SAC Seattle to SAC Denver re NORJAK suspect Arvidis Kiperts

Document date 9 November 1973

Part 117page 571 pageDB Cooper-53491

Part of: SAC Seattle to SAC Denver re suspect Arvidis Kiperts · 9 November 1973 · Part 32 pp. 434–435

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Date: 11/9/73

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Via AIRMAIL AIRTEL (Priority)

TO : SAC, DENVER (164-98)

FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE

SUB: ARVIDIS KIPERTS

Enclosed for Denver and Minneapolis are copies of suspect ARVIDIS KIPERTS photograph.

For the information of the Denver and Minneapolis Offices, KIPERTS is a suspect in several bank robberies which recently occurred in the Portland, Oregon area. On 12/10/71, the Wilsonville, Oregon branch of the National Bank of Oregon was held up by a lone robber. At the time the robber entered the bank, a customer was being served by a teller and when the customer left the robber approached the teller, held her up, and departed. The teller advised that while waiting for the customer to depart, the robber had gone to a desk at the side of the lobby where he did some scribbling. In conducting the investigation the Agent recovered from this area a note with the name "D. B. Cooper" printed on it. The complaint used to arrest KIPERTS, on 11/3/73, alleged to the above inc[i]dent and since then newspaper reporters in the Pacific Northwest have been running stories linking KIPERTS with captioned case.

The description of KIPERTS does not resemble that of unsub in this case. However, do to the notoriety, this case has received in the past and is at the present time receiving the following leads are being set out to be handled expeditiously:

2-Denver (Enc. 1) 2-Minneapolis (Enc. 2) (3)-Seattle RNN:jms (7)

[handwritten: Sub 6-76] [handwritten: 164-81-50[?]]

Approved: _______________ Sent _____ M Per _______ Special Agent in Charge

U.S. Government Printing Office: 1972 455-574

DB COOPER-53491

Serials: DN 164-98, SE 164-81