Portland to Director, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Seattle re Harry E. Cronk
Document date 7 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-102:347-348 Document: Teletype Portland to Director, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Seattle re Harry E. Cronk Id: Cooper-Part-102:347-348 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A347-348 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. 347–348 (DB Cooper-46347–46348), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-848 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A347-348
NR 013 PD PLAIN 11:55 PM URGENT 12/7/71 TLA TO: DIRECTOR BALTIMORE MINNEAPOLIS SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P)
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Sub Harry E. Cronk
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA-HIJACKING. OO: SEATTLE.
ON DECEMBER SEVEN SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED] 12/3/71 ALBANY, OREGON, ADVISED ON DECEMBER THREE SEVENTYONE INDIVIDUAL BY NAME OF HARRY E. CRONK WAS BROUGHT TO THE ALBANY GENERAL HOSPITAL BY UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL. CRONK WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH THREE BROKEN RIBS AND COMPRESSED FRACTURE OF THE SPINE. HE ALSO HAD A HEALING WOUND ON HIS FOREHEAD. ACCORDING TO [REDACTED], INJURIES TO CRONK WERE SEVERAL DAYS OLD AND WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A SEVERE FALL. UPON ADMITTANCE TO HOSPITAL CRONK WAS IN PAIN AND STATED HE HAD NO MEDICATION. HOSPITAL PERSONNEL LATER FOUND MED- ICATION IN BELONGINGS OF CRONK. INDIVIDUAL THAT ACCOMPANIED CRONK TO HOSPITAL LEFT AND RETURNED NEXT DAY BUT HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE DECEMBER FOUR SEVENTYONE.
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[REDACTED] QUERIED CRONK AS TO HOW HE RECEIVED INJURIES BUT CRONK WOULD NOT TELL HIM. [REDACTED] SAID CRONK TOLD HIM HE WAS A TRUCK DRIVER FOR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT, SOUTH HIGHWAY FIFTY TWO, ROCHESTER, END OF PAGE ONE
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DB COOPER-46347 164-81 - 848 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED /M4 FILED /h DEC 7 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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FD 164-41 PAGE TWO
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MINNESOTA. CRONK DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, DOB OCTOBER ONE TWENTYSIX, FIVE ELEVEN, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, LIGHT HAIR DASH GREYING AND CUT SHORT; LOW HOARSE VOICE, MEDIUM COMPLEXION; ADDRESS POST OFFICE BOX SEVENTY FOUR, KYKOFF, MINNESOTA; DISCHARGED FROM US MARINE CORPS IN NINETEEN FORTYSIX; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FIVE ZERO THREE DASH TWO FOUR DASH THREE FIVE SIX NINE. [REDACTED] ADVISED HE HAS SEEN COMPOSITE
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OF HIJACKER, BUT IT WAS NOT VERY SIMILAR TO CRONK. WHEN CRONK LEFT HOSPITAL ON DECEMBER SEVEN SEVENTYONE HE MADE COMMENT HE WAS GOING TO VISIT HIS PARENTS IN BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON.
BUREAU REQUESTED TO AUTHORIZE BALTIMORE DIVISION TO CHECK APPROPRIATE SOURCES CONCERNING CRONK'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
BALTIMORE WILL UPON RECEIPT OF BUREAU AUTHORITY CONDUCT APPROPRIATE CHECK REGARDING SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FIVE ZERO THREE DASH TWO FOUR DASH THREE FIVE SIX NINE.
MINNEAPOLIS WILL VERIFY ADDRESS AND EMPLOYMENT OF CRONK AND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF CRONK POSSIBLE SUSPECT THIS MATTER.
SEATTLE CONSIDER IDENTIFYING PARENTS OF CRONK IN BELLINGHAM IN EFFORT TO LOCATE HIM.
PORTLAND WILL REINTERVIEW [REDACTED] AND OBTAIN COMPLETE MEDICAL RECORDS FOR ANY ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON CRONK.
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Has [illegible] of Bu's Dispatc[h].
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END CORREC CORRECTION PAGE ONE PARAGRAPH ONE LINE ONE SHOULD READ [REDACTED]
TIM FBI SEATTLE CLR DB COOPER-46348'
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Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-848