Teletype · Seattle to Minneapolis re aft air stair placard (copy) · 9 November 1978 · page 1 of 2AIType, title and date: 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.
Document date 9 November 1978AIDates: 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 43 p. 20 (DB Cooper-17198), Teletype, dated 9 Nov 1978, serial SE 164-81-8163 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-43/pages/20
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
SE0003 3T3235BZ
RR MP
DE SE
R 092358Z NOV 78
FM SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
MINNEAPOLIS ROUTINE
BT
UNCLAS
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NORJAK (A), OO: SEATTLE.
ON NOVEMBER 8, 1978, COWLITZ COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, KELSO,
WASHINGTON, PROVIDED A PHOTOGRAPH OF A PORTION OF A DECAL FOUND
BY AN INDIVIDUAL APPROXIMATELY TWELVE MILES DUE EAST OF CASTLE
ROCK, WASHINGTON, IN A REMOTE AREA. THIS DECAL, WHICH WAS MADE
OF WHITE PLASTIC WITH DARK RED LETTERING, WAS TORN BUT READ:
"...URGENCY..IT HANDLE, AFT AIR STAIR, TO OPERATE, ACCESS DOOR,
PULL ON [guess: RE]...,...DOE. LOCK WIRE WILL BRE...,..E[guess: RM] HANDLE IS PULLED".
AT THE BOTTOM WERE THE LETTERS AND NUMBERS BAC27[guess: DP]A.
IN AN UNRELATED INCIDENT, APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH AGO, ANOTHER
INDIVIDUAL REPORTED A PARACHUTE IN A TREE. THE AREA WHERE THE
PARACHUTE WAS REPORTED WAS WITHIN TWO TO THREE MILES OF THE
ABOVE-DESCRIBED DETAIL. CONTACT WITH THE INDIVIDUAL'S WIFE