Urgent teletype Salt Lake City to Director, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle re McCoy parachuting history

Document date 19 April 1972

Part 110pages 492–4932 pagesDB Cooper-5019, DB Cooper-50196

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Document: Urgent teletype Salt Lake City to Director, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle re McCoy parachuting history
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 110 pp. 492–493 (DB Cooper-5019, DB Cooper-50196), Teletype, dated 19 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2012 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-110%3A492-493

NR002 SU PLAIN 5:38 PM URGENT 4/19/72 3P

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TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) LAS VEGAS (164-60) PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SALT LAKE CITY (164-24)

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NORJAK. RE: RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR. - SUSPECT.

RE SALT LAKE CITY TELEPHONE CALLS TO PORTLAND AND LAS VEGAS APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST.

ROBERT VAN IEPEREN, EIGHT EIGHT ZERO SHERWOOD, SALT LAKE CITY, ADVISED APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST MC COY LIKED TO WEAR CONSERVATIVE SOLID COLORED CLIP-ON TIES SIMILAR TO PHOTOGRAPHS OF TIES IN NORJAK. VAN IEPEREN STATED HE HAD BEEN OUT SOCIALLY WITH MC COY AND RECALLED THAT AT A MOVIE ONE NIGHT MC COY WORE A CLIP-ON TIE AND REMOVED HIS TIE WHEN HE SAT DOWN TO WATCH THE MOVIE. VAN IEPEREN WAS SHOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF TIE CLASP RECOVERED IN NORJAK CASE AND STATED CLASP LOOKS FAMILIAR BUT HE CANNOT SAY FOR SURE IF MC COY HAD ONE EXACTLY LIKE IT. HE SAID IT IS TYPE OF TIE CLASP MC COY WOULD WEAR. VAN IEPEREN'S WIFE, MARY ANN, WHO WAS INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY HAD SIMILAR COMMENTS TO HER HUSBAND CONCERNING TIE AND TIE CLASP. END PAGE ONE

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sub 386 164-81-2012

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ APR 19 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-50196

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VAN IEPEREN STATED MC COY MADE HIS FIRST FREE FALL PARACHUTE JUMP IN OCTOBER SEVENTYONE WHILE ON A FLIGHT WITH VAN IEPEREN. MC COY HAS MADE NUMEROUS MILITARY TYPE JUMPS AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW- ING HIS FIRST FREE FALL JUMP HE BEGAN PRACTICING JUMPS WITH THE ALTA PARACHUTE CLUB IN SALT LAKE CITY.

VAN IEPEREN WAS QUESTIONED CONCERNING POSSIBILITY OF MC COY AND OTHER NATIONAL GUARD MEN OBTAINING MILITARY FLIGHTS. VAN IEPEREN STATED USUALLY ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN FLIGHT IS TO PRESENT NATIONAL GUARD IDENTIFICATION CARD.

FLIGHT OPERATIONS, HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UTAH, HAS NO RECORD OF MILITARY HOPS BY MC COY IN NOVEMBER SEVENTYONE OR APRIL LAST. RECORD LOCATED OF FLIGHT BE ROBERT LARRY PATTERSON (CLOSE FRIEND OF MC COY), MC COY AND TWO BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON JANUARY TWENTYFOUR LAST.

CHECK OF SERVICE STATIONS, CEDAR CITY, UTAH, TODAY INDICATED DATES OF CHARGE TICKETS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE AND TWENTYSIX LAST BY MC COY ARE PROBABLY ACCURATE DATES, HOWEVER BOTH SERVICE STATION OPERATORS STATE THEY HAVE MADE ERRORS IN PAST ON DATES ON CHARGE TICKETS AND COULD NOT BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN AS TO DATES.

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DB COOPER-5019[7]

Serials: 164-2111, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2012, SU 164-24

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