Los Angeles to Seattle and Sacramento re suspect Lawrence Allison Hobart, with description and leads
Document date 6 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-104:420-425 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Seattle and Sacramento re suspect Lawrence Allison Hobart, with description and leads Id: Cooper-Part-104:420-425 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A420-425 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. 420–425 (DB Cooper-4739, DB Cooper-42388, DB Cooper-47389, DB Cooper-47390, DB Cooper-47391, DB Cooper-47393), Teletype, dated 6 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1795 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A420-425
NR 039 LA PLAIN 11:32 PM NITEL 1-6-72 RWM TO SEATTLE (164-81) SACRAMENTO FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 6P.
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REGARDING SUSPECT LAWRENCE ALLISON HOBART
THIS DATE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, ADVISED HOBART LEFT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (LAX) LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER SEVENTY ONE OR FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER SEVENTY ONE EN ROUTE TO TACOMA DASH SEATTLE AREA. PRIOR TO DEPARTURE HOBART STOLE THREE HUNDRED FIVE DOLLARS FROM HOME OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND TOOK [REDACTED] CAR TO LAX WITHOUT PERMISSION. HOBART REPORTEDLY TRAVELED TO SEATTLE DASH TACOMA AREA WITH GIRLFRIEND, GARNET IMOGENE HOLLIS, WHO WAS RECENTLY RELEASED FROM COUNTY JAIL, LOS ANGELES, FOLLOWING NARCOTICS CONVICTION. HOLLIS TO CONTACT [REDACTED] FIRST NAME UNKNOWN [REDACTED] WASHINGTON. END PAGE ONE
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[handwritten: [guess: F.L. Levi] or similar] [handwritten number: 164-81-1795 or similar] SEARCHED ___ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ JAN 6 1972 FBI - SEATTLE [handwritten initials] DB COOPER 42388
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LA 164-497 PAGE TWO
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[REDACTED] BELIEVED CAREER ARMY, ELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT IN NEAR FUTURE.
A FEW DAYS AFTER DEPARTURE OF HOBART AND HOLLIS, [REDACTED] RECEIVED TELEPHONE CALL FROM GARNET HOLLIS IN TACOMA ADVISING KEYS FOR [REDACTED] CAR BEING RETURNED BY REGISTERED MAIL WITH MONEY TO COVER PARKING IN AIRPORT. FOUR OR FIVE DAYS LATER, KEYS AND TWENTY DOLLAR MONEY ORDER RECEIVED BY [REDACTED] FROM WASHINGTON.
DURING TELEPHONE CALL, GARNET HOLLIS ADVISED HOBART AND [REDACTED] HAD FIGHT AND BOTH ARRESTED. MILITARY AUTHORITIES ALLEGED RELEASE OF [REDACTED] AND HOBART ALLEGED IN JAIL AT TIME OF CALL. [REDACTED] DOUBTS STORY BY GARNET AS BELIEVES IF HOBART ARRESTED WITH KEYS, POLICE WOULD NOT RELEASE KEYS TO GARNET.
[REDACTED] HAS KNOWN HOBART FOR SEVEN YEARS, HAS ASSOCIATED PERIODICALLY WITH HIM AND IS AWARE OF HIM BEING EX DASH CON. HOBART HAS CLAIMED TO BE DISCHARGED FROM UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND IS UNEMPLOYED MALE NURSE.
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DB COOPER-47389
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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
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[REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, ADVISED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HOBART UNTIL MID SEVENTY ONE. [REDACTED] STATES HOBART HAS DISCUSSED QUOTE CAPERS UNQUOTE CLAIMED TO BE EXPARATROOPER IN MARINE CORPS, AND HAS IMPRESSED [REDACTED] WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PARACHUTES AND SKYDIVING. BOTH [REDACTED] DESCRIBED HOBART AS USER OF NARCOTICS, HEAVY SMOKER OF CIGARETTES, FAVORING PALL MALL BRAND.
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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED HOBART AS DESPERATE AND HAVING MADE STATEMENTS REGARDING USE OF PUTTY ON FINGERS AND LOSING WEIGHT PRIOR TO A QUOTE CAPER UNQUOTE TO MAKE IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULT.
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[REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, STATES GARNET IMOGENE HOLLIS WHITE, FEMALE, BORN SEPTEMBER SEVENTEEN TWENTY FOUR, FIVE FOOT THREE AND HALF INCHES, BROWN HAIR, ONE TWENTY FIVE POUNDS, RELEASED FROM EMPLOYMENT AS REGISTERED NURSE ON FEBRUARY SEVEN SEVENTY ONE, FOLLOWING ARREST BY LOS ANGELES PD. HE RECALLS ABOUT TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO, LETTER RECEIVED FROM GARNET REQUESTING HE FURNISH REFERENCE IF
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DB COOPER-47390
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LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR INQUIRY RECEIVED FROM EMPLOYER. [REDACTED] DISCARDED LETTER DUE TO REPUTATION OF GARNET, BUT RECALLS MAILED FROM WASHINGTON. THE LETTER INDICATED SHE WAS GOING TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT AS NURSE'S AID AS R.N. LICENSE REVOKED AFTER ARREST.
HOBART APPEARS IDENTICAL TO SUBJECT OF [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] REVIEW OF FILES REVEALED HOBART AND [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN APRIL FIFTY NINE, HOBART SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN MC NEIL ISLAND PENITENTIARY, WASHINGTON. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FOLLOWING [REDACTED]
IN APRIL SIXTY NINE, SALT LAKE CITY REQUESTED BACKGROUND INFO CONCERNING HOBART WHO HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH CONVICTED [REDACTED] WHO HAD SERVED SENTENCE AND WAS SUSPECTED OF COMMITTING NUMEROUS RECENT BURGLARIES. HOBART LOCATED RESIDING AT ONE THREE EIGHT FIVE ZERO OXNARD STREET VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA, AND EMPLOYED AS A PRIVATE MALE END PAGE FOUR
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DB COOPER-47391
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LA 164-497 PAGE FIVE
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NURSE OUT OF COURTNEY DASH NURSES REGISTRY, FIVE ZERO SIX LANKERSHIM, NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA.
HOBART DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: MALE, WHITE, BORN OCTOBER TWENTY THREE, THIRTY, AT ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, SIX FEET, ONE SEVENTY FIVE TO TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, BROWN EYES, FBI NUMBER SEVEN FIVE THREE SIX SIX FIVE, CALIFORNIA LICENSE R ZERO FIVE THREE SIX SEVEN TWO FOUR, ADDRESS ONE SIX SEVEN TWO FLANDERS, GRANADA HILLS, CALIFORNIA.
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LEADS:
SEATTLE CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW [redacted] WASHINGTON, FOR PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING WHEREABOUTS OF HOBART ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST.
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SACRAMENTO OBTAIN RECENT PHOTO FROM CALIFORNIA DMV AND IMMEDIATELY FORWARD TO SEATTLE, PORTLAND AND MINNEAPOLIS FOR POSSIBLE DISPLAY TO WITNESSES.
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LOS ANGELES WILL CONTACT WEST VALLY DIVISION, LOS ANGELES PD IN EFFORT TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFO CONCERNING CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OF HOBART AND GARNET HOLLIS. WILL FORWARD PHOTOS OF HOBART TAKEN FIFTY NINE TO APPROPRIATE OFFICES.
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DB COOPER-4739[2]
LA 164-497 PAGE SIX
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HOBART HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF BANK ROBBERY WHEREIN A WEAPON WAS DISPLAYED AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS, AND UNSUB IN THIS MATTER SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
PORTLAND AND MINNEAPOLIS ADVISED AIR MAIL.
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DCA
F B I SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-47393
Serials: LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1795