New York to Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re Ray Heald

Document date 11 January 1972

Part 104pages 403–4042 pagesDB Cooper-47371–47372

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Document: Teletype New York to Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re Ray Heald
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 104 pp. 403–404 (DB Cooper-47371–47372), Teletype, dated 11 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1839 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A403-404

NR026 NY PLAIN 505PM IMMEDIATE 1-11-72 JAH TO DIRECTOR 164-2111 LOS ANGELES 164-60 SEATTLE 164-81 FROM NEW YORK 2P

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NORJAK

RE.. RAY HEALD

[REDACTED] NEW YORK, NEW YORK, INTERVIEWED THIS DATE AND ADVISED THAT FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY CONCERNING NORJAK HE HAD ENGAGED IN CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH OTHER UNKNOWN AIRBORNE QUALIFIED PERSONNEL [REDACTED] NEW YORK. INCLUDED IN THIS GROUP WAS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NEW YORK. [REDACTED] ADVISED HE DID NOT KNOW HEALD [REDACTED] MERELY MENTIONED HEALD AS A PERSON QUALIFIED TO JUMP.

[REDACTED] NEW YORK, ADVISED THAT HE HAD NO REASON TO SUSPECT RAY HEALD AS SUSPECT AND IN MERE CONVERSATION HAD MENTIONED TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND OTHER UNKNOWN AIRBORNE PERSONNEL THAT HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH RAY HEALD WHO WAS QUALIFIED TO PERFORM SUCH A JUMP. HE STATED THAT HE HAD KNOWN HEALD TO ATTEND OTHER PARACHUTE JUMPING EXHIBITIONS AND LAST SAW HIM

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Sub 278 164-81 - 1839 SERIALIZED...FILED... JAN 10 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-47371

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ABOUT NINETEEN SIXTYNINE WHEN HEALD WAS EMPLOYED IN A CIVILIAN CAPACITY AS AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. HE HAD HEARD THAT HEALD WAS JUDGING A PARACHUTE JUMP IN VICINITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON ABOUT THE SAME GENERAL TIME AS THE NORJAK INCIDENT. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HEALD DID NOT RESEMBLE THE ARTIST SKETCH OF UNSUB. HE FURTHER NOTED THAT HEALD HAD A MEDIUM COMPLEXION AND A FULL HEAD OF HAIR WHICH DIFFERS FROM THE DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB.

LEAD LAS VEGAS WILL ATTEMPT TO VERIFY HEALD'S EMPLOYMENT AS AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER AND DETERMINE HIS LOCATION AS OF NOVEMBER TWENTY FOURTH, SEVENTYONE, AND CONSIDER INTERVIEW OF HEALD WHO IS ALLEGEDLY WELL KNOWN JUDGE OF PARACHUTE JUMPING CONTESTS. END

CORR PLS NOTE IN HEADING SHLD BE TO LAS VEGAS NOT LOS ANGELES VAB

FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB COOPER-47372

Serials: 164-2111, LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1839