SAC Milwaukee to Director, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Staudt
Document date 8 October 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-117:401-405 Document: Teletype SAC Milwaukee to Director, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Staudt Id: Cooper-Part-117:401-405 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A401-405 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. 401–405 (DB Cooper-53937, DB Cooper-53940), Teletype, dated 8 Oct 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A401-405
NR 003 MI PLAIN 12:57PM URGENT 10/8/75 KMV TO : DIRECTOR (164-2111) LOS ANGELES (164-497) PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: MILWAUKEE (164-36) (P) NORJAK
RE MILWAUKEE TELETYPE TO BUREAU, OCTOBER 7, 1975. FOR INFO BU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, DAVID ARTHUR STAUDT WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH UFAP MATTER AT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, P.M. ON OCTOBER 6, 1975. STAUDT PREVIOUSLY HAD ESCAPED FROM MUSKEGO, WISCONSIN POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION RESULTING IN RECOVERY OF [REDACTED b7E] INVESTIGATION IN THIS MATTER REFLECTS LOOT TO BE FROM ROBBERY OF BANK IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA ON OCTOBER 3, 1975, WITH [REDACTED]
STAUDT INTERVIEWED A.M. ON OCTOBER 7, 1975, AT WHICH TIME HE ADMITTED INVOLVEMENT IN NUMEROUS ROBBERIES, INCLUDING BANK ROBBERIES IN PALO ALTO AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. END PAGE ONE
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164-81-[illegible] Sub-732 SEARCHED [initials] SERIALIZED [initials] OCT [illegible] 1975 [illegible] SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-53937
MI 164-36 PAGE TWO
DENVER AND CHERRY CREEK, COLORADO, AND BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN. TO DATE, INVESTIGATION HAS DETERMINED STAUDT TO BE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED IN FIVE OF THESE ROBBERIES WITH EFFORTS BEING MADE TO RESOLVE ADDITIONAL 91 MATTERS.
IN ADDITION TO ARMED ROBBERY CASES, STAUDT CLAIMED TO BE D.B. COOPER, INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED IN NORJAK. STAUDT THEREAFTER GAVE ACCOUNT OF MATTER SIMILAR TO THAT PUBLISHED OR AIRED BY NEWS MEDIA WITH THE FOLLOWING DIFFERENCES OR ADDITIONS:
STAUDT ADVISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE FLIGHT, HE MADE A RESERVATION WITH NORTHWEST AIRLINES IN NAME OF DAVID BRADLEY COOPER. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT NAME APPEARED ON MANIFEST. THE MONEY, 200,000 DOLLARS, WAS FURNISHED TO HIM IN LARGE LEATHER TYPE BRIEF CASE WHICH HE THREW OUT OF AIRPLANE IN SEATTLE AFTER SUBSEQUENTLY TRANSFERRING MONEY TO LARGE CANVAS DUFFEL BAG WHICH HE TIED AROUND HIS WAIST PRIOR TO EXITING AIRCRAFT.
WITH RESPECT TO DIRECTIONS GIVEN THE PILOT OF AIRCRAFT, HE CLAIMED TO HAVE DIRECTED HIM TO GO DUE SOUTH AT 10,000 FT.
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MI 164-36 PAGE THREE AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE AND CLAIMED TO HAVE GIVEN NO SPECIFICS SUCH AS AIR SPEED, MAGNETIC COURSE, OR DESTINATION. STAUDT CLAIMED HE EXITED AIRCRAFT, BOEING 727, THROUGH REAR DOOR LANDING NEAR SMALL TOWN WITH FUNNY NAME (POSSIBLY BOREDOM) IN OREGON SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND MT. HOOD. HE WALKED TO A ROAD AND HITCHHIKED TO PORTLAND WHERE HE SPENT THE NIGHT IN MOTEL, NAME UNRECALLED. THE NEXT DAY, HE RENTED RYDER TRUCK IN PORTLAND IN NAME [REDACTED b6/b7C] (PHONETIC) USING STOLEN DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR IDENTIFICATION. HE THEREAFTER DROVE TO JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT NEAR PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA WHERE HE BURIED MONEY AND AMMUNITION CANISTERS NEAR BARKER DAM IN THAT AREA.
IT IS NOTED MILWAUKEE CASE AGENT HAS HAD TELEPHONIC CONVERSATIONS WITH LOS ANGELES OFFICE RE LOCATION OF THIS MONEY AND HAS TRANSMITTED VIA FACSIMILE COPY OF MAP DETAILING AS TO WHERE MONEY IS ALLEGEDLY BURIED TO THIS OFFICE FOR THEIR USE. END PAGE THREE
MI 164-36 PAGE FOUR
STAUDT CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN MONEY AS LATE AS JUNE OF 1975 AND ADVISED REASON HE NEVER SPENT IT WAS THAT HE KNEW MONEY TO BE MARKED AND CLAIMED NOT TO KNOW HOW TO DISPOSE OF IT WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT.
ON OCTOBER 7, 1975, LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION, FBI LABORATORY, WAS TELEPHONICALLY REQUESTED TO COMPARE ANY LATENTS DEVELOPED IN CAPTIONED CASE AGAINST KNOWN FINGERPRINTS OF DAVID ARTHUR STAUDT, FBI NO. 218 811 E, WITH NO RESULTS OF COMPARISONS YET KNOWN AT MILWAUKEE. IT IS FURTHER NOTED SEATTLE, OFFICE OF ORIGIN, WAS TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED OF THIS INFO ON OCTOBER 7, 1975, AS WELL AS HAVING BEEN FURNISHED NUMEROUS WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS DATING FROM OCTOBER 31, 1974, [guess: RE] STAUDT WHO HAS BEEN MAKING SIMILAR CLAIMS SINCE THAT TIME.
ABOVE INFO FURNISHED INTERESTED OFFICES IN LIGHT OF INVOLVEMENT IN BANK ROBBERIES BY STAUDT AS CLAIMED.
ADMINISTRATIVE: DURING INTERVIEW, STAUDT WAS QUESTIONED IN DETAIL RE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT AND PARACHUTING, AS WELL AS OPERATION OF THIS EQUIPMENT, IN CONNECTION WITH CAPTIONED
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DB COOPER-53940
MI 164-36 PAGE FIVE MATTER WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE APPEARING LIMITED AND HIS ANSWERS VAGUE RE THESE DETAILS. IN ADDITION, SEATTLE REPORT OF SA [REDACTED b6 b7C] DATED MAY 30, 1973, SET FORTH PROFILE OF NORJAK UNSUB AND COMPARISON OF STAUDT AGAINST THIS PROFILE INDICATES HE DOES NOT FIT SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF ITEMS AS SET FORTH. ARMED AND DANGEROUS; SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. END. VAL FBI SE CLR
Serials: 164-2111, 164-36, LA 164-497, MI 164-36, PD 164-41, SE 164-81
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