Daily summary teletype Seattle to Director re Boeing terminated-employee review and Woodland photo canvass

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Original title: Daily summary teletype Seattle to Director re Boeing terminated-employee review and Woodland/LaCenter photo canvass

Document date 26 April 1972

Part 108pages 340–3456 pagesDB Cooper-49391–49396

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Document: Daily summary teletype Seattle to Director re Boeing terminated-employee review and Woodland photo canvass
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 108 pp. 340–345 (DB Cooper-49391–49396), Teletype, dated 26 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2924 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-108%3A340-345

NR 016 SE PLAIN 11:51 PM NITEL 4/26/72 DCA TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) FROM SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 6P

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DAILY SUMMARY

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NORJAK

LOS ANGELES OFFICE ADVISESE THAT KARL FLEMING HAS RETURNED TO LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE HAS FURNISHED A DETAILED LIST OF IN- FORMATION DESIRED FROM THE REINTERVIEW.

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SEATTLE HAS OBTAINED [REDACTED]

[REDACTED]

[REDACTED], THEY WILL BE CHECKED THROUGH THE BOEING LINEDEX (COMPUTERIZED LISTING OF PERSONNEL) OF TERMINATED EMPLOYEES FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY, SEVENTY, TO JULY, SEVENTY.

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CONSIDERATION IS BEING GIVEN TO A REVIEW OF THE BOEING LINEDEX FOR PERSONS TERMINATED FROM JANUARY, SEVENTY, TO APRIL, SEVENTY. THE FEASIBILITY OF REVIEWING PHOTOS IN FILES AT THE BOEING COMPANY END PAGE ONE

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Sub 363 164-81-2924

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PAGE TWO SE 164-81

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PERTAINING TO INDIVIDUALS TERMINATED BETWEEN JANUARY, SEVENTY AND JULY, SEVENTY, DISCUSSED WITH OFFICIALS AT BOEING COMPANY WHO ADVISE THIS WOULD INVOLVE MORE THAN THIRTY THOUSAND EMPLOYEES. THE BADGE PHOTOS OF THESE EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND THERE IS NO ASSURANCE THAT FILES WOULD CONTAIN PHOTOS. MERELY PULLING THE FILES AT BOEING, WOULD TAKE SIX EMPLOYEES APPROXIMATELY THREE WEEKS.

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BOEING ADVISED THAT COMPUTERS CAN BE PROGRAMMED FOR ONLY THAT DATA PERTAINING TO EMPLOYMENT AND CANNOT BE PROGRAMMED FOR DATA PERTAINING TO PERSONAL HISTORY. THIS PROJECT IS THEREFORE BEING HELD IN ABEYANCE TEMPORARILY WHILE MORE IMMEDIATELY PRODUCTIVE LEADS BEING FOLLOWED VIGOROUSLY.

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[REDACTED] IN THIS CASE HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND [REDACTED] WHICH ALLEGEDLY ARE THOSE WHICH WERE [REDACTED] KARL FLEMING.

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[REDACTED] ARE BEING FORWARDED TO THE LA- BORATORY BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES, DEPARTING SEATTLE AT NINE FIFTEEN A.M., APRIL TWENTYSEVEN, NEXT, AND ARRIVE AT DULLES, FOUR FIFTY- END PAGE TWO

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PAGE THREE SE 164-81

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FIVE P.M., EST, SAME DATE.

A RECHECK HAS BEEN MADE THROUGH THE BUSINESS SECTIONS OF WOOD- LAND AND LA CENTRE, WASHINGTON, SHOWING THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MAN STANDING IN THE STREET, WHICH WAS RETOUCHED BY THE LABORATORY TO REMOVE THE WIG. RESULTS HAVE BEEN NEGATIVE.

INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING TO DO A NEIGHBORHOOD FROM LA CENTRE TO POINT A, CONSIDERED AS THE PROBABLE DROP POINT OF THE HIJACKER.

INQUIRY HAS BEEN MADE OF [REDACTED] BREMERTON, SILVERDALE AND PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON AREAS TO IDENTIFY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND WHERE LOCATED, THEY ARE BEING REVIEWED BY AGENT PERSONNEL TO DETERMINE SIGNIFI- CANSE [REDACTED] AND ALSO DETERMINE IF [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] WILL BE REINTERVIEWED UPON RECEIPT OF PHO- TOGRAPH FROM NEW YORK WHICH REPORTEDLY WAS "D. B. COOPER" WITHOUT A WIG.

INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED IN BREMERTON, KITSAP COUNTY AND PORT ANGELES, TO DETERMINE ALL ASSOCIATES OF [REDACTED], HIS [REDACTED]

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PAGE FOUR SE 164-81

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VARIOUS BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, WHO WILL THEN BE INTERVIEWED FOR THE PURPOSE OF IDENTIFYING THE MAN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, FURNISHED BY FLEMING.

PHOTOS OF MAN IN STREET, WITH WIG REMOVED, SHOWN AT BREMER- TON, SILVERDALE, PORT ANGELES AND AREAS KNOWN AS SITES OF [REDACTED] TO PUBLICE OFFICIALS, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS WITHOUT IDENTIFYING HIM. SAME PHOTO ALSO SHOWN TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED], BUT NONE COULD HELP TO IDENTIFY THE MAN IN THE PHOTO.

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SECRET SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES, SEATTLE TODAY COMPARED THE XEROX COPY OF FIRST TWENTY DOLLAR BILL SHOWN ON XEROX OF BILLS SUPPLIED TO KARL FLEMING, SERIAL NUMBER L FIVE FOUR NINE ZERO FOUR SEVEN THREE ZERO A, WITH A PICTURE OF THE SAME BILL FROM THE MICROFILM AND FEEL IT PROBABLY IS A SPURIOUS BILL BECAUSE THE LETTER ON THE XEROX IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER IS C WHILE THE MICROFILM OF THE SAME BILL SHOWS A DIFFERENT LETTER, PROBABLY AN H, IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER. THESE LETTERS SHOULD BE THE SAME. [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED THIS DATE AT HIS HOME IN SEABECK, WASH- END PAGE FOUR

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PAGE FIVE SE 164-81

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INGTON. ADMITS CALLING KARL FLEMING LATE AT NIGHT IN EARLY FEB- RUARY, NINETEEN SEVENTYTWO, AND MAKING RESERVATION AT THE SWEPTWING FOR FLEMING ON FEBRUARY THIRTEEN, SEVENTYTWO. ALSO ADMITS MEETING FLEMING ON FEBRUARY SIXTEEN, SEVENTYTWO, AT [REDACTED] AND USING NAME [REDACTED]. DENIES INTRODUCING ANYONE ELSE TO FLEMING. ADMITS MEETING FLEMING SEVERAL DAYS LATER AT THE [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE, EXACT DATE UNKNOWN, AND BEING INTERVIEWED AT GREAT LENGTH BY FLEMING FOR MOST OF THE DAY AFTER WHICH HE AND [REDACTED] HAD DINNER WITH FLEMING AT THE WINDJAMMER, AND [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] TO FLEMING FOR WHICH [REDACTED]. DENIES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FLEMING, AND DENIES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FLEMING AND DENIES [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

HE DENIES EVER MEETING ANYONE OTHER THAN FLEMING. SPECIFICALLY DENIES KNOWING [REDACTED]. DENIES HAVING DRIVEN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND STATES THAT HE TOLD THE BREMERTON SUN THAT HE DROVE [REDACTED] AROUND AND INTRODUCED THEM TO THE HIJACKER SO THAT THEY COULD PHOTOGRAPH, BUT THAT THIS WAS UNTRUE AND THAT HE ONLY DID IT END PAGE FIVE

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PAGE SIX SE 164-81

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AS IT WAS [REDACTED]. STATES HE WILL CONTACT HIS ATTORNEY, [REDACTED], WHO IS IN LOS ANGELES, AND LAS VEGAS AND WILL NOT RETURN TO BREMERTON UNTIL SATURDAY OR SUNDAY, AND IF [REDACTED] AGREES TO A LIE DETECTOR TEST, [REDACTED] WILL DO SO.

[REDACTED] AFTER BEING ADVISED OF THE URGENT NATURE OF THE MATTER, AGREED THAT HE WOULD ATTEMPT TO CONTACT HIS ATTORNEY AND HE WILL BE CONTACTED AT HIS OFFICE AT A.M. APRIL TWENTYSEVEN FOR HIS ANSWER.

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INVESTIGATION BEING VIGOROUSLY PURSUED TO IDENTIFY THE MAN SHOWN IN THE VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS AND KNOWN BY KARL FLEMING AS D. B. COOPER.

BUREAU WILL BE ADVISED IF [REDACTED] WILL CONSENT TO A POLYGRAPH. E N D

LRS FBI WASHDC CLR

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Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2924