Salt Lake City to Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha re NORJAK suspect Billie Lee Mc Gill
Document date 18 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-110:562-565 Document: Teletype Salt Lake City to Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha re NORJAK suspect Billie Lee Mc Gill Id: Cooper-Part-110:562-565 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-110%3A562-565 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 110 pp. 562–565 (DB Cooper-50291–50293), Teletype, dated 18 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3987 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-110%3A562-565
NR 003 SU PLAIN 4:52 PM URGENT 4-18-72 GRJ TO LOS ANGELES (164-497) SEATTLE (164-81) OMAHA FROM SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) 4P
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NORJAK.
RE: BILLIE LEE ME GILL - SUSPECT.
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RE SALT LAKE CITY TELEPHONE CALL TO LOS ANGELES INSTANT DATE. MC GILL INTERVIEWED ST. GEORGE, UTAH, BY BUREAU AGENT INSTANT DATE FOLLOWING ME GILL'S TELEPHONE CALL TO CEDAR CITY RESIDENT AGENCY REQUESTING BACKGROUND CONCERNING VISIT BY BUREAU AGENTS TO PARENTS HOME IN ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.
DURING INTERVIEW MC GILL APPEARED UNDER INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND HAD DIFFICULTY WITH MEMORY AND IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS. MC GILL CONTRADICTED HIMSELF AS TO HIS WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR AND TWENTYFIVE LAST, STATING SEVERAL INSTANCES THAT HE WAS AT PARENTS RESIDENCE IN ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA, THEN STATING HE WAS AT HOME, RESIDENCE NOT RECALLED, DES MOINES, IOWA; THEN HE STATED TOTALLY UNABLE TO RECALL WHEREABOUTS. MC GILL FURTHER AMBIGUOUS AS TO INJURED ANKLES, FIRST STATING INJURY DUE TO AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT IN DES MOINES, IOWA, AROUND FIRST OF YEAR, THEN CHANGING
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SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED .Q[illegible].. FILED .Q[illegible].. APR 1 8 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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[guess: aub] 392 164-81- 3987
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DB COOPER-50291
SU 164-24 PAGE TWO
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STORY TO STATE INJURIES DUE TO PARACHUTE JUMP FROM AIRCRAFT PILOTED BY [REDACTED] MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, MASON CITY, IOWA, APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS AGO.
MC GILL STATED PURCHASED SIXTYNINE MERCURY MONTERY, BLACK VINYL TOP OVER WHITE BODY, NEVADA LICENSE CAF ZERO NINE TWO, VIN NINE Z FOUR FOUR K FIVE TWO NINE TWO TWO FOUR, FROM UNKNOWN AUTOMOBILE AGENCY AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, DATE NOT RECALLED, PAID EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS BY CASHIER'S CHECK DRAWN ON BANK OF CALIFORNIA, CITY NOT RECALLED.
MC GILL ADMITTED PREVIOUS PARACHUTING EXPERIENCE WITH MILITARY AND IS AMATEUR; STATED HAS PARACHUTED WITH OFFICERS OF CERRO GORDO COUNTY AND OFFICERS OF MASON CITY, IOWA. MC GILL STATES HE SAW A DOCTOR, NAME NOT RECALLED, AT VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL, DES MOINES, IOWA, AND PRODUCED SLIP VERIFYING SAME OCCURING MARCH THIRTY LAST, NINE THIRTY A.M., IN REGARD TO HIS INJURED ANKLES. MC GILL DENIED KNOWLEDGE OF HIJACKING, DENIED EVER BEING IN PORTLAND, SEATTLE, OR IN STATES OF WASHINGTON OR OREGON.
MC GILL VOLUNTARILY SUBMITTED TO PHOTOGRAPHS WHICH INCLUDED WITH AND WITHOUT GLASSES AND A PROFILE. THESE BEING FURNISHED END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-50292
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SU 164-24 PAGE THREE
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BY SEPARATE COMMUNICATION ALONG WITH FD THREE ZERO TWOS.
MC GILL IN POSSESSION APPROXIMATELY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS CASH AND INTENDS DEPARTING A.M. APRIL NINETEEN NEXT FOR DES MOINES, IOWA. MC GILL CURRENTLY RESIDING ROOM ONE ZERO FOUR, SANDS MOTEL, ST. GEORGE, UTAH.
MC GILL INDICATED OWNERSHIP OF SMITH AND WESSON MODEL NINETEEN, TWO AND ONE-HALF INCH, THREE FIVE SEVEN MAGNUM, AND BERETTE TWENTYFIVE CALIBER PISTOL. BOTH CURRENTLY IN POSSESSION OF HIS PARENTS IN ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.
MC GILL DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE AMERICAN, DOB SPETEMBER TWENTYFOUR TWENTYEIGHT, POB DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SIX FEET TA ONHUR STY POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, BROWN EYES, WEARING PLAIN GLASSES, TATOO OF U. S. MARINE CORPS EMBLEM RIGHT OUTER FOREARM, CUT SCARS ON STOMACH, HAS SLIGHT PROTRUDING TEETH WITH NOTICEABLE GAP I FRONT TEETH AND SLIGHT PROTRUDING UPPER LIP. LIPS NOT PROMINENT. WEARING SILVER WATCH WITH WHITE FACE AND BLACK NYLON BAND ON LEFT WRIST. ADDRESS THROUGH WHICH CAN BE REACHED - IN CARE OF [REDACTED] DES MOINES, IOWA.
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DB COOPER-50293
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SU 164-24 PAGE FOUR
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SEATTLE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF ABOVE, SET FORTH ANY ADDITIONAL LEADS AND INVESTIGATION DETERMINED NECESSARY FOR ELIMINATION OF MC GILL AS SUSPECT.
UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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JFK FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-50291
Serials: LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3987, SU 164-24