LA to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Seattle re suspect Russell and Alcoholics Anonymous
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Original title: Teletype Los Angeles to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Russell and Alano Club contacts
Document date 9 September 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-113:283-286 Document: Teletype LA to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Seattle re suspect Russell and Alcoholics Anonymous Id: Cooper-Part-113:283-286 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A283-286 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. 283–286 (DB Cooper-51853–51856), Teletype, dated 9 Sep 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A283-286
NR 002 LA PLAIN 225PM NITEL 9-9-72 DLW 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 DENVER TELETYPE TO SEATTLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, SEPTEMBER EIGHT LAST. RE SUSPECT DASH RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL. ON SEPTEMBER EIGHT LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PALOS VERDES PENINSULA, CALIFORNIA, THE [REDACTED] FOR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, LOS ANGELES, ADVISED HE HAD LAST SEEN RUSSELL IN NOVEMBER NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN WHEN HE, [REDACTED] ACCIDENTLY MET RUSSELL AT A LOCAL THEATER. END PAGE ONE
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[SEARCHED] [INDEXED] [SERIALIZED] [FILED] SEP 9 1972 SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-51853
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LA 164-497 PAGE TWO
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AT THIS TIME RUSSELL WAS RECOVERING FROM ALCOHOLISM PROBLEMS AND WAS MEMBER OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIFORNIA. RUSSELL SPENT THANKSGIVING DAY, NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN WITH [REDACTED] AND DEPARTED LOS ANGELES NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN FOR AUSTRALIA WHERE PLANNED EMPLOYMENT AS PILOT. RUSSELL LEFT CAMPER VAN FOR [REDACTED] TO SELL. VAN WAS SOLD BY [REDACTED] AND CHECK FORWARDED TO RUSSELL AT ADDRESS OF FLAT NUMBER THIRTY FOUR SLASH FORTY TAO WATERLOO CRESCENT, EAST PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. [REDACTED] DISPLAYED CANCELLED CHECK DATED FEBRUARY FIVE NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT IN AMOUNT OF FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PAYABLE TO RUSSELL BEARING CANCELLATION STAMP OF COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA.
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HE STATED HE HAS NOT SEEN NOR HAD ANY CONTACT WITH RUSSELL SINCE THAT TIME.
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HE ADDED THAT [REDACTED] KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH OLD FRIENDS WHO FORMERLY FLEW FOR FLYING TIGER AIRLINES IN SALT LAKE CITY AND DALLAS. [REDACTED] PERIODICALLY CONTACTS HIM AND RECALLS [REDACTED] HAD MENTIONED END PAGE TWO
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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
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TO HIM RUSSELL LOOKED LIKE THE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE SEATTLE HIJACKER. HE STATED [redacted] [redacted], ALWAYS LIKES TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS AND HE HAD NOT GIVEN [redacted] REMARKS A THOUGHT. [redacted] OBSERVED THE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION AND STATED THE SHAPE OF THE HEAD APPEARED SIMILAR TO THAT OF RUSSELL. HOWEVER, THE HAIRLINE WAS MUCH DIFFERENT AND HE COULD SEE NO LIKENESS IN THE FACIAL CHARACTERISTICS.
[redacted] ADDED THAT [redacted] HAD ALSO MENTIONED THAT RUSSELL HAD RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES.
HE DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS A WHITE MALE, FORTY EIGHT DASH FIFTY YEARS OLD, FIVE NINE DASH FIVE TEN, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, DARK COMPLEXION, THIN BUILD AND A HEAVY SMOKER OF CIGARETTES.
DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS A LONER WHO HAD TRAVELED AND WORKED IN CITIES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. HE DOES NOT ANTICIPATE ANY CONTACT FROM RUSSELL AND STATED RUSSELL WOULD NEVER HAVE CONTACTED HIM IN NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN HAD THEY NOT ACCIDENTLY MET IN A THEATER.
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LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR
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LOS ANGELES WILL CONTACT ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, MANHATTAN BEACH, FOR ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE RUSSELL AND ASCERTAIN LOCATION OF HEADQUARTERS, FLYING TIGER AIRLINES, LOS ANGELES.
POSSIBLE LEAD RE RUSSELL'S OVERSEAS ADDRESS IN NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN BEING LEFT TO OO.
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FBI SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-51856
Serials: DN 164-98, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SF 164-220, SU 164-24