NITEL Dallas to Director and Seattle re suspect Earl F. Williams
Document date 6 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-100:053-054 Document: NITEL Dallas to Director and Seattle re suspect Earl F. Williams Id: Cooper-Part-100:053-054 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A053-054 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. 53–54 (DB Cooper-44965), Teletype, dated 6 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-746 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A053-054
NR002 DL PLAIN NITEL DATED 12-6-71 SENT 6:52 AM 12-7-71 JRH TO DIRECTOR SEATTLE (164-81) FROM DALLAS (164-191)
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UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN JET, ELEVEN TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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RE OKLAHOMA CITY TELETYPE NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST.
EARL FELTON WILLIAMS, TWO ONE TWO ONE NORTH HANDLEY, APARTMENT NINE SIX, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WAS INTERVIEWED THIS DATE RE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF OR INVOLVEMENT IN CAPTIONED HIJACKING. WILLIAMS DENIED ANY INVOLVEMENT IN INSTANT MATTER AND ADVISED THAT HE ONLY KNEW OF THIS HIJACKING BECAUSE OF THE NEWS MEDIA. WILLIAMS ADVISED THAT HE IS PRESENTLY EMPLOYED AS PIANO PLAYER AT "POPPA'S PIZZA PARLOR" IN FORT WORTH WHERE HE WORKS FROM SEVEN PM TO MIDNIGHT SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND THAT HIS ATTENDANCE AT WORK ON THE DATE OF THE HIJACKING CAN BE VERIFIED.
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DB COOPER-44965 sub 56 164-81-746 SEARCHED ... SERIALIZED ... FILED ... DEC 7 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DL 164-191
WILLIAMS ADVISED FURTHER THAT HE DOES POSSESS A PRIVATE PILOT'S LICENSE WHICH WAS VERIFIED TO BE NUMBER FOUR EIGHT SIX FIVE SIX NINE, ISSUED IN WILLIAMS' NAME ON FEBRUARY FIVE, NINETEEN FIFTYEIGHT, FOR A SINGLE ENGINE LAND AIRPLAINE. THE ADDRESS SHOWN ON THE LICENSE IS P.O. BOX TWO TWO SEVEN, VELMA, OKLAHOMA. WILLIAMS ADVISED THAT HE HAS DONE NO FLYING IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
REGARDING HIS EMPLOYMENT, WILLIAMS STATED THAT PRIOR TO COMING TO FORT WORTH HE WAS EMPLOYED BY SKELLY OIL COMPANY IN OKLAHOMA.
ON DECEMBER SIX INSTANT, [REDACTED] POPPA'S PIZZA PALOR, FORT WORTH, ADVISED WILLIAMS WAS IN ATTENDANCE AT HIS JOB ON NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, FOUR AND FIVE FROM THE HOURS OF SEVEN THIRTY PM TO ONE AM. [REDACTED] REGARDS WILLIAMS AS A GOOD EMPLOYEE.
WILLIAMS IS DESCRIBED FROM OBSERVATION AND INTERVIEW AS WHITE MALE, BORN JUNE SIXTEEN, NINETEEN NINETEEN, HEALDTON, OKLAHOMA, FIVE ELEVEN, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTYFIVE POUNDS, BROWN HAIR WITH SLIGHT TOUCH OF GRAY, GREEN EYES, SLIGHTLY RUDDY COMPLEXION, NO DISTINCTIVE SCARS OF MARKS. WILLIAMS WEARS TRIFOCAL GLASSES WHICH, ALTHOUGH NOT UNUSUALLY THICK, HE CLAIMS HE MUST WEAR AT ALL TIMES.
FD THREE ZERO TWOS FOLLOW.
AIR MAIL COPY TO OKLAHOMA CITY.
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Serials: DL 164-191, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-746