Nitel SAC San Francisco to Boston, Seattle and Denver re NORJAK suspect Raymond Sidney Russell
Document date 13 September 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-113:274-277 Document: Nitel SAC San Francisco to Boston, Seattle and Denver re NORJAK suspect Raymond Sidney Russell Id: Cooper-Part-113:274-277 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A274-277 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 113 pp. 274–277 (DB Cooper-51844–51847), Teletype, dated 13 Sep 1972, serial SE 164-81-3896 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A274-277
NR 010 SF PLAINTEXT 9:18 PM NITEL 9-13-72 CJC TO: BOSTON SEATTLE (164-81) DENVER (164-98) FROM: SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (P) 4P
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NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE, SUSPECT DASH RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL.
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RE DENVER TELETYPE TO SEATTLE, SEPTEMBER EIGHT LAST AND LOS ANGELES TELETYPE TO SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER TWELVE LAST.
RE DENVER TELETYPE STATED THAT A [REDACTED] HAD COMMENTED THAT HE HAD A STRONG SUSPICION RE IDENTITY D.B. COOPER. WHEN SHOWN COOPER COMPOSITE [REDACTED] STATED PICTURE IS EXACT LIKENESS OF RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL. [REDACTED] AND RUSSELL [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] STATED RUSSELL HAD SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AIRCRAFT TRAINING AND IS FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT WITH PARACHUTE TRAINING. HE BELIEVES RUSSELL ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF HIJACKING. [REDACTED] STATED RUSSELL WAS IN SEATTLE ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACKING AND STAYED IN THE HOME OF [REDACTED] ALSO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HEARD FROM [REDACTED] THAT RUSSELL LEFT SEATTLE SUDDENLY ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACK. END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED_____ INDEXED_____ SERIALIZED_____ FILED_____ SEP 1 3 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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Sub 501
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164-81-3896
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DB COOPER-51844
PAGE TWO SF 164-220
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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, BLACK HAIR, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, ABOUT FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. HE SAID RUSSELL IS ADVENTURESOME, WELL EDUCATED, AND EXTREMELY COOL. FROM DETAILS HE HAS HEARD OF HIJACKING, IS EVEN MORE CONVINCED RUSSELL COULD HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME.
ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, DENVER, HAS REQUESTED THAT EVERY EFFORT BE MADE TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] AS SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION.
ON SEPTEMBER ELEVEN LAST, HOWARD BAYNE, NINE THREE NINE CAPUCHINO, BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, WHO HAS KNOWN RUSSELL FOR TWENTY YEARS, WAS INTERVIEWED. BAYNE RECALLS RUSSELL WAS A FORMER AIR FORCE OFFICER, A COLLEGE GRADUATE, AND A TOP SKIER, HAVING INSTRUCTED AT SUN VALLEY, IDAHO. BAYNE STATED RUSSELL IS A PERSON WHO BECOMES VERY PROFICIENT IN ANYTHING HE UNDERTAKES. HE IS AT HOME IS THE WOODS, AND WOULD BE HAPPY WITH A DOG AND A GUN. HE IS A NOMAD TYPE, WHO WOULD TAKE OFF AT A MOMENTS NOTICE TO GO ANYWHERE. HE HAS PROSPECTED FOR URANIUM AND IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT MINERALOGY. RUSSELL HAS INVENTIVE IDEAS
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DB COOPER-51845
PAGE THREE SF 164-220
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AND A FASCINATING PERSONALITY. BAYNE DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS A WHITE MALE AMERICAN, FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, SLIM BUILD, BLACK HAIR, DARK COMPLEXION, ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OF AGE. UPON VIEWING COOPER COMPOSITE, HE WAS UNDECISIVE IF COMPOSITE RESEMBLED RUSSELL. HE DOUBTS RUSSELL WOULD BE INVOLVED IN SUCH AN INCIDENT, AS HE IS VERY LAW ABIDING.
ON SEPTEMBER TWELVE/LAST, LAMONT SHADOWENS, EIGHT NINE EIGHT CHESTNUT STREET, REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, A FLYING TIGER PILOT AND OWNER OF A REAL ESTATE BUSINESS, STATED RUSSELL WORKED FOR HIM IN NINETEEN SEVENTY AND NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE IN THE LAKE TAHOE AREA OF CALIFORNIA. RUSSELL STOPPED WORKING FOR HIM IN APRIL, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. IN MAY, NINETEEN SEVENTY- ONE, SHADOWENS RECEIVED A POSTCARD FROM RUSSELL, AND RUSSELL GAVE HIS ADDRESS AS BEING IN OXFORD, MAINE. THEN IN APPROXIMATELY JANUARY, LAST, HE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM RUSSELL IN WHICH RUSSELL GAVE HIS ADDRESS AS GREENLEAF AVENUE, NORWAY, MAINE, TELEPHONE (TWO ZERO SEVEN) SEVEN FOUR THREE DASH EIGHT FIVE ONE SIX. IN THIS LETTER RUSSELL STATED HE WAS SKI INSTRUCTING ON WEEKENDS AT PLEASANT MOUNT, BRIDGTON, MAINE. SHADOWENS
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DB COOPER-51846
PAGE FOUR SF 164-220
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HAS BEEN SENDING A MONTHLY COMMISSION CHECK TO THAT ADDRESS, THE LAST CHECK BEING IN AUGUST, LAST. SHADOWENS BELIEVES IT IS POSSIBLE THAT RUSSELL MIGHT HAVE COMMITTED THE HIJACKING, AS HE HAS THE PERSONALITY TO DO IT. RUSSELL IS A LIKEABLE, CHARMING PERSON, WHO IS VERY IMAGINATIVE AND INVENTIVE. HE HAS NEVER HEARD RUSSELL MENTION PARACHUTING, BUT HE WOULD BE QUICK TO TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT UP. SHADOWENS STATED RUSSELL MIGHT COME UP THE THE IDEA OF HIJACKING A SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AND PARACHUTING OUT; HOWEVER, HE CANNOT IMAGINE HIM ACTUALLY DOING IT, AND CANNOT IMAGINE RUSSELL PULLING A GUN OR THREATENING ANYONE. HE STATED THE COOPER COMPOSITE FITS RUSSELL FAIRLY WELL.
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HE SUGGESTED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SOUTH HAMILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, TELEPHONE NUMBER [REDACTED], IS IN CONTACT WITH RUSSELL, AND SAW HIM IN MASSACHUSETTS DURING THE WINTER OF NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.
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BOSTON, AT NORWAY, MAINE: INTERVIEW SUSPECT AND DETERMINE HIS WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY-FIVE, NINE- TEEN SEVENTY ONE. CONDUCT LOGICAL INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF RUSSELL SHOULD BE CONSIDERED SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER. END
HOLD FOR ONE MORE PLS
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DB COOPER-51847
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Serials: DN 164-98, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3896, SF 164-220