Urgent teletype SAC Dallas to SAC Detroit re NORJAK suspect De Bano

Document date 17 February 1972

Part 108pages 128–1303 pagesDB Cooper-4920, DB Cooper-49118, DB Cooper-49119

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Document: Urgent teletype SAC Dallas to SAC Detroit re NORJAK suspect De Bano
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 108 pp. 128–130 (DB Cooper-4920, DB Cooper-49118, DB Cooper-49119), Teletype, dated 17 Feb 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-108%3A128-130

2/17/72

TELETYPE URGENT

TO: SAC, DETROIT FROM: SAC, DALLAS (164-191)

RE NORJAK. [illegible degraded text] DETROIT, [illegible] ROBERT [guess: SILVIO] [illegible] DE BANO [illegible degraded line] "SILVIO" [illegible] TWO, [illegible] DE BANO RE "SUSPECT ROBERT [illegible] DE BANO." [illegible] SECURITY [illegible], [illegible] ON FEB. SIXTEEN, LAST, ROBERT VIVIO DE BANO, A PASSENGER [illegible degraded line] ON BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, FLIGHT FOUR ZERO THREE, [illegible degraded line] DALLAS [illegible] FROM DETROIT TO HOUSTON, STOP-OVER AT DALLAS, WAS INTERVIEWED [illegible degraded line] BY DALLAS AGENTS BECAUSE SKY MARSHALS RIDING SAID FLIGHT [illegible degraded line] ADVISED HE WAS A LOOK-ALIKE OF DAN COOPER, SUSPECT IN NORJAK. [illegible degraded line] DE BANO HAS SIMILARITIES IN DESCRIPTION TO CHECK HIM OUT [illegible degraded line] FURTHER. HE WAS EN ROUTE TO HOUSTON TO ATTEND THE STEEL [illegible degraded line] INDUSTRY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION MEETING AND IS RETURNING TO DETROIT [illegible degraded line] FEB. EIGHTEEN, NEXT. [illegible degraded line] FOLLOWING HIS BACKGROUND ON DE BANO, RESIDES SIX NINE SIX [illegible degraded line] FIVE BEVERLY CREST DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN, TELEPHONE SIX [illegible degraded line] TWO SIX-ZERO SEVEN SEVEN FIVE, OCCUPATION, MANAGER OF [illegible degraded line] NINE [illegible] SYSTEMS DATA PROCESSING, MC LOUTH STEEL CORPORATION, THREE [illegible degraded/handwritten line]

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P - Seattle (AM) 1 - Dallas HJM: mo (2) [illegible] AT DETROIT BANK AND TRUST CO[illegible]

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[handwritten signature/initials near FROM line] [handwritten annotation near RE line: Robert [illegible] Silvos / De Bano]

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED SERIALIZED/FILED ___ FEB 19 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-49118

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[handwritten] Sub 348

DL 164-191 PAGE TWO.

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HUNDRED SOUTH LIVERNOIS, DETROIT, TELEPHONE EIGHT FOUR THREE - THREE ZERO ZERO ZERO, W/M, DOB, FEB. TWO, THIRTY-EIGHT, DETROIT, HEIGHT FIVE FT. ELEVEN, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY LBS., EYES BROWN, HAIR BLACK - SPARSE - PARTED LEFT SIDE, COMPLEXION [illegible], MEDIUM TO OLIVE AND SMOOTH, SIDEBURNS TO LOWER PART OF EAR, SMOKES A PIPE BUT NO CIGARETTES, SSN THREE SIX FIVE - THREE SIX-[illegible]. TWO NINE NINE SIX, [blank field] MICHIGAN DRIVER'S LICENSE ONE FIVE ZERO SEVEN FOUR FIVE SEVEN SIX SIX ZERO EIGHT EIGHT. HE WAS VAGUE ON HIS MILITARY SERVICE BUT RECALLS BEING IN U.S. NAVY, BELIEVED TO BE FIFTY-EIGHT - FIFTY- NINE, AT ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA. SERIAL NUMBER NOT KNOWN BUT MILITARY OCCUPATION WAS IN DATA PROCESSING. [struck-through text] TWO ZERO - EIGHT NINE - THREE EIGHT - NINE SIX. DENIES ANY ARREST RECORD. DENIES TRAVEL ON NOV. TWENTY-THREE - TWENTY-SIX- SEVENTY-ONE. SALARY SIXTEEN THOUSAND PER ANNUM. HE WAS CARRYING NINE TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS IN WALLET. BILLS CHECKED AGAINST RANSOM LIST, NEGATIVE.

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Selective Service Number

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HE BANKS AT DETROIT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY WHERE HE HAS

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DB COOPER-49119

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2/17/72

TELETYPE URGENT

DL 164-191, DETROIT

PAGE THREE...C, DALLAS (164-191)

SAVINGS AND CHECKING ACCOUNT. DENIES EVER PILOTING A PLANE, HAVING ANY FLYING EXPERIENCE OR BELONGING TO ANY PARACHUTE OR SKY DIVING CLUBS OR AFFILIATE GROUPS.

DETROIT DETERMINE WHEREABOUTS NOV. TWENTY-THREE [guess: TO] TWENTY- SIX - SEVENTY-ONE. IF NOT ESTABLISHED, OBTAIN PHOTO AND SEND TO MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND AND SEATTLE FOR DISPLAY TO WITNESSES.

DE BANO REQUESTED THAT IF IT IS NECESSARY TO CONTACT [redacted] DO NOT CONTACT HER PRIOR TO HIS RETURN TO DETROIT SINCE SHE IS A VERY NERVOUS PERSON AND THIS WOULD UPSET HER. [illegible]

AIRMAIL COPY TO SEATTLE. [illegible] HOUSTON TO ATTEND THE STEEL INDUSTRY [guess: ASSOCIATION] MEETING AND IS RETURNING TO DETROIT ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

MR. EICHISON, NEXT. -P-

FOLLOWING HIS BACKGROUND ON DE BANO, RESIDES SIX NINE SIX FIVE BEVERLY CREST DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN, TELEPHONE SIX TWO SIX-ZERO SEVEN SEVEN FIVE, OCCUPATION, MANAGER OF SYSTEMS DATA PROCESSING, MC LOUTH STEEL CORPORATION, TRENTON

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[Distribution] [guess: AM] - Seattle (AM) 1 - Dallas RLN: no (2)

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ FEB 1 9 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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[illegible signature/initials]

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DB COOPER-4920

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Serials: DL 164-191