Airtel · Director to SAC Sacramento authorizing SR-71 photography of flight path · 6 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 6 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.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 91 p. 186 (DB Cooper-40559), Airtel, dated 6 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-278 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-91/pages/186
Reference is made to Butelcall to Sacramento 12/6/71
and Sacramento teletype 12/3/71 which states that Beale Air Force
Base has offered free of charge the use of an SR-71 aircraft
to photograph terrain over which captioned flight progressed
from Seattle to Reno.
Bureau authority is granted for the Sacramento Office
to immediately complete arrangements to accept the offer of the
use of this aircraft as described in referenced teletype.
Sacramento should afford this phase of this investigation
immediate and continuous attention and keep the Bureau and
Seattle Office fully advised.