SA Richard B. Fleming to SAC Seattle re NORJAK, witness interview about Murphy and Seever

Document date 28 April 1972

Part 108pages 265–2662 pagesDB Cooper-49314

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Document: Memo SA Richard B. Fleming to SAC Seattle re NORJAK, witness interview about Murphy and Seever
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 108 pp. 265–266 (DB Cooper-49314), Memo, dated 28 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-108%3A265-266

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 4-28-72

SA RICHARD B. FLEMING

NORJAK

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On 4-27-72, [REDACTED] was contacted at her place of employment, Washington State Highway Department on Corson Street, Seattle, and ad- vised that [REDACTED] had telephoned her ap- proximately one half hour ago and advised her that she had identified a photograph of DONALD MURPHY for FBI Agents at her place of employment in the Sea-First Building. [REDACTED] advised that she was unable to identify the photo- graph of DONALD MURPHY, however, she knew of him by reputa- tion only. She stated that MURPHY was a close companion of [REDACTED] ROBERT SEEVER, who is currently separated from [REDACTED]. She advised that another compan- ion of the two was one [REDACTED] in Bremerton, Washington. She advised that MURPHY was known as a promoter and con artist and that he shared these characteristics with his close friend ROBERT SEEVER, who also had the "wanderlust" and was a "sponger" whose only gainful employment was as a part-time bartender. She stated that MURPHY and SEEVER were birds of a feather and frequently exchanged articles of clothing such as shirts, sweaters and jackets. She stated therefore, that MURPHY must be similar in appearance to her son-in-law, ROBERT SEEVER.

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She described ROBERT SEEVER as being over 6' tall, thin build, handsome, who usually wore a beard or mustache. She stated he had an olive complexion and had black hair which was basically straight but curly around the neck and had curly sideburns. She stated that [REDACTED] Bremer- ton [REDACTED] mentioned earlier, was a good friend of her [REDACTED] and probably was acquainted with DONALD MURPHY. She stated that [REDACTED] had, at one time, been [REDACTED] and stated that [REDACTED] did not have a good reputation among other attorneys and was not very business- like. She stated that [REDACTED] most distinguishing feature

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was his extremely slick black hair which he wore long and combed straight back and probably used some kind of hair preparation for it. She stated [REDACTED] was shorter than her [REDACTED] SEEVER and gave the appearance of being slender except that he had a prominent "pot belly" and his face was somewhat jowely. She advised that [REDACTED] had an extremely deep voice.

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[REDACTED] concluded by stating that she knew of no instances where the three ran around together or were in some type of business venture, however, repeated that both MURPHY and [REDACTED] were close friends and that [REDACTED] were close friends.

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2. DB COOPER-49314

Serials: SE 164-81