SAC El Paso to SAC Albuquerque re telephoned tip on parachutist suspect
Document date 17 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-103:350-352 Document: Airtel SAC El Paso to SAC Albuquerque re telephoned tip on parachutist suspect Id: Cooper-Part-103:350-352 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-103%3A350-352 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 103 pp. 350–352 (DB Cooper-46805–46807), Airtel, dated 17 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-103%3A350-352
12/17/71
AIRTEL
TO: SAC, ALBUQUERQUE FROM: SAC, EL PASO (164-52) (P)
SUBJECT: [REDACTED]
OO: SE
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[REDACTED], residence telephone [REDACTED], business phone [REDACTED], El Paso, furnished the following information telephonically to SA [REDACTED] of the EP Office on 12/16/71.
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[REDACTED] in Las Cruces, New Mexico, located at 1300 Brown Street. In this capacity during [REDACTED] he was associated to a degree with an individual who he stated was capable of masterminding the hijacking violations involved in this case. [REDACTED] did not recall the name of this individual, but his suspicions are based on the following circumstances:
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About [REDACTED] were eating at [REDACTED] in Mesilla, New Mexico, which is directly south of Las Cruces. While in the restaurant he noticed the suspect referred to above sitting at a table with another individual described as a white male, hippie type. Both were looking at the map and when they observed [REDACTED] and apparently when suspect recognized [REDACTED] he immediately moved to a table far removed to the other side of the restaurant.
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2-Albuquerque 2-Seattle 2-El Paso
YSA:mf (6)
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164-81- [illegible] [handwritten initials/signature] DB COOPER-46805
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EP 164-[illegible]
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The suspect was further described as a very odd individual, who was possibly living outside his means, and was a parachute jumper having jumped both in special forces and as a hobby on weekends.
[REDACTED] has known this individual for several years but he does not recall his name. Information concerning his identity can no doubt be obtained from [REDACTED] Las Cruces, where the suspect himself
was a [REDACTED] who presently is believed to be [REDACTED] in the [REDACTED] of New Mexico State University at Las Cruces. [REDACTED] also, it is believed, could identify the suspect. [REDACTED] believes that the suspect resides in Las Cruces and may himself be connected with New Mexico State University in Las Cruces at the present time. [REDACTED] He is described as:
Race White Sex Male Nationality American Age 35-40 Weight 160 Height 5' 10"
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[REDACTED] had not seen the suspect since 1968, with the exception of the above encounter in the restaurant at La Posta in Mesilla, described above.
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LEADS
ALBUQUERQUE
AT LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO:
Will interview appropriate [REDACTED] at 1300 Brown St., Las Cruces, to ascertain the identity of the commander who operated one of the detachments out of this address in [REDACTED]. According to [REDACTED] there were two commanders at this location, one being [REDACTED] and the other being the suspect in this case.
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DB COOPER-46806
EP 164-52
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Will attempt to locate and interview [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] NMSU, Las Cruces, for any information pertaining to the suspect of possible assistance to this investigation.
AT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO:
If identity of suspect ascertained, will obtain photograph of this individual for [guess: submission] to witnesses who observed the actual hijacker for identification or elimination purposes.
CONSIDER UNKNOWN SUBJECT DANGEROUS.
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DB COOPER-46807
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