New Orleans to Acting Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley
Document date 19 January 1973
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:509-512 Document: Teletype New Orleans to Acting Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley Id: Cooper-Part-111:509-512 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A509-512 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 111 pp. 509–512 (DB Cooper-50943–50946), Teletype, dated 19 Jan 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A509-512
NR 007 NO PLAIN 702M URGENT 1-19-73 PHJ TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-211) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM NEW ORLEANS (164-136) (P) 4PG
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NORJAK; OO - SEATTLE.
FOR INFORMATION BUREAU AND SEATTLE, INVESTIGATION NEW ORLEANS DIVISION JAN. SEVEN, LAST, CAPTIONED ALVIN CURTIS HARTLEY; ITSP; POSSIBLE FBW; NEW ORLEANS FILE EIGHT SEVEN DASH ONE EIGHT NINE SEVEN NINE, AFTER HARTLEY APPROACHED WEALTHLY BERWICK, LA., BUSINESSMAN DOYLE BERRY CLAIMING HE HAD ACCESS TO LARGE QUANTITY OF GOLD AND PLATINUM IN OLD MEXICO, NEW MEXICO, AND ARIZONA AND REQUESTING BERRY'S FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING GOLD AND PLATINUM AND TRANSPORTING SAME TO CANADA FOR SALE. HARTLEY LEFT BERWICK, LA., JAN. ELEVEN, LAST, TO RETURN TO RANGELY, COLO., WHERE HE HAS BEEN RESIDING PAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
THIS DATE BERRY ADVISED HAD MET WITH HARTLEY JAN. SEVENTEEN, LAST, AT BERRY'S HUNTING LODGE AT MEEKER, COLO., WHERE FURTHER DISCUSSIONS TOOK PLACE REGARDING PURCHASE OF PLATINUM AND GOLD. BERRY CLAIMS TO HAVE GAINED CONFIDENCE OF HARTLEY AND DURING MEETING JAN. SEVENTEEN, LAST, HARTLEY REQUESTED BERRY, WHO HAS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH NUMEROUS POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON, D. C., TO ASCERTAIN IF HE (HARTLEY) WAS SUSPECT IN "HIJACKING OF AIRPLANE END PAGE ONE
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[guess: Sue] 437 164-81- 4367 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... JAN 18 1973 FBI-SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-50943
NO (164-136) PAGE TWO
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OVER WASHINGTON OR OREGON APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR AGO AT WHICH TIME TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS WAS OBTAINED UNDER THREAT TO BLOW UP PLANE." WHEN QUERIED BY BERRY AS TO HOW A HIJACKER COULD ESCAPE FROM SUCH A PLANE HARTLEY STATED THAT PLANE WOULD BE SLOWED TO ALMOST STALLING SPEED AND EXIT WOULD BE MADE THROUGH REAR EXIT OF BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN. HARTLEY MADE STATEMENT THAT HE PREVIOUSLY HAD TRAINING AS A PARATROOPER. BERRY STATED HARTLEY APPEARED TO BE VERY CONCERNED THAT HE MIGHT BE SUSPECT IN MATTER.
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HARTLEY DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE; BORN JULY TWENTY-SEVEN, NINETEEN TWENTY, BRULE, WISCONSIN; SIX FEET; ONE SEVEN FIVE DASH ONE EIGHT ZERO LBS.; BROWN HAIR; BLUE EYES; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FOUR SEVEN ONE DASH ONE SIX DASH SIX SIX TWO NINE; FBI NUMBER SEVEN NINE SIX THREE TWO FOUR B; AND IDENTIFICATION RECORDS REFLECT PRIOR ARRESTS JULY TWENTY-TWO, NINETEEN SIXTY-SEVEN, U. S. CUSTOMS, NOGALES, ARIZONA, FOR GOLD SMUGGLING; JANUARY THREE, NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE, PD, LOS ANGELES, CALIF., ROBBERY; MARCH FIVE, NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE, PD, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, FUGITIVE FROM CALIFORNIA; MARCH TWELVE, NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE, PD, LOS ANGELES, CALIF., RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY, ILLEGAL POSSESSION, MANUFACTURE OR SALE OF FIRE- ARMS; OCT. FOUR, NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE, PD, CHANDLER, ARIZ., FORGERY. END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-50944
NO (164-136) PAGE THREE
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INVESTIGATION REGARDING AFOREMENTIONED ITSP MATTER DISCLOSED HARTLEY SERVED AS PATROLMAN FOR LAS VEGAS PD AND HUNTINGTON, CALIF., PD AND SERVED AS PARATROOPER WITH U. S. ARMY NINETEEN FORTY-ONE THROUGH NINETEEN FORTY-FIVE.
HARTLEY SUSPECT IN GOLD SMUGGLING MATTERS AND INVESTIGATION INDICATES HARTLEY IN PAST HAS OPERATED AS "CON MAN" IN ATTEMPTING TO SELL GOLD THAT DID NOT EXIST.
BERRY ADVISED DURING CONTACTS WITH HARTLEY, HARTLEY ALWAYS CARRIES THIRTY-EIGHT CALIBER SNUB-NOSED REVOLVER IN BELT AND HAS TWENTY-TWO CALIBER AUTOMATIC PISTOL IN BRIEFCASE AND, THERE- FORE, SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
BERRY FURTHER ADVISED THAT HARTLEY IS NOW BALD BUT FEELS THAT HE SHAVES HIS HEAD. IT IS NOTED THAT IN PHOTOGRAPH OF HARTLEY IN POSSESSION NEW ORLEANS OFFICE AS OF NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE HARTLEY HAD FULL HEAD OF HAIR. HARTLEY HAS WORKED AS PROSPECTOR AND MINER IN COLORADO AND ARIZONA AND IS DESCRIBED AS OUTDOOR TYPE. BERRY ADVISED SUBJECT HARTLEY CURRENTLY IN RANGELY, COLORADO OR PUEBLO, COLORADO, BUT ANTICIPATES HARTLEY TO COME TO BERWICK, LA., NEXT WEEK. END PAGE THREE
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DB COOPER-50945
NO (164-136) PAGE FOUR
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BUREAU AND SEATTLE SHOULD NOTE POSSIBILITY, IN VIEW OF HARTLEY'S PRIOR CONNECTIONS IN GOLD SMUGGLING, THAT HARTLEY COULD HAVE FENCED MONEY OBTAINED IN ANY HIJACKING FOR GOLD WHICH HE IS NOW ATTEMPTING TO MOVE.
THE BUREAU IS REQUESTED, IF APPROPRIATE, TO COMPARE ANY AVAILABLE EVIDENCE WITH HARTLEY, FBI NUMBER SEVEN NINE SIX THREE TWO FOUR B.
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SEATTLE AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: WILL THROUGH INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED TO DATE ASCERTAIN IF HARTLEY APPROPRIATE SUSPECT IN MATTER AND ADVISE NEW ORLEANS WHERE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUBJECT HARTLEY SHOULD BE SENT TO DISPLAY TO APPROPRIATE WITNESSES.
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NEW ORLEANS AT NEW ORLEANS, LA.: WILL MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH BERRY REGARDING HARTLEY AND UPON RECEIPT OF INFORMATION FROM SEATTLE FORWARD PHOTOGRAPHS OF HARTLEY DIRECTLY TO APPROPRIATE OFFICES.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DCA FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB COOPER-50946
Serials: 471-16-6629, NO 164-136, SA 164-211, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4367