Norfolk to Director re suspect Douglas Cooper interview
Document date 3 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-101:005-009 Document: Teletype Norfolk to Director re suspect Douglas Cooper interview Id: Cooper-Part-101:005-009 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A005-009 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 101 pp. 5–9 (DB Cooper-45427–45429), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-544 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A005-009
1253 AM 12-4-71 NR Ø11 NF PLAIN PM URGENT 12-3-71 DAC TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) MINNEAPOLIS NEWARK SEATTLE (164-81) WASHINGTON FIELD NEW YORK (164-627) FROM NORFOLK (164-41)
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UNKNOWN SUBJECT, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, ELEVEN TWENTY-FOUR SEVENTY- ONE CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION OO: SEATTLE
RE NY TEL DIRECTOR TWELVE THREE SEVENTY-ONE AND RH TEL DIRECTOR TWELVE THREE SEVENTY-ONE.
INVESTIGATION AT NEWPORT NEWS, VA., DETERMINED DOUGLAS COOPER, WHITE MALE, DOB APRIL TWENTY-FOUR NINETEEN TWENTY-FIVE, POB ELLESMERE PORT, ENGLAND, HEIGHT FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES, PRESENTLY EMPLOYED AT CLAYTON'S MEN SHOP, NEWPORT NEWS, VA., AND HAS BEEN SINCE AUGUST SEVENTY-ONE. [REDACTED] CONFIRM END PAGE ONE
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164-81-[guess: 544] SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 8 1971 FBI · SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-45427
NF 164-41
PAGE TWO
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COOPER'S ATTENDANCE AT WORK ON ELEVEN TWENTY-FOUR SEVENTY-ONE UNTIL SIX PM EST AND ALL DAY ON ELEVEN TWENTY-SIX SEVENTY-ONE.
COOPER INTERVIEWED THIS DATE AT HIS RESIDENCE [REDACTED], NEWPORT NEWS, VA. HE ADVISED THAT ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR LAST HE WORKED FROM TEN AM UNTIL SIX PM. HE STATED HE COULD NOT RECALL SPECIFICALLY HIS WHEREABOUTS AFTER SIX PM NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR LAST BUT BELIEVES HE EITHER WENT TO LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS CLUB WITH ONE AIR FORCE SERGEANT WILLARD HILL TO PLAY BINGO, OR WENT TO HIS, COOPER'S, APARTMENT, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE SPENT REMAINDER OF EVENING THROUGH MID MORNING OF NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE LAST [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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COOPER STATED THAT UPON AWAKENING MORNING NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE LAST HE [REDACTED] BEGAN TO PREPARE THANKSGIVING DINNER WHICH THEY SHARED AT [REDACTED]. COOPER STATED HE, [REDACTED] ATE DINNER AND DRANK VARIED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES UNTIL NINE PM AT WHICH TIME THEY DROVE TO WILLIAMSBURG, VA., TAVERN WHERE THEY CONTINUED DRINKING.
COOPER STATED HE REPORTED FOR WORK AT CLAYTON'S NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX LAST AT TEN AM.
END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-45428
NF 164-41 PAGE THREE
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COOPER STATED THAT APPROXIMATELY THREE YEARS AGO HE MADE ONE STATIC LINE JUMP WITH SPORT PARACHUTE AT LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY AFTER RECEIVING ONE HALF HOUR INFORMAL INSTRUCTION FROM UNRECALLED INDIVIDUAL AT PARACHUTE CORPORATION OF AMERICA, LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY. COOPER STATED THIS WAS ONLY JUMP HE HAS MADE IN ENTIRE LIFE. HE STATED THAT HE MADE JUMP FOLLOWING CONVERSATION WITH ONE [REDACTED], DURING CHANCE MEETING AT UNRECALLED NEW YORK CITY TAVERN. HE STATED [REDACTED], WHO IS DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, MIDDLE [REDACTED], SIX FEET, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, WOULD PROBABLY BE LISTED IN NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE DIRECTORY AS [REDACTED]. HE COULD PROVIDE NO FURTHER INFORMATION RE [REDACTED]. HE STATED [REDACTED] DOES NOT RESEMBLE ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF UNSUB WHICH WAS DISPLAYED.
COOPER STATED HE HAS NOT COMMUNICATED IN ANY MANNER WITH [REDACTED], CONCERNING [REDACTED], AND HAS NO IDEA WHO MIGHT HAVE MADE SUCH COMMUNICATION.
HE STATED LAST FLIGHT OF ANY TYPE HE HAS MADE WAS COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TO NEW YORK CITY TO VISIT [REDACTED] CHRISTMAS NINETEEN SEVENTY. END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-45429
NF 164-41 PAGE FOUR
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COOPER ADVISED HE WAS UNAWARE OF INSTANT HIJACKING UNTIL SO ADVISED DURING INTERVIEW, AND DENIED ANY INVOLVEMENT IN HIJACKING.
COOPER, WHO SPEAKS WITH SCOTTISH OR ENGLISH ACCENT, OBSERVED TO HAVE NO VISIBLE BRUISES, LACERATIONS, OR INJURIES TO HEAD, CHEST, ARMS, OR LEGS.
[REDACTED] BELIEVE ARTISTS CONCEPION OF UNSUB BEARS STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO COOPER, AS DID OBSERVATION OF COOPER DURING HIS INTERVIEW BY BUAGENTS.
[REDACTED] INTERVIEWED THIS DATE AND ADVISED SHE MET COOPER SIX PM NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR LAST AT COOPER'S PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT AND DROVE HIM DIRECTLY TO [REDACTED] WHERE THEY SPENT REMAINDER OF EVENING. SHE VERIFIED COOPER'S VERSION OF HIS ACTIVITIES DURING NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE LAST.
COOPER PHOTOGRAPHED AND PHOTOGRAPHS IMMEDIATELY BEING FORWARDED TO OO VIA AIR MAIL.
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NORFOLK AT NEWPORT NEWS, VA. WILL LOCATE AND INTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RE TIMES HE WAS WITH COOPER.
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NF 164-41
PAGE FIVE
NEW YORK. WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW [REDACTED] RE HIS ASSOCIATION WITH COOPER AND FURTHER DETERMINE WHETHER HE HAS ANY KNOWLEDGE REGARDING INSTANT MATTER.
NEWARK. WILL REINTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHO COULD BE USING COOPER'S NAME. ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH WHETHER UNKNOWN CALLER SPOKE WITH ANY ACCENT NOTING THAT COOPER SPEAKS WITH SCOTTISH ACCENT. P.
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DCA
FBI SEATTLE CLR
Serials: 164-2111, NF 164-41, NY 164-627, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-544