SAC Kansas City to SAC Seattle re Kenneth E. Clayton, Jr. tip that Clifford Irving is D.B. Cooper
Document date 26 March 1973
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-116:050-051 Document: Memo SAC Kansas City to SAC Seattle re Kenneth E. Clayton, Jr. tip that Clifford Irving is D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-116:050-051 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-116%3A050-051 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 116 pp. 50–51 (DB Cooper-53021–53022), Memo, dated 26 Mar 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-116%3A050-051
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 3/26/73
SAC, KANSAS CITY (164-80) RUC Sub-622
NORJAK OO SE
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Re Minneapolis airtel to Kansas City, 2/28/73.
Attempts to contact KENNETH E. CLAYTON, JR., on 2/26/73 and 3/2/73 negative.
On 3/5/73, KENNETH E. CLAYTON, JR., 6008 Mall, Mission, Kansas, personally appeared at the FBI Office at which time he advised that from his research and reading the book WHAT REALLY HAPPENED by CLIFFORD IRVING, he considers it a great possibility that CLIFFORD IRVING is in fact the D. B. COOPER who hijacked the aircraft from Northwest Airlines.
CLAYTON felt there was a great parallel between IRVING and D. B. COOPER in facial characteristics and as IRVING points out on page 26 of his book, he is a proponent and strongly believes in facial disguises. CLAYTON pointed out the numerous innuendos in the book about parachuting and in fact was in the California, West Coast area during the two days during which the hijacking occurred. Additionally, IRVING made a trip to Mexico with a friend as he points out in his book, and CLAYTON feels this possibly was a dry run in order to similate the terrain which D. B. COOPER would have to bail out of the aircraft.
CLAYTON is described as a white male, DOB 4/14/44, single, employed at Western Auto, 63rd and Nieman Road, Shawnee, Kansas, also employed at Chapman's Bar, Lenexa, Kansas, home telephone 631-0667.
SEATTLE should be aware CLAYTON appeared at the Kansas City Office 4/14/70, and advised that he was of the opinion at that time that numerous Russians were residing in his dormitory at Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. CLAYTON
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(2)- Seattle 1 - Minneapolis (164-73) 1 - Kansas City HHH:mh (4)
Sub-622 /64- 8/- [illegible]
DB COOPER-53021
KC 164-80
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went into great lengths about how he was then and while in the military, continually having problems with Russians attempt- ing to contact him and involve him in possible subversive activities. He stated the reason he knows these people living in his dormitory are Russians is because they have Slavic shaped faces.
CLAYTON's thought processes regarding Norjak may be questionable in view of the above paragraph.
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Armed and Dangerous
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DB COOPER-53022