SA Joseph C. Kelly to SAC Phoenix re NORJAK suspect Warren David Smith
Document date 5 December 1979
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-112:003-004 Document: Memo SA Joseph C. Kelly to SAC Phoenix re NORJAK suspect Warren David Smith Id: Cooper-Part-112:003-004 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-112%3A003-004 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 112 pp. 3–4 (DB Cooper-168–169), Memo, dated 5 Dec 1979 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-112%3A003-004
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO : SAC, PHOENIX (164-571) (P) DATE: 12/5/79
FROM : SA JOSEPH C. KELLY
SUBJECT: NORJAK AIRCRAFT HIJACKING (A) OO: SEATTLE
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On 11/21/79, [REDACTED] U. S. Probation and Parole Office, Phoenix, Arizona, furnished the following information:
[REDACTED] has been supervising an ex-convict by the name of WARREN DAVID SMITH, a white male, DOB 12/2/16, FBI No. 977 883. According to BOYLE, SMITH has spent approximately 40 years of his adult life in various prisons and penitentiaries and many of the convictions were for bank robbery.
SMITH was last serving time at the Federal Detention Center, Florence, Arizona, and was placed on parole from that institution on 5/10/78 and put under supervision of the U. S. Probation and Parole Office, Phoenix, Arizona.
WARREN DAVID SMITH, while residing in Tempe-Mesa, Arizona, area, absconded from parole supervision on or about September 15, 1979, and a warrant was issued.
After SMITH violated his parole, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] read several of [REDACTED] letter which [REDACTED] while he was still at the Federal Detention Center in Florence which were mailed to him in 1978. Two of the letters were sent to him and signed by the name "JACK."
[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] advised him that JACK was JACK HUBBELL (phonetic), true name HOWARD HUBBELL (phonetic), no other identifying data available at this time.
The two letters to SMITH from HUBBELL indicate possible intimate knowledge of the skyjacking of the Northwest Airline[s] between Portland/and Seattle on 11/24/71 and that the identity or identities of the persons responsible may possibly be C[LAIR] [REDACTED] whom he [REDACTED] Washington.
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(2) Phoenix JCK:bgb (2) [initials]
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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SEARCHED ___INDEXED SERIALIZED ___FILED [stamp date] DEC 5 1979 FBI -- PHOENIX
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DB Cooper 168
PX 164-571
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[REDACTED] said that [REDACTED] advised him that the [REDACTED] was born and raised in Walla Walla, Washington, and were well acquainted with the southwest geographic area of the State of Washington and northern Oregon.
[REDACTED] was contacted by writer telephonically, and she advised she would make the original letters [REDACTED] available to the FBI for possible aid in the investigation.
Supervisor [REDACTED] Seattle FBI, was telephonically contacted on 11/21/79, and [REDACTED] advised that the case is in approximately 15 volumes and still in a pending status and un- solved; however, the perpetrator of the skyjacking known as D. B. COOPER had been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury, and the statute was not tolling in this case.
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b6 b7C b7D
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2*
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DB Cooper-169
Serials: PX 164-571