LetterCitizen letter from Prescott, Arizona re phone calls and jump/drift theory, with envelope18 November 1975page 5 of 7
handwritten_noteLegibility: medium

Part 73, page 163

DB Cooper-31499

Document date 18 November 1975

Open in FBI Vault (Part 73, page 163 of the PDF)

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 73 p. 163 (DB Cooper-31499), Letter, dated 18 Nov 1975, serial SE 164-81-SUBR (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-73/pages/163

Transcript

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he doesn't freeze to death 1st. I know a [guess: divorcee] in Tucson in & of course I got stuck 1st testing over the [guess: hrs] have [guess: Desert] An Army [guess: par] force out of Edwards A.F.B. "Detail" It was freezing at 10,000 ft & hot as Hell on the ground. If that sky jacker [guess: Tripp] down was damp - his chute probably froze & broke [guess: try and] with [guess: even] find a [guess: grease] spot. March A.F.B. Riverside, [guess: left] last a sgt, out of a plane (dunno what altitude) & no chute - they have never found a trace of him. Hopefully he died before he hit. Well it could be your [guess: configurations] you fed into the computer were wrong. The guy may have sky dived some few thousand feet too before opening his chute -

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DB Cooper-31499