Norfolk to Director, Cleveland, Newark, Seattle re suspect employed at Clayton's Men's Store

Document date 8 December 1971

Part 102pages 385–3884 pagesDB Cooper-46384–46387

Also filed at: Part 100 pp. 431–434

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Document: Teletype Norfolk to Director, Cleveland, Newark, Seattle re suspect employed at Clayton's Men's Store
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 102 pp. 385–388 (DB Cooper-46384–46387), Teletype, dated 8 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-102%3A385-388

NR02 NF PLAIN 530 PM IMMEDIATE 12/8/71 JMF TO DIRECTOR (164-1111) CLEVELAND NEWARK SEATTLE FROM NORFOLK (164-41) 4P

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UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION, 00: SEATTLE; [REDACTED] DASH SUSPECT.

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RE SEATTLE LETTER TO ALBANY NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST WITH COPIES TO ALL OFFICES, NORFOLK TELETYPE TO DIRECTOR DECEMBER THIR DLAST, AND NORFOLK TLEPHONE CALL TO BUREAU DECEMBER SEVEN LAST. FOR THE INFORMATION OF CLEVELAND, DOUGLAS COOPER, CURRENTLY RESIDING [REDACTED], NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, [REDACTED]

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164-81-[guess: 263] SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED [guess: 222] FILED [guess: 2h] DEC 08 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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COOPER'S CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AT CLAYTON'S MEN'S STORE, NEWPORT NEWS, VA., AS A SALESMAN, VERIFIED, AND RESIDENCE ABOVE DETERMINED TO BE [REDACTED].

[REDACTED]. COOPER'S EMPLOYER, [REDACTED], HAS VERIFIED COOPER'S PRESENCE AT CLAYTON'S UNTIL SIX PM ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST. [REDACTED] HAVE EACH STATED THAT THEY WERE IN THE COMPANY OF COOPER ON THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST AT FORT MONROE, VA., UNTIL APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN PM.

[REDACTED] INTERVIEWED DECEMBER THIRD LAST AS A SUSPECT AND DENIED TELEPHONIC CONTACT WITH [REDACTED].

[REDACTED] REINTERVIEWED ON DECEMBER SEVEN LAST AND FURNISHED THE NAME OF A MAN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DESCRIBED ONE [REDACTED], WHITE MALE, APPROXIMATELY [REDACTED] YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FEET NINE AND ONE HALF INCHES TALL, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY LBS, DARK BROWN HAIR RECEDING, OLIVE COMPLEXION, [REDACTED].

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OBSERVATION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED - b6, b7C, b7D] BEARS GENERAL RESEMBLANCE TO ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE HIJACKER. END PAGE THREE

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UACB OR BY OFFICE OF ORIGIN, CLEVELAND SHOULD CONDUCT DISCREET INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF [REDACTED] [REDACTED], AND BY CONTACT WITH APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS [REDACTED] DETERMINE IF [REDACTED] WAS AT WORK DURING THE CRITICAL HOURS OF CAPTIONED HIJACKING. 'NEWARK SHOULD RECONTACT [REDACTED] [REDACTED], TO DETERMINE IF [REDACTED]. [REDACTED]

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PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] BEING SENT TO OO BY AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY.

UNSUB IS BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXTORTION OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NORTHWEST AIRLINES BY THREAT- ENING THE CREW OF THE AIRLINE WITH A PACKAGE WHICH HE STATED CONTAINED A BOMB. UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. P.

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DB COOPER-46387

Serials: 164-1111, PD 164-41, SE 164-81