SA to SAC Seattle re Post-Intelligencer Secret Witness tip naming a suspect

This copy: Part 104 pp. 14–15Also filed at Part 16 pp. 193–194 (primary)

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To SAC Seattle transmitting tip letter from Seattle Post-Intelligencer (164-81-1048)

Document date 15 December 1971

Part 104pages 14–152 pagesDB Cooper-46962–46963

Another copy of this document is the primary, most legible copy: Part 16 pp. 193–194.

Copies may differ in what was redacted.

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-104:014-015

Document: Memo to SAC Seattle transmitting tip letter from Seattle Post-Intelligencer (164-81-1048)
Id: Cooper-Part-104:014-015
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 104 pp. 14–15 (DB Cooper-46962–46963), Memo, dated 15 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1048 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A014-015

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 12/15/71

FROM : SA [REDACTED] b6 b7C SUBJECT: NORJAK

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[REDACTED] Attached is information furnished by [REDACTED] of the SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER which information was received by him under the POST INTELLIGENCER Secret Witness Program.

JSD:klb

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164-81-1048 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ DEC 9 1971 FBI — SEATTLE

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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan

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DB COOPER-46962

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Have you thoroughly investigated [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He is a person who is capable of doing this hijacking job. He is an [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] I heard him say, just a short time before the hijacking, that he had just [REDACTED] With a "four o'clock shadow" he could look swarthy and in his mid-forties, especially wearing dark clothing and dark glasses.

If I'm wrong, [REDACTED] and you are an honest man, please forgive me. If I'm right, may God have mercy on your soul and also on mine.

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DB COOPER-46963

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b6 b7C

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1048