MemoSAC San Francisco to Director (Laboratory) forwarding orange and white parachute fragment6 November 1975page 1 of 2
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Part 36, page 354

DB Cooper-13968Serials 164-2111, SE 164-81, SF 164-220

Document date 6 November 1975

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DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) (ATTENTION: FBI LABORATORY)

SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (P)

NORJAK OO: SEATTLE

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Reference Bureau airtel to San Francisco, dated 10/30/75, with copies to Seattle and Las Vegas.

Enclosed under separate cover is part of an orange and white parachute.

This part of the parachute was obtained on 11/4/75, by SA [REDACTED] San Francisco Division, from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Napa, California, telephone [REDACTED] number [REDACTED]

For information of the Laboratory, [REDACTED] by letter to FBI Headquarters on 10/24/75, advised he was in possession of this parachute that he felt might possibly be connected with the hijacking-extortion matter which occurred in the captioned case on 11/24/71.

[REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] on 11/4/75, acknowledged receipt of [REDACTED] letter to the FBI Headquarters and obtained the parachute, securing possible Bureau interest.

It is realized that very little can be determined from examining this part of a parachute, inasmuch as it, apparently, has been in the mountains for some time and has been partially eaten by various rodents in the mountainous area. However, since it was obtained by [REDACTED] hidden under a log in very peculiar circumstances near Sardine Mountain, California, with an elevation of 7,575 feet, which is located out of Sierraville, California, located in a remote area between Sierraville, California, and Reno, Nevada, [REDACTED] noted

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3 - Bureau (1 - package) 1 - Las Vegas (Info.) 2 - Seattle (164-81) 2 - San Francisco ENW/dmg (8)

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ NOV 1 0 1975 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-13968