New York to Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re Fleming, Newsweek and the alleged Cooper contacts
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-108:348-353 Document: Teletype New York to Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re Fleming, Newsweek and the alleged Cooper contacts Id: Cooper-Part-108:348-353 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-108%3A348-353 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 108 pp. 348–353 (DB Cooper-49399–49404), Teletype, dated 26 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-108%3A348-353
NR 012 NY PLAIN 522PM IMMEDIATE 4-26-72 JAH TO DIRECTOR 164-2111 LOS ANGELES 164-497 SEATTLE 164-81 FROM NEW YORK 164-627 GP
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RE NEW YORK TEL APRIL TWENTYFIVE LAST.
[redacted] RE - CONTACTED APRIL TWENTYSIX INSTANT. [redacted] ADVISED THAT HE HAD GONE TO WASHINGTON, DC EVENING OF APRIL TWENTYFIVE, INSTANT BY HIMSELF TO CONTACT [redacted] PERSONAL ATTORNEY WHO IS REPRESENTING KARL PAYNE FLEMING. [redacted] DECLINED TO INDICATE WHERE HE HAD CONTACTED [redacted] AND ADVISED HE [redacted] RETURNED FROM WASHINGTON, DC TO NYC AT TWO AM APRIL TWENTY SIXTH, INSTANT. [redacted] ADVISED THAT HE WAS AN ASSISTANT USA IN THE SDNY APPROXIMATELY TEN YEARS AGO AND WAS PERSONALLY DESIROUS OF ASSISTING THE FBI AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. [redacted] ADVISED THAT FLEMING HAD INDICATED TO HIM DURING THE LATER AFTERNOON OF APRIL TWENTYFIVE INSTANT THAT HE, FLEMING, PLANNED TO RETURN TO HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES. [redacted] EMPHATICALLY STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THE FLIGHT NUMBER OF THE AIRCRAFT FLEMING MAY HAVE TAKEN TO LOS ANGELES AND DID NOT HAVE ANY CONTACT NUMBER FOR FLEMING IN NEW YORK. HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER FLEMING MAY HAVE STAYED AT A HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY OR WITH UNKNOWN FRIENDS AND HIS INQUIRY OF [redacted] AND STAFF MEMBERS END PAGE ONE
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164-81- [illegible] DB COOPER-49399
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FOR FLEMING'S WHEREABOUTS WHILE IN NEW YORK WAS UNPRODUCTIVE. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT FLEMING HAD DETERMINED THROUGH A REVIEW OF HIS OWN RECORDS THAT HE HAD STAYED AT THE SWEPTWING MOTEL AT THE SEATTLE AIRPORT ON FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH INSTANT. [REDACTED] VOLUNTARILY MADE AVAILABLE A XEROX COPY OF A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FLEMING KNEW AS D.B. COOPER WHICH [REDACTED] FLEMING. THIS [REDACTED] A COPY BEING FORWARDED TO BUREAU. [REDACTED] INDICATED THAT [REDACTED] WAS FURNISHED ON SATURDAY, APRIL FIFTEENTH, INSTANT, TO DEPARTMENT AT WHICH TIME [REDACTED] DID NOT INDICATE TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THAT HE WAS REPRESENTING FLEMING. [REDACTED] ALSO MADE AVAILABLE A POLAROID PHOTOGRAPH OF A BALDING WHITE MALE WHO IS IDENTICAL TO THE INDIVIDUAL OBSERVED WEARING A WIG, AND IS WEARING IDENTICAL CLOTHING AND SUNGLASSES. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT FLEMING INDICATED TO HIM THAT HE HAD RECEIVED THIS PHOTOGRAPH FROM [REDACTED] FLEMING HAD ADVISED END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-49400
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[REDACTED] HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE EITHER PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN OR THE DATE WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] WILL MAKE A DECISION BY APRIL TWENTY SEVEN, INSTANT AS TO WHETHER HE WILL AUTHORIZE THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WITH THE INDIVIDUAL KNOWN AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] WILL ALSO MAKE A DECISION AS TO RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL OR A COPY OF THE RECEIPT FLEMING OBTAINED FROM [REDACTED] FOR THE [REDACTED] ON FEBRUARY TWENTY, INSTANT. THIS RECEIPT IS ALLEGEDLY SIGNED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED HE DOES NOT KNOW WHERE THE [REDACTED] OR RECEIPT ARE CURRENTLY LOCATED AND HE DOES NOT HAVE POSSESSION OF THEM.
[REDACTED] INTRODUCED LESTER BERNSTEIN, MANAGING EDITOR, NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE TO THE NYO AGENTS. BERNSTEIN ALSO ADVISED HIS MAGAZINE HAD MADE A DECISION NOT TO PUBLISH THE STORY OR DETAILS CONCERNING FLEMING'S CONTACT WITH THE ALLEGED HIJACKER AS THE NEWSWEEK STAFF HAS NOTED DISCREPANCIES AND DETAILS FURNISHED TO FLEMING WHEN COMPARED WITH VARIOUS NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FROM WEST
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DB COOPER-49401
PAGE FOUR COAST PAPERS WHICH HAD REPORTED NUMEROUS INTERVIEWS OF PASSENGERS ON THE FLIGHT AND INTERVIEWS OF OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN THE SEATTLE AREA. BERNSTEIN ADVISED THAT HIS MAGAZINE HAS EXPENDED A NUMBER OF HOURS IN REVIEWING FLEMING'S INTERVIEW OF THE ALLEGED HIJACKER AND WISHED TO FURNISH [REDACTED] FOR POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE. BERNSTEIN ADVISED HE UNDERSTOOD NO COMMITMENTS COULD BE MADE BY THE FBI TO ALLOW NEWSWEEK ANY EXCLUSIVE INITIAL REPORTING OF THE DETAILS IF THE HIJACKER WAS APPREHENDED AS A RESULT OF INFORMATION FURNISHED BY NEWSWEEK AS EMPLOYER OF FLEMING. HE DID REQUESTM IT BE MADE A MATTER OF RECORD AND WOULD APPRECIATE BEING NOTIFIED AS PROMPTLY AS OTHER PRESS MEDIA IF THE HIJACKER WAS APPREHENDED SO THEY COULD CONSIDER PRINTING THE DETAILS THEY OBTAINED DURING FLEMING'S INTERVIEWS OF THE ALLEGED HIJACKER. NO COMMITTMENT WHATSOEVER MADE TO [REDACTED] OR BERNSTEIN. [REDACTED] VOLUNTEERED THE INFORMATION THAT NEWSWEEK STAFF MEMBERS, NOT FURTHER IDENTIFIED, WHO HAD REVIEWED THE END PAGE FOUR
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DB COOPER-49402
PAGE FIVE [REDACTED] HAD NOTED A NUMBER OF DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN INTERVIEWS OF ALLEGED WITNESSES ON THE HIJACKED AIRCRAFT, AND DETAILS OBTAINED BY FLEMING FROM THE ALLEGED HIJACKER. [REDACTED] OF OPINION NEWSWEEK STAFF ALSO CONTACTED UNKNOWN REPRESENTATIVES OF FAA. SPECIFICALLY, DISCREPANCIES VOLUNTEERED BY [REDACTED] PERTAIN TO THE CORRECT FIRST NAME OF COOPER AS DAN RATHER THAN D. B. COOPER; HIJACKER SITTING ON LEFT SIDE RATHER THAN RIGHT SIDE; PURCHASE OF ROUND TRIP TICKET RATHER THAN ONE WAY TICKET; SOME QUESTION AS TO TYPE OF AND NUMBER OF PARACHUTES LEFT ON BOARD; WHETHER OR NOT HIJACKER HAD A DRINK ON BOARD FLIGHT AS ALLEGED BY SOME UNKNOWN FEMALE PASSENGER IN NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OR DID NOT HAVE A DRINK AS ALLEGED BY PERSON INTERVIEWED BY FLEMING AND "SOMETHING ABOUT A NOTE". [REDACTED] STATED IT WAS HIS OPINION THAT FLEMING WAS UNAWARE OF THESE DISCREPANCIES AT THE TIME HE INTERVIEWED THE ALLEGED HIJACKER. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THE LOS ANGELES ADDRESS FOR MAX PALEVSKY, A PARTNER OF FLEMING DOING BUSINESS WITH OFFICE SPACE IN LOS ANGELES UNDER THE FIRM NAME OF PLATYPUS PUBLICATIONS, INC. [REDACTED] ASSUMES THAT FLEMING COULD BE CONTACTED AT THAT FIRM OR AT HIS HOME ADDRESS IN LOS ANGELES THIS DATE APRIL TWENTY SIXTH, INSTANT. END PAGE FIVE
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DB COOPER-49403
PAGE SIX [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT THE [REDACTED] FLEMING'S [REDACTED] FLEMING'S [REDACTED] REGARDING HIS CONTACTING THE ALLEGED HIJACKER AND [REDACTED] PURSUANT TO INSTRUCTIONS OF ATTORNEY [REDACTED] ~~COPIES OF PHOT~~OGRAPH OF ALLEGED HIJACKER WITHOUT WIG OBTAINED THIS DATE BEING DUPLICATED AT NYO AND BEING IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO BUREAU, LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE. NEW YORK WILL RECONTACT [REDACTED] NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, APRIL TWENTY SEVENTH. BUREAU WILL BE ADVISED OF RESULTS IMMEDIATELY. P. END VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-49404
Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, NY 164-627, SE 164-81