Nitel Cleveland to Birmingham and Seattle re Akron patrolman's Cooper tip
Document date 4 August 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-119:043-046 Document: Nitel Cleveland to Birmingham and Seattle re Akron patrolman's Cooper tip Id: Cooper-Part-119:043-046 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A043-046 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 119 pp. 43–46 (DB Cooper-54530–54533), Teletype, dated 4 Aug 1975, serial SE 164-81-6678 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A043-046
NR 004 CV PLAIN 6:57 PM NITEL 8/4/75 RJB TO BIRMINGHAM SEATTLE (164-81) FROM CLEVELAND (164-88)(P) MORJAK
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ON JUNE 16, 1975, PATROLMAN PAUL MC CLOTHLIN, AKRON PD, FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFO:
IN LATE MAY, 1975, AND EARLY JUNE, 1975, WHILE HE WAS ATTENDING SPORTSCAR RACES AT MANSFIELD, OHIO, HE MET AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS [REDACTED] A WHITE MALE, 30-34 YEARS OF AGE, 6'1" - 6'2", 190 - 210 POUNDS, BROWN EYES, DARK BROWN CURLEY HAIR, WORN LONG, WITH A FULL BEARD AND MUSTACHE, AND THIS INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFIED HIMSELF [REDACTED] COVERING THE SPORTSCAR RACES AT MANSFIELD, OHIO.
DUE TO THE LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ATTENDING THE RACES, THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF ACCOMODATIONS IN THE MANSFIELD, OHIO AREA AND AS A RESULT OF THIS, [REDACTED] HE SHARED A ROOM AT THE HOLIDAY INN ON ROUTE 30 AND I-71 AT MANSFIELD, OHIO, AND AS A RESULT OF SHARING THE ROOM, [REDACTED] SPOKE FREELY [REDACTED, text cut off at bottom of visible body]
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164-81-6678 [handwritten] SEARCHED ... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... [illegible initials] AUG 4 1975 F B I - [illegible, likely SEATTLE] DB COOPER-54530
PAGE TWO CV 164-88
TO HIM CONCERNING HIS BACKGROUND AND CURRENT INTERESTS. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE WAS CURRENTLY COVERING A SPORTSCAR CIRCUIT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SPORTS ASSOCIATION (IMSA) AND WAS DOING A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON SPORTSCAR RACING IN AMERICA, AND WAS TO BE SPONSORED BY THE IMSA IN CONNECTION WITH GOODRICH TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY, ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT, AKRON, OHIO. DURING THE COURSE OF CONVERSATION, [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN IN THE U.S. ARMY ASSIGNED TO THE U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES UNIT AND THAT HE HAD EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE ART OF PARACHUTING AND THE MILITARY ARTS. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT WHILE IN THE SERVICE, HE BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS WITH ANOTHER SPECIAL FORCES [REDACTED] AND THEY HAD CONDUCTED NUMEROUS MILITARY RELATED OPERATIONS TOGETHER AND THAT AS A RESULT OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN THE MILITARY, [REDACTED] HAD CONTACTED HIM UPON HIS RELEASE FROM THE ARMY AND ADVISED HIM THAT HE HAD A GOOD DEAL GOING DOWN BUT NEEDED ONE MAN ON THE GROUND AND INQUIRED IF HE WERE INTERESTED AND THAT HE WOULD BE SET FOR LIFE AFTER THIS ONE OPERATION.
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DB COOPER-54531
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PAGE THREE CV 164-88
AT THIS TIME, [REDACTED] STATED "YOU KNOW THAT [REDACTED] IS REALLY D. B. COOPER AND HE IS THE ONE THAT TOOK THE AIRLINES FOR ALL THAT MONEY."
WHEN QUESTIONED AS TO WHY D. B. COOPER WAS IDENTICAL TO [REDACTED] STATED THAT BASED ON THE ABOVE, AND THE FACT THAT [REDACTED] HAD WORKED FOR BOEING AIRCRAFT COMPANY IN CALIFORNIA AND HAS AN [REDACTED] [REDACTED], AND HAS HAD THE BENEFIT OF MILITARY PARACHUTING, PARTICULARLY FREE FLYING, AND THAT BASED ON COMPOSIT SKETCHES AND DESCRIPTIONS FURNISHED BY VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES CONCERNING D. B. COOPER, HE COULD ALMOST POSITIVELY STATED THAT COOPER [REDACTED] ARE ONE AND THE SAME, AND THAT AFTER ALL, [REDACTED] HAD ALL THE KNOWLEDGE TO PULL OFF SOMETHING LIKE THIS. HE FURTHER STATED THAT [REDACTED] HAD CALLED HIM RELATING TO THAT ONE BIG JOB THAT WOULD SET THEM FOR LIFE, AND HE ONLY NEEDED ONE MAN ON THE GROUND AND THAT SHORTLY AFTER HE RECEIVED THIS TELEPHONE CALL, THE D. B. COOPER EPISODE OCCURRED.
WHEN MC CLOTHLIN QUESTIONED [REDACTED] AS TO WHY HE HAD NOT
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DB COOPER-54532
PAGE FOUR CV 164-88 GONE TO THE AUTHORITIES WITH THIS INFORMATION, [REDACTED] INDICATED HE DID NOT LIKE NOR TRUST THE "FEDS" AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT [REDACTED] RIPPED THEM OFF THAT WAY. MC CLOTHLIN ADVISED HE HAS NOT SEEN [REDACTED] SINCE THAT TIME AND TO THE BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, [REDACTED] IS STILL COVERING THE SPORTSCAR CIRCUIT FOR THE IMSA AND THAT [REDACTED] HAS [REDACTED] AND AS A [REDACTED] HAD TOLD HIM [REDACTED] AND LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, [REDACTED] HOWEVER, [REDACTED] SUPPOSEDLY [REDACTED] ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AND HE WAS POSSIBLY [REDACTED] DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA LICENSE PLATES, NUMBER UNRECALLED. ON AUGUST 4, 1975, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] B.F. GOODRICH TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO, ADVISED HE KNOWS [REDACTED] VERY WELL AND STATED HE BELIEVES [REDACTED] WILL BE ATTENDING THE SPORTSCAR RACES AT TALLADEGA SPEEDWAY IN ALABAMA. [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED]
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DB COOPER-54533
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Serials: CV 164-88, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6678
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