Denver to Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and San Francisco re NORJAK suspect Raymond Sidney Russell, leads set out
Document date 8 September 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-113:287-290 Document: Teletype Denver to Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and San Francisco re NORJAK suspect Raymond Sidney Russell, leads set out Id: Cooper-Part-113:287-290 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A287-290 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. 287–290 (DB Cooper-5185, DB Cooper-51858, DB Cooper-51859, DB Cooper-51860), Teletype, dated 8 Sep 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-113%3A287-290
NR005 DN PLAIN 1111PM NITEL 9-8-7 2 RDE TO: SEATTLE (164-81) LOS ANGELES (26 4-497) SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) SAN FRANCISCO (264-220) FROM: DENVER (164-98)(P)(4P)
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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE. SUSPECT -- RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL.
RE SALT LAKE CITY TELETYPE SEPTEMBER SIX LAST. FOR INFORMATION, DENVER RECENTLY LEARNED [REDACTED] HAD COMMENTED TO VARIOUS PERSONS HE HAD STRONG SUSPICIONS RE IDENTITY D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] WHO RESIDES [REDACTED] LEMHI, IDAHO, WAS INTERVIEWED USA'S OFFICE, DENVER, SEPTEMBER SEVEN LAST, WHERE HE HAD APPEARED FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FBI NOT INVOLVED IN THAT CASE. END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED __ INDEXED __ SERIALIZED [initials] [illegible] SEP 8 1972 .. SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-5185[7]
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COOPER COMPOSITE SHOWN [REDACTED] WHO STATED PICTURE IS EXACT LIKENESS OF RAYMOND SIDNEY RUSSELL. [REDACTED] AND RUSSELL WERE FORMERLY [REDACTED] WITH FLYING TIGER AIRLINES BASED DENVER IN FIFTIES.
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RUSSELL WAS NOT CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED BY FLYING TIGER AIRLINES BUT DID FLY FOR THEM OFF AND ON UNTIL ABOUT SIXTYFOUR. NOTE THAT [REDACTED] HAS NOT SEEN RUSSELL SINCE SIXTYFIVE BUT HAS KEPT UP WITH HIM THROUGH CONTACTS WITH [REDACTED] ACQUAINTANCES.
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[REDACTED] STATED RUSSELL HAD SEVEN TWENTYSEVEN AIRCRAFT TRAINING WITH FLYING TIGER AND IS FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT WITH PARACHUTE TRAINING. HE BELIEVES RUSSELL ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF HIJACKING. TO BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDGE RUSSELL NOW SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, POSSIBLY WORKING AS PILOT, GEOLOGIST OR PROSPECTOR.
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[REDACTED] SAID RUSSELL RETURNED TO UNITED STATES FROM AUSTRALIA SHORLTY PRIOR TO NORJAK AND WAS IN SEATTLE ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACKING. WHILE IN SEATTLE HE STAYED IN HOME OF [REDACTED] WHO IS [REDACTED] WITH ALASKAN AIRLINES BASED IN SEATTLE. [REDACTED] HAS HEARD FROM [REDACTED] THAT
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DB COOPER-51858
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RUSSELL LEFT SEATTLE SUDDENLY ABOUT TIME OF HIJACKING.
IT IS BELIEVED RUSSELL ALSO VISITED HOME OF [REDACTED] IN LOS ANGELES VICINITY JUST PRIOR TO OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIJACKING. [REDACTED] IS ALSO FORMER [REDACTED], NOW EMPLOYED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WITH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES IN LOS ANGEL[E]S. BOTH [REDACTED] SHOULD HAVE MORE CURRENT INFORMATION RE RUSSELL'S WHEREABOUTS AND ACTIVITIES ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACKING.
[REDACTED] SAID RUSSELL'S CLOSEST FRIEND IS [REDACTED] BELIEVED TO LIVE SAN FRANCISCO, AND PRESENTLY EMPLOYED [REDACTED] WITH FLYING TIGER AIRLINES. [REDACTED] THINKS [REDACTED] OF RUSSELL AND COULD EVEN HAVE ASSISTED HIM IN HIJACKING.
WHILE WITH THE FLYING TIGER AIRLINES, RUSSELL WAS BASED AT DENVER, SALT LAKE CITY AND SAN FRANCISCO. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE SIXTYFIVE POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, BLACK HAIR, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, APPROXIMATELY FORTY EIGHT YEARS OLD. HE SAID RUSSELL IS ADVENTUROUS, WELL EDUCATED AND EXTREMELY COOL. FROM DETAILS HE HAS HEARD OF HIJACKING, HE IS EVEN MORE CONVINCED RUSSELL COULD HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME.
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DB COOPER-51859
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AUSA, DENVER, HAS REQUESTED THAT EVERY EFFORT BE MADE TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] AS SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION DUE TO [REDACTED]
SEATTLE CONTACT [REDACTED] ALASKAN AIRLINES CONCERNING RUSSELL'S VISIT HIS HOME THE TIME OF HIJACKING.
LOS ANGELES LOCATE [REDACTED] CONTINENTAL AIRLINES. DEVELOP ANY INFORMATION RE RUSSELL FROM FLYING TIGER AIRLINES IF THAT COMPANY IS HEADQUARTERED IN LOS ANGELES.
SALT LAKE CITY DEVELOP INFORMATION FROM FLYING TIGER AIRLINES REGARDING RUSSELL IF THAT COMPANY STILL OPERATING OR STILL LOCATED IN SALT LAKE CITY.
SAN FRANCISCO ATTEMPT TO LOCATE [REDACTED] [guess: B]ELIEVED TO [REDACTED] FLYING TIGER AIRLINES. [REDACTED] BELIEVED TO HAVE CURRENT INFORMATION REGARDING RUSSELL'S EXACT WHEREABOUTS. NOTE THAT [REDACTED] MAY BE UNCOOPERATIVE.
DENVER WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AIR FORCE RECORDS OF RUSSELL.
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DB COOPER-51860