AirtelSAC Seattle to Director re bank representative and ransom money25 November 19711 page
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Part 70, page 317

DB Cooper-30161Serials SE 164-81

Document date 25 November 1971

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SUB - MONEY

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11/25/71

AIRTEL AIRMAIL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-NEW)

SUBJECT: UNSUB; Northwest flight 305 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

Re Seattle teletype, 11/25/71.

Enclosed herewith is one box of Recordak Microfilm (developed) for use in a Recordak [guess: Reliant] 600K microfilm viewer.

On November 25, 1971, [redacted], Seattle-First National Bank, 4th and Madison, Seattle, Washington, provided SA [redacted] with a microfilm canister containing photographs of the serial numbers of $250,000 worth of notes, in various denominations. [redacted] advised that the Bureau should only be concerned with the serial numbers of the $20 bills. The extortion package which was given to the hijacker contained only bills of $20 denomination. [redacted] said the microfilm contained the serial numbers of $230,000 of $20 bills. He provided a list of serial numbers of the $20 bills which were on the microfilm, itself, but were not included in the extortion money package which the Unsub received. These $20 bills are packed in packets of 100 bills; and [redacted] provided the first and last serial numbers in each of these packets of 100 bills. He advised that these serial numbers

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3 - Bureau (Enc. 1) (1 - hand-carried package by courier) Seattle PKM:bfr (5)

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See [guess: ser] 16/12/66 [guess: the] [guess: see also ser 1069] (ce[guess: rtified]).

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DB Cooper-30161