Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and San Francisco re Fleming Seattle trip and beach meeting
Document date 21 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-109:067-071 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and San Francisco re Fleming Seattle trip and beach meeting Id: Cooper-Part-109:067-071 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A067-071 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 109 pp. 67–71 (DB Cooper-49525–49528), Teletype, dated 21 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A067-071
NR019 LA PLAIN 4530M 4-21-72 DW TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ----8 MEDIATE---- SEATTLE (164-81) ----8 MEDIATE---- SAN FRANCISCO ---- URGENT ---- FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 50
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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
RE LOS ANGELES NITEL TO BUREAU APRIL TWENTY LAST.
RE: UNSUB; [REDACTED] DASH SOURCE.
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[REDACTED] SUBMITTED TO INTERVIEW LOS ANGELES FBI OFFICE THIS DATE. HE STATES FIRST MET KARL FLEMING, LOS ANGELES BUREAU CHIEF ",EWSWEEK".AGAZINE, EARLY-FEBRUARY LAST AFTER BECOMING AWARE THROUGH SOCIAL ACQUAINTANCES IN LOS ANGELES FLEMING SEEKING [REDACTED] HE AND [REDACTED] WHO OFTEN WORKS WITH HIM, AGREED TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] UNNAMED FUGITIVE FOR FLEMING IN CONNECTION WITH ", EWSWEEK" STORY. FROM LOCATION OF INTERVIEW AND NEWS COVERAGE AT THE TIME, HE AND [REDACTED] ASSUMED FUGITIVE WAS HIJACKER THIS CASE. FUGITIVE WAS TO RECEIVE [REDACTED] FROM FLEMING FOR [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE
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1/64-81-[illegible] SEARCHED____INDEXED____ SERIALIZED____FILED____ APR 21 1972 FBI - SEATTLE DB COOPER-49525
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LA 164-497
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ON AFTERNOON FEBRUARY TWENTY TWO LAST, HE AND [REDACTED] WITH NECESSARY TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT, DEPARTED LOS ANGELES FOR SEATTLE VIA WESTERN AIRLINES ARRIVING SEATTLE EVENING SAME DAY. TRAVELED BY TAXI TO EDGEWATER INN, SEATTLE, WHERE FLEMING ALREADY RESIDING. FLEMING OUTLINED TWO PLANS FOR [REDACTED] UNSUB. PLAN TO INTERVIEW IN ADJOINING ROOMS AT EDGEWATER INN DISCARDED DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. ALTERNATE PLAN TO INTERVIEW AT NEARBY BEACH AREA, PUGET SOUND, DECIDED UPON.
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IN MORNING FEBRUARY TWENTY THREE LAST, FLEMING INTRODUCED [REDACTED] REFERRING TO NAME [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DESCRIBED WHITE MALE, THIRTY YEARS, FIVE FEET TEN, ONE SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS, DARK BROWN HAIR, WELL TRIMMED FULL BEARD, WEARING SPORT CLOTHES AND OBVIOUSLY FAMILIAR WITH SEATTLE. [REDACTED] REFERRED TO BY FLEMING AS [REDACTED] DRIVING NEW YELLOW SEDAN, NOT FORD AND POSSIBLY DODGE DART, BELIEVED TO BE RENTED CAR, TRANSPORTED [REDACTED] TO NEARBY HERTZ RENTAL AGENCY. [REDACTED] RENTED WHITE FORD WITH RED INTERIOR AND FOLLOWED [REDACTED] BACK TO MOTEL. END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-49526
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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
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EQUIPMENT PLACED IN FORD AND [redacted] AND [redacted] AS DRIVER, DEPARTED FOR PRE-ARRANGED BEACH SITE. FLEMING REMAINED AT MOTEL. [redacted] PROCEEDED IN NORTHERLY DIRECTION VIA FREEWAY FOR ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES TO ROADSIDE PARK ON OCEAN. EQUIPMENT TAKEN FROM VEHICLE TO POINT DESIGNATED ON BEACH BY [redacted] PATH TAKEN TO BEACH NECESSITATED USING ELEVATED WALKWAY OVER RAILROAD TRACKS. NO MARINA OBSERVED IN EITHER DIRECTION. PARK MAINTENANCE MAN OBSERVED PAINTING GREEN FENCE.
APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN TO TWENTY MINUTES LATER, LEMING AND UNSUB APPEARED FROM AREA OF PARKING LOT. INTERVIEW CONDUCTED AT DISTANCE OF OVER ONE HUNDRED FEET FROM [redacted] AND [redacted] WHO PREVIOUSLY INSERTED WAX EARPLUGS TO PREVENT THEIR OVERHEARING ANY CONVERSATION. MID WAY THROUGH INTERVIEW, UNSUB MOVED APPROXIMATELY THIRTY FEET NEARER [redacted] FOR CLOSE UP SHOT. [redacted] ON BLANK PIECE OF PAPER HELD BY UNSUB. AFTER [redacted] TURNED AROUND, UNSUB SUBSTITUTED UNSEEN DOCUMENT. [redacted] BELIEVED THE SUBSTITUTED DOCUMENT WAS A XEROX COPY OF U. . CURRENCY BILL WHICH HE INADVERTANTLY OBSERVED NEAR FEET OF UNSUB. END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-49527
LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR
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NEAR CONCLUSION OF INTERVIEW, [REDACTED] TOLD TO MOVE NEARER AND [REDACTED] OF UNSUB AND FLEMING. INTERVIEW LASTED ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES. UNSUB DESCRIBED WHITE MALE, FORTIES, FIVE FEET TEN, ONE SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, HAIR AND EYE COLOR UNKNOWN AND DESCRIBED AS VERY ORDINARY IN APPEARANCE. DRESS SAME AS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED BY [REDACTED] STATES COULD POSSIBLY IDENTIFY UNSUB IF IN SAME ATTIRE.
FLEMING AND UNSUB DEPARTED IN SAME DIRECTION AS ARRIVED. [REDACTED] LOADED EQUIPMENT IN FORD AND RETURNED TO EDGEWATER INN. UPON ARRIVAL, HE OBSERVED FLEMING AND UNSUB STANDING BESIDE YELLOW CAR IN MOTEL PARKING LOT. FORD PARKED TWO SPACES AWAY. AFTER SHORT PERIOD, [REDACTED] FLEMING AND UNSUB DROVE AWAY IN YELLOW CAR. [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH HIM AND RETURNED LOS ANGELES SAME AFTERNOON.
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ON APRIL ELEVEN LAST, AFTER REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO SECURE PAYMENT FOR ABOVE DESCRIBED ASSIGNMENT, [REDACTED] CONTACTED FLEMING IN LOS ANGELES.
HE DETERMINED [REDACTED] TAKEN BY FLEMING TO VARIOUS STUDIOS IN LOS ANGELES AND [REDACTED] END PAGE FOUR
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DB COOPER-49528
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LA 164-497 PAGE FIVE PREPARED UNDER CONDITIONS WHICH ALLOWED ONLY FLEMING TO HEAR SOUND OR OBSERVE FILM. [REDACTED] ADVISED INITIAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH FLEMING WERE THAT HE RECEIVE [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FLEMING FURNISHED [REDACTED] CASH IN ADVANCE FOR EXPENSES. [REDACTED] ADVISED HE HAD SPOKEN WITH [REDACTED] AND FLEMING SINCE CONTACT BY FBI ON MORNING OF APRIL TWENTY LAST. ON THEIR ADVICE, HE DECIDED TO COOPERATE WITH FBI. [REDACTED] APPEAR COOPERATIVE AND WOULD VIEW PHOTOGRAPHS. UACB, FLEMING WILL NOT BE CONTACTED BY LOS ANGELES OFFICE AT THIS TIME. ARMED AND DANGEROUS. PENDING END TIM FBI SEATTLE LCR
Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, SE 164-81