Springfield to Director re suspect Daniel Louis Cooper background

NR009 SI PLAIN 757 PM URGENT 12-1-71 AEF TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE MINNEAPOLIS FROM SPRINGFIELD (164-31) (8P)

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING, OO: SEATTLE.

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RE BUREAU AIRTEL TO ALL OFFICES EXCEPT SEATTLE, PORTLAND AND LAS VEGAS, NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, LAST. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS SUPPLIED IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT BELOW SUSPECT MATCHES DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB IN THIS MATTER. ON NOVEMBER THIRTY, LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], ILLINOIS, TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED SPRINGFIELD DIVISION AND ADVISED THAT HE HAS POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN INSTANT MATTER. [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED BY AGENTS [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] ON NOVEMBER THIRTY, LAST. [REDACTED] ADVISED DANIEL L. COOPER, APPROXIMATELY FORTYFIVE YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE EIGHTYFIVE POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, DARK EYES, WHO IS AN EX-GREEN BERET, A SMOOTH TALKER END PAGE ONE.

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164-81-606 SEARCHED______INDEXED______ SERIALIZED______FILED______ DEC 1 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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PAGE TWO AND SOMEWHAT OF A CON-MAN, CLOSELY RESEMBLES COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH OBSERVED IN LOCAL SPRINGFIELD NEWSPAPER. [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED]. COOPER FORMERLY EMPLOYED BY ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY AS AN EXPEDITOR AND DEPARTED SPRINGFIELD IN JULY, SEVENTYONE, TO WORK FOR THE OKI ELECTRONIC COMPANY, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA. COOPER LEFT EMPLOY OF OKI IN END OF SEPTEMBER, SEVENTYONE, AND [REDACTED] HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE SINCE. [REDACTED] ADVISED COOPER HARDUP FOR MONEY. [REDACTED] AND BELIEVED TO HAVE HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD.

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SPRINGFIELD INDICES REVEALED DANIEL LOUIS COOPER SUBJECT IN THREE MATTERS, SPRINGFIELD FILE TWENTY SIX - ONE FOUR SEVEN SIX SIX, IN WHICH MATTER COOPER STOLE RENTAL CAR FROM HERTZ, WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA IN JULY, FIFTYEIGHT. VEHICLE RECOVERED RIVERTON, ILLINOIS. COOPER ARRESTED BY BUREAU AGENTS PLED GUILTY AND RECEIVED THREE YEARS PROBATION. INTERVIEW OF COOPER AT THAT TIME REVEALED HE WAS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. TO APPLY FOR JOB AT END PAGE TWO

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CIVIL AERONAUTICS AGENCY. PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT WAS THAT OF AN ENGINEER AT GLEN R. MARTIN COMPANY, DENVER, COLORADO, ON A GUIDED MISSLE PROJECT. FURTHER REVIEW OF FILE REVEALED THAT ON JULY TWENTYSIX - TWENTYSEVEN, FIFTYEIGHT, COOPER PASSED SEVERAL NO-ACCOUNT TRUE-NAME CHECKS IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI AREA AND WARRANT ISSUED BY FLORRISANT, MISSOURI POLICE DEPARTMENT. NO DISPOSITION SHOWN IN FILE. UNDER [REDACTED] FILE [REDACTED], A REVIEW OF SAME REVEALED [REDACTED] [REDACTED BLOCK]

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[REDACTED], UNDER SPRINGFIELD FILE SEVENTYTHREE- THREE NINE ONE, A REVIEW REVEALED THAT ON SEPTEMBER TWENTYONE, SIXTYFIVE, COOPER REQUESTED A PARDON SO THAT HE COULD OBTAIN FULL RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN. FILE REFLECTED COOPER MEMBER OF JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY AND HE COMMENTED MEMBERSHIP WAS TO RECEIVE ANTI-COMMUNISM LITERATURE IN ORDER FOR HIM TO FURTHER HIS ANTI-COMMUNISM FIGHT AND TO REGAIN MILITARY RESERVE STATUS. COOPER ADVISED THAT HE IS LOYAL TO THE UNITED STATES AND BELIEVES HIS ATTACKS AGAINST COMMUNISM WERE END PAGE THREE

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PAGE FOUR FUTILE AT THAT TIME BUT MAY HAVE BEEN SOME SMALL HELP TO THE GOVERNMENT.

· INTERVIEW WITH [REDACTED], ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, ON DECEMBER ONE, INSTANT, BY SA [REDACTED], REVEALED COOPER HIRED AS A DRAFTSMAN IN JUNE, SIXTYTWO. COOPER TOOK MILITARY LEAVE IN SEPTEMBER, SIXTYSEVEN, AND RETURNED IN SEPTEMBER, SEVENTY. COOPER RESIGNED FROM TELEPHONE COMPANY IN JULY, SEVENTYONE, FOR OTHER EMPLOYMENT AS HE DID NOT HAVE JOB SECURITY AT BELL.

UNSUBSTANTIATED INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM [REDACTED], ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, THAT AN UNKNOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN FLORIDA HAD RECENTLY CONTACTED THE TELEPHONE COMPANY REGARDING A STOLEN RENTAL VEHICLE THAT COOPER WAS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN. [REDACTED] COULD NOT VERIFY OR DENY THIS INFORMATION BUT ADVISED THAT SOMETIME AGO A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] APPEARED IN SPRINGFIELD AND [REDACTED] BELIEVED SHE WAS LOOKING FOR COOPER, [REDACTED]. THIS INFORMATION NOT CONFIRMED AS [REDACTED] DID NOT HAVE RECORDS REGARDING THIS.

RECONTACT WITH [REDACTED] ON DECEMBER ONE, INSTANT, REVEALED THAT AS OF JANUARY ELEVEN, SIXTYEIGHT, COOPER HAD BEEN LOCATED BY HIM AT THE SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING GROUP, END PAGE FOUR

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SPECIAL WARFARE CENTER, FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA AND HE BELIEVED COOPER TO HAVE BEEN A WARRANT OFFICER, LATER PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT, CAPTAIN AND/OR MAJOR. [REDACTED] COULD NOT CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT COOPER IN GREEN BERET.

THE FOLLOWING COMPOSITE DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF COOPER OBTAINED THROUGH SPRINGFIELD FILES, BRIEF PERSONNEL RECORDS AT ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY AND [REDACTED]:

DANIEL LOUIS OR LEWIS COOPER, DOB MARCH SIXTEEN, TWENTY- NINE AT WASHINGTON, D.C.; SCOTCH-IRISH DECENT; FIVE FEET TEN AND ONE-HALF INCHES; ONE SIXTYFIVE POUNDS (AS OF NINETEEN SIXTYONE); BLACK HAIR; BROWN EYES, NO GLASSES; NO SPEECH DEFECT OR ACCENT; TEETH -FALSE UPPERS AND LOWERS (UNCONFIRMED); DARK COMPLECTED; SCARS - TWO AND ONE-HALF INCH SCAR OUTSIDE RIGHT KNEE FROM TUMOR OPERATION; TATTOOS - HEART WITH THREE LEAVES AND WORD DAN IN THREE COLORS ON RIGHT FOREARM; MARKS - SUFFERED POLIO AS A CHILD RESULTING IN SHORT ACHILLIES TENDONS CAUSING HIM TO WALK ON BALLS OF FEET; WEARS COWBOY BOOTS OR SHOES WITH LARGE HEELS TO COMPENSATE; [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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PAGE SIX [REDACTED], SSAN FIVE SEVEN SEVEN - THREE FOUR - NINE ZERO EIGHT ZERO; FBI NUMBER NINE FOUR TWO SIX FOUR SEVEN C; EDUCATION - MC KINLEY TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D.C., OBTAINING HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALANCY IN NAVY; CLAIMS TWO YEARS ATTENDANCE AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C., CLAIMED ON FINGERPRINT CARD TO BE AN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER, CLAIMS COMPLETED COURSE AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN FLUID MECHANICS; RAP SHEET SUMMARY - CSC, THREE NINE, FORTY-FIVE; POLICE DEPARTMENT, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, AS APPLICANT MAY TWENTYTHREE, FORTYFIVE; RECEIVING AND INDUCTION DIVISION, NAVY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C., AS APPLICANT, JANUARY THIRTYONE, FORTYSEVEN; OSI, WASHINGTON, D.C., APPLICANT, AUGUST TWENTYONE, FIFTY; OSI, WASHINGTON, D.C., APPLICANT, PRT REC, JULY THIRTY, FIFTYFOUR; US MARSHAL, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, JULY TWENTYEIGHT, FIFTYEIGHT, DYER ACT; CSC, APRIL ELEVEN, FORTYSIX; CIA, WASHINGTON, D.C., APPLICANT, JULY TWENTY, FORTYEIGHT; FBI, SPRINGFIELD, INQUIRY, AUGUST TWENTY-ONE, FIFTYEIGHT; FBI, SPRINGFIELD, APACS, SEPTEMBER TWENTY-EIGHT, SIXTYFIVE; US MARSHAL, SPRINGFIELD, PROBATION VIOLATION, JULY ELEVEN, SIXTYONE, DISPOSITION EIGHTEEN MONTHS, TERRE END PAGE SIX

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HAUTE, INDIANA. MILITARY SERVICE - FEBRUARY SIX, FORTYSEVEN THROUGH JANUARY, FIFTYONE, US NAVY UNDER SERIAL NUMBER FOUR FOUR NINE SIX FIVE SIX ONE; ONE AND ONE-HALF YEARS, US AIR FORCE, ENDING APPROXIMATELY DECEMBER THIRTEEN, FIFTYTWO, UNDER SERIAL NUMBER ONE THREE THREE THREE ONE EIGHT SIX SEVEN; SEPTEMBER, SIXTYSEVEN TO AUGUST, SEVENTY, US ARMY UNDER SERIAL NUMBER W THREE TWO FIVE ZERO EIGHT SIX FOUR; HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED WARRANT OFFICER, US ARMY; MOTHER - KATHERINE WOODS HOFFMAN, THREE FIVE ONE TWO SHEPHERD, MOUNT RANIER, MARYLAND, AS OF SIXTYFIVE; LAST KNOWN ADDRESS - THREE SIX ZERO SIX LANCASTER ROAD, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, (AS OF JULY, SEVENTYONE). UPON DISCHARGE FROM SERVICE IN SIXTYSEVEN, MAIL WAS TO BE FORWARDED IN CARE OF MR. AND MRS. T. HAYES, BOX TWO ONE ONE, SPRING CITY, TENNESSEE, THREE SEVEN THREE EIGHT ONE; HOBBIES - READS GERMAN AND SPANISH, AVIATION-AIRCRAFT, ELECTRONICS, GUN COLLECTOR, PAINTING, BUILDING MODEL PLANES, BOATS AND TRUCKS.

FOR INFORMATION OF SEATTLE, MAJOR CASE PRINTS AND HAND- WRITING EXEMPLARS TAKEN WHEN ARRESTED IN NINETEEN FIFTYEIGHT BY FBI SPRINGFIELD. FURTHER INFORMATION REVEALED WHEN SUBJECT END PAGE SEVEN

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