SAC Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and New York re NORJAK: efforts to locate Karl Fleming

Document date 28 April 1972

Part 109pages 326–3283 pagesDB Cooper-49831–49833

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Document: Teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and New York re NORJAK: efforts to locate Karl Fleming
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 109 pp. 326–328 (DB Cooper-49831–49833), Teletype, dated 28 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3537 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A326-328

NR 026 LA PLAIN 7:03 PM NITEL 4-28-72 RWM TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) NEW YORK (164-627) FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 3P.

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NORJAK.

RE SEATTLE TEL CALL TO LOS ANGELES APRIL TWENTY EIGHT INSTANT AND NEW YORK AND BUREAU TEL APRIL TWENTY EIGHT INSTANT. IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEATTLE REQUEST IN RE TEL CALL, AN EFFORT WAS MADE TO LOCATE KARL FLEMING, LOS ANGELES BUREAU CHIEF OF "NEWSWEEK" MAGAZINE, WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. AT TWO FORTY P.M., P.S.T., TODAY, FLEMING TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED LOS ANGELES OFFICE AND AGREED TO MEET PERSONALLY WITH BUREAU AGENTS AT THREE P.M. AT THREE FIVE P.M., P.S.T., TODAY, FLEMING CONTACTED AT AN OUTDOOR HAMBURGER STAND AT THE CORNER OF WESTWOOD AND OHIO BOULEVARD, WEST LOS ANGELES. AFTER INSURING FLEMING NOT IN POSSESSION OF RECORDING EQUIPMENT, FLEMING WAS AGAIN REQUESTED TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE FBI [REDACTED] FLEMING RESPONDED HE WAS PREPARING END PAGE ONE

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164-81-3537 SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED 4/73 FILED M/N APR 28 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-49831

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LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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[REDACTED] THE HIJACKING SO HE WOULD [REDACTED] IN THE NEAR FUTURE. HE ADDED [REDACTED] AND PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETED FOR PRINTING.

FLEMING STATED HAD BEEN INFORMED BY "NEWSWEEK" MAGAZINE, NEW YORK, THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT THIS POINT HE WAS INFORMED THE FBI HAD IDENTIFIED THE BALDING WHITE MALE DEPICTED IN THE PICTURE FURNISHED BY HIM THROUGH [REDACTED] IN NEW YORK. FLEMING RESPONDED "HAVE I BEEN TAKEN?" FLEMING WAS TOLD AGENTS WERE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION; HOWEVER, ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION WAS BEING CONDUCTED BY FBI TO DETERMINE IF ANY OTHER VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW WITHIN FBI JURISDICTION HAS BEEN COMMITTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE [REDACTED] HE HAD CONDUCTED. FLEMING ASKED IF THERE WOULD BE ANY CRIMINAL ACTION AGAINST [REDACTED] OR THE MAN HE KNEW AS D.B. COOPER. FLEMING WAS TOLD FBI IS STRICTLY INVESTIGATIVE AGENCY AND WHETHER OR NOT PROSECUTION UNDERTAKEN IS WITHIN PURVIEW OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY. FLEMING WAS TOLD RECEIPTS, [REDACTED] ESSENTIAL TO FBI CONTINUING INVESTIGATION AND HE RESPONDED "NEWSWEEK" HAS THIS MATERIAL. FLEMING END PAGE TWO

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DB COOPER-49832

LA 164-497 PAGE THREE

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CLAIMS HE HAS NO OBJECTION TO THESE ITEMS BEING FURNISHED TO FBI BUT SINCE HE, FLEMING, DOES NOT KNOWN LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS, HE DESIRES REQUEST BE MADE TO [REDACTED] NEW YORK. FLEMING NOTED RECEIPTS, [REDACTED] CURRENTLY IN POSSESSION OF "NEWSWEEK" MAGAZINE, NEW YORK.

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FOR INFORMATION SEATTLE, LOS ANGELES DETERMINED THIS DATE NO RECORD IDENTIFIABLE WITH MURPHY COULD BE LOCATED LAPD, LASO, OR CREDIT BUREAU OF GREATER LOS ANGELES. [REDACTED] GIRLFRIEND OF [REDACTED] ADVISED TODAY [REDACTED] WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW PHOTO UNTIL A.M., MAY FIRST, NEXT. LOS ANGELES WILL ADVISE RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] EFFORTS TO LOCATE [REDACTED] CONTINUING.

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IT IS RECOMMENDED NEW YORK RECONTACT SMITH IN EFFORT TO OBTAIN RECEIPTS, [REDACTED] UACB, THIS WILL BE DONE. END DCA FBI SEATTLE HOLD

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DB COOPER-49833

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Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, NY 164-627, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3537