SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle re Howard Eugene Shirley, enclosing job application
Document date 20 February 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-118:178-179 Document: Memo SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle re Howard Eugene Shirley, enclosing job application Id: Cooper-Part-118:178-179 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-118%3A178-179 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 118 pp. 178–179 (DB Cooper-54264–54265), Memo, dated 20 Feb 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-118%3A178-179
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 2/20/75
SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) (RUC)
NORJAK (00: SE)
Re: HOWARD EUGENE SHIRLEY suspect.
Enclosed for Seattle and Portland Divisions is photocopy of application and resume of HOWARD EUGENE SHIRLEY.
[redacted] advised on 2/3/75 that he was furnishing the information set forth below on a confidential basis. He stated he considered captioned suspect as being possibly responsible for instant violation. He stated he had known SHIRLEY as [redacted] driving trucks for Chemetron, Orem, Utah, from [redacted] SHIRLEY told him he had been a survival instructor for the U. S. Air Force and he had previously lived at Klamath Falls, Oregon, but later he had lived at Eugene, Oregon. He advised he suspects SHIRLEY in instant matter because SHIRLEY liked to hunt, liked the mountains, and had training in pursuit work in the military, was from Oregon, had done parachute jumping, was very intelligent, although he has not attended college, was adventursome and had made the statement he was going to make it "big" one of these days. He stated he had no further reasons for suspecting SHIRLEY.
[redacted] Chemetron Corporation, Geneva Road, Orem, Utah, advised on 2/14/75 as follows:
HOWARD EUGENE SHIRLEY, who was born 5/17/28, and graduated from high school in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1946, was employed as a truck driver for the above-named company from July 23, 1973 until October 25, 1974, when he voluntarily [text continues on next page]
2 - Seattle (Enc. 2) 2 - Portland (164-41) (Enc. 2) 1 - Salt Lake City LJS:gjm (5)
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[partially legible case/serial number, e.g. 164-81-6...] SEARCHED ____ INDEXED ____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ FEB 24 1975 [illegible office initials/signature]
DB COOPER-54264
SU 164-24
resigned to return to his home state of Oregon. SHIRLEY listed on his application as his last Oregon address 4843 Thunderbird, Eugene, Oregon. His application also shows he was employed by. the Public Resources Council, Inc., Eugene, Oregon, from March, 1971, until January, 1972. His records showed SHIRLEY was described as a white male American, 5' 10", 220 pounds.
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About the middle of January, 1975, [REDACTED] received an inquiry concerning SHIRLEY from the Boise Cascade Company, LeGrand, Oregon, indicating that SHIRLEY had applied for a position with that company. He believes he heard that SHIRLEY is employed by that company.
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[REDACTED] furnished a copy of SHIRLEY's application for employment at Chemetron Corporation and also a resume for the job application, both of which were executed by SHIRLEY at the time he applied for employment with Chemetron Corporation.
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No further investigation regarding SHIRLEY is being conducted by the Salt Lake City Office unless advised to the contrary by Seattle.
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LEAD
PORTLAND
AT EUGENE, OREGON
Verify employment of HOWARD EUGENE SHIRLEY with Public Resources Council of Oregon, Inc., 1746 Willamette, from March,1971 until January, 1972.
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DB COOPER-54265