suspects exchanging the bills and then followed them out of the bank and observed them enter a nearby Washington Federal Savings and Loan bank. [REDACTED] followed them in and talked with [REDACTED] who told him that the suspects came into the bank asking to exchange $20's for $100's. [REDACTED] told them that the bank would not be able to help them and refered them back to the Seattle-First bank.

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[REDACTED] then followed them back to the Seattle - First bank where the suspects again engaged the tellers to exchange more $20's. The suspects then departed the bank, with [REDACTED] following, and the male got into [REDACTED] license [REDACTED] The female left, on foot, and the male drove off. [REDACTED] went back into the bank and again talked with [REDACTED] She stated at that time that some of the bills exchanged [illegible partial line]

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[Handwritten:] [guess: attach] w/ [illegible] 70 [guess: SER] [illegible] [guess: Bills] Run [guess: Misc]

SEARCHED _______ INDEXED ___[checkmark] SERIALIZED __[checkmark] FILED ___[checkmark]

DEC 2 9 1972 [guess: COL. SEATTLE]

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-10285

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Sus [guess: INSURS], [guess: w/to] [guess: exch]- [guess: 95] [guess: 20] [guess: AT] [guess: NAT/Bank]. [guess: FIRST] [REDACTED]