Denver to Philadelphia and Seattle re source on Walt 'Skip' Hampton

Document date 3 March 1972

Part 109pages 390–3923 pagesDB Cooper-49903–49905

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-109:390-392

Document: Teletype Denver to Philadelphia and Seattle re source on Walt 'Skip' Hampton
Id: Cooper-Part-109:390-392
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A390-392

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 109 pp. 390–392 (DB Cooper-49903–49905), Teletype, dated 3 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-2490 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-109%3A390-392

NR002 DN PLAIN 5:46 PM NITEL 3-3-72 JSG TO: PHILADELPHIA SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: DENVER (164-98) 3P

NORJAK; OO: SEATTLE.

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RE DENVER FACSIMILE TO SEATTLE FEB. TWENTYTWO, LAST, RE SUSPECT WALT "SKIP" HAMPTON.

[REDACTED] WALNUT HOTEL, FT. COLLINS, COLO., WHOSE RELIABILITY IS UNKNOWN, APPEARED AT THE FT. COLLINS, COLO. RA FEB. TWENTYTWO, LAST, ALLEGING HE WAS AT FONTAS PIZZA PARLOR, ONE THREE EIGHT NORTH COLLEGE, FT. COLLINS, ON OR ABOUT FEB. EIGHT, LAST, WHEN HE OVERHEARD TWO UNKNOWN W/M AMERICANS DIS- CUSSING INSTANT MATTER.

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ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A WALT "SKIP" HAMPTON WHOM HE TOOK TO BE A FORMER RESIDENT OF FT. COLLINS AND SKY DIVER WHO SOMEWHAT RESEMBLED COMPOSIT OF UNSUB. [REDACTED] ALLEGES THESE INDIVIDUALS HAD A NATIONAL INQUIRER NEWSPAPER WITH COMPOSITE PICTURE AND ARTICLE ON SKYJACKING. HE ALSO ALLEGES THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS INDICATED THAT HAMPTON HAS CANCER AND END PAGE ONE

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sub. 366 164-81= 2490 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED _AM_ FILED _//_ MAR 08 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-49903

DN 164-98 PAGE TWO ONLY SHORT TIME TO LIVE.

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ON MARCH TWO, LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FT. COLLINS, COLO., ADVISED THAT WALT "SKIP" HAMPTON LIVED WITH HIM AND WORKED FOR HIM AS A SALESMAN FROM APPROXIMATELY APRIL, SEVENTYONE, THROUGH SEPT., SEVENTYONE, AT WHICH TIME HAMPTON SKIPPED TOWN AFTER WRITING SOME BAD CHECKS ON THE COMPANY J AND A DISTRIBUTING.

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[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HAMPTON INDICATED HE HAS DONE CON- SIDERABLE PARACHUTE JUMPING AND SKYDIVING IN THE PAST APPARENTLY IN THE MILITARY AND HE ALLEGEDLY WAS WOUNDED WHILE IN KOREA. ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] HAMPTON ALSO INDICATED HE HAD A BAD HEART AND CANCER AND ONLY A SHORT TIME TO LIVE.

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A COMPOSITE DRAWING OF UNSUB EXHIBITED TO [REDACTED] AND HE ADVISES COMPOSIT SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES HAMPTON ALTHOUGH STATING HAMPTON APPEARED TO HAVE FULLER SQUARE FACE AND MORE RECEEDING HAIRLINE. HE DESCRIBED HAMPTON AS FOLLOWS: W/M/A, FORTYONE YEARS, FIVE FT. SEVEN INCHES, ONE SIXTY LBS., MEDIUM BUILD, BALD SPOT ON TOP OF HEAD, [REDACTED] END PAGE TWO

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DB COOPER-49904

DN 164-98 PAGE THREE

[REDACTED] THEN ADVISED THAT HAMPTON HAS [REDACTED] NAME UNKNOWN RESIDING [REDACTED] PHILADELPHIA, PENN.

PHILADELPHIA WILL MAKE DISCRETE INQUIRY TO ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS AND ACTIVITIES OF WALT "SKIP" HAMPTON TO DETERMINE IF HE HAS COME INTO A LARGE SUM OF MONEY. WILL OBTAIN PHOTO, FINGERPRINTS, AND INTERVIEW HAMPTON TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT HE IS IDENTICAL WITH UNSUB.

UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

END TEL JJT FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB COOPER-49905

Serials: DN 164-98, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2490

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