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mail, such as the bars at the end of the slides and the eight miles of conveyer belts, which involve many sharp turns. There was quite a bit of equipment modification after this study." he said.
The result? A significant reduced number of damaged packages. Tossing and throwing has also been completely eliminated from the loading process, he added.
One may ask the common question about what happens to the packages that are never delivered.
If the package has any sort of · identification anywhere on the outside or inside of it, it is given "first aid treatment", which usually involves taping up loose flaps with the strong nylon rein- forced tape. This sort of thing, according to Mr. Lee, is ususual- ly detected during one of the sorting stages - it is extracted from the group, put in a plastic container and sent to "rewrap." Books, Mr. Lee stressed. are the most common problem since they are so heavy. They have a special machine that places metal bands on the box of books to insure against any more damage. | cooper_d_b_part085.pdf#page=279 | cooper_d_b_part085.pdf |
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EDITOR'S NOTE - Ever since the fated day when a curious yellow rock, found in a canyon, turned out to be uranium, the lifestyle of . Grants, N.M., has been boom and bust. Now it's boom again - as never before. But like every silverlined cloud, there's a dark side too.
By ROBERT LOCKE Associated Press Writer
GRANTS, N.M. (AP) - Once upon a time this town called itself the carrot center of the nation, a modest boast, and its 2,000 people led the typically modest lives of tillers of the soil.
Then one day in 1950 a Navajo shepherd named Paddy Martinez, wandering through nearby Poison Canyon, picked up some peculiar yellow rocks and brought them into town.
Over the next decade the population leaped to 10,274 . and Grants' agricultural face underwent profound change. But like many another boom, it ended as quickly as it began. The government, sole buyer of uranium in the early 1960s, found itself over- stocked. Almost overnight, nearly a fourth of the town's population moved away and many who didn't, looked back fondly on the old carrot days. | cooper_d_b_part085.pdf#page=279 | cooper_d_b_part085.pdf |
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file-cooper_d_b_part085_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038352E706466-page-156 | Each month the bank shall charge my checking account for an installment equal to 1/25 of the new balance of the loan as shown on the statement, or $25.00, whichever is greater, except that if the new balance is less than $25.00, the whole new balance must be paid, or a level payment that has been previously designated by me which will amount to at least 5% of my maximum credit line.
2. FINANCE CHARGES are computed by applying the aforementioned daily periodic rate, which is equivalent to the ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE as disclosed on the reverse side hereof, to the average daily balance during this billing cycle, and than multiplying this product by the number of days in the billing cycle. The cost of compulsory CREDIT LIFE INSURANCE if obtained through the Bank is included within the aforediscussed FINANCE CHARGES as a component thereof.
3. The average daily balance during the billing cycle is computed by totaling the daily loan balances after adding loans and subtracting payments and credits and then dividing by the number of days in the billing cycle.
THIS FORM IS PROVIDED TO HELP RECONCILE YOUR RECORD WITH THE BANK'S STATEMENT
CHECKS OUTSTANDING - NOT CHARGED ON THIS ACCOUNT
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BALANCE $
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Please report any discrepancies within 10 days and furnish your account number when making inquiries. If no error is reported in 10 days the account will be considered correct.
DB Cooper-37741FD-340 REV. (6-24-65)
File No.
164-81-1A
580
Date Received
12/24/16
From
New Orleans
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR)
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
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Page 266 ~ b6; b7C; Page 267 ~ b6; b7C; Page 268 ~ b6; b7C; Page 269 ~ b6; b7C;Page 270 ~ b6; b7C; Page 271 ~ b6; b7C; Page 272 ~ b6; b7C; Page 273 ~ b6; b7C; Page 274 ~ b6; b7C; Page 275 ~ b6; b7C; Page 276 ~ b6; b7C; Page 277 ~ 66; b7C; Page 278 ~ b6; b7C; Page 279 ~ b6; b7C; Page 280 ~ b6; b7C; Page 281 ~ b6; b7C; Page 282 ~ b6; b7C; Page 283 ~ b6; b7C; Page 284 ~ b6; b7C; Page 285 ~ b6; b7C; Page 286 ~ b6; b7C; Page 287 ~ b6; b7C; Page 288 ~ b6; b7C; Page 289 ~ b6; b7C; Page 290 ~ b6; b7C; Page 291 ~ b6; b7C; Page 292 ~ b6; b7C; Page 293 ~ b6; b7C; Page 294 ~ b6; b7C; Page 295 ~ b6; b7 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=1 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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The man stated that COOPER's son lived in Colonna (phonetic), British Columbia and that they sometimes went hunting together. He further stated that COOPER was alive and well and still in touch with his son.
The conversation eventually switched to other topics, and as the plane approached Boston, the man pointed out several small airports. He talked about flying into them and indicated that he owned an airplane.
Investigation on
7/3/90
at Boston, MA
164A-SE-81- Flie . 2087
by SA
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Date dictated 7/3/90 b6
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£ This document contains nelther recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It Is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your,agency; It and Its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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Du boper-20620(Rev. 8-26-82)
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: Teletype Facsimile
PRECEDENCE: Immediate Priority
CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET SECRET
Routine
CONFIDENTIAL UNCLAS E F T O UNCLAS Date 6/27/90
AIRTEL
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM :
SAC, NORFOLK (164C-SE-81) (RUC)
NORJACK
00: SEATTLE
Re Boston teletype to Norfolk dated 6/11/90, and Norfolk teletype to Boston and Seattle dated 6/19/90. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=25 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-31 | During this hunt he had also met an individual named and an individual identified to him as
asked if he ever heard of D.B. COOPER, the
airplane hijacker.
said that he had, and
to tell him that was the son of D.B. COOPER. never had any conversations with about his father, D.B. COOPER. no such discussions because he felt an individual is not responsible for the actions of his father.
went on
is an avid hunter and estimates that he last had about two years ago.
a conversation with
about allegedly was married at the time, had two young children years of age, and lived just above the
Penticton, British Colombia area.
in his last conversation with longer in
recollection is that was no
had
allegedly taken a job on a defoliation project in the same area of British Colombia.
also advised in approximately August of 1989, he had gone on another hunting trip for Dall sheep in the Northwest territories of British Colombia. This hunt was in the area of a town called Kelowna, British Colombia. The hunt was arranged through
owned by an individual named His was an
contact telephone
individual named was also familiar with the individual named and the fact that he was allegedly the son of D. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=27 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-38 | 11-17-88)
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FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS Date 12/13/91
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)
FROM/ SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497) (RIVRA/C-1) (RUC) : :selected: - SUBJECT : NORJAK
00: Seattle
Re telcall of FA
Riverside RA, to
SA Seattle, 12/2/91.
of Enclosed for Seattle is one 8 1/2 x 10 photograph with an unidentified pilot. Also enclosed is a five-page Parachutist Log, dated 7/9/66 - 9/17/72. :selected: b6 b7C
Due to the 20th anniversary of captioned hijacking, this matter has been featured in local newspapers as well as on local television programs. As a direct result, on 11/29/91, Riverside, California TDD telephone appeared at the Riverside RA. As he may be reached either through his or through and a message provided
will be relayed through the a photograph of himself as a skydiver believed taken between 10/3/70 and 9/17/72 (Jumps #31 - 50) . stated he recently found this photograph and felt the pilot was identical to D. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=33 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-40 | LOUIS (164A-SE-81) (RUC)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
CAA-HIJACKING
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS-
1,2
Reference Springfield airtel to St. Louis dated 11/14/91 and telcall between Springfield, and SA Seattle, 10/31/91.
0/5
For information of receiving offices, on 12/3/91 ATF, Cape Girardeau informant was contacted by FBI, St. Louis. ATF informant was contacted at the Cape b6 b7C b7D
Girardeau, Missouri, and advised of the identity of the interviewing Agent. Source then provided the following information:
Source advised :unselected: has been acquainted with
1 white male, date of birth
since Since has stated several times that is the same person as the D. B. COOPER who hijacked an airline and got away with $200,000.00.
Source advised that
knew this fact
because
was a former
paratrooper.
further stated that
and had :selected: 2 ) Seattle 2 - Springfield 1 - St. Louis FRB: dls (5)
1648-SE-81-9094 SEARCHED
SERIALIZED, INDEXED
992
b6 b7C
Approved: qui n/a
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
MEB
DB Cooper-20629
b6 b7C
b6 b7C b7D
b6 b7C b7D164A-SE-81
extensive survival training. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=34 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-53 | It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
DB Cooper-20641
b6 b7C b7D
b6 b7C b7D
b6
b7C b7D
b6
b7C b7DFD-302a (Rev. 11-15-83)
164A-SE-81
Continuation of FD-302 of
On 8/6/90
Page
2
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working with
practicing jumps and exercising in order to get in good shape to perform another hijacking. had always been disappointed that the
He had planned to
often commented that since there was no evidence from the hijacking, he would always get away with it, but that
When the movie about the hijacking was on television several months ago, told
as he
was going to be out of town. He wanted to watch it
The
however, and
which angered him.
further stated that there was a song which mentioned D.B. COOPER, by an artist she could not recall, that Whenever it came on the radio,
had told her that
in order to avoid drawing
attention.
He planned to use
stated that after was jailed, b6 and b7C b7D
and one of
hijacking, along with all of
used in the
To her knowledge, is at along with other pictures and mementos from his time in the service. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=46 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-57 | CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS Date 1/21/92
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE
FROM
: SAC, OMAHA (164A-SE-81) (RUC)
SUBJECT : NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
CHA 1
Re Denver airtel to Omaha dated 11/20/91.
On 1/7/92, contact was made with
(Protect Identity) , Cedar Rapids, Towa, telephone number connection with possible knowledge of D. B. COOPER. thought an individual known to her as Cedar Rapids was D. B. COOPER.
of
Upon talking with it was learned that she whom she met through
knew an individual named
advised that
had always
said he lived in the Council Bluffs area but unknown exactly where. on a wild hunch, checked the Cedar Rapids directories and came up with and thought never
and were one and the same. bothered to check any further to see if the resembled each other.
even
After initially reported the information to Denver, and before investigating Agent contacted her, she happened to see and realized he was not the same person known to her as :selected: 2 - Seattle 2 - Omaha SJH: SO (4)
16HA-SE-81-9100
SEARCHED. INDEX
SERIALIZENY
1
Approved:
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
Pob
JAN 3 1 1992
b6
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DB Cooper-20646
b6 b7C b7D
b6 b7C b7D
b6 b7C b7D :unselected: :unselected: | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=51 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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FBI
INDICES MANUAL FOIMS
REF CONFIDENTIAL
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS EFT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
1/16/92
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE
FROM
: SAC, PHOENIX (164-100) (RUC)
ONIL
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
164-81;
00:
SEATTLE :selected: X
Enclosed for Seattle is the original and one copy of a letter and newspaper article to FBI, Tucson, by b6 b7C
Further investigation is being left to the discretion of Seattle. :selected: 2 -Seattle (Enc. 4) (RM) Rei J. J.O 1 - Phoenix RMH : nml (3)
164A-SE-81-9101 SEARCHED. IN JR 1992
FEB b6
b7C Approved: 40C/THE TEA Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
Per W/ENC. DB Cooper-20652FD-302 (REV. 3-10-82) *
- 1 -
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription
2/7/92
( 164-81-9091;9094;
date of birth
Golconda, Illinois,
b6 telephone | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=56 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-69 | It is the property of the FBI and is loaded ToDB Cooper-20653 it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. :unselected: :unselected:FD-302a (Rev. I1-15-83)
164A-31
Continuation
, On 1/30/92 Page 2
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been
stated that visited
who would have around the time
that the plane had been hijacked. At this time, not at his residence and no one seemed to know what happened to him. After a few weeks, returned to his home but
was
refused to answer his door even to stated that related to him that
had
been seen
stated that this is very peculiar never locked his doors and had no
due to the fact that reason not to talk to
Although
with
has not spent a great deal of time he visits him often and on one such visit,
had told that he had been questioned by
the FBI with regards to the hijacking. proceeded to ask why the FBI would be questioning him about this hijacking. stated that at this time confided in him and stated that he had been the one who hijacked the airplane. The time period when confided in was either 1984 or 1985. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=58 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-71 | , telephone
stated that his reasons for coming forward at this time are personal and he would prefer not to release them at this time. stated that if anyone could pull off also
suspect of further with regards to
b6
b7C such a hijacking, it would be stated that other members of being the hijacker, but no one in has solid evidence.
concluded by saying that if he learns anything he would contact the FBI as soon as possible.
DB Cooper-20655FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)
INDICES MANUAL FOIMS REN
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA:
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
CONFIDENITIAL :unselected: Teletype
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS EFT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
2/10/92
uf
TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)
FROM
SAC, Springfield (164A-81) (BUC)
SUBJECT : NORJAK; 00: SEATTLE
Re telcal of SA 3/0 2 :selected: Carbondale RA, Springfield Division to SA
on 1/31/92. 1
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Enclosed for the Seattle Division is the original and two copies of FD-302 reflecting interview of | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=60 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-79 | Date 2/28/92
Time 3: 40pm
Address of subject
Complainant's address and telephone number
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Scars, marks or other data
Facts of complaint C. advised his department received a call from telephone (Bothell) who advised she was getting older now and wanted to give information about a man she used to date that she claims is D.B. COOPER. advised his name is from Roseburg, Oregon. He was a pilot and His family has a in Roseburg, Oregon. C. would like to talk with the proper authorities concerning the hijacking, and provide the information she has concerning
IA
(complaint received byy
Do not write in this space. 164-81-9105
MSA
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DB Cooper-20661FD-36 (Rev. 8-29-85)
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
FBI
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=66 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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would have been who
The following information was obtained concerning through interview and a driver's license vehicle check: :unselected: 56 b7C
Name
Date of birth Height
Weight
Social Security
Account Number
Address
Telephone number
517" 170 pounds
Coeur d 'Alene, Idaho
The vehicle registration check showed three addresses for being as follows:
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d 'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-20667
-2 *- :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
FBI
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
4/16/92
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)
FROM
: SAC, PHOENIX (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
AIRCRAFT HIJACKING;
00: SEATTLE :selected: X
Re PX airtel to SE dated 4/10/92.
Enclosed for Seattle are the original and two copies each of an FD-302 re interview of
on 4/10/92,
and an
was interviewed subsequent to information obtained relative to
suspect in captioned matter. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=72 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-103 | It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
DB Cooper-20685FD-302 (Rev. 3-10-82)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 6/22/90
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(protect identity)
Newport News, Virginia, telephone number furnished the following information:
advised that
around the United States but was
not sure which
Rindge,
New Hampshire, or
no home address given.
and the
who had purchased them
for himself,
showing a confirmation of flights on DELTA Flight Number 169, for May 29, 1990, leaving Boston, Massachusetts en route to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, for seats 39B/39C/38D. The return flight was on DELTA Flight Number 694 leaving June 3, 1990, from Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, to Boston, Massachusetts, departing 9:46 a.m. and arriving 2:35 p.m. Seat reservations on this flight were for 21A/21B/22A. The total airfare for the three, round-trip tickets was $1, 222. 50. airline tickets
in the amount of $407.50 on
dated May 14, 1990, for which used a Visa card, Number with an
expiration of
said there was an NCN (name unrecalled)
| cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=86 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-121 | whoever did that would have to have had a specialized training like the training that he, received
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stated that when told her this, he was not bragging and he was very calm. stated that spoke of these things in the third person and it seemed to her that he just wanted to share a secret.
then asked
and
stated that then commented that he, could say that it was him or he did it and no one, including the police, would ever believe him.
thought that was kidding and that neither she ever brought up the topic again.
or
advised that this conversation with always bothered her, especially the low key way in which he mentioned the incident.
advised that she could not remember last name, but that it began with the letter described as follows:
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Sex:
Male
Race: White
Height: 6 '
Weight: 200 lbs. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=103 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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DB Cooper-20707 :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:advised that fishing and often went to the Mt. St. Helen's area. possessed at least two rifles and one handgun. On one occasion
liked bear hunting and salmon
told her that he was in the U. S. Army for two years and that he was in the Airborne Division. told her that he received parachute training at Fort Campbell, KY and was on call during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
described
as
and always felt that he was smarter than everyone else and that he was above the law and that no one would catch him if he did something wrong. favorite television shows were action type shows and police-type shows. the movies,
liked
was then displayed the 19761 artist drawing of UNSUB, aka "D. B. Cooper". (It is noted that no name or other information was attached to this drawing). Immediately upon viewing the drawing commented referring to
stated that the drawing was a
advised that upon viewing the artist's drawing of the unsub depicted wearing sunglasses, she recalled that driving. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=107 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-130 | Immediately upon viewing the drawing commented referring to
stated that the drawing was a
advised that upon viewing the artist's drawing of the unsub depicted wearing sunglasses, she recalled that driving. always wore sun glasses when he was was requested to recontact the Newark Division if she recalled anything else.
On 12/4/90 voluntarily contacted the Newark case agent and stated that she recalled additional information about
advised that liked to drink liquor with the brand name "V.O." was also a very rugged individual that would be capable of surviving in the woods.
advised that she also recalled that was very interested in the "D. B. Cooper Case". advised that for some reason "identified" himself with "D. B.
b6 b7C Cooper".
advised that seemed pleased with the fact that "D. B. Cooper" got away with the hijacking and that no one was hurt. stated that at one time, told her that no parachute was ever found.
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file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-170 | Suspects at End of 1989:
1,041
1- SUB 386
Number of Suspects Processed and Eliminated During the Year: 24
Occasionally, suspects are reopened because new evidence indicates a "second look" is warranted. One suspect that received national press coverage was
was considered a suspect because he prior to NORJAK. He matches the general
description of UNSUB, also known as DAN COOPER.
He served in the military and may have had airborne training.
The Newark Division advised by airtel dated 7/24/89, that a review of U. S. Army records reflect no receipt by of airborne training. A review of suspect File reflected that photograph has been displayed to the three victim stewardesses. All three stated that was not identical to UNSUB.
No further investigation will be conducted by Seattle concerning
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In a recently completed manuscript, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (D. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=140 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-175 | The man wrote a note,
This made
accompanied b6
had mentioned an
who works at Arizona.
may try to locate
stated that Arizona, had been interviewed regarding the D. B. COOPER case. also said that JOHN LIST had been captured, but was the wrong man and was 6 feet 2 inches tall.
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stated that
residence in a
knew of the
The individual is described as follows:
Name
also known as
D. B. COOPER
Age Height Weight
63 years old 5'7" tall 165-170 pounds, Silver/gray, combed straight back
Hair
Eyes
Unknown color;
Scars Miscellaneous
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TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype :selected: AIRTEL
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
FBI
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=143 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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in
having met while at the Tennessee Hotel
she was employed as
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2-Memphis JJB: vet (4)
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where had been a quest. She reported a
MARK
COFFELT, was killed four and one-half years ago in a Texas traffic accident. in the
and he left the Memphis, Tennessee area. She did not hear from him until At that time, COFFELT was apparently passing through Memphis and made arrangements to She kept a record of this check as having been negotiated through the FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB) OF CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND, and subsequently got in contact with COFFELT sometime in 1968 or 1969, at which time she again met with him and :unselected:
As it relates to the Norjak matter, reported COFFELT had mentioned to her many times | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=158 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-212 | a ten-year sentence for auto theft and attempted escape at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, he was working in the print shop as a press operator one day when he met my father, who was editor of the prison magazine.
In 1944, James Brown, the son of a Georgia lawyer, had been commissioned as a second- lieutenant in the U.S. Army-Air Force, a pilot in a transport squadron. He was expecting to be sent to England for the invasion of Europe, but instead found himself facing a court martial, charged with rape. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Atlanta Penitentiary. Brown, who always maintained his innocence, was paroled in 1952 after serving eight years, but during those years he became close friends with Jack Coffelt. The two would often spend hours together on the prison recreation yard. Like many of the inmates, Coffelt often dreamt of the perfect crime, the big job, and was fas- cinated by Brown's ability to fly an airplane. "He would ask me if it would be possible to escape by landing a plane in the prison yard," said Brown, "or if I could fly him to Mexico if he pulled a bank job."
After Brown's release in 1952, the two did not hear from each other for many years. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=165 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-221 | Coffelt had returned to the Oregon area twice - in the spring and fall of 1972 - to search for the missing money, each time without success, until in desperation he decided to solicit my father's help. He further maintained that the FBI had tried to kill him in connection with the crime. "They wanted to silence me," he said. "I had to leave Washington D.C. fast." So he had moved with Tave to the Seattle area - like a true conman secretly returning to the scene of the crime - and rented an apart- ment in the middle-class suburb of Lynnwood. There, in that cold and rainy environment, his health deteriorated. He began taking nitro- glycerin tablets - a habit which he continued during our journey - to prevent clotting of his blood. He was a terribly desperate man. "That job was my last chance, " he mused. "It meant everything to me. I had nothing to lose." Nothing except his life.
Try as he might to downplay them, hints of a broad, complex conspiracy began to weave their way into Coffelt's story, and we grew more and more worried the closer we came to our destination of Oregon. According to him, there were at least three co-conspirators still
lurking about who had vested interests | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=167 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-237 | of the Boeing 727 air-
craft which only a pilot or engineer could possibly know - such as the 15-degree wing- flaps configuration he ordered which restricted the plane's speed to barely 200 miles per hour, and how to put into effect the complicated maneuver of lowering the 727's rear stairway compartment. Also, another aspect which revealed the skyjacker's shrewd planning became clear only after the episode was over. On that Thanksgiving Eve - the day before a major holiday and one on which Northwest Airlines expected capacity loads of vacation travellers - Flight 305, upon departing Port- land, was barely one-third full. D.B. Cooper had called in a barrage of phony reservations - fictitious people who never showed - which left virtually the entire back half of the plane all to himself. No one could overpower him and wrest the bomb away. He was in complete control. At the time, some authorities called him a "cool master criminal" and speculated that he must have been an experienced para- chutist, possibly even a Green Beret.
The leads were so threadbare - a few cigarette butts were the only personal effects the skyjacker left behind - that the authorities were completely baffled. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=171 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-256 | Groping his way, he stumbled down the pitch-black slope in severe pain because, upon landing, he had squarely hit a tree limb between his legs and punctured his chest on one of the tree's sharp branches.
It took him fifteen hours to make his way out of the vast canyon lined with sheer rock-faced cliffs that he had fallen into. He spent the longest and most arduous night of his life desperately clawing his way through tangled underbrush and climbing over jutting boulders to finally see brilliant sunshine on a clear Thanksgiving Day morning, and feel "to the depths of my spirit" as he told me later, "a new appreciation for everything around me that was alive." The eerie neon glow of startled eyes revealing lurking cougars and timber wolves, and the ferocious menacing cries of the wild animals terrified him that night like demons, he told me. The experience in that awesome necropolis of nature would haunt him always.
.. .
Today, the canyon remains as remote and undisturbed as it has been for centuries. Twenty miles to the east farmlands begin, where wheat and alfalfa grow peacefully under turquoise summer skies. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=174 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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me to stay with you?" Almost no one was aware that Florence actually believed that she herself, instead of Tina Mucklow, should have remained with Cooper as his hostage when the plane headed south from Seattle towards Reno because she felt that she had grown to know and understand him, in however strange a way. "He told me, like a spirit," she said with poignant nostalgia in her voice, "that I probably sat beside him somewhere else a hundred years ago." Florence, it is true, developed a profound sympathy for the lonely man while trying to comfort him in the back of the plane.
Dr. Dick Simmons, a psychologist special- izing in the field of abnormal perceptions, was on the flight but stole only a cursory glance at Cooper. Simmons pointed out that the further people get away from an event the more they are inclined to remember it the way they think it should have been. This is why some people reported Cooper as being no more than 45 years old, he felt, since skyjacking is not regarded as an occupation for | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=179 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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During the course of our investigation my father and I hired a Las Vegas private detective agency to procure a copy of Jack Coffelt's death certificate from the Research and Statistics Office at the Hawaii Department of Health. But we were promptly informed by the detective agency that the Hawaii FBI had been somehow "alerted" by its inquiry there - a very strange occurrence indeed. Why would the Bureau be alerted?
Tave Coffelt, who is listed as the "informant," apparently stated at the top of the docu- ment (item #10) that she and Jack "never married. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=190 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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Tave Coffelt, who is listed as the "informant," apparently stated at the top of the docu- ment (item #10) that she and Jack "never married." Note the addition marked "ALTERED June 30, 1975" in the lower right half of the certificate. To alter a death certificate requires at least a number of official signatures from various government agencies, if not a court order. Why was the certificate changed (and by whom?) II days after it was issued to show that Coffelt died on June 19 at 12:40 AM rather than on June 18 at 11:25 PM? It is a differ- ence of not quite an hour, but legally it shifts the death one day later. Even though no autopsy was performed (item #19a), the body was not buried until one week after that, on June 24th. Did Coffelt's friends fly in from around the world for an extended wake before the funeral? It seems highly unlikely.
Only weeks before June 19, 1975, Jack Coffelt was seen by old friends of his 5000 miles away - back in Kansas! And in a letter to my father dated September 20, 1976, nearly a year and a half after Jack's alleged death, Tave Coffelt used a strange verb tense in referring to him: "Jack | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=190 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-325 | the misty overcast, they had come for the occasion from as far away as California, Texas and Maryland.
Suddenly a red-and-white Cessna 172 pulled out of a banking turn and leveled off at 6,000 feet. Then, one by "one, sky divers began plunging from the plane, each of them wearing a conservative business suit and carrying an attache case. As their colorful parachutes opened, onlookers cheered this symbolic reenactment of a leg- endary jump performed eight years before by D. B. Cooper-the absent guest of honor.
with $200,000 in ansom money and disappeared into the night.
Despite the largest manhunt in FBI history, Coo was never found."His hazardous escapade. remaitt ftodeyt as the only unsolved skyjacking In 'American history Since then the gutsy adventurer who got away with one of the most daring crimes on record has achieved the status of popular folk hero.
That accounted for the exuberant spectatori snow singing along with a bluegrass band's rousing version .`of The Ballad of D. B. Cooper-a tune honoring the
ARTICLE BY BRUCE HENDERSON
Illustration by John Andrews
DB Cooper-20797DB Cooper-20798memory of this American Robin Hood, It was a rainy day in Washington /When Cooper made | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=192 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-340 | A source who requests anonymity men- tions a letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover asking the prison warden for infor- mation about Coffelt. The source also says that the agent in charge of the At- lanta FBI office was Coffelt's sole visitor for five years.
Some believe that he became an FBI informant in prison, secretly turning over information damaging to his cell- mates. To Brown, Coffelt described his time behind bars as a "revolving door"- meaning that he would be let out for a few days of weeks at a time to carry out "hit jobs" for the government.
Years later Coffelt was known to carry FBI and Department of Agriculture cre- dentials, as well as passes for the White House and the Pentagon. A college professor reports that he was once riding
DB Cooper-20801with Coffelt in Washington, D.C., when Coffelt picked up General Creighton Abrams-then U.S. Army Chief of Staff-and drove him to the Pentagon. The professor says he saw Coffelt flash FBI credentials.
Naturally, the FBI refuses to comment on these revelations or on any other as- pect of Coffelt's life. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=196 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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(continued from page 88)
identify him later. Around noontime, some 15 hours after his landing, he reached the Jeep.
Then he and his accomplice drove to near where the Cadillac was hidden. Eventually they loaded the Jeep with an explosive charge, rolled it into a lake and blew it up.
Coffelt said he then entered the back- seat of the Cadillac, and his partner drove him to Kansas City, where he received medical attention.
Eleven days after the skyjacking, Coffelt began working as a surgical tech- nician at a northern Virginia hospital. His superior there says that he had diffi- culty walking and at one point showed her his "badly discolored legs"-in- juries that some believe he sustained in the parachute jump.
The following spring, after the snow had melted, Coffelt said he chartered a helicopter and returned to the area. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=198 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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The following spring, after the snow had melted, Coffelt said he chartered a helicopter and returned to the area. But when the pilot became unduly curious about the object of the search, Cof- felt abandoned his efforts to locate the moneybag.
A few years later he told James Brown that he wanted to go back into the Cas- cades and look for the small fortune, but that he needed help. In July 1974 the two men and Brown's muscular 17- year-old son made a week-long trek into the mountains where Coffelt said he landed. Coffelt was then in ill health, and at one point he nearly collapsed on a steep grade. For the entire week they made themselves as invisible as possible, blending into the forest, keeping camp- fires low, meticulously picking up after themselves. But they found no money in the rugged terrain.
Meanwhile, Brown had been writing down every scrap of information Coffelt told him. He began working on a manuscript following Coffelt's death in 1975. To sell the story, Brown found producer Dirk Summers in Las Vegas, where he was supervising a Kenny Nor- ton heavyweight fight for CBS Sports. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=198 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-352 | He also says the FBI threatened him with legal action and possible prosecution if he continued with his Coffelt investigation. Worse yet, Sum- mers says FBI agents contacted persons who had talked to him and warned them against cooperating further.
Even 60 Minutes' intrenid Mike
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124allace had difficulty dealing with the BI. Despite telephone conversations ith agents working on the case and a Meeting with Bureau Director William Tebster, he unearthed no new informa- on, and reached a frustrating dead end. If Wallace had chosen to dig deeper, e might have uncovered strong evi- ence that Coffelt was telling the truth om two eyewitnesses aboard Flight 05-stewardess Tina Muchlow (now fina Muchlow Larsen) and attorney George LaBissoniere. In the past year both have identified a photograph of Coffelt as the skyjacker. Interestingly, aBissoniere says he previously iden- ified an FBI photo of Coffelt a month fter the incident. As far as he knows, nothing more ever happened as a result of the identification. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=198 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-356 | Add those two numbers together, and he had to strike the ground at nearly 70 mph. It's hard to conceive how he could have landed without being badly injured. Also, he lacked the necessary equipment to make such a jump. He should have had a hard hat, goggles, a leather flight jacket, a flight suit and some tools and cutters so he could free himself from whatever trees or bushes he might have gotten hung up in.
"It was an incredible gamble. Yet he was dressed in a suit, with a tie and stickpin, alligator shoes, a raincoat and dark glasses and carrying a briefcase. He seemed to be saying, 'If I make it, okay. If I don't, that's okay too.'"
And what about the report from stewardess Muchlow that she saw him change from his street shoes to boots be- fore the jump? "That's news to me," Himmelsbach says gruffly.
A tough, old investigator, he retired from the Bureau a month after the Ingrams found some of the ransom money. Nevertheless, Himmelsbach's compulsion with solving his biggest-ever case has not ended. A private pilot, he still flies his single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza over the rugged terrain that he hopes hides the decaying parachutes | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=199 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-368 | The letter was not specific as to the reason should be considered a suspect other than to suggest that
and made two or three trips to Juneau, Alaska, a short period of time after the hijacking to apparently be with a relative that had been hurt in an airplane crash.
SA has determined that the subscriber to in Walla Walla, Washington, is In view of the fact that there does not appear to be any direct evidence to indicate (FNU) should be considered a suspect in the NORJAK case, no further investigation will be conducted concerning him at this time.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS :selected: 3 - Seattle RNN/ees (3)
1*
9148 LeHA 81- Sub J
SEARCHED
INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED
FEB 9 -1990
FBI - SEATTLE MED
DB Cooper-20808
b6 b7C
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n
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FD-36 (Rev. 8-29-85)
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype :selected: AIRTEL
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
FBI
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
12/11/89
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)
FROM :
DESAC
PORTLAND (164A-SE-81 ) (RUC)
uni. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=203 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-382 | He stated that the woman, who wanted to use the name connected to the and has some information to provide the FBI regarding a person who resembled D.B. COOPER.
Arrangements were made to have appear at the Los Angeles Office.
Los Angeles is aware of the non-specific information connecting the look-alike, with subject :selected: b6 b7C
D.B. COOPER, however, Los Angeles has not been able to identify or eliminate him as being D.B. COOPER.
2 - Sacramento (Enc. 4) 9 - Seattle (Enc. 4) Lec.L.L. 2 - Los Angeles
RWN/rc (6)
1641-81-9151 SEARCHED ... INDEXED VAC
MAY 15 1992
Approved:
Transmitted
(Number) (Time
N Mir b6
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/ DB Cooper-20819
WENT.
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was :selected:
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SACRAMENTO DIVISION
AT PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB .AND FRAZIER PARK, CALIFORNIA: Conduct appropriate investigation through to identify :selected: and determine if identical to
D. B. COOPER.
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DB Cooper-20820 :unselected:FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile : | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=214 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-400 | CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS Date 5/27/92
TO
: SAC, PHOENIX (164-100)
FROM
SAC, SEATTLE (SE 164A-81) (P)
:
SUBJECT : NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Sub: and Phoenix airtel to Seattle, dated 4/10/92.
case
has been suggested as a suspect in this who lives in
Arizona. According to while under the influence of alcohol, told her that he had
also stated
had expressed
that he fears being caught by the FBI. Finally, stated
In order to resolve this matter, the following leads are set forth.
35- (2)- :selected:
Phoenix (164-100) 2 - Seattle (SE 164A-81) RNN : hw AND HOW
Approved:
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
Per 164A-81-915:7 b6 b7c
N
DB Cooper-20920
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LEADS :
PHOENIX DIVISION :unselected: AT ARIZONA
Will recontact and attempt to determine the following information concerning
1. Does or did he ever smoke cigarettes, and if so, what brand?
b7C of
2. Will attempt to obtain a complete description to include any physical marks or other attributes that he may have, including tattoos, a limp, etc.
3. Will attempt to determine from
the feasibility of arranging a confidential interview in order to verify
story, as | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=231 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-407 | COOPER, the airplane hijacker, said :selected: b6 * b7C that went on to tell him that was the son of D. B. COOPER. never had any conversations with
about his father, D. B. COOPER.
was telephonically contacted by SA and questioned concerning the above information. that he really does not know that well and that
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father is named stated he
has never met
stated that lives in Winfield, B.C., and is listed in the telephone book under the name His telephone number is stated
that
is :unselected: years old now and used to work as an for hunting trips. He currently works as a
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ELIMINAR
11047-81-9162
SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZEDEVIEO"
JUN 1 0 1992
FBI-SEATTLE
BANCO DB-Cooper-20927
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that advised that there was no truth to the rumor is D. B. COOPER's son. He explained that this was just a joke and that people liked to think that they know something or someone famous. reiterated that there was absolutely no truth at all to the rumor that was in any way related to UNSUB in | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=238 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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On 10/15/91, was contacted by SA × at the GREAT WESTERN_HOTEL,-Room stated that in 1972 he was involved in the hippie movement. He stated he was in the Great Gorge area in a small town at about that time. He stated that FBI Agents were there arresting girls and using ultraviolet light on them. He stated that he gave some money that he found in the woods to the girls, approximately He stated that he buried of the money at a and burned the rest of the money. He stated that he buried the money in a He stated he found a parachute that had a white canopy and found a body near where he found the money.
stated that the body was hanging from a tree, and handcuffed to the wrist was a briefcase. He stated that inside the briefcase he found He advised he took the money, traveled about :unselected: miles and then buried the money in the sand.
seemed confused during the interview and did not seem to have a coherent idea of what he wanted to say. He was asked by SA if he could find where he buried the money; he stated he did not think so. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=242 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-417 | RNN/aw (2) au
164A-81-9167
SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED
JUN 1 0 1992
FBI-SEATTLE
DB Cooper-20936
1* :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:Memorandum
W
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
Date
6/10/92
From :
SA
Subject:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Sub J, Miscellaneous Persons, Source. -
- Suspect;
On 4/21/92, Bothell, Washington, was telephonically contacted by SA who lived in
telephone number X b7C
for BOEING and
She stated she used to date Renton, Washington, at the time. He was a She stated that he had a mother who
lived on a ranch in Oregon and that it was her theory that could have dropped the money on his mother's ranch and picked it up later. She stated she had no direct evidence that would indicate is involved in this hijacking and that her thoughts were pure speculation. :selected: + :selected: (2) - Seattle RNN/aw (2) au
11041-81-9168
SEARCHED INDEXED
SERIALIZED OLEO
JUN 1 0 1992
FBI-SEATTLE
N
DB Cooper-20937
1*
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
b6 :unselected: :unselected: :selected:Memorandum
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
Date
6/10/92
From :
SA
Subject:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Sub J, Miscellaneous Persons;
Source. Phoenix airtel to Seattle dated 5/11/90. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=247 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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w
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
Date
6/10/92
From :
SA
Subject:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re SUB J, MISCELLANEOUS PERSONS: SOURCE.
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Re Denver airtel to Seattle dated 10/2/90.
In the interview of the following ৳ discrepancies were noted that would indicate should not be considered as a suspect in this matter:
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1.
stated that D. B. COOPER at the of the hijacking because
used the name
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It is noted that UNSUB did not use the name D. B. COOPER in this hijacking.
2.
said that
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in order to avoid drawing attention. It is assumed by this that she is alleging that was pretending to be a hunter and thereby escape detection. It is clear from the events of the hijacking that UNSUB did not care where the airplane went as long as it went south of the Seattle area. UNSUB would have no way of knowing where he was going to land and, therefore, probably did not contemplate finding anything that he had left on the ground when he landed there.
2 - Seattle RNN/khc (2) THC
164A-81-9170
SEARCHED __ INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED
JUN 1 0 1992
FBI-SEATTLE
N
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2 - Seattle RNN/khc (2) THC
164A-81-9170
SEARCHED __ INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED
JUN 1 0 1992
FBI-SEATTLE
N
DB Cooper-20939
O b6
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3. stated that after was jailed for a
previous crime
and one of
and used in
the hijacking. UNSUB in this matter was not nor did he use one in the
hijacking. He also did not display an of any kind during the hijacking that was noted by the stewardesses who were with him continuously for over six hours.
4.
stated that
had
always been disappointed that the
UNSUB in this matter jumped out of the rear air stairs of a 727 and, therefore, it would have been impossible for him to
5.
describes
UNSUB in this matter was b7C b7D
as a
White male, born described in his mid 40s. would have
been :unselected: years old at the time of the hijacking.
In view of the above information, it does not appear
likely that is involved in captioned crime.
No further investigation will be conducted concerning him.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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DB Cooper-20940
2*Memorandum
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
Date
6/10/92
From :
SA
Subject:
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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DB Cooper-20940
2*Memorandum
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
Date
6/10/92
From :
SA
Subject:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Sub J Miscellaneous Persons, Source; and Sacramento airtel to Seattle dated 1/15/92, Serial 9097. 1 matter by :selected: was suggested as a suspect in this who had read an article in the newspaper and saw a picture regarding D.B. COOPER. stated that he thought strongly resembled the picture of the hijacker. last spoke to in 1971. described as a paratrooper in the Army who chain-smoked Raleigh cigarettes.
1
stated that would be approximately 48 to 50 years old at the present time. This would make him between 27 and 29 years old at the time of the hijacking.
In view of the fact that has had no contact with for over 20 years and is relying solely on his memory of likeness and also in view of the fact that was apparently 27 to 29 years old at the time of the hijacking, it does not appear that any additional investigation is warranted concerning as a possible suspect in this matter. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=251 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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In explaining this allegation they provided the following:
at Rockford, in
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stated that throughout
b7D :selected: 2 - Minneapolis (Encs. 9) 1 - Chicago
HJW:kjp (3)
Rez 19820
164A-81-9178
ARMED AND
DANGEROUS INDEXSE € SENTAUZEO TAM BEER
**** 419 1909 JUL 2-3 1992
FBI MINNEAPOLIS FBI - SEATTLE
DB Cooper-20954
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1
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b7D
b7C b7D :unselected: :unselected:164-73
was extremely secretive about his past and identity. On occasion he said he was and at one time he said
She described
as a
who
and he was described as going to extremes to avoid having his photograph taken. He was said to have voiced
when
She noted that he claimed to be retired, and she knew him to have an income of per month, yet he lived in a manner well beyond that income. When and
She noted that whenever he
he visited
the
She noted that
not provide addresses, etc., for
but she could b7D
She said he complained of years ago and that he had mentioned that he enjoyed skydiving.
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at
He is alleged to have rifles and shotguns in his home Santa Rosa, California. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=265 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-447 | AND SEATTLE, 3/2/92;
TELCALL OF SA SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA, RA TO NEWARK
7/9/92; TELCALL OF SA NEWARK DIVISION,
GMRA, TO SA
OAKLAND CALIFORNIA, RA 7/9/92;
NEWARK TELCALL TO SSA
SEATTLE, 7/9/92; SAN
2
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DB Cooper-20962 :unselected:PAGE TWO DE FBINK 0016 UNCLAS
FRANCISCO TELCALL OF SA
TO NEWARK, 7/10/92.
FOR INFORMATION OF FBIHQ AND RECEIVING OFFICES ON JULY 9, 1992, THE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA RA LOCATED SUSPECT
WHITE, MALE, DOB
SOC NUMBER
b6
b7C LIVING IN A OAKLAND.
CALIFORNIA. THE OAKLAND RA DETERMINED THAT IS
CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED AND IS LOOKING FOR WORK AS A
IS CURRENTLY DRIVING A
TRUCK BEARING
CALIFORNIA LICENSE
AS FBIHQ AND RECEIVING OFFICES ARE AWARE, EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONDUCTED TO LOCATE
FOR PURPOSES OF INTERVIEW AND POLYGRAPH.
DUE TO HIS CURRENT LOCATION AND TRANSIENT LIFE STYLE,
SHOULD BE INTERVIEWED AND POLYGRAPHED AS EXPEDITIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE REGARDING HIS INVOLVEMENT IN CAPTIONED HIJACKING.
SAC NEWARK CONCURS WITH THE TRAVEL OF SA ( NEWARK DIVISION) AND SA ( SEATTLE
DIVISION CASE AGENT) TO OAKLAND CALIFORNIA, TO JOINTLY INTERVIEW AND POLYGRAPH WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA, RA ON TUESDAY, JULY 14, | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=272 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-450 | The grocery store is located :unselected: miles from their Hereford,
Arizona
Once again, advised
is located on
and also
He
and also is allowed to on
advised that
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Inasmuch as no further investigation remains in the Phoenix Division, this matter is being RUC'd.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
2*
DB Cooper-20966FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype :selected: AIRTEL
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
FBI
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
8/13/92
<figure><table><tr><td>TO</td><td>: SAC, BALTIMORE :</td></tr><tr><td>FROM</td><td>: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P)</td></tr><tr><td rowSpan=2>SUBJECT</td><td>: NORJAK;</td></tr><tr><td>CAA</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>00: SEATTLE</td></tr></table></figure>
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference Los Angeles airtel to Seattle dated
6/9/92, regarding (Protect) . | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=276 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-451 | NORJAK;</td></tr><tr><td>CAA</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>00: SEATTLE</td></tr></table></figure>
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference Los Angeles airtel to Seattle dated
6/9/92, regarding (Protect) .
Enclosed for the Baltimore Division is one copy of referenced communication and one copy of a sheet titled "Can You Identify This Hijacker?," which also contains a summary of captioned crime. :unselected: has been suggested as a suspect by because he feels he strongly resembles the artist's composite of Unsub in this matter. according to is a Vietnam War Veteran, a Parachutist and a Pilot of small engine planes. In addition, around 1980 obtained funds for two = be
financial endeavors that could not, according to explained. :selected: 3
- Baltimore (Enc. 2) 3 - Seattle :selected: 1 - 164A-81 1 - 1 - SA
ANN
RNN/tdm (6) tam
164A-81-9184
Searched
Serialized
Approved:
Transmitted
Per
Indexed Filed An
(Number)
(Time)
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A
DB Cooper-20967 :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:164A-81
In order to resolve this matter the following lead is being set forth for the Baltimore Division:
LEAD:
BALTIMORE
AT POCOMOKE, MARYLAND
| cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=277 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-456 | stated MCCOY was unknown to most members of the unit in so much as he did not attend drills at the guard armory but reported to ARMY NATIONAL GUARD AIRCRAFT HEADQUARTERS next to the SALT LAKE CITY AIRPORT.
7. Serial 96 - Memorandum to SAC, Salt Lake City
from SA That document indicates that the FBI Laboratory determined that a note with the hijacker's handwriting, which had been retained by flight attendants, was identical to the handwriting of MCCOY.
2
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DB Cooper-209708. Serial 99 - Airtel to Salt Lake City from FBIHQ. Latent prints developed on a tickets were identical to prints to MCCOY.
9. Serial 256 - Interview of
On 4/9/72, was shown a photo spread and he identified MCCOY as the hijacker on UNITED Flight 855.
10. Serial 209 - Report of the Identification Division, from the Latent Fingerprint Section. Two latent fingerprints developed on UNITED AIRLINES ticket number 1 016 55817417 0, bearing the name "R/MCCOY", issued on 3/31/72, for travel from Salt Lake City to Denver, were identified as finger impressions of MCCOY. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=280 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-461 | :selected: 2 7- Seattle (164A-SE-81) 2 - San Francisco (1 - 164A-SF-0220) RWH/er (4)
164-81-9187 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED AL FIE
'JUL 3 0 1992
45€
DB Cooper-20973
b6 b7CFD-302 (REV. 3-10-82)
- 1 -
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription
5/18/92
date of birth
home
address
San Jose, California, home telephone
work telephone
furnished the
following information concerning
advised that she met identified as California, in January, 1988. advised that
through a
San Jose,
and
Cupertino, California. At the disappeared and subsequently was arrested by the sheriff's office for driving while intoxicated and spent the night in jail.
stated that after
San Jose,
resided at California.
worked off and on in
and at one time was employed by Gary Parhim Construction in Hayward, California. said that
had other short time employments in but she was unable to recall the names of companies that worked for.
advised that
life prior to
told many stories abut his that she found somewhat
unbelievable. claimed that just prior to the time that he met he had been living in Oakland, California, where he suffered a concussion in an auto accident and later on had his | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=283 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-462 | claimed that just prior to the time that he met he had been living in Oakland, California, where he suffered a concussion in an auto accident and later on had his car and also claimed at one time that he was a millionaire and had won $385,000 in the California Lottery. However never appeared to have any money.
doubts that is or ever was a millionaire and doubts very much if he ever won the California Lottery. also claimed to have art paintings and an investment account with Merrill Lynch Palo Alto of California.
After
Great Western Savings Bank, San Jose, California stored his will and alleged statements that he
where
Investigation on 5/8/92 at San Jose, California
File #
164A-SE-81-9188
ml
by SA mly
Date dictated
5/13/92
56
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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to DB Cooper-20974 it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-466 | of Seattle and Newark, a techincal review of the polygraph examination documents pertaining to the examinaton of on 7/14/92 and 7/16/92 has determined that review personnel concur with the examiner's conclusion that responses indicate that was not deceptive.
On 7/31/92
recontacted re
1 was
on 7/17/92 at Great Western Bank, San Jose, California. Various miscellaneous
and a were found. were found.
Since current investigation has for now eliminated as suspect in captioned matter, San Francisco considered this case RUC.
2- Seattle (Encl. 3) 2- Newark 1- San Francisco (5) MGK/mk
IA842
16HA-SE-81-9189 SEARCHED ...... / .... INDEXED SERIALIZED. AN SLED
AOT 7-1092
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LE $4.50
W/2 NDB Cooper-20977
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TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
FBI
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
8/13/92
TO
: SAC, DENVER
FROM
: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
CAA
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
REQUEST OF DENVER DIVISION:
The | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=287 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-510 | Cooper thought U went on the back burner so to Speak. 1.
DB Cooper-21018
TURN over please> >>( 1 no)
"Page 2)
I think met
in 1972. he
army.
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acted like he had money
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1 ( well maybe not ed, like it , but money . type items Young 0 could not AFFORD he had.) He did not make much in the iknowtetiny, so mone asked him where he got un Atter astonegy it Forin A. News? He
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file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-512 | News said was Uneasy did not want to coment on anything, change the subject.
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He was in shock hurt and DB, Copper-21020 :unselected:Page 4)
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well ; belives the trama and may have been so hard on not sjulied beyondd . him to crack up. and do this .
Shock it's
2 hiJackA Plane Now It takes more (I feel) b6 b7C then )
a cracked up nut, It takes
also someone who can premeditate things very well to A Tee. What ever does he always thinks long before he makes the move. could pull It OFF.
1)
/ A. Breif history OF b6 In grade school through High School he was involved in . | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=328 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-516 | IF Killed A Man At b6 b7c
a 7 11 I would turn him in as well then because it's the right thing to do.
# Please Promise me you will do Some kind OF Background check before you . go to his work place.
would be so pissed b6 b7c IF he was questioned At work / IF he did it OR did not do it ) He would move right away ... Plus . he would threaten Vastley. saying what Are you trying to y doper-21024 me!
over Please
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I will give you his current Address And WORK number And home phone number please don't use them unless your 99.94 Shu Sure you guess it's him, If you Scare him OFF (I know :selected: I will never know where he is. (At least know we do know . )
*I tried to talk to An F.B.I. Agent From Richmond and All he wanted was myinformation and he would not tell me if they would do A background check OR not.
I just did not feel sage
giving him-the information So I Knew it had to go to Seattle I called and was promised that there would be a background check made before would ever be questioned .... I think the Man's last name WAS. -OR pour He asked me what type of
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Cigarettes did smoke,he used to smoke MARBroIS (in the red Box)y But he MAY have | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=332 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-519 | ) IF you want A tape of his Voice call his home phone- during the day
(when he's A work) There will be A short recording in his Voice (IF that can help you any. how can someone reamber A Voice . After All these years through? )
Please call me soon to
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I trust you not to wreck his life unless
LAKE Wood, ColArdo
youR/sure it's him
Home-Phone number WORK
BACKgrand Check
first Please
DB Cooper-21027A) Important (A)
I coppied this From A military record thing , I hope it can help . I hope the number I give you is a Social security number. I will Just copy it for you what I have. 1
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A
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey COE, Sch Bde USA ces/ USA TRA DOC Hanus, Germany 69/6/6
primary Secondary number
I was scared to take the zeroxed copy so I Jotted this down As quick As I could I think it's some kind OF militays type I paper WORK I Found OF his.
DB Cooper-21028Na+ D.B. Cooper gracy
One of the passengers, Kent Swigard, 24, a reporter for The Spokesman Review in Spo, kaner Wash., described the hi- jackers as "organized and in. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=335 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-525 | , but the spokesman acknowledged that the manhunt in that area was based on supposition rather than hard information. The four-state hijacking be- gan last night in Portland, on the last leg of Northwest Flight 305 from Washington to Seattle. The Boeing 727 had made earlier stops in Minne- apolis; „Great Falls, Mont .; Missoula, Mont .; Portland, Ore., and Spokane, Wash.
The hijacker, identified . by the F.B.I. as. "D. B. Cooper,"
Pacific
MIUIT
Reno Plane lords
CALIFORNIA
San Francisco
2
0
130
The New York Times/Nov. 26, 1971
tle. "She looked bewilder. and gulped. I guess she learned what was happening then."
Capt. William W. Scott, the pilot, radioed the hijacker's de- mands ahead to Seattle. A Northwest manager said that the man had not demanded any specific denomination of bills. He declined to say wheth- er the bills were marked in any way. Airline workers had to go to several banks to assem- ble the large sum.
boarded the jet in Portland. When the plane was in the air, he showed a stewardess a briefcase containing two red cylinders and wires and said he would blow up the'aircraft, The | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=340 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-558 | CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
2/1/93
TO
Redula
SUBJECT
: NORJAK
CAA
00: SACRAMENTO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164-SE-81)
: SAC, SACRAMENTO (RUC)
The Fresno RA is a
direct mail office
Please direct all mail to:
FBI
P.O. Box 26434
Fresno, CA. 93729
RE: Los Angeles airtel to Sacramento, 5/8/92.
Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of an investigative insert reflecting results of investigation at Pine Mountain Club, California.
Inasmuch as investigation within the Sacramento Division has been completed, this matter is considered RUC.
@ - Seattle (164-SE-81) (Enc. 2) :selected: 2 - Sacramento JCW/bmac (4)
ELIMINATE
1644-81-9218
TPA
Approved:
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
FEB 0 8 1993
Per
MEBla
164-SE81 DB Cooper-21059
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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® :unselected:FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E FT O :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
9/17/93
<figure><table><tr><td>TO</td><td>: SAC, | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=365 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-560 | :unselected: Facsimile :selected: AIRTEL
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS EF TO :unselected: UNCLAS Date 4/13/93
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)
FROM
" SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164A-SE-81) (P)RUC
SUBJECT : NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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Reference 4/12/93 telephone call from SA :unselected: Seattle, to SA Missoula Resident b6 b7C Agency. × On 3/26/93, SA
interviewed a white male who :selected:
identified himself only as advised he had watched a recent episode of Unsolved Mysteries, which featured the D. B. COOPER case. After watching the show, :unselected: last known D. B. COOPER is actually was certain that :selected: address - Campbell, California, provided the following
telephone number -
information concerning
War, where was in either the 101st or 82nd Airborne :unselected: became friends with during the Korean Division. After the war, :unselected: remained friends with
and had periodic contacts with him. Both :unselected: and
were students at Pasadena City College from approximately :unselected: :unselected: eventually became a with the Los Angeles | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=367 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-575 | In view of these discrepancies, and in view of the fact that there are no logical leads remaining in this case, no further investigation will be conducted concerning at this time.
Armed and Dangerous
3 - Seattle RNN : vsg
RUN3)
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164A-81-7224-
SEARCHED .... . LINDEXED. SERIALIZED.LAFILED ........ SEP 2 7 1993 FBI - SEATTLE WirThat DB Cooper-21072 :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:Memorandum
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
Date
9/23/93
From :
SA
Subject:
NORJAK
00:
SEATTLE :selected: b6 b7C x
Re : 1. Seattle report of SA 2/16/72 (Sub GG) (2351) ;
dated
2. Seattle report of SA 5/30/73 (Sub GG) (4729) ;
dated
3. Seattle report of SA 11/23/73 (Sub GG) (5070) ;
dated
4. Seattle report of SA 5/31/74- (Sub GG) (6258) ;
dated
5. SA
memorandum, dated 8/4/72
(Sub K) (3741) ;
1.
6. AUSA letter to dated 4/20/76 (Sub C) (6914) , (Re Grand Jury Indictment) .
At a minimum it is recommended that a new NORJAK case agent review the above references.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
RNN/bjr (2)
C. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=377 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-591 | Copies will be designated for Sub files (see attached for a list of letter Sub volumes) by the Case Agent.
3. Sub volumes consist of lettered Sub volumes and numbered Sub volumes.
4. Each suspect is given a numbered Sub volume (the number is assigned sequentially by the rotor) .
5. When indexing names, etc. to a numbered Sub volume, be sure to include the number of the volume (i.e., under file: 164A-SE-0000081- and title: NORJAK; ·
6. When indexing names, etc. to a lettered Sub volume, be sure to include the serial number (i.e., under file: 164A-SE- 0000081-
7. If a suspect does not warrant a numbered Sub volume, the communication should be placed into Sub J (miscellaneous) .
8. 1A's are filed into Sub A, 1B's are filed into Sub B, newspaper clippings are filed into Sub LL. :selected: 22 - Seattle RNN : vsg (2) RUN
164A-81-9231
SEARCHED AINDEXED SERIALIZED .. [XFILED .... (1) DEC 0 1 1993 FBI - SEATTLE imebles
DB Cooper-21095
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9. The Case Agent will designate where a copy of each communication should be filed. | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=395 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part050_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743035302E706466-page-592 | (1) DEC 0 1 1993 FBI - SEATTLE imebles
DB Cooper-21095
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9. The Case Agent will designate where a copy of each communication should be filed. He/she will also specify the opening of new numbered or lettered Sub files.
10. The manual indices currently maintained in one drawer of the old manual indices will be entered into FOIMS.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
DB Cooper-21096
2Memorandum
(
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164B-81) (P)
Date
1/25/94
From :
SA
(SQUAD 5)
Subject:
NORJAK, aka
D. B. Cooper;
CAA-HIJACKING;
00: SEATTLE
This matter was assigned to writer in 9/93 upon the impending retirement of the previous Case Agent. Due to writer's assignment to Conference and a 12/93 In-Service, the case was not addressed before writer was transferred to Squad 6 in 1/94. There are several pending leads which require review of the file to determine if a particular suspect is identical to subject.
SSA has recommended that this case be reassigned
to SA so that he, too, can retire before it is closed.
RJC: jmb 2 (2) JUD
ReAssign 164B-81-9232 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED :selected: to JAN 2 5 1994 b6 b7c MSB
1*
MER Cooper-21098
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$ :selected:
b6 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf#page=395 | cooper_d_b_part050.pdf |
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RJC: jmb 2 (2) JUD
ReAssign 164B-81-9232 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED :selected: to JAN 2 5 1994 b6 b7c MSB
1*
MER Cooper-21098
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b7E
$ :selected:
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BUILDING LOCATED AT FOUR ONE NINE FIVE CEDAR HILLS BOULEVARD, ADVISED HE HAS NEVER HEARD OF AND ABOVE ADDRESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN OCCUPIED BY GOLD REY FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.
STATE OF OREGON MVR RECORDS SHOW , DOB
, BEAVERTON, OREGON,
HAVING CLEAR TITLE TO VEHICLE BEARING LICENSE NUMBER
STATE OF OREGON MVR HAS NO RECORD OF
AS 164-41-186
A LICENSED DRIVER.
STATE OF OREGON, REAL ESTATE DIVISION, HAS NO RECORD-OF 1 AS A LICENSED REALTOR.
ف 1 - :selected:
THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES WERE CONTACTED WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS :
LV 6:03pm
Sent SEG:110 M Per
Special Agent in Charge
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
DB Cooper-40372
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Approved:
DERFD-38 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
Transmit the following in
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via
(Priority)
Pd 164-41 PAGE TWO PACIFIC NORTHWESTERN BELL, GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY, PORTLAND PD, AND BEAVERTON PD.
Approved:
Special Agent in Charge
Sent M Per
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
DB Cooper-40373
:FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
#012
Date:
12/2/71
Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via TELETYPE
NITEL
(Priority)
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file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-12 | 5-22-64)
FBI
#012
Date:
12/2/71
Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via TELETYPE
NITEL
(Priority)
<figure><table><tr><td>TO :</td><td>DIRECTOR</td><td>(164-2111) & SEATTLE (164-81)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM:</td><td>PORTLAND</td><td>(164-41) 1P</td></tr></table></figure>
UNSUB; NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR NINETEEN SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00 SEATTLE.
PORTLAND SUGGESTS CODE NAME BE AUTHORIZED FOR USE IN TITLE OF COMMUNICATIONS THIS CASE. PORTLAND RECOMMENDS "NORJACK." IF THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, BUREAU REQUESTED TO CONSIDER AUTHORIZING ANOTHER CODE NAME. P.
JLM: 1am (1)
<figure><table><tr><td colSpan=2>164-41-187</td></tr><tr><td>٢</td><td>0</td></tr></table></figure>
Approved: 6
WA 6:24pm Sent SE6:13
M Per
Special Agent in Charge
* U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
DB Cooper-40374NR0012 CE PLAIN 6:35 PM SNITEL 12-2-71 DAM TO: ST. LOUIS, PORTLAND 164-41, AND SEATTLE. 164-81
FROM: CHARLOTTE 164-101 2P
NO BILD LEAD b6 b7C
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES,. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=17 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-13 | LOUIS, PORTLAND 164-41, AND SEATTLE. 164-81
FROM: CHARLOTTE 164-101 2P
NO BILD LEAD b6 b7C
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES,. FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, CAA - HIJACKING. 00: SEATTLE.
RE JACKSON TELEYPE TO CHARLOTTE DATED NOVEMBER THIRTY, LAST ..
FOR INFORMATION ST. LOUIS, A SOURCE, UPON VIEWING ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF UNSUB IN NEWSPAPER ADVISED IT IS A GOOD LIKENESS TO b6
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HAS NOT SEEN OR HEARD FROM
SINCE
· END PAGE ONE
164-41-188
$
DEC : 1971
DB Cooper-40375CE .. 164-101
PAGE TWO
CREDIT, AND IDENTIFICATION CHECKS N. C., b6 NEGATIVE, POST LOCATOR, N. C., NEGATIVE, AND NO OTHER RECORD AVAILABLE AT TO IDENTIFY
b7C
INQUIRY AT RECORDS HOLDING REVEALED
AND ALL RECORDS TRANSFERRED TO ST. LOUIS REPOSITORY.
FOR INFORMATION SEATTLE THEIR LOOK ALIKE AS FURNISHED
b6 BY PHOENIX IDENTIFIED AS
b7C AND REPORTEDLY RESIDING N. C.
ST. LOUIS ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY IN MILITARY RECORDS AND SE FORTH LEAD TO IDENTIFY AND / OR ELIMINATE. HIM AS SUBJECT.
CHARLOTTE INVESTIGATION CONTINUING. END. LJQ REC OK FBI PORTLAND CLR TU
DB Cooper-40376 :selected:NRØ11 LV PLAIN
845 PM NITEL 12-2-71 GEJ
TO
DIRECTOR, | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=18 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-40 |
My own personal opinion of the case now is that he died on impact and most certainly gone into the brink, either into the columbia or into a lake. Something came thru me this morning about a toll bridge. I notice that there is one at Istoria. I think a good place to take a vacation right now would be Seaside, Oregon for a couple of weeks and play on the beach. Some of those twenty dollar bills may come washing over on the shore one of these days if the packet is not tied too tight and is not too tight in the leather case. The white money bag with the paraphernalia in it may be found some day with the other chute not far from the point of origin, or takeoff. A good idea would be to run a copter down the columbia river once a day for awhile.
Sincerely,
NO ACTION
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P. S.
All a person has to do is give up all the animal food for a year as much as possible and switch to fruits and vegetables ! as mentioned in the book of Genesis. Make a good thick bowl of vegetable soup every day with carrots, tomatoes, green peppers, celery and etc. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=45 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-45 | I think he knew about the cold in the place and knew he would have to get out of there fast. The spirit called him the 'Colonel' I think he was Canadian air force of world war II vintage. We was rolite, too and that all the more intimates he could have been Canadian, because they are rolite. He was doping. Spirit said he doped before he left plane. He probably was not drinking, but could have been taking amphetarine pills. Jririt seemed to say he came down in a dairy region. I think the region northeast of Fort Lewis and not far from Puyallup where they hold the fair every year, because the spirit said' Tear a fair'. There was something about a dial. He either made a call before or after he went out of plane. "Je probably made his way to the town of Fuyallup after getting on highway I6I. I don't know the plane route so I am guessing at this, bu. I believe the area south of the airport -faco 3-Seattle- about 12 minutes out is hot. Fierce, County. Between Highway 7 and Highway 16I between Puyallup and Frederickson, rossible too as far south as Loveland, or Graham.
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Sincerely. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=48 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-49 | HE LEFT OHIO IN SIXTYNINE WITH MANY DEBTS. OUTSTANDING. . WHICH IN FACT, CLOSELY RESEMBLE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF - UNSUB. DESCRIPTION AND PERSONAL HISTORY DATA PROVIDED BY
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SET FORTH IN DESCRIPTION OF SUBJECT. WHICH FOLLOWS.
END PAGE TWO
. DB Cooper-40421PAGE THREE
ON DECEMBER TWO LAST
WAS INTERVIEWED.
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UPON VIEWING ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF UNSUB, SHE SPONTANEOUSLY STATED "THAT'S HARRY WILLIAM CELK". ADVISED THAT .SHE
AND THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SHE HAD SEEN THE ARTIST CONCEPTION. SHE ADVISED
DURING THIS , TIME
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SHE STATED THAT
ACCORDING · TO
CEL K BRAGGED THAT HE WAS INTERESTED IN PARACHUTING AND HAD MADE SEVERAL JUMPS HIMSELF. DESCRIBED CELK AS A SECRETIVE INDIVIDUAL, WHO WAS RELUCTANT TO APPLY FOR A PILOT'S L'ICENSE OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF LICENSE WHICH WOULD PROVIDE BACKGROUND OR IDENTIFICATION. LAST SAW CELK IN b6
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. THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION WAS OBTAINED FROM
END PAGE THREE
DB Cooper-40422PAGE FOUR
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NAME :
HARRY WILLIAM CELK, AKA
HARRY W. CELK, ERIC
CELK, DOB OCTOBER THREE THIRTYFIVE, POB CLEVELAND, OHIO, WHITE MALE, FIVE FEET NINE TO FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=51 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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The 39-year-old rector of the University of Guerrero also is an industrialist, bacteriologist and former mayor of Taxco. There was no word of when he would be released.
The guerrilla group made its
demands in a letter sent to a local television station Friday night.
The government announced the release of eight of the pris- oners but said a ninth remained in custody because "we have not been able to identify him." The prisoners had been held in Mexico City and Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state.
Government sources said five of the prisoners asked to be sent to Cuba and would be taken to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. .
The ransom letter 'said the tion nine were "political prisoners" who should be guaranteed politi- cal asylum in the embassy of
their choice and safe conduct from Mexico.
It said the ransom money could be used to help "victims of the repression of the govern- ment." Castrejon Diaz was forced from his car eight days ago by four armed men. His wife, the former Ruby Nickel of Lake Charles, La. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=63 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-63 | "
Authorities earlier said the ran- som, largest ever paid a hijack- er in the United States, was in . $20 bills.
Searchers were told to look for two white parachute cano- pies and portions of a pink one which was found opened and torn when the plane landed at Reno, Nev., Wednesday night.
Searchers converged on a large piece of white fabric Sat- urday but it turned out to be a shelter for two young fishermen on the banks of the Lewis Riv- er.
"We checked reports of pos- sible sightings but they all proved false," said Clark Coun- ty Sheriff Eugene Cotton.
Helicopters flown by pilots fa- miliar with the terrain of the farm and timber land of the area, joined the search under improving weather conditions.
Patchy fog hung over the area Friday.
The air and ground search was suspended Saturday when the ceiling lowered, preventing use of three helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft. The search will be resumed Sunday if weath- er permits.
Manning said house-to-house interviews of residents would be stepped up. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=65 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-102 | TO PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM KANSAS CITY (164-80)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA- HIJACKING, EXTORTION. 00 :SEATTLE.
RE-PORTLAND TELECALL TO KANSAS CITY INSTANT DATE AND PORTLAND TELETYPE INSTANT DATE.
REVIEW OF CITY DIRECTORIES FOR GREATER. KANSAS CITY AREA WAS NEGATIVE FOR ADDRESS OF
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KANSAS CITY INDICIES NEGATIVE REGARDING
12. CNI
KANSAS CITY INDICIES REFLECT A WHO IS REFERENCED IN YEARS OLD.
ITSMV CASE. IS CURRENTLY
KANSAS CITY INDICIES REVEALED FOURTEEN AT PORTLAND REQUEST KANSAS CITY IS SENDING FOLLOWING PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF
WHOSE INDICIES CARD b6 b7C
REFLECTED HE HAD BEEN. IN
. . KANSAS CITY HAD
ITSMV. CASE IN
MALE, BORN.
FIVE FEET EIGHT, ONE, SIXTY LBS., BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR, DARK 59
164-41-233
COMPLEXION WITH HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FROM
5
SEARCHED
SERIALIZED
FILED.
DCC
1971
FH-KUKILAWHY
DB Cooper-40481
DESCRIBED AS WHITE 71 32
END PAGE ONE LEAD
12 -- 1 :unselected:KC 164-80
PAGE TWO
KANSAS CITY TELEPHONE DIRECTORY WAS NEGATIVE FOR AND b6 b7C
DIRECTORY LISTED FIVE
NONE OF WHOM HAD
: ADDRESS OF
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CAL FRANCISCO INDICES REVEALS THE FOLLO TIVO INFO: (URL)
SAN FRANCISCO FILS
PASSERT STATUS NOT AVDAN . MATS ACT.
(TR0)
, EF FILS
("I. : 3 0)} OTVAR ALIAS)
CW PAGE 1:0
DB Cooper-40485
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VECCHIOCHE WITS, JUL FIVE TEN, TVO ZCAO T :0 LBS., FRO : HAIR BOLDING TO TOP AIJULE, SYSS OLDE, COMPLEXION CLIVE. PARE IS ARS
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POLICE
,
JEFAMMIEM,
A
INVESTIGATION AT SAN FRANCISCO CONTINLI .C.
ENJ RMB
FBI PD CLR
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DB Cooper-40486OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1942 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO
: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
DATE: 12/4/71
FROM
: SA JERRY G. WILSON
SUBJECT: UNSUB;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES,
FLIGHT 305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71
CAA-HIJACKING
EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE
/
At 11:04 pm, this date Oregonian newspaper, Portland advised that he had received lengthy information from an unidentified male who related that in captioned matter,
and furnished names and addresses of the individuals involved. advised he :unselected: advised that caller would make himself known at time of arrests for purpose of gaining reward, was unable | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=115 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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3-Bureau (Enca 2) 1- Seattle (164-81) (Lafo) Portland (Info) 1-Sacramento (Info) 1-Las Vegas HEH/BER (7)
SEARCHED 164-41-243
INDEXED SERIALIZED. FILED DEC (197) FBI - PORTLAND
MB
DB Cooper-40497FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: December 3, 1971
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(Type in plaintext or code) AIRMAIL
(Priority)
TO
:
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM
:
TEAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUSPECT!
SUBJECT: / UNSUB, aka
Dan .Cooper; .
Northwest Airlines.
Flight 305
Portland to Seattle
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE
Re Portland teletype to Seattle 11/29/71.
RE:
(Previously carried as
'On December 1, 1971
one
Bellevue, Washington, - advised that applied for a loan in
on a .1968 Dodge Valiant van, title of which, according to is still held by
furnished the following information in connection with this loan:
164-41-244
2 - Portland 3 - Seattle JHS: kdl
(5)
SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED R FILED DEC 6 1971 FBI -PORTLAND H'BACH
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Approved:
Sent M Per
Special Agent in Charge
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971 -418-136 DB Cooper-40498
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O
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Age
Height: 6 ! | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=126 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-159 | for identification. . Will. thereafter conduct appropriate investigation to locate in connection with this matter.
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2Portland (164-41). (1)
RLB;r1b
3010-108-02
144-11-272
SEARCHED AIDEXED SERIALIZED_MESES DEC: 1971
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds. Regularly on the runrun savings sven DB Cooper-40549
TelephoneFD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
002
FBI
Date:
12/6/71
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<figure><table><tr><td>TO :</td><td>SEATTLE (164-81)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM:</td><td>PORTLAND (164-41) 1P</td></tr></table></figure>
UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING. 00 SE.
CHIEF OF POLICE JAMES OVERHULSE, EASTSIDE, OREGON, ON DECEMBER SIX SEVENTYONE ADVISED THE BOTTOM HALF OF ARTIST'S SKETCH OF SUBJECT IS SIMILAR TO ONE
OVERHULSE
WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON.
. HE DESCRIBED AS THIRTYTWO TO THIRTY- THREE YEARS, FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE SEVEN FIVE POUNDS, DARK BROWN HAIR.
SEATTLE, AT WENATCHEE. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=176 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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The fact of the matter is the spirit keeps saying and especially Dec 3- he is in a seater several times and 'he came down over a fair' near a fair came thru several times -- The word car and the word Ford came thru several times. He dialed or called a :unselected: and something about a store or drugstoreb6 where he called. Since this word car and Ford began to bug me lately then I think I stumbled on another lead. This is really a kick in the pants and wait until you see it and hear about it. The day before the caper the spirit had talked that me about a spring, but I thot it was the spring in my heater that is on the bum and it also said something about a field. I have a swell map of Oregon and I was looking at it and guess what I saw. Boy is this deduction. Take a look at the city map of Springfield, Oregon. I never saw anything like it. It looks like a car or a Ford and it even has a seat in it where the Mckenzie River and Mohawk rivers cut into the city center. It looks like a seat in a car and the whole town, the way it is layed out looks like a Ford or a car. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=210 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-198 | It looks like a seat in a car and the whole town, the way it is layed out looks like a Ford or a car. Right north of the seat where the seat is you will see on the map a park called Armitage state park. This could mean the fair- the seat and the car. Isn't that the cats? I imagine the area north of the seat is wooded. It sure is worth a try and I consider it a good lead. I don't know if the plane path went thru Springfield or not. Maybe It went close to it -better check this very important clue. If he waited this long to bail out and didn't have heavy clothing on then I would say he was a dumbell and was probably so cold and frozen that he couldn't even pull the chute string and he is a corpse laying down there someplace.
There is another angle to this case, too. People today are not nice like they were in the twenties and thirties as a rule and if anybody has found the corpse and the money the chances are that they would keep the money and never report it. There may be a few honest people left however. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=210 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-223 | GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-40621NR 01 SC -PLAINTEXT
10:15 AM URGENT 12-8-71
LXL
WITNESS:
TO
SEATTLE '(164-81)
PORTLAND
(164-41)
FROM
SACRAMENTO (164-50)
1P
NO PO LEADS
UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER. HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE. NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR,. LAST. CAA - HIJACKING, EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE ..
RE SAN FRANCISCO TEL TO SEATTLE, DECEMBER SIX, LAST. SER 264
. USNR TRAINING CENTER, b6
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MARE ISLAND NAVAL SHIPYARD, VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA, AND
. US NR
TRAINING CENTER, BOTH ADVISED DECEMBER SEVEN, LAST, THEY HAVE NO PERSONNEL MATCHING DESCRIPTION IN RETEL. WHO WERE OUT OF AREA AT PERTINENT TIME .:
WHO MATCHES GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB, WAS ON ACTIVE DUTY FOR IWO WEEK OVER THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
SAN FRANCISCO ADVISED AIR MAIL. END. LJQ
REC OK FBI PORTLAND CLR TU
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DB Cooper-40622F 5-36
(Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
12/8/71
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file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-225 | OF MOTOR VEHICLES (DMV) ADVISES
LISTED TO NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE OLDSMOBILE
144-41-305
1-Portland PCS: smp (2)
10 22- LA
MR
2
Approved:
Special Agent in Charge
A
Sent 52 / 08/H 08-SE
1051
Per
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971~413-135
DB Cooper-40623
001
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REGISTERED OWNER,
.
DMV RECORDS ALSO SHOW
NINETEEN FIFTY EIGHT CHEVROLET FOUR DOOR, CALIFORNIA LICENSE
, REGISTERED TO
CALIFORNIA.
- LOS ANGELES AT
· AT
ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE IF
RESIDES AT THIS ADDRESS, DETERMINE TO WHOM HE HAS
BOLD VEHICLE BEARING CALIFORNIA LICENSE . MINNEAPOLIS AT · CONDUCT SAME INVESTIGATION SET
OUT FOR LOS ANGELES AT
.
Approved:
Special Agent in Charge
Sent M Per
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
DB Cooper-40624
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11:49 . URGENT . 12/8/71 MCC
TO
SEATTLE (164-81)
PORTLAND (164-41)
KANSAS CITY
LOS ANGELES . (164-497)
SuspreT:
j
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NO PO LEADS
FROM
SAN FRANCISCO (164-220)
2P
UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION; 00 SEATTLE. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=236 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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SUSPECT b6 b7C SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED BY PORTLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT
HAIR BROWN, EYES BROWN, HEIGHT FIVE FOOT NINE INCHES, WEIGHT ONE FIVE ZERO POUNDS, FBI NUMBER 0
NO RECORD THAT SUSPECT WAS EMPLOYED BY AND b6 b7C
MAY HAVE WORKED FOR
END OF PAGE ONE 164-41-316
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1 DB Cooper-40641PD 164-41
PAGE TWO
TELEPHONE ? VANCOUVER , WASHINGTON, MAY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION RE FORMER EMPLOYEES. b6 b7C
NW AIRLINES EMPLOYEE AT PORTLAND VIEWED
PICTURE OF AND BELIEVES HE IS NOT THE HIJACKER.
END
DCA - FOI-SE.
DB Cooper-40642NR 020 PD PLAIN
8:54 PM NITEL 12/8/71 TLA
TO:
OMAHA
SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM :
PORTLAND (164-41)
FLIGHT INSURANCE
PD LEAD
UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, NW AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, ETC. CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE.
RE SEATTLE NITEL TO PORTLAND SIX DECEMBER SEVENTYONE. ON DECEMBER EIGHT SEVENTYONE, , MUTUAL OF OMAHA' (HEADQUARTERS) FLIGHT INSURANCE REP, PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIR PORT, ADVISED FLIGHT INSURANCE FROM MUTUAL OF OMAHA INSURANCE MACHINES FOR NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE TO TWENTYFOUR, LAST, IN POSSESSION OF TELE-TRIP, | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=254 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-239 | FLIGHT INSURANCE REP, PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIR PORT, ADVISED FLIGHT INSURANCE FROM MUTUAL OF OMAHA INSURANCE MACHINES FOR NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE TO TWENTYFOUR, LAST, IN POSSESSION OF TELE-TRIP, MUTUAL OF OMAHA, THREE ONE THREE DODGE ST, OMAHA, NEBRASKA.
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OMAHA WILL OBTAIN COPIES OF APPLICATIONS OF INSURANCE PURCHASED THROUGH MACHINES ON TWENTYTHREE NOVEMBER SEVENTYONE AND UNTIL FOUR P.M. TWENTYFOUR NOVEMBER SEVENTYONE AND FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO SEATTLE AND PORTLAND.
PORTLAND OBTAINED THIRTYEIGHT INSURANCE APPLICATIONS FROM TELE-TRIP INSURANCE COUNTER, PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
PO COPIES OF SAME ARE BEING FURNISHED SEATTLE. PORTLAND WILL CHECK OUT NAMES OF INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN PORTLAND AREA.
LEAD
END DCA - FBI SE
164-41-317 b6 b7C
FOR 2 TELS
JFM - FBI-OME
2
DB Cooper-40643NRØ49 WA PLAIN 9:25 PM NITEL 12-8-71 LRS TO ALL SACS FROM DIRECTOR 2P
NORJAK
RANSOM LIST
FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT A "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERIAL -NUMBERED BILLS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=256 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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9010-108-02 :unselected:PD 164-41
<figure><table><tr><th rowSpan=2>Race Sex</th><th>White</th></tr><tr><th>Male</th></tr><tr><td>Nationality</td><td>American</td></tr><tr><td>Date of birth</td><td>11/17/19</td></tr><tr><td>Place of birth</td><td>Baltimore, Maryland</td></tr><tr><td>Height</td><td>5'9"-10"</td></tr><tr><td>Weight</td><td>Approximately 160 pounds</td></tr><tr><td>Hair</td><td>Dark brown, slightly graying</td></tr><tr><td>SSAN</td><td>578-16-5536</td></tr><tr><td>Address</td><td>2655 Taylor Street</td></tr></table></figure>
Eugene, Oregon
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advised BELL was on vacation from 11/22 - 29, 1971. advised that he has contacted who has no knowledge of BELL being trained in the art of skydiving or parachuting. BELL is currently working at Springfield, Oregon, at Fourth and "A" Street, Springfield. furnished a photograph of JESSE BELL which bears a resemblance to the composite.
TROTS Shown AT EUGENE
On 12/7/71, was shown a photograph of BELL and advised this is in fact the individual who claimed responsibility for the hijacking. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=263 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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He stated he recently obtained a California Driver's License photograph of this individual and on the basis of the description and the photograph, he believed that closely resembled the sketch of the Unsub which appeared in the newspapers.
He advised that had been arrested
sometime by the Portland Police Department on a charge of He stated a better photograph of the subject could probably be located at the Identification Bureau of the PPD.
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He described as follows:
Race
White
Sex
Male
DOB
Hair
Brown (receding)
Eyes
Blue
Height
61
Weight
170 pounds
California Driver's License No.
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2-Portland
TJD: krv (2)
PALO PIS 12/10/7/
2. SHOW PICTURE.
DES
5010-108-02
302
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-40660 :unselected: :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:PD 164-41
LEAD
PORTLAND
AT PORTLAND, OREGON. Will obtain photograph of at the PPD, and thereafter, exhibit to witnesses to identify or eliminate.
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DB Cooper-40661SE 164-81 PD 164-41 TPN/gle 1
The following investigation was conducted by SA
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On December 4, 1971, facsimile photographs of HARRY WILLIAM CELK. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=273 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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UNKNOWN SUBJECT, also known as Dan Cooper, Northwest Airlines Flight #305, Portland to Seattle, November 24, 1971
"The Daily Telegraph", a London, England, newspaper, contained an article on May 28, 1971, on Page 4, describing a plot by an unknown subject using the name "Mr. Brown". This individual hoaxed the Qantas Airline at the Sydney International Airport, apparently in Australia, into paying 235,000 pounds ransom money after a bomb threat. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707 Airliner. "Mr. Brown" is not described in the article, but an "Identikit" picture of him bears a resemblance to an artist's sketch of an unknown subject who hijacked an airliner between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, and extorted $200,000 Ero Northwest Orient Airlines. This individual is described as white male, 6'1" tall, 170-175 pounds, age-mid-forties, olive complexion, brown eyes, black hair, conventional cut, parted on left; slender build.
6-Bureau (164-2111) I-Seattle (164-81) 1-Portland (164-41)
NBB: smp (8) 733 202
11-340
DB Cooper-40679LEADS
Will obtain disposition of the case relating to "Mr. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=289 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-273 | WILL CHECK OUT CLARKE AND :unselected: AS SUSPECTS NOTING THAT DRIVER'S LICENSE PROBABLY BELONGS TO PASSENGER AND NOT TO INDIVIDUAL RESEMBLING UNSUB.
CLARKE WAS PARKED DURING PERIOD 11/10/2/ 1/28/+,
WAS PARKED
Approved:
Sent M Per
Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-40684
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FBI
Date:
12/9/71
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<figure><table><tr><td>TO:</td><td>DIRECTOR</td><td>(164-2111)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM:</td><td>PORTLAND</td><td>(164-41) 1P</td></tr></table></figure>
NORJAK
REBUAIRTEL DECEMBER SEVEN LAST. BUREAU REQUESTED TO FORWARD TWO HUNDRED FIFTY COPIES OF RANSOM LIST TO PORTLAND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. P.
NBB:1Am (11 ala
164-41-342A
Approved: 6
Sent 2:20 p M Per gw
2
Special Agent in Charge
W U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-195 DB Cooper-40685
005FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
12/9/71
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<figure><table><tr><td>TO:</td><td>SEATTLE (164-81)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM:</td><td>PORTLAND (164-41) 1 PAGE -</td></tr></table></figure>
NORJAK
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Much news of late has been devoted to the recent airline hi- jacking between Portland and Seattle. Many have marvelled at the skill of the daredevil who schemed this crime. Some even have gone so far as to say they would like the hijacker to succeed ... to escape justice. Apparently these people have let their emotions get caught up in the hoopla of this bizarre plot, and the dreams of easy money.
says, "The hijacker has won the public's admira- tion through an awesome feat in the battle of man against the machine ... one individual overcoming, for the time being any- way, technology, the corporation, the establishment, the system."
That may be so, but lest we forget the facts of the case, this hijacker did commit a crime ... a serious crime. What's more, he jeopardized the safety of 42 other persons aboard that jet- liner, and took something that did not belong to him. As one local FBI agent put it, "Some people may think this is funny, but they won't be laughing if it happens again. It could give other criminals ideas, and this we surely don't need."
We hope law enforcement officers apprehend this hijacker soon, and we urge the public to cooperate | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=309 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-295 | UNSUB;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305
11/24/71
CAA - HI JACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE
On 12/8/71 Sheriff WOODY JONES, Polk County, tele- phonically advised the writer that approximately four days prior to the hijacking of the above flight, he had talked with both of Dallas, Oregon. b6
They had advised JONES that they had observed a skydiver in the vicinity of Interstate 5 and the Wilsonville exit, descend- ing in an orange parachute after dark.
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LEAD:
DALLAS, ORE.
PORTLAND
AT. POLK COUNTY SO, OREGON: Will contact Sheriff
WOODY JONES and determine the addresses for and and, if appropriate, interview thereafter. b6
AND CALL BACK
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SALEM RA -DALLAS CONTACT WINE CONTENT SEC SER 361 A
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ya JMW/gle (2)
164-41-357
9
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5010-108-02
DB Cooper-40710OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1902 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11-6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
DATE:
12/9/71
FROM
:
SA THOMAS G. ACKERMAN
SUBJECT:
UNSUB;
Hi jacking of Northwest
Airlines
Portland, Oregon
11/24/71
CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION
Re Springfield, Oregon, Police Department report
dated 11/28/71, (serial number 140). | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=319 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-310 | This looks hot to me now and I almost feel like doing some hiking myself and coming up ther and doing a little road work myself, but guess I won't. My idea of course is supposition, but you can't go against the words that I hive and the phrases that came thru me. When you put all the words and phrases together, they make sense. I fly off on a tangent, sometimes and try to rush too fast into the enigma. Right now I could almost draw a line between huckleberry mountain and Vall and hit the jackpot in my mind's eye, however. Sincerely,
--
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Date:
12/8/71
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TO:
SEATTLE (164-81)
SACRAMENTO
FROM:
SAN DIEGO (164-91)
SUSPIETS LEE JOSEPH GILPATRICK
NO PO LEADS
. UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST; CAĄ -. HIJACKING; EXTORTION, 00: SEATTLE.
RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO SAN DIEGO, DECEMBER ONE LAST.
RE: SUSPECT LEE JOSEPH GILPATRICK
THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES CONTACTED RE SUSPECT GILPATRICK AT EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS : EL CENTRO, PD, IMPERIAL COUNTY | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=330 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-317 | Will contact
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DB Cooper-40736OPTIONAL FORM NO. 18 · MAY 1ẠM KOCTION CLA PPMAN (4 CPN) 101-11.4: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO
:.
SAC (164-41).
DATE: : : 12-10-71
FROM.
:
SA
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SKY DIVER BETWEEN WOODBURN + WILSONVILLE.
SUBJECT:
UNSUB ;
NWAL Flight 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE 11/24/71
HIJACKING;EXTORTION.
REI SER 357
Reference. telcall from SA NORMAN B. BELFREY this date.
On 12/10/71 Chief Criminal Deputy HANK DOUGHERTY of the Polk County Sheriff's Office .Dallas, Oregon in the absence of Sheriff WOODY JONES advised that resides at b6 b7C
Dallas, Oregon. He was unable to furnishe
and address. for . advised that, as he recalls, He and b6 and and the 15th to. 20th of November made trips to
between the last of October b7C Portland
On their way to Portland they near Woodburn, Oregon. Shortly after they started out again, and somewhere between Woodburn and Wilsonville; they noticed a skydiver coming down in an Orange. parachute west of the highway (15) about } to } mile. At the time, he was nearly to the ground and they observed him only for a few moments. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=337 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-322 | AU OF IDENTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION Department of State Police SALEM
The following is a transcript of the record, including the most recently reported data, concerning OSB Number FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
F. B. I. Number
By
Director
<figure><table><tr><th>ARRESTED OR RECEIVED</th><th>DEPARTMENT AND NUMBER</th><th>NAME</th><th>CHARGE</th><th>DISPOSITION</th></tr><tr><td>4-21-61</td><td>SO Portland, Ore. #39691</td><td>Joseph Henry JOHNSON</td><td>L by bailee</td><td>Rel for lack of evidence 4-25-61</td></tr><tr><td>11-2-61</td><td>SO Portland, Ore. #39691</td><td>Joseph Henry JOHNSTON</td><td>Cont of court (Non-support)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1-28-62</td><td>PD Portland, Ore. #35463</td><td>Joseph Henry JOHNSTON</td><td>J-Walk/inv asit U robb AWDW</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1-31-62</td><td>SO Portland, Ore. #39691</td><td>Joseph Henry JOHNSTON</td><td>Aslt & robb armed</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>8-3-62</td><td>PD Columbus, Miss. #2812</td><td>Joseph Henry JOHNSTON</td><td>False pretense ( Issuing worthless chks)</td><td>60 das on 2 cts 120 das on Co Farm</td></tr><tr><td>3-20-63</td><td>OSPrison, Columbus, Chio #116859</td><td>Joe H. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=341 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-335 |
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KC ATTEMPT TO CONTACT KANSAS CITY, :unselected: AND ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS OF :unselected: ON NOV. TWENTY FOUR, LAST.
SUBJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
END ... RMB
FBI PD CLR
12/11/71
ILVY: 379
SEARCHED J2X3
FED
SERIALIZED 1971
rai-runiLove
035
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DB Cooper-40757
b6 b7CLos ingeles, California December 9, SERT, INDEXED SERIALIZED 1 FILED
DEC 1 3 1971 FBI -PORTLAND,
93
F. 3. I.
Gentlemen:
Yesterday I dropped you a line or two about the case of the missing 3200,000 air Jack. I mentioned the word settler or settlers had come thru me and today the word railroad came thru me and I remember the word came thru me hhe nite of the Hijack. Just what it means I don't know, but I started to make out a little map showing the railroads and I think the spirit felt sorry for me and now I am sure I have the hottest clue to the case yet. The word c.ame thru loud and clear. It said 90 miles. I think this is very definitely something to go to work on. I don't know the exact glide path of the plane from seattle-Tacoma airport and I don't know for sure if I am right with my crude map, | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=358 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-338 | Once before when the spirit said this -- They bombed the Bank of America at Isle of Vista up near San Francisco. Spirit also said this morning that Fidel Castro was raiding us. This means that sombebody from mainland Juba is slipping into our country and is highly skilled at the use of explosives. :selected:
ACTION CHRB
I wish I had a camp and about 100 young men about or between the age of 20 and ,40 and I would train them to have the holy ghost. If I had it now I could tell you many things. It takes about a year of training to produce men with the holy ghost and they will never know under the existing conditions.
Hope my new clue spirit gave me (90 miles) will crack the case.
Sincerely, DB Cooper-40758 b6 b7C
I notice the Southern Pacific runs a railroad coming in from the south -- Maybe Mr. Jooper went over the city of Portland ind hopped out south of the city and o ught a freight train the nite of copper. (Just supposition)
125-61.380
saCHECK AREA 90 AIR MILES = FROM SEATTLE TACOMA AIRPORT VERY HOT NOW PIGEON SPRINGS KALAMA RIVER IF THIS IS 90 AIR MILES FROM
CMSTP RV
· PUYALLUP
Roy
y
| cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=359 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-352 | 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
12/13/71
Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT
Via TELETYPE
(Type in plaintext or code)
URGENT
(Priority)
<figure><table><tr><td>TO:</td><td>SEATTLE (164-81)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM:</td><td>PORTLAND (164-41)</td></tr></table></figure>
1 page
NORJACK.
RE SEATTLE AIRTEL TO PORTLAND DECEMBER SIX SEVENTYONE.
SUSPECT:
PORTLAND, OREGON.
,
SUSPECT WAS WORKING NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE UNTIL AFTER FIVE P.M., AND , BELIEVES HE BEARS NO RESEMBLANCE TO ARTIST'S SKETCH, ALSO HE IS TRUSTED EMPLOYEE. PENDING. :selected: 1
Portland
<figure><table><tr><td rowSpan=2>NBB : 1bt (1)</td><td>164-41-388</td></tr><tr><td>72 2</td></tr></table></figure>
Approved: L6
Sent 1:55 pm M
Per
Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-40775
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FBI
Date:
12/13/71
PLAINTEXT
Transmit the following in
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via
TELETYPE
URGENT
(Priority)
TO:
SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM : PORTLAND (164-41) (P) ( LP)
NORJACK
RE SACRAMENTO AIRTEL TO SEATTLE DATED DECEMBER SIX, SEVENTYONE. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=376 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-364 | investigation was conducted at Portland, Oregon, by SA
On December 10, 1971, $
employees of Northwest Orient Airlines and witnesses of the hijacking, observed photographs of the below-listed suspects with negative results: :selected: :selected: JESSE EDWIN BELL RALPH VINCENT GALOPE MARVIN JOHN COOPER> HAROLD LEE DOWELL
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DEC 1 3 1971 toi-rJRIL. gas
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DB Cooper-40793OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10' MAY INE EDITION CHA FPMR (4 CFR) 101-t1.5 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum®
TO
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
DATE:
12/13/71
FROM . :
SA
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SUBJECT:
NORJACK
WEATHER INFORMATION
Contained within the 1-A section of this file are teletype aviation weather reports dated 11/24/71 received from the Flight Service Station, 5410 N. E. Marine Drive, Portland, Oregon.
At 8:00 p.m .; 11/24/71, Portland weather was reported as douds . 1, 500 feet scattered, 2,600 feet (measured) broken, ceiling 5,000 feet overcast; visibility seven miles with light rain showers; temperature 42 degrees F., dew point 38 degrees F; surface winds from 270 degrees (west) at ten knots; baro- metric pressure 30.03 pounds per square inch, winds aloft at 10,000 feet. were: from W. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=394 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part091_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039312E706466-page-367 | does not know if MARCOTTE came back to the motel the afternoon of 11/24/71. She said he
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BRS : sao (2) 507
cul-FUNILAND 03
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-40795
5010-108-02
164-41-403
DI ARCHED INDEXED.PD 164-41
probably went directly home from UAD. She considers him an excellent tenant and has had no reason to question his character or reputation.
On 12/6/71, FRANK J. MARCOTTE, property disposal, UAD, stated he left the depot about 1:30 PM, 11/24/71, and drove to his residence 172 4th Street, Lake Oswego, Oregon, arriving about 4:00 PM. His father J. E. MARCOTTE who also lives at 172 4th Street, was there when he arrived, MARCOTTE stated he is not the hijacker and has no information regarding this matter.
It was observed that Mr. MARCOTTE's hair is predom- inately gray and faily thick with no noticeable balding.
In view of his stature and general apr trance, no further investigation is recommended.
DB Cooper-40796
- 2 -FD-302 (REV. 3-17-69)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date. | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf#page=396 | cooper_d_b_part091.pdf |
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