Teletype · Summary teletype Portland to Seattle re Northwest Flight 305 hijacking · 2 December 1971 · 1 pageAIType, 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 2 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. 12 (DB Cooper-40369), Teletype, dated 2 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-184 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-91/pages/12
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 12/2/71
Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via TELETYPE URGENT
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[handwritten number, partially legible: 001 or similar]
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TO: SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO SE.
SUMMARY TELETYPE.
"OREGONIAN," NEWSPAPER, PORTLAND, OREGON, RECEIVED
LETTER SIGNED D. B. COOPER STATING, "AM ALIVE AND DOING WELL
IN HOME TOWN PO. THE SYSTEM THAT BEATS THE SYSTEM." BODY
OF LETTER IS LETTERING CUT FROM NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE.
ENVELOPE IS HANDPRINTED. ENVELOPE AND LETTER FORWARDED TO
FBI LABORATORY WITH COPIES TO SEATTLE.
PRIMARY INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITY CONCENTRATED ON
SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF LOOKALIKE LEADS.
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION TO DATE NEGATIVE.