TeletypeSAC Seattle to Director and Minneapolis re Army authority to resume NORJAK ground search6 April 19721 page
teletypeLegibility: high

Part 71, page 185

DB Cooper-30455Serials 164-2111, MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-9625

Document date 6 April 1972

Another copy of this document is the primary, most legible copy: read it.

Open in FBI Vault (Part 71, page 185 of the PDF)

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 71 p. 185 (DB Cooper-30455), Teletype, dated 6 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-9625 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-71/pages/185

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 4/6/72

Transmit the following in _______________ (Type in plaintext or code)

Via ___TELETYPE___ NITEL (Priority) ----------------------------------------------------

---

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P-)

NORJAK.

[REDACTED] U.S. ARMY, FT. LEWIS, WN., b6 b7C ADVISED TODAY AUTHORITY HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE ARMY TO RESUME SEARCHING. HE SAID HIS INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO QUOTE CLEAN IT UP ENQUOTE BUT TO HAVE ALL THE TROOPS OUT OF THE AREA BY APRIL TWENTYONE NEXT. HE IS MOVING ADVANCE GUARD OF TROOPS INTO AREA TODAY, AND WILL MOVE THE REST OF THEM TOMORROW A.M. ARMY WILL USE SAME TROOPS AS UTILIZED PRE- VIOUSLY.

SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND PORTLAND WERE TELEPHONICALLY INSTRUCTED TO HAVE THEIR AGENTS MEET WITH ME AND PERSONNEL FROM THIS OFFICE AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, AT EIGHT PM, THIS DATE, FOR BRIEFING.

IT IS CONTEMPLATED THAT ALL PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SEARCH WILL BE UNDER WAY NOT LATER THAN ONE PM, APRIL SEVEN NEXT.

---

[guess: Sub] O 164-81-9625

---

DB Cooper-30455

---

PRB:klb (3)

Approved: _______________ Sent ___________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135