SAC Butte to SAC Las Vegas re NORJAK suspect Harvey Gray, Sub 575
Document date 9 January 1973
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Id: Cooper-Part-115:174-175
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-115:174-175 Document: Airtel SAC Butte to SAC Las Vegas re NORJAK suspect Harvey Gray, Sub 575 Id: Cooper-Part-115:174-175 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-115%3A174-175 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 115 pp. 174–175 (DB Cooper-52651–52652), Airtel, dated 9 Jan 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-115%3A174-175
1/9/73
AIRTEL AIR MAIL
TO : SAC, LAS VEGAS Sub 575 FROM : SAC, BUTTE (164-26) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle
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Enclosed to Las Vegas is one photograph of HARVEY GRAY.
[REDACTED] "Billings Gazette" a local Billings, Montana, newspaper, advised on 1/8/73, that a former employee HARVEY GRAY that had worked on the city desk for the "Gazette" from 3/14/66 through 6/29/69, bore a striking resemblance to the individual whose photo- graph appears in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin for December, 1972, who used the name DAN COOPER.
[REDACTED] advised that GRAY's employment with the "Gazette" was terminated 6/29/69, in view of his financial difficulties wherein his salary was garnisheed and drinking problem. He stated that when GRAY left Montana he secured employment with the "Nevada Appeal" a newspaper at Carson City, Nevada, and believed that GRAY had been fired from the job at Carson City for excessive drinking.
[REDACTED] described GRAY as an ex-Marine of World War II; however, he did not believe that he had been a
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2 - Las Vegas (Enc. 1) (AM) (2) - Seattle (164-81) (Info) (AM) 2 - Butte WFR/spr (5)
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SEARCHED.......... INDEXED.......... SERIALIZED.......... FILED.......... JAN 1 1 1973
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DB COOPER-52651
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Sub 575 Sus: [illegible] Harvey [illegible] b6 b7C b7D
BT #164-26
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parachutist but in his opinion was smart enough to pull off such a job as was done on 11/24/71, in Oregon. He stated that GRAY was an avid outdoorsman interested in hunting and fishing and he was a soft-spoken individual.
[REDACTED] described GRAY as follows:
Race White Sex Male Nationality American DOB 5/20/22 Social Security # 182-12-6256 Education Two years college Former residence 26 Alma Lane, Billings, with his mother MARGUERITE V. GRAY, who joined him in Nevada
[REDACTED] stated that GRAY had been divorced prior to coming to Billings from the east coast.
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LEAD
LAS VEGAS DIVISION
AT CARSON CITY, NEVADA
Contact the "Nevada Appeal" and determine the presence whereabouts of HARVEY GRAY and thereafter determine if GRAY identical with photograph of white male using name DAN COOPER in hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines on 11/24/71.
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Armed and Dangerous
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DB COOPER-52652