Handwritten citizen tip letter naming a suspect as Dan Cooper, with mailing envelope
Document date 26 September 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-10:089-091 Document: Handwritten citizen tip letter naming a suspect as Dan Cooper, with mailing envelope Id: Cooper-Part-10:089-091 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-10%3A089-091 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 10 pp. 89–91 (DB Cooper-1309–1311), Handwritten note, dated 26 Sep 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-10%3A089-091
[top right, printed] DB Cooper-1309
[top right, handwritten] September 26, 1976
Dear Sir, I believe that I know who Dan Cooper is.
[I am] enclosing a picture of [REDACTED] him. Compare it if the [REDACTED] [guess: resemblances] you [guess: have], as you can see they [the] look alike. Compared to the [guess: FBI] [guess: similarities], the man [REDACTED] the name but shortly after [REDACTED] found out [the/this] real name was [REDACTED]. This [guess: name] may have been false [guess: alias] but [REDACTED] also the men [REDACTED] were [REDACTED] and [guess: stories] [guess: how] he [REDACTED] during the [REDACTED] sunglasses and wore [guess: thick] dark [guess: framed] [guess: prescriptions] as the kind that fit over regular glasses. He was about 6 ft. 1 in and was a little heavy [REDACTED] but he could of [guess: lost] a little [guess: weight]. [guess: He] was [guess: always] trying to [guess: think] of ways to get a [guess: large] amount of money without [guess: working]. When [text continues off page or is cut off]
[redacted] fraud for money. His voice [redacted] out the [guess: rest] side. He could really make people like him.
[guess: was] finger printed at [redacted] He [redacted] Jail [guess: has] a record on him.
The man I [guess: knew] also [guess: likes] the area where the Dan Cooper went down in [redacted] [redacted] was in the area for this purpose. He has. California. some where [guess: assumed] California but he never
I am sorry I [guess: haven't] [guess: wrote] sooner. I realize [guess: he] may be far away. If you need any more information and I can help you I will be glad to.
Sincerely [redacted]
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DB Cooper-1310
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b6 b7C b7D
[Postmark: NOV 26 PM J 1976] [US flag postage stamp]
Federal Bureau of [guess: Inveulagation] Portland, [guess: Ored.] Oregon
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[guess: Unspertant] D B. Cooper
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[redacted]
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b6 b7C b7D
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DB Cooper-1311