Las Vegas to Director, Philadelphia, Seattle re suspect David Lester McCartney

Document date 15 December 1971

Part 103pages 209–2124 pagesDB Cooper-46662, DB Cooper-46664, DB Cooper-46665

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Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Director, Philadelphia, Seattle re suspect David Lester McCartney
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 103 pp. 209–212 (DB Cooper-46662, DB Cooper-46664, DB Cooper-46665), Teletype, dated 15 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-103%3A209-212

NR 014 LV PLAIN 8:56 PM NITEL 12-15-71 SH TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) PHILADELPHIA (164-133) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P)

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REBUTELCALL TO LAS VEGAS, DEC. FOURTEEN LAST. RE SUSPECT, DAVID LESTER MC CARTNEY. INVESTIGATION REFLECTS DAVID LESTER MC CARTNEY, FIVE NINE ONE FOUR PAHRUMP CIRCLE, SUN VALLEY, NEVADA, WAS EMPLOYED AS A GUARD AT BELL COMPANY BUILDING, RENO, NEVADA, BY BURNS DETECTIVE AGENCY AND WORKED SIX THIRTY AM TO TWO THIRTY PM, NOV. TWENTYTHREE LAST: WAS OFF NOV. TWENTYFOUR LAST, AND WORKED TWO THIRTY PM TO TEN THIRTY PM, NOV. TWENTYFIVE LAST. HE IS NOW UNEMPLOYED AND IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES AND CAR HAS BEEN REPOSSESSED. CURRENTLY RESIDES AT ABOVE ADDRESS [redacted]

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[redacted] JULY, SEVENTYONE. THEY MOVED INTO

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164-81- [guess: 1232] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED SERIALIZED _____ FILED DEC 15 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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TRAILER AT SUN VALLEY ONE WEEK AGO. FROM TALK AND ACTIONS, IT WAS OBVIOUS THEY WERE ALWAYS FINANCIALLY PRESSED. SHE WAS IN DAILY CONTACT WITH THEM AND AT NO TIME DID THEY HAVE ANY LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY. IS POSITIVE DAVID BORROWED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BETWEEN TWO PM AND FOUR PM, NOV. TWENTYFOUR LAST. [REDACTED] ALSO WAS IN [REDACTED] ABOUT FIVE THIRTY PM, NOV. TWENTYFOUR LAST, WHEN DAVID WAS CLEANING VENISON

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PREPARE TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING.

[REDACTED] ROOMER, [REDACTED] ADVISED REASONABLY SURE HE TALKED TO MC CARTNEY BETWEEN NINE PM AND TEN PM, NOV. TWENTYFOUR LAST. [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] NEVADA, ADVISED SHE IS POSITIVE SHE SAW AND TALKED TO MC CARTNEY PERIODICALLY

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[REDACTED] HE WAS DOING THIS ON HIS DAY OFF FROM WORK. HE HAD [REDACTED]

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MC CARTNEY WAS INTERVIEWED AT RESIDENCE, DEC. FOURTEEN LAST, AND FROM OBSERVATION AND IDENT CARDS DETERMINED TO BE A WHITE MALE, BORN MAY THREE TWENTYEIGHT AT MT. EAGLE, PENNSYLVANIA: FIVE FEET NINE INCHES; ONE HUNDRED NINETY LBS.; MEDIUM-HUSKY BUILD; BROWN HAIR; SLIGHTLY REDDISH MEDIUM-LIGHT COMPLEXION; NOTICEABLE AGE LINES FROM BASE OF NOSE TO CORNERS OF MOUTH, NOSE SLIGHTLY CROOKED TO THE LEFT; SSN ONE NINE ZERO TWO TWO ONE ONE THREE TWO; ARMY SN RA ONE THREE TWO TWO TWO THREE FOUR EIGHT. STATES RETIRED FROM U.S. ARMY, RECEIVING HONORABLE DISCARGE AS SGT. E SEVEN AND RECEIVES TWO HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT DOLLARS MONTHLY RETIREMENT INCOME. MADE NINETYFIVE JUMPS WHILE IN MILITARY. HAS OWED IRS SEVENTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS BACK INCOME TAXES AND BEEN ABLE TO PAY ALL BUT FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS TO DATE. AFTER RETIREMENT, WORKED FOR U. S. POST OFFICE, STATED COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY, SIXTYEIGHT TO JANUARY, SEVENTYONE, WHEN RESIGNED; [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AND STATED SAW [REDACTED] LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, LAST, SPECIFICALLY RECALLS TALKING TO HIM ABOUT [REDACTED] ALSO VERIFIED INFORMATION RE [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] STATED IN JOKING MANNER, THAT EVERYONE BACK [REDACTED] THOUGHT [REDACTED] DID HIJAKING AND TO WATCH THE TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS.

MC CARTNEY DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE SIMILAR WITH FACIAL DRAWING OF UNSUB. FROM ALL ABOVE, MC CARTNEY CONSIDERED ELIMINATED AS SUSPECT. ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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FBI SE.CLR

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Serials: 164-2111, LV 164-60, PH 164-133, SE 164-81