Detroit to Director re NORJAK suspect Wayne B. King of Jackson, Michigan
Document date 6 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-104:309-312 Document: Teletype Detroit to Director re NORJAK suspect Wayne B. King of Jackson, Michigan Id: Cooper-Part-104:309-312 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A309-312 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 104 pp. 309–312 (DB Cooper-47, DB Cooper-4726, DB Cooper-47274, DB Cooper-47277), Teletype, dated 6 Jan 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A309-312
1/6/72 PLAINTEXT
TELETYPE IMMEDIATE
TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) FROM: DETROIT (164-115)
NORJAK.
RE BUREAU TELCALLS TO DETROIT, JAN. FIVE AND SIX, LAST; AND DETROIT TELCALL TO BUREAU, JAN. SIX, INSTANT.
SUSPECT WAYNE B. KING, THREE SIX ZERO ZERO HENDEE ROAD, JACKSON, MICH., WAS BOOKKEEPER FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS FOR MICHNER PLATING COMPANY, JACKSON. ON THIS DATE, [REDACTED] ADVISED KING RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING BUSINESS AND THEY WOULD HANDLE THE SHOPS AND OUTSIDE WORK. KING WAS TRUSTED AND WAS VERY CLOSE TO [REDACTED] DURING LATTER PART OF SUMMER, SEVENTY-ONE, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) INITIATED AN AUDIT OF THE COMPANY AND SOME IRREGULARITIES WERE NOTED IN RECORDS. COMPANY HIRED THEIR OWN ACCOUNTANTS TO CONDUCT AUDIT WITH IRS, WHICH AUDIT IS STILL BEING CONDUCTED. IN OCT. SEVENTY-ONE, KING QUIT HIS EMPLOYMENT. FROM PRELIMINARY FINDINGS IT APPEARS THAT KING EMBEZZLED BETWEEN [REDACTED] THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG HE HAD BEEN STEALING THIS MONEY NOR DO THEY KNOW AT THIS TIME THE EXACT AMOUNT.
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[illegible initials/signature] 220
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(1) Seattle (AM) (Info.) MCN:DLL (2)
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SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ JAN 8 1972 FBI - SEATTLE SAC [illegible]
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DB COOPER-47274
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[guess: 1/4-8/1-1898]
DE 164-115 PAGE TWO
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BECAUSE OF SUSPICION DIRECTED TOWARDS KING, [REDACTED] UNTIL, RECENTLY MAINTAINED AN INTEREST IN HIS ACTIVITIES AND THEY DID NOT KNOW OF HIM LEAVING THE JACKSON, MICH., AREA SINCE LEAVING THEIR EMPLOY. ON NOV. TWENTY-NINE, SEVENTY-ONE, HE WAS HIRED AS BOOKKEEPER FOR COMPANY CALLED COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE, JACKSON, WHICH OPERATES OFFICE BUILDINGS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. KING AND [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ON DEC. TWENTY-SEVEN, SEVENTY-ONE, KING CALLED EMPLOYER AND SAID HE WAS SICK AND WOULD NOT BE IN. THEY HAVE NOT SEEN KING SINCE THAT TIME.
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ON DEC. TWENTY-EIGHT, SEVENTY-ONE, KING SOLD HIS HOME TO [REDACTED] AND RECEIVED FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH. ESTIMATES ON THE VALUE OF HOME WAS SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THE PRICE HE SOLD IT WAS DESIGNED TO EFFECT A QUICK SALE. [REDACTED] REPORT KING SELLING ALL OF HIS ASSETS AND PROPERTY IN JACKSON AT PRICES TO ENCOURAGE QUICK SALE.
[REDACTED] OPERATES [REDACTED], AND ON DEC. TWENTY-THREE, SEVENTY-ONE, LEASED [REDACTED] TO KING FOR NINETY
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DB COOPER 47[illegible]
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DE 164-115 PAGE THREE
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DAYS. KING WAS TO HIRE AND FURNISH HIS OWN CREW. THE PLANE WAS RETURNED TO [REDACTED] ON DEC. THIRTY-ONE, SEVENTY-ONE, AND THE LOG SHOWED IT HAD BEEN TO COSTA RICA. THE PLANE HAS REGISTRY NUMBER [REDACTED] A AND IS PRESENTLY LOCATED AT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. THE LOG WOULD BE ON BOARD THE PLANE AND WOULD SHOW THE IDENTITY OF THE CREW AND THE FLIGHT PLAN.
[REDACTED] ADVISED KING HAS NO BACKGROUND OF PARACHUTING AND DURING SEVENTY HAD A KNEE OPERATION ON HIS LEFT KNEE WHICH HAD BEEN GIVING HIM PROBLEMS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. KING HAS NOT HAD MILITARY EXPERIENCE. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED KING AS WHITE MALE, BORN AUG. TWENTY-NINE, TWENTY, FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES TALL, HAZEL EYES, BROWN HAIR, BALD, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, TWO HUNDRED THIRTY TO TWO HUNDRED FORTY POUNDS, WEARS PRESCRIPTION GLASSES WITH WIRE FRAMES, SOMETIMES WEARS WIG IN MOD STYLE WITH HAIR COMING OVER EARS AND DOWN NECK.
DURING SEVENTY-ONE, KING TRAVELED [REDACTED] TO ACAPULCO, MEXICO, ON VACATION AND THEN RETURNED TO ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE MET [REDACTED] ON BUSINESS. [REDACTED] WAS AWARE SUSPECT LEFT JACKSON AREA AND GONE TO SOUTH AMERICA. [REDACTED]
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DB COOPER 4726
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DE 164-115 PAGE FOUR
ARE NOT CONTEMPLATING PROSECUTION AND DO NOT KNOW AT THIS TIME WHAT ACTION, IF ANY, WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST KING BY THEM. KING WAS NOT BONDED SO LOSS WOULD HAVE TO BE ABSORBED BY COMPANY.
INFORMATION COPY FURNISHED SEATTLE BY AIR MAIL.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB COOPER-47277
Serials: 164-2111, DE 164-115