Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and San Francisco re interviews of subjects in Tarzana
Document date 21 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-109:082-085 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and San Francisco re interviews of subjects in Tarzana Id: Cooper-Part-109:082-085 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A082-085 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. 82–85 (DB Cooper-4954, DB Cooper-49542, DB Cooper-49543, DB Cooper-49544), Teletype, dated 21 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2021 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A082-085
NR 034 )" A PLAIN 138 - M 4-21-72 ? CD PM NITEL 4-20-72 4 WM TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) SAN FRANCISCO FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497)
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
RE SEATTLE NITEL TO BUREAU, APRIL THIRTEEN LAST. RE UNSUB; [REDACTED] - SOURCE. [REDACTED] LOCATED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN TARZANA, CALIFORNIA THIS DATE. [REDACTED] LOCATED RESIDENCE [REDACTED] VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA. SIMULTANEOUS INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED. [REDACTED] REFUSED TO BE INTERVIEWED AND INVITED AGENTS TO LEAVE. [REDACTED] ADVISED WOULD NOT SUBMIT TO INTERVIEW WITHOUT CONSULTING ATTORNEY BEFOREHAND. INDICATED WOULD ADVISE FBI IF ATTORNEY RECOMMENDS HE SUBMIT TO INTERVIEW. [REDACTED] RECONTACTED LATE TODAY AND AGREED TO INTERVIEW AT HIS RESIDENCE THIS EVENING. [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN TARZANA AND ADVISED AS FOLLOWS: END PAGE ONE
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164-81-2021 APR 20 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-4954
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LA 164-497 PAGE TWO
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AFTER CONTACT BY FBI THIS MORNING HE CONSULTED KARL FLEMING, LOS ANGELES BUREAU CHIEF OF NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE. FLEMING RECOMMENDED TO [REDACTED] THAT HE, [REDACTED] FURNISH FBI INFORMATION RE TRIP TO SEATTLE LATE FEBRUARY LAST.
ON FEBRUARY TWENTY TWO LAST [REDACTED] TRAVELED BY WESTERN AIRLINES TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. TRIP MADE AT SPECIFIC REQUEST OF FLEMING TO RECORD AND PHOTOGRAPH A ", EVSWORTHY FUGITIVE". [REDACTED] RECEIVED [REDACTED] FROM FLEMING AND EXPENSES PAID.
UPON ARRIVAL SEATTLE [REDACTED] MET FLEMING AT MOTEL EVENING OF FEBRUARY TWENTY TWO LAST AT WHICH TIME FLEMING DISCUSSED PURPOSED INTERVIEW [REDACTED] "FUGITIVE". FOLLOWING MORNING [REDACTED] DRIVEN BY UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MALE IN HERTZ RENT-DASH A DASH CAR TO BEACH AREA, EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN TO [REDACTED]. SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVAL [REDACTED] WERE JOINED BY FLEMING AND INDIVIDUAL TO BE INTERVIEWED.
[REDACTED] PINNED [REDACTED] TO COAT OF INDIVIDUAL TO BE INTERVIEWED
THEN [REDACTED] REQUESTED BY FLEMING TO REMAIN [REDACTED] OR ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FEET, AWAY FROM PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED.
END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-49542
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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
INTERVIEW LASTED ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES AFTER WHICH FLEMING AND PERSON INTERVIEWED DEPARTED.
[REDACTED] DEPARTED SEATTLE SAME DATE BY AIR WITH TAPED INTERVIEW AND FILM. THAT SAME EVENING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, RESIDENCE OF FLEMINGS RELATIVE.
[REDACTED] ADVISES AT NO TIME DID FLEMING DESCRIBE INTERVIEW OTHER THAN TO STATE PERSON WAS A ",EWSWORTHY FUGITIVE".
[REDACTED] ASSUMED INTERVIEW TOOK PLACE IN SEATTLE AND EXTENSIVE NEWS COVERAGE BEING GIVEN HIJACKING.
[REDACTED] ADMITS DISCUSSING SEATTLE TRIP WITH SEVERAL CLOSE FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AND POSSIBLY SPECULATED WITH THEM INTERVIEW RELATED TO HIJACKING. [REDACTED] INSISTS HE HAS NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE IDENTITY OF PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED.
[REDACTED] DESCRIBES PERSON INTERVIEWED AS WHITE MALE, FORTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES - FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, AVERAGE FACE - NO DETAILS RECALLED, HAIR AND EYES UNKNOWN, NOT RECALLED TO HAVE SMOKED, WORE BLACK PLASTIC WRAP AROUND SUN GLASSES, A WOOLEN JOCKEY CAP, BALLOONED AT SIDES IN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO COVER HAIR.
END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-49543
LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR
CAP DESCRIBED AS ABOUT SIX BLACK AND WHITE TRIANGLES RADIATING FROM THE TOP CENTER. WORE TAN TRENCH COAT AND BLACK SHOES. [REDACTED] STATES COULD NOT IDENTIFY PERSON IF SEEN AGAIN.
[REDACTED] STATED UNABLE TO EXPLAIN [REDACTED] RELUCTANCE TO BE INTERVIEWED AND DID NOT KNOW WHETHER FLEMING WOULD BE AMENABLE TO FBI INTERVIEW.
FULL DETAILS OF INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] FOLLOWS.
LA INDICES CONTAIN NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO KARL FLEMING, HOWEVER, NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION IDENTIFIABLE WITH FLEMING CONTAINED THEREIN.
UACB BACKGROUND CHECK THROUGH ESTABLISHED SOURCES WILL BE CONDUCTED WITH A VIEW TOWARDS RECOMMENDING TO BUREAU THAT FLEMING BE INTERVIEWED TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWED AT SEATTLE. END. FEE
FBI SEATTLE C
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DB COOPER-49544
Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2021