SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle re suspect Ward Ferdinand Bark, with leads

Document date 15 December 1971

Part 104pages 38–392 pagesDB Cooper-46990–46991

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Document: Airtel SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle re suspect Ward Ferdinand Bark, with leads
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 104 pp. 38–39 (DB Cooper-46990–46991), Airtel, dated 15 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1302 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A038-039

12/15/71

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AIRTEL AIR MAIL

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK CO: Seattle

Re suspect WARD FERDINAND BARK.

Enclosed for Seattle is one copy of FBI Identification Record, FBI number 802716 C for one WARD FERDINAND BARK and one copy of California State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Inves- tigation (CII) photo, CII number 1 236 023 regarding WARD FERDINAND BARK.

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On 11/29/71, [REDACTED] California Correctional Industries, Sacramento, California, con- tacted the Sacramento Office regarding the highjacking which took place on 11/24/71.

[REDACTED] advised he had formerly been employed [REDACTED] and he recalls a prisoner named WARD FERDINAND BARK which he felt resembles the composite drawing in the newspapers of unsub. [REDACTED] further stated BARK had also been an inmate at the Susanville and Black Mountain camps which would probably make him familiar with that general area where the unsub disappeared. [REDACTED] further stated that sometime [REDACTED] he recalls an

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[guess: Judo] [illegible]

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2 - Seattle (Encls. 2) 2 - Sacramento RJA/dqr (4)

Sub.224 164-81-1302[illegible] SEARCHED........INDEXED..... SERIALIZED...FILED.... DEC 10, 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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b6 b7c

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DB COOPER-46990

SC 164-50 RJA/dqr

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individual resembling BARK attending a skydiving school possible in the Sonoma area. [REDACTED] also indicated to the best of his knowledge BARK had always told other cellmates he was going to pull a big job in the future.

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LEADS

SEATTLE

AT STEILACOOM, WASHINGTON: Will verify BARK's incarceration.

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[illegible]

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2*

DB COOPER-46991

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b6 b7C

Serials: SC 164-50, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1302