TeletypeSeattle to Minneapolis re Cowlitz County photograph of item9 November 19781 page
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Part 71, page 317

DB Cooper-30596Serials SE 164-81

Document date 9 November 1978

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FD-36 (Rev. 3-24-77)

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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: XX Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☐ ___________ [X] Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ E F T O XX CLEAR Date 11/9/78

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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 RE...,...DOE. LOCK WIRE WILL BRE...,...EGN HANDLE IS PULLED". AT THE BOTTOM WERE THE LETTERS AND NUMBERS BAC27DPA.

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

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