Nitel teletype St. Louis to Acting Director, Indianapolis and Seattle re paratrooper suspect and Indiana leads
Document date 24 August 1972
Also filed at: Part 27 pp. 283–288
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-102:136-141 Document: Nitel teletype St. Louis to Acting Director, Indianapolis and Seattle re paratrooper suspect and Indiana leads Id: Cooper-Part-102:136-141 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A136-141 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 102 pp. 136–141 (DB Cooper-46104–46109), Teletype, dated 24 Aug 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A136-141
NR 003 SL PLAIN 11:44 PM NITEL 8-24-72 BGH TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-2111) INDIANAPOLIS (164-62) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM ST. LOUIS (164-63) P GP
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UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, LAST. CAA - HI- JACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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FOR INFORMATION BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED], MO., TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED ST. LOUIS OFFICE CONCERNING IDENTITY OF UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER. [REDACTED] ADVISED IN INTERVIEW THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED], SERVED WORLD WAR TWO WITH [REDACTED] OF SUSPECT, KNOWN TO HER AS [REDACTED] FURTHER END PAGE ONE
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164-81-[REDACTED] b6 b7C SEARCHED___INDEXED [illegible] SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] AUG 2 4 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-46104
PAGE TWO SL 164-63
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STATED THAT [REDACTED], ARMY PARATROOPER SEVEN YEARS, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PRIOR TO CAPTIONED HIJACKING AND NOT HEARD FROM SINCE. PRIOR TO DESERTION HE DISCUSSED OBTAINING POT FULL OF MONEY AND RETIRING IN SOUTH AMERICA ON FARM. [REDACTED] ADVISED HAS KNOWN [REDACTED] SINCE AGE FIVE. FIRST KNEW [REDACTED] FROM SERVING [REDACTED] IN WORLD WAR TWO. [REDACTED] ENTERED ARMY AT [REDACTED] HADN'T SEEN [REDACTED] FOR SEVEN YEARS UNTIL SEPTEMBER, SEVENTY-ONE WHEN HE ARRIVED ON LEAVE. [REDACTED] REMAINED THERE THREE WEEKS, LEFT, AND LATER RETURNED WITH [REDACTED] WHO LIVES IN BRAZIL, INDIANA. [REDACTED] LEFT AGAIN IN EARLY OCTOBER AND HASN'T MAINTAINED CONTACT SINCE. [REDACTED] WAS SCHEDULED TO REPORT AS [REDACTED] IN NORTH CAROLINA. HAD PREVIOUSLY [REDACTED] AT SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] GREEN BERET PARATROOPER AND [REDACTED] END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-46105
PAGE THREE SL 164-63
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[REDACTED] THAN ANYONE IN SOUTH VIETNAM, [REDACTED] ALSO RECEIVED SOME [REDACTED] CITATIONS FOR HIS OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN- CLUDING ONE FROM PRESIDENT NIXON PERSONALLY. IN ADDITION TO [REDACTED] IN BRAZIL, INDIANA, [REDACTED] SOMEPLACE IN OREGON. [REDACTED] KNEW NOTHING FURTHER ABOUT HER. BEFORE [REDACTED] LEFT IN OCTOBER, HAD BEEN INVOLVED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] LIKED MONEY AND WOMEN AND WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY WITH BOTH. [REDACTED] KNEW PILOTS IN OREGON AND MENTIONED ROOMING WITH SOME. HE WAS FURTHER KNOWLEDGEABLE ON HIJACKING TECHNIQUES AND HAD DISCUSSED TYPES OF PLANES WHICH COULD BE HIJACKED. [REDACTED] PERSONALLY FELT THAT [REDACTED] COULD HAVE HIJACKED THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT. HE HAD THE NERVE TO DO IT AND WAS AFRAID OF NO ONE. IF ANYONE COULD SURVIVE IN THE WOODS SUCH AS THE AREA OF THE PACIFIC END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-46106
PAGE FOUR SL 164-63 NORTHWEST, [REDACTED] COULD. [REDACTED], FROM MEMORY, DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS FOLLOWS: AGE [REDACTED], FIVE SEVEN, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY TO SIXTY POUNDS, BLONDE HAIR, CREWCUT, MUSCULAR BUILD. [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT HE WOULD BET EVERYTHING THAT [REDACTED] WAS THE HIJACKER OF THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT, [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] [REDACTED], CURRENTLY RESIDE [REDACTED] [REDACTED], LOWELL, INDIANA. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAD [REDACTED], WHO ENLISTED IN ARMY AT UNION, MO. [REDACTED] STATED HAD TAKEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] BUT FILM HAD NOT YET BEEN DEVELOPED. FURTHER STATED WOULD DEVELOP FILM AND MAKE THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ARMY RECRUITER ADVISED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ENLISTED [REDACTED], LAST. [REDACTED] RECORDS REFLECT [REDACTED] RESIDING [REDACTED], SNIDER, INDIANA. END PAGE FOUR
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DB COOPER-46107
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[REDACTED], RESIDES [REDACTED], ROSELAWN, INDIANA. [REDACTED] RECALLED COMMENTS MADE BY [REDACTED] DURING ENLISTMENT THAT HE WAS PROUD OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED].
INDIANAPOLIS AT SNIDER OR LOWELL, INDIANA - WILL LOCATE [REDACTED] AND INTER- VIEW REGARDING [REDACTED], WILL OBTAIN COMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE DATA INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHS AS WELL AS DOB AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. THEREAFTER DETERMINE WHETHER [REDACTED] IS IN [REDACTED]. WILL SET FORTH APPROPRIATE LEADS RESULTING FROM INTERVIEW.
AT BRAZIL, INDIANA - WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED], [REDACTED], IN ACCORDANCE WITH LEADS SET FORTH FOR [REDACTED] ABOVE.
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DB COOPER-46108
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AT ROSELAWN, INDIANA - WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED], ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITH ABOVE LEAD.
AT FORT BENJAMIN HARRISON - WILL REVIEW RECORDS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED], DETERMINE DUTY STATUS AND SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEADS.
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