From FAA controller, Puyallup, to Seattle FBI re D.B. Cooper tip from Red Rooster Tavern
This copy: Part 113 p. 106Also filed at Part 27 p. 184 (primary)
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From FAA employee to Seattle FBI re barroom claim about D.B. Cooper's identity
Document date 4 August 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 113 p. 106 (DB Cooper-51601), Letter, dated 4 Aug 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A106-106
UNSUB EXTH INITIALS D. B. 5 August 1972
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[guess: EVIDENTLY] INITIALS D, B. + [guess: CURRENT] INVESTIGATION SOURCE [guess: SAYS] Sub 487
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To; Agent, Seattle FBI Office Seattle
Fm: [REDACTED] Puyallup, Washington
Subjt: D. B. Cooper
Dear Sir:
I called the FBI office in Seattle on the morning of 4 August 1972 at about 1:00 A.M. and gave the person who answered the phone the following information:
I am [REDACTED] with the Federal Aviation Agency. I work at the Enroute Air Traffic Control Center located at 3101 Auburn Way South in Auburn, Washington. After getting off work at 11:30 P.M. on the evening of 3 August 1972, another [REDACTED] and I drove to the Red Rooster Tavern located at 3244 Auburn Way South, to have a beer. While there we decided to order some chicken to go and play a game of pool.
There were two couples (indian) sitting at a table and they noticed our FAA badges and asked us to sit down with them and buy us a beer. We sat with them and they started asking us questions about [REDACTED]. In the course of the conversation one of the persons we were sit- ting with, [REDACTED] he said his name was, asked me about hi-jacking and specifically about D. B. Cooper.
[REDACTED] told me he said he thought he knows who D. B. Cooper is and went on to explain that he knows a guy who's initials are D. B. and that he was shacked up with a girl named Cooper for a long time. [REDACTED] said he was the o[REDACTED] one who introduced them. In the course of the conversation [REDACTED] mentioned the name [REDACTED] I'm not sure the correct spelling of the name. He also said this guy was just crazy enough to do something like that, (Hi- Jack an airplane.) He said this guy had done *some flying* and that he was a para-trooper in the service for three years. He also said *this guy fits the description of D. B. Cooper and [REDACTED] said he hadn't seen the guy in a long time but that he thought he was in Alaska.
When I got home that night (or morning) I called the FBI office in Seattle, number MA2-0460 and gave the person who answered the phone the fore- going information.
Copy to Northwest Orient Airlines
Sentences bracketed with * is information I forgot to give the FBI on the phone.
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1.6 4-8/-37[illegible] ........ INDEXED.........b7C ........ FILED............b7D AUG 9 - 1972 FBI--SEATTLE DB COOPER-51601
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b6 b7C b7D INDIAN [guess: SOURCES] [illegible] Sub 487
Serials: Sub 487