Urgent teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director and field offices re NORJAK: Fleming contact and Max Palevsky telephone records
Document date 27 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-109:329-332 Document: Urgent teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director and field offices re NORJAK: Fleming contact and Max Palevsky telephone records Id: Cooper-Part-109:329-332 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A329-332 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. 329–332 (DB Cooper-49834–49837), Teletype, dated 27 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3130 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A329-332
NWR 036 LA PLAIN 832 PM URGENT 4-27-72 RWM TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) NEW YORK (164-627) SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 4P.
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NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.
RE BUREAU TEL TO LOS ANGELES APRIL TWENTYSIX LAST.
A FEMALE IDENTIFYING HERSELF AS THE [redacted] KARL FLEMING WAS CONTACTED AT [redacted] [redacted] LOS ANGELES, TODAY. SHE ADVISED KARL FLEMING WAS NOT IN; HOWEVER, WOULD HAVE HIM CONTACT THE LOS ANGELES FBI OFFICE UPON HIS RETURN.
SUBSEQUENTLY, KARL FLEMING TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE LOS ANGELES OFFICE AND ADVISED HE WAS UNDER STRICT ORDERS FROM NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE NEW YORK NOT TO TALK TO ANYONE CONCERNING THIS MATTER WITHOUT A [redacted] END PAGE ONE
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164-81- 3130 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED...FILED... APR 27 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-49834
LA 164-497 PAGE TWO
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PRESENT. HE CLAIMED AS AN AGENT OF NEWSWEEK, HE COULD NOT CONSENT TO ANY INTERVIEW WITHOUT NEWSWEEK'S CONCURRENCE. ADDED THAT NEWSWEEK HAS NO LEGAL COUNSEL IN LOS ANGELES AND ANY ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS MUST BE ARRANGED BY CONSULTING HIS SUPERIORS, NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, NEW YORK.
SHORTLY THEREAFTER, FLEMING RECONTACTED THIS OFFICE. STATED HAD JUST BEEN IN CONTACT WITH NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, NEW YORK, AND AGAIN INSTRUCTED HIM NOT TO CONSENT TO INTERVIEW WITHOUT NEWSWEEK COUNSEL PRESENT. HE ADDED NEWSWEEK, NEW YORK, INFORMED HIM TWO REPRESENTATIVES OF FBI, NEW YORK, HAD REQUESTED ANSWERS TO FOUR QUESTIONS WHICH HE WAS PREPARED TO ANSWER OVER THE TELEPHONE.
FLEMING WAS INFORMED THE FBI PREFERRED TO TALK TO HIM PERSONALLY AND HE RESPONDED SAYING WOULD ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO BE INTERVIEWED PERSONALLY.
FLEMING THEN STATED THE ANSWERS TO THE FOUR QUESTIONS POSED TO NEWSWEEK IN NEW YORK BY THE FBI WERE AS FOLLOWS:
THE SOURCE OF THE MOST RECENT PHOTOGRAPH FURNISHED TO THE FBI IN NEW YORK WAS FURNISHED TO HIM BY THE INTERMEDIARY, [REDACTED]. IT IS NOTED FLEMING, DURING INTERVIEW AT NEW YORK STATED HE HAD LEARNED TRUE NAME OF [REDACTED] WAS END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-49835
LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
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FLEMING STATED HE WAS NOT PRESENT AT TIME ABOVE PHOTO WAS TAKEN AND DOES NOT KNOW WHEN, WHERE OR BY WHOM IT WAS TAKEN.
HE ADDED HE COULD NOT GO TO SEATTLE AS HIS SCHEDULE WAS TOO BUSY RIGHT NOW AND A TRANSCRIPT HAS ALREADY BEEN FURNISHED CONTAINING A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN INFINITE DETAIL OF WHERE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE.
HE DOES NOT DESIRE TO FURNISH ADDRESS OF HIS PARTNER, MAX PALEVSKY AS PALEVSKY HAS RECENTLY UNDERGONE A SERIOUS HEART OPERATION, HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE MATTER OTHER THAN BEING THE PERSON WHO FURNISHED THE MONEY.
FLEMING DID NOT AMPLIFY AND REFUSED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
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RECORDS, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES REVEAL MAX PALEVSKY, MALE, BORN JULY TWENTYFOUR TWENTYFOUR, FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY POUNDS, BROWN EYES, BLACK HAIR, ADDRESS OF SEVEN FIVE FIVE STRADELLA ROAD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-49836
LA QYRAROU PAGE FOUR,
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TELEPHONE COMPANY RECORDS REVEAL MAX PALEVSKY IS SUBSCRIBER TO TELEPHONE NUMBER TWO ONE THREE DASH FOUR SEVEN SIX DASH FIVE NINE ONE SIX AT ADDRESS OF SEVEN FIVE FIVE STRADELLA ROAD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
LOS ANGELES INDICES CONTAIN SEVERAL REFERENCES TO A MAX PALEVSKY IN CONNECTION WITH AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND RELATED TYPE ACTIVITIES.
INSUFFICIENT DESCRIPTIVE DATA AVAILABLE IN REFERENCES TO IDENTIFY WITH MAX PALEVSKY OF THIS MATTER.
RECORDS LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CREDIT BUREAU OF GREATER LOS ANGELES REVIEWED AND NO RECORD IDENTIFIABLE WITH PALEVSKY LOCATED.
RECORDS DUN AND BRADSTREET, LOS ANGELES, FAILED TO REVEAL ANY CORPORATION IDENTIFIABLE WITH PALEVSKY OR PLATYPUS PUBLICATIONS, INC., IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, LOS ANGELES, REVEALS MAX PALEVSKY, SEVEN FIVE FIVE STRADELLA ROAD, LOS ANGELES, IS CURRENTLY REGISTERED TO VOTE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY. HE REGISTERED ON MARCH FIVE SIXTYEIGHT, INDICATED HE WAS A MATHEMATICIAN, BORN JULY TWENTYFOUR YEAR NOT SHOWN, IN ILLINOIS.
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DCA FBI SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-49837
Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, NY 164-627, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3130, SF 164-220