Portland to Los Angeles and Seattle re NORJAK source lead (1:00 AM)

Document date 29 January 1972

Part 117pages 9–113 pagesDB Cooper-23536, DB Cooper-23538

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-117:009-011

Document: Teletype Portland to Los Angeles and Seattle re NORJAK source lead (1:00 AM)
Id: Cooper-Part-117:009-011
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 117 pp. 9–11 (DB Cooper-23536, DB Cooper-23538), Teletype, dated 29 Jan 1972, serial LA 164-497-308 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A009-011

NR 008 PD PLAIN 1:00 AM URGENT 1-29-72 RMB TO: LOS ANGELES (164-497) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 3P

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NORJAK

ON JANURAY TWENTYEIGHT, NINETEEN SEVENTYTWO, [REDACTED], OREGON, ADVISED DURIHG A RECENT TRIP TO LOS ANGELES HE HAD CONTACTED [REDACTED], WHO RESIDES [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] IS A FORMER TREASURY AGENT AND [REDACTED] WAS AN INFORMANT FOR HIME WHEN HE WAS EMPLOYED WITH THE DEPARTMENT. DURING CONVERSATION WITH [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE HAD OBSERVED A COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH OF D. B. COOPER IN THE NEWSPAPER AND STATED THAT D. B. COOPER IS KNOWN TO HIM AS [REDACTED] WHOSE TRUE NAME IS [REDACTED] FIRST NAME UNKNOWN. [REDACTED] STATED THAT [REDACTED] HAD ADVISED HIM THAT DURING DECEMBER, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE, HE HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] OHIO. DURING CONVERSATION WITH HER SHE STATED TO [REDACTED] THAT [REDACTED] HAD "PULLED THE HIJACK JOB IN WASHINGTON." [REDACTED] STATED TO [REDACTED] THAT [REDACTED] HAD END PAGE ONE

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Bob [guess: Drange/Strange] [guess: advised] 1/29 8:45 AM [illegible] [illegible] previously [illegible]

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164-497-308 SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED [illegible] SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] JAN 29 1972 FBI - LOS ANGELES [guess: Strange/Stranges] [illegible]

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DB Cooper-23536

Page 2 of 3Part 117 p. 10

PD 164-41 PAGE TWO BEEN LIVING IN EVERETT, WASHINGTON, DURING NINETEEN SEVENTY AND NINETEEN SEVENTYONE. [redacted] HAD NO INFORMATION AS TO WHEN [redacted] LEFT WASHINGTON. [redacted] STATED THAT DURING THE NINE YEARS HE HAD BEEN WITH ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS IN LOS ANGELES, [redacted] HAD WORKED [redacted] INFORMATION HAD ALWAYS BEEN FACTUAL. [redacted] FURTHER STATED THAT FNU [redacted] HAD BEEN KNOWN TO HIM WHILE HE WAS AN AGENT FOR ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS. [redacted] HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN CALIFORNIA AND OTHER STATES AND HAS HAD MILITARY TRAINING. [redacted] STATED THAT [redacted] CAN BE LOCATED AT HIS RESIDENCE, WHICH IS A [redacted] [redacted] CALIFRONIA. [redacted] DID NOT KNOW THE EXACT ADDRESS BUT STATED THAT THE RESIDENCE IS LOCATED [redacted] [redacted] STATED THAT IN APPROACHING [redacted] FOR INFORMATION AN AGENT SHOULD SEE HIM IN THE MORNING AND ASK IF HE KNOWS WHERE [redacted] IS. END PAGE TWO

PD 164-41

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PAGE THREE

[redacted] SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED THAT HIS NAME NOT BE MENTIONED TO [redacted] STATED THAT IF THIS APPROACH IS USED [redacted] WILL BELIEVE THAT HIS NAME HAD COME THROUGH INVESTIGATION OF [redacted] AND SHOULD FURNISH ALL INFORMATION WILLINGLY. [redacted] HAS KNOWN [redacted] FOR MANY YEARS AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO FURNISH ADDTITIONAL DESCRIPTIVE DATA AND [illegible/overstruck] PRESENT WHEREABOUTS.

LOS ANGELES, AT [redacted] CALIFORNIA, INTERVIEW [redacted] TO DETERMINE IF [redacted] IS IDENTICAL WITH D. B. COOPER. END

GJH FBI LOS ANGELES

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b6 b7C b7D

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DB Cooper-23538

Serials: LA 164-497, LA 164-497-308, PD 164-41, SE 164-81

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