Portland to Seattle and San Francisco re Monterey lead and 7/12/71 car theft suspect
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Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle re NORJAK suspect and tavern witnesses
Document date 15 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-100:018-021 Document: Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle re NORJAK suspect and tavern witnesses Id: Cooper-Part-100:018-021 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A018-021 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 100 pp. 18–21 (DB Cooper-44930–44933), Teletype, dated 15 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A018-021
NR 004 PD PLAIN 4:31 PM URGENT 12-15-71 LJQ TO: SEATTLE (164-81) SAN FRANCISCO FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) 4P
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NORJAK.
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RE SEATTLE AIRTEL TO PORTLAND DECEMBER ONE THREE, SEVENTY ONE. COPY THIS COMMUNICATION BEING SUBMITTED TO SAN FRANCISCO TO FACILITATE COVERAGE OF LEAD AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, NOTING INFO FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] MAY BE EMBELLISHED IN HOPE OF REWARD. IT IS NOTED THAT [REDACTED] REPORTED HIS VEHICLE STOLEN BY A [REDACTED] AND NOT D. B. COOPER. ALSO, HE WAS ASKING THE NAME OF COOPER FROM THE BARMAID AT JUBITZ* TAVERN ON DECEMBER ONE ONE, SEVENTY ONE. [REDACTED], DEPUTY SERGEANT, MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, ON DECEMBER ONE FOUR, LAST, FURNISHED STOLEN AUTO REPORT, THEIR CASE NUMBER [REDACTED]. THIS REFLECTED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED], SEATTLE, TELEPHONE [REDACTED], REPORTED THEFT OF HIS SIXTY FOUR PLYMOUTH FOUR-DOOR, TAN IN COLOR, BEARING WASHINGTON LICENSE [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE
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164-81-7[illegible]1 SEARCHED_______ INDEXED_______ SERIALIZED_______ FILED_______ DEC 15 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-44930
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PD 164-41 PAGE TWO
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[REDACTED], AT SEVEN: ZERO NINE P.M., JULY TWELVE, SEVENTY ONE. [REDACTED] REPORTED THE INDIVIDUAL WHO STOLE HIS CAR WAS [REDACTED], WHITE MALE AMERICAN, AGE [REDACTED], FIVE FEET SIX TO FIVE FEET EIGHT, HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, BALDING, SHORT HAIR, BROWN PLAID SHIRT.
[REDACTED] FIRST MET [REDACTED] AT APPROXIMATELY TWELVE:THIRTY P.M. ON JULY TWELVE, SEVENTY ONE, WHILE HE WAS UNLOADING HIS [guess: TRUCK] [original text reads: TURUCK] AT THE NORTHWEST WAREHOUSE, NORTHWEST THIRD AND MORRISON, PORTLAND, OREGON. [REDACTED] APPROACHED HIM AND REQUESTED TO HELP HIM UNLOAD HIS TRUCK FOR A FEE OF FIVE DOLLARS. HIS OFFER WAS ACCEPTED AND THEREAFTER [REDACTED] TOOK HIM TO JUBITZ' TAVERN AND [REDACTED] STATED HE HAD NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE. AT THIS TAVERN [REDACTED] HAD A FEW DRINKS WITH [REDACTED] AND WHEN [REDACTED], WENT OUT TO [REDACTED] CAR, HE WAS FOLLOWED BY [REDACTED] TOLD HIM HE WANTED TO BORROW THE CAR FOR A MINUTE IN ORDER TO THROW A PARTY FOR [REDACTED]. BELIEVING THIS PERSON TO BE AN OLD FRIEND OF [REDACTED] GAVE [REDACTED] THE KEYS TO THE VEHICLE. AT THIS TIME [REDACTED] EXITED FROM THE TAVERN TO SEE [REDACTED] LEAVING THE PARKING LOT.
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DB COOPER-44931
PD 164-41 PAGE THREE
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THE STOLEN REPORT FURTHER STATED [redacted] MIGHT HAVE THE IDENTI- FICATION OF [redacted], OKLAHOMA; OKLA- HOMA DRIVERS LICENSE [redacted]. REPORTEDLY [redacted] LOST HIS WALLET AT THE TAVERN AT APPROXIMATELY THE TIME THE VEHICLE WAS STOLEN. THE REPORT FURTHER STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS IMPOUNDED BY THE TURNER TOWING COMPANY, INC., TWO SIX TWO ZERO PACIFIC AVENUE, TACOMA, WASHINGTON ON JULY TWELVE, SEVENTY ONE.
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[redacted], JUBITZ' TAVERN, PORTLAND, OREGON, ADVISED ON DECEMBER ONE FOUR, SEVENTY ONE, [redacted] WITH [redacted], WHO AT TIMES IS A WINDBAG. SHE STATED THAT LAST SATURDAY, DECEMBER ELEVEN, [redacted] VISITED THE TAVERN AND ASKED HER WHAT [redacted] NAME WAS AND ALSO HIS DESCRIPTION. SHE STATED SHE INFORMED [redacted] THAT TO HER RECOLLECTION [redacted] WAS APPROXIMATELY [redacted], FIVE FEET NINE, DARK HAIR, WEARING DARK-RIMMED GLASSES, PRE- SCRIPTION TYPE AND CLEAR, AND A DARK JACKET.
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[redacted] SAID SHE RECALLED THE INCIDENT OF THE THEFT OF [redacted] CAR, STATING THAT AT APPROXIMATELY THE SAME TIME A CUSTOMER BY THE NAME OF [redacted] HAS HIS WALLET STOLEN AND IT WAS ASSUMED THAT THE INDI- VIDUAL KNOWN AS [redacted] MAY HAVE STOLEN THE WALLET. SHE STATED SHE END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-44932
PD 164-41 PAGE FOUR
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HAD NEVER SEEN [REDACTED] PRIOR TO OR SINCE THIS OCCASION AND THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW HIM WAS [REDACTED], WHO BROUGHT HIM TO THE TAVERN. SHE DID RECALL [REDACTED] AS BEING A SMART ALECK. SHE COULD PROVIDE NO FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] OR THE INCIDENT SURROUNDING THE THEFT. SHE RECALLED, HOWEVER, THAT [REDACTED] CAR WAS RECOVERED AT A MOTEL (NAME NOT KNOWN) AT TACOMA, WASHINGTON.
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SEATTLE AT TACOMA, WILL CONTACT THE TURNER TOWING COMPANY, TWO SIX TWO ZERO PACIFIC AVENUE, TO DETERMINE THE MOTEL WHERE [REDACTED] CAR WAS REPORTEDLY ABANDONED. THEREAFTER CHECK REGISTRATION AT THIS MOTEL FOR THE DATES JULY TWELVE AND THIRTEEN, SEVENTY ONE, FOR NAMES OF [REDACTED].
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IT IS NOTED IT IS BELIVED [REDACTED] IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN A REWARD BY FURNISHING INFORMATION THAT THE INDIVIDUAL'S NAME WAS D.B. COOPER INSTEAD OF [REDACTED], WHICH WAS PROVIDED BY HIM AT THE TIME OF THE VEHICLE THEFT.
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DB COOPER-44933
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