Document date 3 December 1973AIDates: 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 95 p. 455 (DB Cooper-42876), Handwritten note, dated 3 Dec 1973, serial PD 164-41-13319 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-95/pages/455
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
12/3/73
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Dear Mr [guess: Mattson],
I read of your fruitless search
for "D.B. Cooper" in the N.Y. Times.
Am wondering why the stewardess
and passengers did not describe Cooper
to an experienced police artist (N.Y.C.
has an excellent one with success)
and the drawing distributed nationally
to all newspapers by the wire services
and exhibited by national or TV networks
(ABC, NBC, CBS) so that someone over the U.S.A. ?
(relative, stranger) can telephone in.
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Sincerely
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SEARCHED ......DEXED
SERIALIZED [guess: FILED]
DEC [illegible]
FBI - PORTLAND [illegible]
[illegible] ack let
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DB Cooper-42876
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164-41-13[guess: 319]
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P.S. He might have kept his original initials, has [guess: anyone] [guess: or little] Read,
anyone checked the telephone directory of Portland, Oregon [guess: Newark]
for males with initials [box] ? Were all civilian[guess: s] [illegible] [guess: port jumpers]
paratrooper veterans (+ paratroopers on leave at time of crime) trained in jumping checked??