Seattle to Los Angeles and San Francisco re Freeman credit card lead

Document date 7 December 1971

Part 101pages 74–763 pagesDB Cooper-45525

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Document: Teletype Seattle to Los Angeles and San Francisco re Freeman credit card lead
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 101 pp. 74–76 (DB Cooper-45525), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-778 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-101%3A074-076

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NR015 SE PLAIN 4:14PM URGENT 12/7/71 VAB TO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA- HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE NEW YORK TELETYPE, DECEMBER TWO, SEVENTYONE, RE MAX A. FREEMAN.

FOR THE INFORMATION OF LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO, ON DEC- EMBER ONE, SEVENTYONE, DETECTIVE [REDACTED], PORT OF NEW YORK AUTH- ORITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, ADVISED BUREAU AGENTS OF AN INCIDENT OCCURRING AT LA GUARDIA IN THE SPRING OF SEVENTYONE. [REDACTED] STATED THAT TWO WHITE MALE INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS [REDACTED], APPEARED AT THE EASTERN AIRLINES TICKER OFFICE AT LA GUARDIA AND ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR END PAGE ONE

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PAGE TWO 164-81

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FLIGHT TO MIAMI WITH FRAUDULENT CREDIT CARD. TICKET AGENT RECOG- NIZED FRAUDULENT CREDIT CARD AND ATTEMPTED TO STALL THE TWO PAS- SENGERS WHO LEFT THE COUNTER ABRUPTLY, BUT WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY CHECKED THEIR LUGGAGE WHICH THEY LEFT BEHIND. THE LUGGAGE BE- CAME PROPERTY OF PORT AUTHORITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND UPON INSPEC- TION IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT ONE OR BOTH THESE INDIVIDUALS WAS AN EXPERIENCED AND ACTIVE SPORTS PARACHUTIST. A PERSONAL LETTER LOCATED IN THE LUGGAGE INDICATES THIS INDIVIDUAL, WHO IS PROBABLY MAX A. FREEMAN, MAY HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED AT ONE TIME. INCLUDED IN THE LUGGAGE WAS A FIRE INSURANCE POLICY IN THE NAME OF MAX A. FREEMAN ON THE RESIDENCE AT THREE EIGHT SEVEN ZERO NINE, THIRTYFIRST STREET EAST, PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA. ALSO INCLUDED WAS A RESUME IN THEN NAME END PAGE TWO

PAGE THREE 164-81

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NAME OF MAX. A FREEMAN, SIX EIGHT ONE EIGHT DECELIS PLACE, VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA. THIS RESUME INDICATES THAT FREEMAN WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY EIGHT, NINETEEN THIRTY, AT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AND HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY CONTROL DATA CORPORATION AT LA JOLLA, CALI- FORNIA, AND AT WEST LOS ANGELES AS AN ACCOUNTANT AND ALSO HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY GENERAL PRECISION, INC., GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA, AS AN ACCOUNTANT. ALSO INCLUDED IN THE LUGGAGE WAS A SPORTS PARACHUTIST'S LOG BOOK BEARING NO NAME.

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LOS ANGELES, AT VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA, ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP IN- FORMATION CONCERNING FREEMAN TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE COULD BE UNSUB IN THIS MATTER.

SAN FRANCISCO AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, REVIEW RECORDS OF U.S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING FREEMAN. -P-

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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LRS FBI LOS ANGELES CLR

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DB COOPER-45525

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-778

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