Portland to Seattle re photo display to witness, NORJAK

Document date 23 April 1972

Part 109pages 13–142 pagesDB Cooper-49465–49466

Also filed at: Part 76 pp. 191–192

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Document: Teletype Portland to Seattle re photo display to witness, NORJAK
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 109 pp. 13–14 (DB Cooper-49465–49466), Teletype, dated 23 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A013-014

NR 002 PD PLAIN 2:56 A.M. NITEL 4-23-72 JAS TO: SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (0) 20 NORJAK

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WITNESSES

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RE CURRENT UNIDENTIFIED SUSPECT.

SECOND PHOTO OF UNIDENTIFIED SUSPECT DISPLAYED AMONG SIXTEEN OTHER PHOTOS TO PORTLAND WITNESS [REDACTED] NORTHWEST AIRLINES [REDACTED] SELECTED FOUR PHOTOS, INCLUDING THAT OF SUSPECT, AS MOST RESEMBLING UNSUB, BUT COULD NOT RANK THEM OR MAKE POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. PORTLAND WITNESS [REDACTED] NWA [REDACTED] NOT AVAILABLE TO VIEW PHOTOS, BUT STOPS PLACED AND CONTINUOUS EFFORT BEING MADE TO SHOW PHOTOS TO HIM AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME.

WITNESS [REDACTED] EUGENE, OREGON, FELLOW PASSENGER OF UNSUB DURING HIJACKING, VIEWED SECOND PHOTO AMONG OTHERS AND SELECTED IT AS SAME PHOTO DISPLAYED ALONE TO HIM AT TWO A.M. FOUR TWENTYTWO SEVENTYTWO BY NEWSWEEK [REDACTED] STATES THIS PHOTO STRONGLY RESEMBLES UNSUB, MORE SO THAN ANY OTHERS OF APPROXIMATELY FIVE HUNDRED HE HAS VIEWED, BUT HE COULD NOT MAKE POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED [REDACTED] CALL-

ED HIM BY TELEPHONE FROM SEATTLE AFTER ABOVE DISPLAY OF SINGLE PHOTO TO ADVISE HE WAS ALSO CONTACTING OTHER WITNESSES AND SHOWING THEM [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE

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16-4-81- [illegible] SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED...FILED.... DB COOPER-49465 APR 2 3 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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PAGE TWO PD 164-41

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PHOTOS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT [REDACTED] ADVISES HE MADE NO IDENTIFICATION OF PHOTO DISPLAYED BY [REDACTED] BUT DECEIVED [REDACTED] BY STATING HIS RECOLLECTION OF UNSUB WAS TOO VAGUE TO RECALL.

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SWD FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB COOPER-49466

Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81