Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK: identification of Donald Sylvester Murphy and Fleming description
Document date 27 April 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 109 pp. 311–318 (DB Cooper-49816–49823), Teletype, dated 27 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3138 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A311-318
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Date: 4/27/72
Transmit the following in ___________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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SAC's Los Angeles and New York
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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC's Los Angeles and New York FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DAILY SUMMARY NORJAK.
ON APRIL TWENTYSEVEN INSTANT, INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED AT BREMERTON AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TO IDENTIFY THE BALD HEADED MAN WEARING SUNGLASSES AS PROVIDED BY NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE AT NEW YORK CITY, [redacted] RESULTED IN ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS AND INDEPENDENT IDENTIFICATIONS; ONE AT THE LAW FIRM OF DE GARMO, LEEDY, OLES AND MORRISON, SEATTLE, AND AT BREMERTON THROUGH INTERVIEWS WITH FOUR PEOPLE WHO RECOGNIZED AND KNOW THE PERSON PHOTOGRAPHED AS DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY.
INQUIRIES AT THE LAW FIRM OF DE GARMO, LEEDY, OLES AND MORRISON, WAS BASED ON A TELEPHONE CALL TO THAT OFFICE MADE FROM THE HOME PHONE OF [redacted] ON JANUARY SIX, SEVENTYTWO. IN SHOWING THE PHOTO OF THE BALD HEADED MAN AND THAT OF [redacted] SEATTLE [redacted] [redacted] IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THE PHOTO OF [redacted] WHOM SHE KNEW AS [redacted] UPON SEEING THE PHOTO OF THE BALD MAN SHE
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Approved: ___________ Sent _________ M Per __________ Special Agent in Charge
164-81- 3138
DB COOPER-49816 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
SE 164-81 PAGE TWO
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IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED IT AS THAT OF DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY, PRESENTLY RESIDING AT THE HIGGS HOUSE, A HOTEL ON FOURTH STREET IN BREMERTON. SHE FURTHER DESCRIBED HIM AS A PROMOTER WHO FREQUENTLY DEALS IN LAND DEVELOPMENT. [REDACTED] WHO REQUESTED HER IDENTITY BE PROTECTED, SAID SHE WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT MURPHY HAD RECENTLY COME INTO A LOT OF MONEY AS HE APPARENTLY WAS SPENDING QUITE A BIT AND HAD RECENTLY LEASED A NEW BUICK.
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[REDACTED] MELODY LANE BREMERTON,/IDENTIFIED PHOTO OF BALD HEADED MAN AS DON MURPHY WHO DRINKS IN THE MELODY LANE AND IS EMPLOYED AT THE LAKE FURNITURE COMPANY.
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[REDACTED] MELODY LANE, IDENTIFIED THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PHOTO AS THAT OF DON MURPHY.
[REDACTED] EMPLOYED AT LAKE FURNITURE COMPANY, IDENTIFIED PHOTO AS THAT OF DON MURPHY WHO WORKS IN THE HIGGS BUILDING, NEXT TO OFFICES OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] HIGGS HOUSE HOTEL, BREMERTON, ALSO IDENTIFIED THE ABOVE PHOTO AS DONALD S. MURPHY, WHO RESIDES IN ROOM TWO ONE FOUR AT THE HIGGS HOUSE HOTEL.
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ON APRIL TWENTY, SEVENTYTWO, IN FURNISHING CREDIT INFORMATION TO HAZELWOOD BUICK-PONTIAC DEALER,
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DB COOPER-49817
SE 164-81 PAGE THREE
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BREMERTON, MURPHY FURNISHED ADDRESS AS P.O. BOX FOUR NINE ONE, SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON.
DMV INFORMATION REVEALS DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY, P.O. BOX FOUR NINE ONE, SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON, BORN JUNE SEVENTEEN, TWENTYTWO, FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE SIX ZERO LBS., BLUE EYES, PLACE OF BIRTH NOT SHOWN.
THE ABOVE APPLICATION WAS MADE IN CONNECTION WITH PURCHASE ON APRIL TWENTY LAST, OF A NINETEEN SEVENTY BUICK LA SABER, FOUR DOOR SEDAN, WHICH ALLEGEDLY WAS FOR THE USE OF HIS WIFE, [REDACTED] ALSO OF THE SAME ADDRESS IN SILVERDALE.
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DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY LOCATED BY BUREAU AGENTS AS HE DEBARKED FROM FERRY AT BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, PM THIS DATE AND TAKEN TO BREMERTON RESIDENT AGENCY OFFICE, WHERE INTERVIEWED BY SAS.
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MURPHY ADMITTED IN A THREE-PAGE SIGNED STATEMENT THAT HE IS THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN THE WIG ON PACIFIC AVENUE IN BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, AND ALSO IS IDENTICAL TO THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH WITHOUT THE WIG MADE AVAILABLE BY NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE TO NEW YORK OFFICE. MURPHY DENIES BEING INDIVIDUAL IN PHOTOGRAPH WITH BLACK AND WHITE KNIT CAP, ALTHOUGH FLEMING ADVISES ALL
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SE 164-81 PAGE FOUR
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PHOTOS ARE OF SAME INDIVIDUAL. MURPHY ADVISED THAT PHOTO- GRAPH OF HIM WEARING THE WIG WAS TAKEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IN FRONT OF A WIG SHOP ON PACIFIC AVENUE, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, WHEN HE WAS IN THE COMPANY OF [REDACTED] BILL LEWIS. MURPHY STATES [REDACTED] TOOK HIS PHOTOGRAPH WITH A POLAROID CAMERA AND THAT THE WIG WAS BORROWED FROM THE WIG SHOP UNDER THE GUISE OF PURCHASING SAME. MURPHY ADVISED THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TO BE USED BY [REDACTED] BILL LEWIS TO BE SHOWN TO A FEMALE PURCHASER OF [REDACTED] AS HE UNDERSTOOD THIS FEMALE EXPECTED TO BE ROMANCED AS PART OF THE SALE. MURPHY STATES THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS NEVER SHOWN TO THIS INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE HE DECIDED AGAINST IT AND RE- QUESTED THE [REDACTED] NOT TO DO SO.
MURPHY UNDERSTOOD THIS WOMAN RECEIVED A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, EITHER FROM AN ESTATE OR A SETTLEMENT OR BOTH AND WAS INTERESTED IN INVESTING IT IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MURPHY FURTHER STATED [REDACTED] TOLD HIM THIS WOMAN [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON THE WATERFRONT OR [REDACTED] CLOSE BY.
[REDACTED] BILL LEWIS SPENT QUITE A WHILE DISCUSSING THIS, AND MURPHY ASKED WHO WAS GOING TO LOOK AT HIM ROMAN- TICALLY, AND THEN IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT HE COULD WEAR A WIG AND IT BECAME A SORT OF A JOKE, AND THAT IS HOW THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN.
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SE 164-81 PAGE FIVE
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MURPHY STATES HE DOES NOT RECALL WHEN THE PHOTO- GRAPH WITHOUT THE WIG WAS TAKEN, BUT STATES IT IS OF HIM, AND THAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE ONE WITH HIM WEARING THE WIG, AS HE IS WEARING THE SAME CLOTHES. MURPHY STATES THE SUNGLASSES HE IS WEARING IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, AS HE RECALLED, WERE RECEIVED FROM [REDACTED]
MURPHY DENIES HE EVER MET KARL FLEMING WITH NEWS- WEEK MAGAZINE AT THE SWEPT WING MOTEL AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT OR AT THE EDGEWATER INN IN SEATTLE OR ANY WHERE ELSE. MURPHY FURTHER DENIES THAT HE KNOWS A [REDACTED] OR A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AND NEVER MET THEM TO HIS KNOWLEDGE.
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MURPHY FURTHER STATES HE NEVER RECEIVED ANY MONEY FROM [REDACTED] BILL LEWIS OR ANY OF THESE MEN IN CONNECTION WITH THE PHOTOS, WHICH HE IDENTIFIES AS BEING OF HIMSELF.
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FOLLOWING PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY WAS OBTAINED BY OBSERVATION AND INTERVIEW:
DOB JUNE SEVENTEEN TWENTYTWO, AT BROOKLYN, NEW YORK; WHITE MALE, FIVE FT TEN INCHES TALL, ONE-HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE TO ONE SIXTY-FIVE LBS, BLUE EYES, MEDIUM BUILD, PALE COMPLEXION, EDUCATION - HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, ATTENDED LONG BEACH JUNIOR COLLEGE, LOS ANGELES, AND NYU, NEW YORK CITY. [REDACTED] NEW JERSEY. EM- PLOYED AS A REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. FORMER OCCUPATION: HEAVY
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SE 164-81 PAGE SIX
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EQUIPMENT OPERATOR AND HEAVY CONSTRUCTION OPERATOR. HAS TATTOO OF HAWAIIAN GIRL INNER LEFT ARM - HAS GOLD CAP ON ALL UPPER FRONT TEETH. IS MARRIED TO [REDACTED] HAS THREE CHILDREN - [REDACTED] HE FORMERLY MARRIED TO [REDACTED] (PH), NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, BY WHOM HE HAS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND ANOTHER PREVIOUS MARRIAGE TO [REDACTED] RIVERDALE, NEW JERSEY, BY WHOM HE HAS A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE ADMITS BEING AR- RESTED IN SEVENTYONE IN BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, FOR DWI AND HIT-AND-RUN AND ALSO DRUNK IN PUBLIC. REMARKS: WRITES LEFT HANDED, LIGHTS HIS CIGARETTES WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. FORMER RESIDENCE: ANCHORAGE AND TOK AND VALDEZ, ALASKA, TWELVE YEARS FROM FIFTY-FIVE TO SIXTY-SEVEN. HAS DEPRESSION ON LEFT FOREHEAD.
DESCRIPTION OF MURPHY COINCIDES PRECISELY WITH DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY FLEMING OF PERSON HE INTERVIEWED AS D. B. COOPER.
MURPHY AGREEABLE TO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION, IF AUTHORIZED BY HIS ATTORNEY AND HAS CONSENTED TO ADDITIONAL INTERVIEW, TEN AM, TWENTY-EIGHTH, INSTANT, IF AUTHORIZED BY HIS ATTORNEY.
ON APRIL TWENTYSEVEN, INSTANT, HIJACKING WITNESS
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SE 164-81 PAGE SEVEN
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CORD SPRECKEL, SEATTLE, OBSERVED ABOVE MENTIONED PHOTO OF BALD-HEADED MAN AND STATED ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME SIMILARI- TIES WITH THE HIJACKER, HE COULD NOT MAKE AN IDENTIFICATION.
WITNESS [REDACTED], SEATTLE, STATED THIS INDI- VIDUAL IS DEFINITELY NOT HIJACKER.
WITNESS [REDACTED] SEATTLE, STATED THIS INDI- VIDUAL IS DEFINITELY NOT HIJACKER.
ABOVE PHOTO FORWARDED BY PILOT COURIER TODAY TO BE SHOWN TO WITNESSES AT MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND AND EUGENE, OREGON.
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INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED TO LOCATE BANK ACCOUNTS OF MURPHY, SO RECORDS MAY BE EXAMINED.
[REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AND ADVISED HE WAS UNABLE TO REACH HIS ATTORNEY UNTIL THIR- TIETH INSTANT, AT WHICH TIME HE WILL SEEK CONSENT TO TAKE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.
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INVESTIGATION TO DATE HAS LOCATED TWO BANK ACCOUNTS FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHERE OFFICIAL AS DECLINED TO PRO- DUCE RECORDS WITHOUT SUBPOENA. [REDACTED] BEING CONTACTED TWENTY-EIGHTH, INSTANT, TO SEE IF RECORDS MAY BE OBTAINED.
WILLIAM B. LEWIS HAS TWO ACCOUNTS AT THE KITSAP
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COUNTY BANK, BREMERTON BRANCH.
MAJOR CASE PRINTS OF MURPHY OBTAINED AS HAS CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH OF HIM AND LATTER WILL BE FURNISHED TO BUREAU.
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IN VIEW OF LABORATORY EXAMINATION REVEALING THAT BILLS ON XEROX COPY ARE [handwritten annotation: spurious], INVESTIGATION BEING DIRECTED TOWARD ESTABLISHING ITSP AND FRAUD BY WIRE VIOLATION AGAINST MURPHY AND [REDACTED] TOGETHER WITH OTHER IDENTIFIABLE CONSPIRATORS.
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IT WOULD APPEAR ESSENTIAL THAT [REDACTED] GIVEN BY [REDACTED] TO KARL FLEMING FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TOGETHER WITH [REDACTED] FLEMING AND MURPHY BE OBTAINED EVEN IF NECESSARY TO DO SO BY SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM.
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U. S. ATTORNEY, SEATTLE, WILL BE CONSULTED AN TWENTY-EIGHTH INSTANT RE THIS MATTER.
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CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH OF DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY BEING FURNISHED TO LOS ANGELES FOR DISPLAY TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO ESTABLISH POSITIVELY THAT HE IS INDI- VIDUAL [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON FEBRUARY TWENTY- THREE, SEVENTYTWO.
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DB COOPER-49823
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Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3138
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