SAC Tampa to Director (Attn: FBI Laboratory) re UNSUB aka Dan Cooper, with enclosed Tampa report page
Document date 9 January 1974
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Id: Cooper-Part-117:154-155
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-117:154-155 Document: Memo SAC Tampa to Director (Attn: FBI Laboratory) re UNSUB aka Dan Cooper, with enclosed Tampa report page Id: Cooper-Part-117:154-155 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A154-155 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 117 pp. 154–155 (DB Cooper-53609), Memo, dated 9 Jan 1974, serial SE 164-81-6074 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A154-155
DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) 1/9/74 (ATTN: FBI LABORATORY)
SAC, TAMPA (164-110) (RUC)
UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #350, PORTLAND, OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, 11/24/71 CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION (OO: SE)
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory are two photographs of [redacted b6/b7C] possible subject of above-captioned matter.
On 12/4/73, [redacted b6/b7C] [redacted] Merritt Island, Florida, telephone number [redacted] was contacted by SA [redacted] and SA CLIFFORD G. BOTYOS of the Cocoa Resident Agency, Cocoa, Fla.
[redacted b6/b7C] had forwarded to the Cocoa RA a photograph of [redacted], an acquaintance of his in the military service, who he believed resembled a sketch of hijacker DAN COOPER which appeared in a recent publication of the "Today" newspaper. [redacted] advised that upon seeing a sketch of hijacker (DAN COOPER) in the "Today" newspaper, his instantaneous comment was that this individual was [redacted] whom he had served with in the Navy at [redacted] [redacted] recalled that both he and [redacted] [redacted]
Name: [redacted] Sex: Male Race: White [redacted]
2 - Bureau (Enc. 2) 2 - Seattle (164-81) 164-81-6074 [handwritten] 1 - Tampa GLH:fwh (5) SEARCHED______ INDEXED______ SERIALIZED____ FILED____ [handwritten signature] JAN 1 4 1974 FBI - SEATTLE
DB COOPER-53609
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SEARCHED________ INDEXED________ SERIALIZED______ FILED________ JAN 1 4 1974 FBI - SEATTLE
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164-81-6074 [illegible handwritten signature/notation]
TP 164-110
3/59, when he heard through a mutual acquaintance of both [REDACTED b6/b7C] JAMES F. MC CONOGHY, that [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED] said the grapevine story was that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in which he was entertaining in Brooklyn, New York. [REDACTED]
According to [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] said he last contacted [REDACTED] in March or May of 1959, when he had [REDACTED] and was stationed in the Washington, D. C., area. He said at this time he talked to a JAMES F. MC CONOGHY who stated that [REDACTED] was now in the Washington, D. C., area operating [REDACTED] out of the Silver Springs or Bethesda, Maryland, area.
[REDACTED] said he contacted [REDACTED] telephonically, but he does not recall the details of the conversation. He said he last heard that JAMES F. MC CONOGHY was living in the San Antonio, Texas, area selling cemetery lots. He stated, however, that MC CONOGHY was in [REDACTED] [REDACTED] as himself and [REDACTED] and he could be traced through military records.
He does not recall [REDACTED] ever having any intimate knowledge of aircraft nor does he consider [REDACTED] an exceptional athlete. He further advised that he would not consider [REDACTED] as having extravagant taste, but that he was a gambler inasmuch as he often participated in base poker games and currency exchange schemes.
[REDACTED] said he has no further evidence that [REDACTED] could be the hijacker in the above captioned matter, but that his description does fit that of the sketch which appeared in the "Today" newspaper.
At this time, [REDACTED] provided a slide of [REDACTED]. He also provided a glossy
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Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6074, TP 164-110