Urgent teletype Indianapolis to Acting Director and offices re investigation of Willard Carlos Twigg

Document date 3 July 1972

Part 112pages 377–3793 pagesDB Cooper-51233–51234

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Document: Urgent teletype Indianapolis to Acting Director and offices re investigation of Willard Carlos Twigg
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 112 pp. 377–379 (DB Cooper-51233–51234), Teletype, dated 3 Jul 1972, serial SE 164-81-3581 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-112%3A377-379

NR 005 IP PLAIN 519 PM URGENT 7-3-72 JAT TO ACTING DIRECTOR LOS ANGELES ST. LOUIS SEATTLE (164-81) WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE FROM INDIANAPOLIS (164-62) 3P NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE RE SPRINGFIELD TEL JUNE TWENTYNINE LAST AND INDIANAPOLIS TEL JUNE THIRTY LAST. FOR INFO WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE, WILLARD CARLOS TWIGG, WMA, BORN MAR. TWENTYSEVEN, TWENTYTWO AT TERRE HAUTE, IND. HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AS A SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER. [REDACTED] PATROLMAN, TERRE HAUTE, IND. PD AND BUSINESS MAN, ADVISED THIS DATE KNOWLEDGE OF SUSPECT TWIGG AND ADDRESS AS "CORILUM, S. A., APARTADO SIX THREE TWO EIGHT, SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA." [REDACTED] IS OLD FRIEND OF SUSPECT AND OBTAINED HIS ADDRESS END PAGE ONE

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sub460 164-81-3581 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... JUL 3 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-51233

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IP 164-62 PAGE TWO

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THROUGH A PRETEXT OF [REDACTED] WHO APPARENTLY RECENTLY RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE FROM HENRY CONRAD, POSSIBLY HENRY W. CONRAD, WHO ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] IS A RETIRED LT. COLONEL FROM THE USAF, AS OF FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS AGO. RETIREMENT WAS FROM THE ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA AREA, WHERE HE WAS STATIONED. [REDACTED] BELIEVED RETIREMENT WAS FORCED DUE TO CONRAD'S ARREST AT RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA FOR INDESCENT EXPOSURE. CONRAD WHO IS ORIGINALLY FROM TERRE HAUTE, IN HIS LETTER TO [REDACTED], TOLD HIM THAT TWIGG WANTED HIS ADDRESS KEPT SECRET.

ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] TWIGG WAS IN TERRE HAUTE AREA ABOUT FIVE TO SIX MONTHS AGO AND WAS FINANCIALLY DESTITUTE. HE PRESENTLY REPORTEDLY OWNS A PLASTIC TOY PLANT IN COSTA RICA.

[REDACTED] VERIFIED THAT TWIGG ALWAYS WEARS WHITE SHIRTS AND IN ADDITION WOULD HAVE ALL TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE TO SUCCESSFULLY HAVE PULLED CAPTIONED HIJACKING. [REDACTED] ALSO BELIEVES THAT TWIGG IN THE PAST HAS HAD EXPERIENCE IN SKYDIVING.

BUREAU REQUESTED TO ATTEMPT TO VERIFY TWIGG'S BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INTEREST IN COSTA RICA THROUGH LIAISON ABROAD.

LOS ANGELES, THROUGH ABOVE INFO ON CONRAD, ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW CONCERNING ACTIVITIES OF TWIGG. ATTEMPT

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Page 3 of 3Part 112 p. 379

IP 164-62 PAGE THREE TO LOCATE RECENT PHOTO AND HANDWRITING. ST. LOUIS, AT MILITARY RECORD CENTER. ATTEMPT TO LOCATE MORE IDENTIFYING INFO ON CONRAD IN ORDER THAT HE MAY BE LOCATED AND INTERVIEWED. WASHINGTON FIELD. CONTACT PASSPORT DIVISION, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOR PASSPORT INFO, PHOTO AND HANDWRITING. INDIANAPOLIS, AT REQUEST OF [REDACTED], WILL WAITE UNTIL WEEK OF JULY TEN NEXT BEFORE INTERVIEWING [REDACTED] OF OPINION [REDACTED] MAY NOT BE COOPERATIVE. [REDACTED] HAS OFFERED TO ACT IN ATTEMPTING TO SOLICIT ADDITIONAL INFO. OTHER INVESTIGATION CONTINUING AT INDIANAPOLIS. AM COPY TO SPRINGFIELD. WILLARD CARLOS TWIGG HAS SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. END JFK FBI SEATTLE CLR

Serials: IP 164-62, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3581