Teletype · Portland to Seattle re look-alike leads checked with negative results · 3 December 1971 · 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 3 December 1971AIDates: 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 91 p. 103 (DB Cooper-40473), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-229 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-91/pages/103
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 12/3/71
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Via TELETYPE URGENT
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TO: SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)
UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE
ZERO FIVE, ETC., CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION, (OO: SEATTLE).
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SUMMARY TELETYPE.
U.S. FOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES SPOTTED REDDISH-ORANGE PILOT
PARACHUTE HANGING ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FEET IN AIR IN
PONDEROSA PINE TREE NEAR RIGDON GUARD STATION ABOUT TWENTY
MILES SOUTH OF OAKRIDGE, OREGON AND ABOUT FORTY MILES EAST OF
PLOTTED TRACK OF HIJACKED AIRCRAFT. OREGON STATE POLICE (OSP)
ARE CHECKING CHUTE OUT ON ASSUMPTION IT RELATES TO MISSING
AIRMAN IN VIEW OF FACT HIJACKED CHUTE WAS WHITE. PORTLAND
FOLLOWING WITH OSP.
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TWO LETTERS RECEIVED TODAY SIGNED D.B. COOPER ONE BY
NORTHWEST AIRLINES, PORTLAND AND ONE BY THE OREGONIAN NEWSPAPER,
PORTLAND. BOTH LETTERS AND ENVELOPES ARE BEING FORWARDED TO
FBI LABORATORY FOR EXAMINATION WITH CARBON COPIES TO SEATTLE.
1- PORTLAND (164-41)
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Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge
Sent 4:30 M Per [initials]
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-195
DB Cooper-40473