SAC Denver to SAC Phoenix re NORJAK suspect Walter Lewis Hampton, Sr.
Document date 24 May 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-109:377-378 Document: Airtel SAC Denver to SAC Phoenix re NORJAK suspect Walter Lewis Hampton, Sr. Id: Cooper-Part-109:377-378 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A377-378 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. 377–378 (DB Cooper-4989, DB Cooper-49890), Airtel, dated 24 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3457 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A377-378
5/24/72
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AIRTEL
TO: SAC, PHOENIX (164-100)
FROM: SAC, DENVER (164-98)(P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle
Re suspect WALTER LEWIS HAMPTON, SR.
Re Phoenix teletype to Seattle and Denver dated 5/22/72.
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For the information of Phoenix, a resident of Ft. Collins, Colorado, reliability unknown, on 3/3/72 advised the Ft. Collins Resident Agent that he was in a local restaurant on or about 2/8/72 and overheard two white males talking about a "WALT 'SKIP' HAMPTON", allegedly a former resident of Ft. Collins and a sky diver who "somewhat resembled composite of unsub". Source overheard these two individuals state HAMPTON had cancer and a short time to live.
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Additional investigation determined that HAMPTON had worked as a salesman from April, 1971, through September, 1971, and skipped town after writing bad checks on the employer, J&A Distributing Company. Employer stated that HAMPTON had previously mentioned having done considerable sky diving and parachuting and allegedly was wounded in Korea, had a bad heart, cancer, and a short time to live.
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The employer indicated that HAMPTON [REDACTED] living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2 - Phoenix (RM) 2 - Seattle (RM)(164-81) 1 - Philadelphia (164-133)(Info)(RM) 2 - Denver RBR:sls (7)
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Sub. 366 164-81-3457 SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED/FILED M/ MAY 27 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-49890
DN 164-98
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Investigation developed by Philadelphia determined that HAMPTON is a former Army paratrooper, currently drawing disability, walking with a noticeable limp, and allegedly was in "a VA hospital at Colorado Springs, Colorado" in July, 1971.
HAMPTON in Philadelphia indicated that artist conception of unsub has general similarity to HAMPTON.
Denver inquiry at Colorado Springs, Colorado private hospitals as well as VA hospitals at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado, located no information identifiable with HAMPTON until recontact by Philadelphia with relatives resulted in Philadelphia teletype to Phoenix of 5/15/72.
Phoenix requested to check records of VA Hospital, Tucson, Arizona, and establish HAMPTON's incarceration there on 11/24/71 in order that this matter may be logically resolved.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB COOPER-4989
Serials: DN 164-98, PH 164-133, PX 164-100, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3457
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