Las Vegas to Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha, Sacramento re Billie Lee Mc Gill
Document date 11 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-110:587-590 Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha, Sacramento re Billie Lee Mc Gill Id: Cooper-Part-110:587-590 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-110%3A587-590 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. 587–590 (DB Cooper-50319–50322), Teletype, dated 11 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-8983 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-110%3A587-590
NR007 LV PLAIN 741 PM NITEL 4-11-72 JEG TO SEATTLE (164-81) LOS ANGELES OMAHA SACRAMENTO FROM LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P) 4 PAGES
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NORJAK.
RE. BILLIE LEE MC GILL.
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[REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] AL BISHOPS USED CAR LOT, ADVISED CAPTIONED INDIVIDUAL IS WMA, AOUT FORTY YEARS OF AGE, SIX FT. TALL, ONE SEVENTY FIVE LBS., BROWN HAIR, WEARING GLASSES, AND STRONGLY RESEMBLES ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF SUBJECT. MC GILL AT LOCAL MOTEL CONTACTED AGENCY AND PURCHASED SIXTY NINE MERCURY MONTEREY, APR. FIVE, LAST, WITH CASHIERS CHECK IN AMOUNT OF THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS USED FOR CASH BY DES MOINES, IOWA, NATIONAL BANK. MC GILL GAVE CONFLICTING STORIES CONCERNING HAVING BROKEN BOTH ANKLES WHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY INJURED AND CLAIMED TO BE VICTIM OF PARACHUTE ACCIDENT FROM EMPLOYMENT WITH [REDACTED] AND IS SUPPOSEDLY ON CONVALESCENT LEAVE. END PAGE ONE
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Sub. 392 164-81- 8983 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] APR 21 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-50319
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DISPLAYED LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT WHICH HE CLAIMED TO ALWAYS CARRY WHEN FLYING, PREPARED BY LAW FIRM IN DESMOINES WITH [REDACTED] INCLUDED IN NAME OF FIRM. ALSO CLAIMED TO BE CARRYING THREE FIFTY SEVEN MAGNUM AND FOR IDENTIFICATION PRESENTED CALIF. DRIVERS LICENSE LISTING RESIDENCE AT EIGHT HUNDRED NORTH HILDALGO, ALHAMBRA, CALIF.
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MC GILL HAD LARGE VOLUME OF CASH IN ADDITION TO THE TWELVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS REFUND FROM ABOVE PRUCASHE, AND ALSO WAS CONSTANTLY DRINKING, CARRYING OWN BOTTLE OF LIQUOR. STATE INJURY OCCURRED FIVE MONTHS EARLIER BUT WAS EVASIVE TO ALL QUESTIONS POSED BY [REDACTED]
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ALSO DISPLAYED IDENTIFICATION WITH PHOTO FROM DIVISION OF NARCOTICS, STATE OF IOWA, AND HAD MILITARY IDENTIFICATION DATED IN THE FORTIES. REGISTERED VEHICLE IN LAS VEGAS, EVEN THOUGH DEALER OFFERED SAVINGS OF OVER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN LOCAL TAX IF SUBJECT DESIRED TO LICENSE AT RESIDENCE IN CALIF.
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[REDACTED] SUN AND SAND MOTEL, LAS VEGAS, ADVISED MC GAILL INITIALLY CHECKED INTO THAT ESTABLISHMENT NEAR END OF END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-50320
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MARCH, AND DEPARTED FOR DES MOINES FOR TREATMENT OF ANKLES AT VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL THAT AREA. CLAIMED AFFILIATION WITH NARCOTICS DIVISION OF LOS ANGELES PD AND SMOKED AND DRANK EXTENSIVELY.
RETURNED TO MOTEL APR. THREE, LAST, AND ON APR. FIVE, LAST, ACQUIRED USED CAR, DEPARTING IMMEDIATELY FROM MOTEL TOWARD LOS ANGELES, EVEN THOUGH ROOM WAS PAID FOR FOLLOWING DATE. HAD LARGE QUANTITY OF TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS IN POSSESSION AND GAVE FREQUENT CONFLICTING STORIES CONCERNING BACKGROUND, CLAIMING TO HAVE BEEN RAISED IN CALIFORNIA AND HAVING SISTER IN THAT AREA.
TWO ADDITIONAL MOTEL EMPLOYEES AND TWO ADDITIONAL USED CAR EMPLOYEES ALL CONFIRM STRONG RESEMBLANCE OF MC GILL TO ARTISTS CONCEPTION.
LOS ANGELES AT ALHAMBRA. CONDUCT INVESTIGATION EIGHT HUNDRED NORTH HIDALGO TO ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF MC GILL NOV. TWENTY FOUR, LAST.
OMAHA AT DES MOINES. CONTACT DES MOINES, IOWA, NATIONAL BANK CONCERNING PURCHASE OF CASHIERS CHECK NUMBER ZERO TWO FOUR END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-50321
PAGE FOUR SIX FIVE FIVE, ZERO SEVEN ONE THREE, ZERO ZERO TWO TWO, FOUR SIX THREE ONE FOUR SEVEN, PRUCHASED BY MC GILL FOR CASH AND DETERMINE IF NORJAK RANSOM MONEY USED.
CONTACT [REDACTED] RE PREPARATION OF WILL FOR MC GILL AND ALSO DETERMINE IF MC GILL A PATIENT AT VA HOSPITAL THAT AREA.
CONTACT DIVISION OF NARCOTICS, STATE OF IOWA, FOR BACKGROUND OF MC GILL.
SACRAMENTO AT SACRAMENTO. AT DMV FORWARD PHOTO AND DESCRIP- TION OF MC GILL FROM OPERATORS LICENSE E EIGHT EIGHT NINE NINE NINE NINE TO SEATTLE. END FEE FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-50322
Serials: LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8983