New York to Director re suspect Douglas Cooper background and leads
Document date 3 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-101:012-016 Document: Teletype New York to Director re suspect Douglas Cooper background and leads Id: Cooper-Part-101:012-016 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A012-016 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. 12–16 (DB Cooper-45434, DB Cooper-45435, DB Cooper-45438), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-496 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A012-016
NR012 NY PLAIN 250PM IMMEDIATE 12-3-71 JAH TO DIRECTOR 164-2111 MINNEAPOLIS NEWARK NORFOLK RICHMOND SEATTLE WASHINGTON FIELD FROM NEW YORK 164-627 5P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOURTH, SEVENTYONE, CAA- HIJACKING. OO SEATTLE
RE NEWARK TEL TO BUREAU, DECEMBER SECOND, LAST. FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, DOUGLAS COOPER, WHITE, MALE, PREVIOUSLY RESIDING TWO ONE TWO EAST THIRTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, HAD [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D]
[REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D]
TELEPHONE CALLS FROM INDIVIDUAL USING NAME COOPER REQUESTING [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D]. INVESTIGATION AT NEW YORK
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SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 3 1971 FBI - SEATTLE [illegible initials/signature]
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oub 96 164-81-49[guess: 6]
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DB COOPER-45434
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ASCERTAINED DOUGLAS COOPER IS A WHITE MALE, BORN APRIL TWENTYFOURTH, TWENTYFIVE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, AND AS OF JANUARY SEVEN, FIFTYNINE, HAD RENEWED HIS BRITISH PASSPORT NUMBER ONE ONE SEVEN ONE NINE TWO. HE HAD DESCRIBED HIMSELF ON EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION IN SIXTYEIGHT AS FIVE FEET, ELEVEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, BROWN EYES. COOPER INDICATED HE HAD ATTENDED AUCHTERARDER HIGH SCHOOL, SCOTLAND, GRADUATING IN NINETEEN FORTY, AND WAS IN THE ROYAL NAVY, FROM FORTYTHREE TO FORTYSEVEN AS A RADAR OPERATOR. COOPER WAS EMPLOYED BY BROOKS BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE THREE FOUR SIX MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, FROM AUGUST SIXTYEIGHT TO JANUARY, SIXTYNINE, WHEN HE TERMINATED HIS EMPLOYMENT. THREE INDIVIDUALS AT BROOKS BROTHERS FELT THAT ARTIST [guess: SKETCH] [illegible: SKETXP] OF [guess: UNSUB] [illegible: UNFIB] CLOSELY RESEMBLED DOUGLAS COOPER. COOPER WAS INJURED IN AN AUTOMOBI[guess: LE]VE ACCIDENT AND RECEIVED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ON AN OUT OF STATE CLAIM FROM DOVEHOER[illegible: 1/..'1;96 59 )8-12 523,561815] , SEVENTYONE, WITH PAYMENTS BEING SENT TO
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DB COOPER-45435
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POST OFFICE [b6/b7C redacted], WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. NYS DMV RECORDS INDICATE DOUGLAS COOPER ON AUGUST THIRTIETH, SEVENTYONE SURRENDERED NEW YORK DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR A STATE OF VIRGINIA DRIVERS LICENSE. [b6/b7C redacted], DOB [b6/b7C redacted],
[b6/b7C redacted], IS DESCRIBED AS A WHITE, FEMALE, FIVE FEET, SIX INCHES, BROWN EYES, CONTINUES TO RESIDE [redacted], NEW YORK, NEW YORK.
[b6/b7C/b7D redacted], MADE A PRETEXT TELEPHONE CALL TO [b6/b7C/b7D redacted], REGARDING POSSIBLE EMPLOYMENT FOR DOUGLAS COOPER. SHE ADVISED THAT AS OF ONE MONTH AGO SHE HAD CONTACTED HIM AT CLAYTON SHOP, NEWPORT, VIRGINIA, AS SHE HAD RECEIVED MESSAGE THAT HIS FATHER WAS QUITE ILL IN SCOTLAND. [b7C redacted] ADVISED THAT COOPER [redacted] AND MAY BE LIVING WITH [b6 redacted]
[b6/b7C/b7D redacted] FELT ARTIST SKETCH OF UNSUB CLOSELY RESEMBLED DOUGLAS COOPER. COOPER HAS BACKGROUND AS A SALESMAN IN SCOTTISH TEXTILES AND HAS A STRONG SCOTTISH ACCENT. [b6/b7C redacted], ADVISED COOPER HAD LIVED IN AUCHTERAIDA, SCOTLAND AND HE BELIEVES HE [redacted]
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EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES IN LATE NINETEEN FIFTIES. INQUIRY AT NORTHWEST AIRLINES ASCERTAINED THAT THAT FIRM'S [REDACTED b6/b7C] IS IN POSSESSION OF ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO HIS FLIGHT. FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ORIGINATED AT WDC. NYO DOES NOT FEEL [REDACTED] SHOULD BE CONTACTED UNTIL OTHER EFFORTS ARE EXHAUSTED TO LOCATE PHOTOGRAPH OF DOUGLAS COOPER FOR DISPLAY TO AIRLINE PERSONNEL FOR POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION.
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LEADS
MINNEAPOLIS WILL DETERMINE FROM NORTHWEST [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED] ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING CONTACT ADDRESS USED BY DAN COOPER WHO BOARDED FXUGHT THREE ZERO FIVE AT PORTLAND AND CONSIDER POSSIBILITY COOPER MAY HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN ON FLIGHT WHICH ORIGINATED AT WDC.
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2. WILL DETERMINE HOME ADDRESSES OF STEWARDESS AND OTHER FLIGHT PERSONNEL WHO MAY HAVE BEEN SPOKEN TO BY UNSUB AND SET OUT LEAD TO HAVE THESE INDIVIDUALS QUESTIONED REGARDING POSSIBLE SCOTTISH ACCENT.
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NEWARK WILL RECONTACT [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED b6/b7C/b7D], TO DETERMINE IF DOUGLAS COOPER MAY HAVE POSED FOR ANY GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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NORFOLK WILL COND[UCT] DISCREET INVESTIGATION T[O] DETER- MINE IF DOUGLAS COOPER STILL EMPLOYED AT CLAYTON SHOP, NEWPORT, VIRGINIA, NOTING THAT PHOTOGRAPH OF COOPER HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED FOR DISPLAY TO FLIGHT PERSONNEL.
2. WILL CONDUCT INVESTIGATION TO IDENTIFY SUBSCRIBER TO POST OFFICE [REDACTED b6/b7C], WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA WHERE DOUGLAS' COOPER RECEIVED MAIL UP THROUGH APRIL SEVENTYONE.
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RICHMOND WILL FURNISH RESULTS OF CHECK OF VIRGINIA DRIVERS LICENSE RECORDS FOR CURRENT ADDRESS OF COOPER, ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE PHOTOGRAPHS AND DETERMINE IF HE HAS VEHICLES REGISTERED UNDER HIS NAME.
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WASHINGTON FIELD WILL REVIEW UNITED STATES INS RECORDS FOR DOUGLAS COOPER, DOB, APRIL TWENTYFOURTH, TWENTYFIVE, SCOTLAND [REDACTED b6/b7C], DOB, [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED b6/b7C]
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2. WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE RECORDS OF UNITED STATES PASSPORT BEING ISSUED TO DOUGLAS COOPER, DOB, APRIL TWENTY FOURTH, TWENTYFIVE, AND OBTAIN PHOTO OF COOPER AND SEND SAME IMMEDIATELY TO NYO AND SEATTLE THROUGH FACSIMILE COPIES.
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SE PLS RPT WHAT CORR DID U WANT GA PLS
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AN OUT OF STATE CLAIM FROM NOVEMBER, SEVENTY TO APRIL TWENTYFIFTH, SEVENTYONE, WITH PAYMENTS BEING SENT TO GA THATS FINE THAN[K] YOU JJT FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-45438
Serials: 164-2111, NY 164-627, SE 164-81-496