Los Angeles to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Raymond Sidney Russell
Document date 11 September 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-113:279-282 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Raymond Sidney Russell Id: Cooper-Part-113:279-282 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A279-282 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. 279–282 (DB Cooper-51849–51852), Teletype, dated 11 Sep 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A279-282
NR 024 LA PLAIN 74PM URGENT 9-11-72 JAA TO DENVER (164-98) SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 4P
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NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.
RE LOS ANGELES TELETYPE, SEPTEMBER NINE LAST.
SUSPECT RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL. THIS DATE, [redacted] WORLD HEADQUARTERS, FLYING TIGER AIRLINES, SEVEN FOUR ZERO ONE WEST WORLD WAY, LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ADVISED RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ZERO ZERO FIVE DASH ONE SIX DASH SIX FIVE ZERO NINE, HIRED BY FLYING TIGER ON AUGUST ONE, NINETEEN FIFTY ONE. RUSSELL EMPLOYED AS PILOT DURING PERIODS OF AUGUST FIFTY ONE TO JANUARY FIFTY FOUR; FROM FEBRUARY FIFTY SIX TO FIFTY SEVEN; FROM AUGUST FIFTY EIGHT TO OCTOBER FIFTY EIGHT AND HIS LAST PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT WAS FROM APRIL SIXTY TO FEBRUARY SIXTY THREE, WHEN HE RESIGNED FOR PERSONAL REASONS. LAST ADDRESS END PAGE ONE
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164-81-3886 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ SEP 11 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-51849
LA 164-497 PAGE TWO IN SIXTY THREE SHOWN AS POST OFFICE BOX ONE ZERO SIX THREE, LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, AND IN SIXTY THREE WAS FLYING OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] STATES ABOVE INFORMATION ON REFERENCE CARD AND RUSSELL'S PERSONNEL FILE RETAINED ON MICROFILM AND STORED AT EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA. HE WILL CAUSE COPIES OF MICROFILM RECORD TO BE MADE AND FURNISH TO LOS ANGELES FBI OFFICE AS SOON AS POSSILBE.
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[REDACTED] ALANO CLUB (ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS), [REDACTED] MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED SHE HAS BEEN MEMBER OF CLUB FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. RECALLS SID RUSSELL, A PILOT, WAS MEMBER OF CLUB FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS IN SIXTY SEVEN. SHE RECALLED RUSSELL AS VERY SICK MAN WHO ONCE HAD CONVULSION ON SIDEWALK ADJACENT TO ALANO CLUB WHICH LASTED TEN MINUTES. AMBULANCE CAME AND RUSSELL TAKEN TO LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. SHE RECALLS RUSSELL LEFT AREA, STATING HE WAS GOING TO SANTA ROSA SEEKING JOB AS PILOT. HE RETURNED IN FEW DAYS AND SEEN AT CLUB FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER RETURN. WHEN SHE LAST SAW HIM, HE STATED HE WAS GOING TO AUSTRALIA. END PAGE TWO
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DB COOPER-51850
LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
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SHE COULD NOT RECALL, OR NEVER KNEW, WHERE RUSSELL RESIDED IN MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AREA. SHE RECALLS HE MET OLD FRIEND, [REDACTED], AT LOCAL THEATRE AT NIGHT AND STATED FRIEND'S NAME WAS [REDACTED] (LNU) AND HE LIVED IN PALOS VERDES.
IT IS NOTED [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY INTERVIEWED IN PALOS VERDES PENINSULA AND DETAILS SET FORTH IN REFERENCED TELETYPE.
[REDACTED] NEVER KNEW RUSSELL TO BE EMPLOYED IN THIS AREA, ADDING HIS CONDITION WAS SUCH IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO OBTAIN ANY JOB AND CERTAINLY DID NOT APPEAR FIT TO FLY AIRPLANES.
SHE ADDED HE HAS NOT CONTACTED ALANO CLUB SINCE SIXTY SEVEN AND FEELS DEFINITELY COULD DO SO AS HE WAS REGULAR AT CLUB WHILE IN AREA.
SHE DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS FOLLOWS:
WHITE MALE, FIVE FEET EIGHT OR NINE INCHES TALL, WEIGHS ONE HUNDRED FIFTY, DARK BROWN HAIR, CREWCUT, DARK COMPLEXION, DARK EYES, EXTREME NERVOUSNESS DUE TO EXCESSIVE DRINKING.
[REDACTED] OBSERVED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF HIJACKER AND ADVISED SHE RECALLS RUSSELL'S FACE MUCH SOFTER IN APPEARANCE.
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DB COOPER-51851
LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR
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SHE NOTED SOME SIMILARITY BETWEEN RUSSELL AND ARTIST'S CONCEPTION BUT RECALLS RUSSELL'S FACE WAS NOT AS "ROUND" AS SHOWN IN DRAWING.
THIS DATE, [REDACTED] FLYING TIGER AIRLINES, LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED HE HAS ASCERTAINED THAT ABOUT SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR AGO, RUSSELL WAS EMPLOYED SELLING REAL ESTATE FOR A FLYING TIGER AIRLINES CAPTAIN NAMED LAMONT SHADOWENS, ONE SEVEN ZERO HARDWICK ROAD, WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA, TELEPHONE FOUR ONE FIVE DASH THREE SIX NINE DASH SEVEN NINE ONE EIGHT. HOAG ADVISED SHADOWENS WILL BE AT RESIDENCE UNTIL SEPTEMBER THIRTEEN NEXT, WHEN HE IS SCHEDULED FOR OVERSEAS FLIGHT.
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LOS ANGELES WILL FORWARD INFORMATION FROM RECORDS FLYING TIGER AIRLINES WHEN MADE AVAILABLE.
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SAN FRANCISCO AT WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA, INTERVIEW LAMONT SHADOWENS, CAPTAIN, FLYING TIGER AIRLINES, AND ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF RUSSELL ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR AND NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST. CONDUCT LOGICAL INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF RUSSELL SHOULD BE CONSIDERED LOGICAL SUSPECT THIS MATTER.
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FBI SEATTLE HOLD
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DB COOPER-51852
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Serials: 005-16-6509, DN 164-98, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3886, SF 164-220, SU 164-24