Milwaukee to Director, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle re NORJAK, subject claiming to be D.B. Cooper

Document date 8 October 1975

Part 9pages 373–3775 pagesDB Cooper-1091–1092

Also filed at: Part 36 pp. 269–273 · Part 61 pp. 159–163

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 9 pp. 373–377 (DB Cooper-1091–1092), Teletype, dated 8 Oct 1975, serial PD 164-41-1475 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A373-377

Page 1 of 5Part 9 p. 373

NR 003 MI PLAIN 1:10PM URGENT 10/8/75 KMV TO : DIRECTOR (164-2111) LOS ANGELES (164-497) PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: MILWAUKEE (164-36) (P) NORJAK

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RE MILWAUKEE TELETYPE TO BUREAU, OCTOBER 7, 1975.

FOR INFO BU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, [REDACTED]. WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH [REDACTED] WISCONSIN, P.M. ON [REDACTED] 1975. [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY HAD [REDACTED] WISCONSIN POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH SUB- SEQUENT INVESTIGATION RESULTING IN [REDACTED] INVESTIGATION IN THIS MATTER REFLECTS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA ON [REDACTED] WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED A.M. ON [REDACTED] 1975, AT WHICH TIME HE ADMITTED INVOLVEMENT IN NUMEROUS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA,

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164'41-1475 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED OCT 1975 FBI PORTLAND

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MI 164-36 PAGE TWO

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TO DATE, INVESTIGATION HAS DETERMINED [REDACTED] TO BE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED IN [REDACTED] WITH EFFORTS BEING MADE TO RESOLVE ADDITIONAL [REDACTED]

IN ADDITION TO [REDACTED] CLAIMED TO BE D.B. COOPER, INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED IN NORJAK. [REDACTED] THEREAFTER GAVE ACCOUNT OF MATTER SIMILAR TO THAT PUBLISHED OR AIRED BY NEWS MEDIA WITH THE FOLLOWING DIFFERENCES OR ADDITIONS:

[REDACTED] IN CONNECTION WITH THE FLIGHT, HE MADE A RESERVATION WITH NORTHWEST AIRLINES IN NAME OF [REDACTED] COOPER. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT NAME APPEARED ON MANIFEST. THE MONEY, 200,000 DOLLARS, WAS FURNISHED TO HIM IN LARGE LEATHER TYPE BRIEF CASE WHICH HE THREW OUT OF AIRPLANE IN SEATTLE AFTER SUBSEQUENTLY TRANSFERRING MONEY TO LARGE CANVAS DUFFEL BAG WHICH HE TIED AROUND HIS WAIST PRIOR TO EXITING AIRCRAFT.

WITH RESPECT TO DIRECTIONS GIVEN THE PILOT OF AIRCRAFT, HE CLAIMED TO HAVE DIRECTED HIM TO GO DUE SOUTH AT 10,000 FT.

END PAGE TWO

MI 164-36 PAGE THREE

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AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE AND CLAIMED TO HAVE GIVEN NO SPECIFICS SUCH AS AIR SPEED, MAGNETIC COURSE, OR DESTINATION. [REDACTED] CLAIMED HE EXITED AIRCRAFT, BOEING 727, THROUGH REAR DOOR LANDING NEAR SMALL TOWN WITH FUNNY NAME (POSSIBLY BOREDOM) IN OREGON SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND MT. HOOD. HE WALKED TO A ROAD AND HITCHHIKED TO PORTLAND WHERE HE SPENT THE NIGHT IN MOTEL, NAME UNRECALLED. THE NEXT DAY, HE RENTED RYDER TRUCK IN PORTLAND [REDACTED] (PHONETIC) USING STOLEN DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR IDENTIFICATION. HE THEREAFTER DROVE TO JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT NEAR PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA WHERE HE BURIED MONEY AND AMMUNITION CANISTERS NEAR BARKER DAM IN THAT AREA.

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IT IS NOTED MILWAUKEE CASE AGENT HAS HAD TELEPHONIC CONVERSATIONS WITH LOS ANGELES OFFICE RE LOCATION OF THIS MONEY AND HAS TRANSMITTED VIA FACSIMILE COPY OF MAP DETAILING AS TO WHERE MONEY IS ALLEGEDLY BURIED TO THIS OFFICE FOR THEIR USE.

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END PAGE THREE

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DB Cooper-1091

MI 164-36 PAGE FOUR

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[REDACTED] CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN MONEY AS LATE AS JUNE OF 1975 AND ADVISED REASON HE NEVER SPENT IT WAS THAT HE KNEW MONEY TO BE MARKED AND CLAIMED NOT TO KNOW HOW TO DISPOSE OF IT WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT.

ON OCTOBER 7, 1975, LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION, FBI LABORATORY, WAS TELEPHONICALLY REQUESTED TO COMPARE ANY LATENTS DEVELOPED IN CAPTIONED CASE AGAINST KNOWN FINGERPRINTS OF [REDACTED] FBI NO. [REDACTED] WITH NO RESULTS OF COMPARISONS YET KNOWN AT MILWAUKEE. IT IS FURTHER NOTED SEATTLE, OFFICE OF ORIGIN, WAS TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED OF THIS INFO ON OCTOBER 7, 1975, AS WELL AS HAVING BEEN FURNISHED NUMEROUS WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS DATING FROM OCTOBER 31, 1974, RE [REDACTED] WHO HAS BEEN MAKING SIMILAR CLAIMS SINCE THAT TIME.

ABOVE INFO FURNISHED INTERESTED OFFICES IN LIGHT OF INVOLVEMENT [REDACTED] AS CLAIMED.

ADMINISTRATIVE: DURING INTERVIEW, [REDACTED] WAS QUESTIONED IN DETAIL RE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT AND PARACHUTING, AS WELL AS OPERATION OF THIS EQUIPMENT, IN CONNECTION WITH CAPTIONED END PAGE FOUR

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DB Cooper-1092

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MI 164-36 PAGE FIVE MATTER WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE APPEARING LIMITED AND HIS ANSWERS VAGUE RE THESE DETAILS.

IN ADDITION, SEATTLE REPORT OF SA [REDACTED] DATED MAY 30, 1973, SET FORTH PROFILE OF NORJAK UNSUB AND COMPARISON OF [REDACTED] AGAINST THIS PROFILE INDICATES HE DOES NOT FIT SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF ITEMS AS SET FORTH.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS; [REDACTED] END.

CSP FBI PORTLAND CLR TK U

Serials: 164-2111, 164-36, LA 164-497, MI 164-36, PD 164-41, PD 164-41-1475, SE 164-81

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