SAC WFO to Director and SACs Alexandria and Seattle re suspect Jerry Arthur Cooper
Document date 9 September 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-119:087-089 Document: Teletype SAC WFO to Director and SACs Alexandria and Seattle re suspect Jerry Arthur Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-119:087-089 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A087-089 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. 87–89 (DB Cooper-54576–54578), Teletype, dated 9 Sep 1975, serial SE 164-81-6695 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A087-089
[guess: ROUTINE] 17\[guess: WF] PLAIN"
[illegible time] PM [guess: NITEL] SEPTEMBER 9, 1975 [illegible: WWC]
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-0111) AND SACS, ALEXANDRIA (164-70) AND SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, WFO (164-169) (RUC)
[guess: NORJAK]. (OO:SEATTLE) REFERENCE SUSPECT JERRY ARTHUR COOPER
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RE ALEXANDRIA TELCALL TO WFO SEPTEMBER 9, 1975.
ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1975, [REDACTED] CARSON AND GRUMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, 700 T STREET, N.E., WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDC) TELEPHONE NUMBER 635-6500 WAS CONTACTED AND INTERVIEWED REGARDING JERRY A. COOPER.
[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE WAS FORMERLY EMPLOYED AT THE POTOMAC CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, APPROXIMATELY FOUR YEARS AGO, AS A [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT HE RECALLED THAT COOPER WORKED DIRECTLY FOR HIM FOR APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS DURING THE LATE FALL AND EARLY SPRING, 1971 - 1972, AS A HEAVY MACHINE OPERATOR. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE FURTHER RECALLS A SPECIFIC WORK SITE AT 6TH AND F STREETS, N.W., WDC, IN NOVEMBER, 1971, WHERE THE COMPANY WAS INVOLVED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TELEPHONE DUCTS, AND THAT THIS JOB WAS COMPLETED SEVERAL DAYS FOLLOWING THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
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[illegible cursive signature/initials] 164-81-6695 Sub 181
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DB COOPER-54576
PAGE TWO [guess: NFO 164-169]
[REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT ONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS INJURED AT THE SITE ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 16, 1971, IN A CAVE-IN AND [REDACTED] FEELS THAT [REDACTED] MAY HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY COOPER.
[REDACTED] STATED THAT ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT RECALL WHETHER OR NOT COOPER WORKED THE DAY PRECEDING THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, HE STATED THAT IF THE EMPLOYEE WAS TO RECEIVE HOLIDAY PAY, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NORMAL PROCEDURE FOR THE EMPLOYEE TO WORK BOTH THE DAY BEFORE AND THE DAY AFTER THE HOLIDAY. HE FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE ONLY WAY AN INDIVIDUAL WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE HOLIDAY PAY AND NOT WORK WAS IF THAT INDIVIDUAL PRESENTED AN "EMERGENCY TYPE EXCUSE SUCH AS DEATH IN THE FAMILY OR SERIOUS ILLNESS."
IN ADDITION, [REDACTED] STATED THAT FROM WHAT HE RECALLS OF COOPER, HE (COOPER) OCCASIONALLY COMPLAINED OF UNKNOWN FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AT HOME. [REDACTED] STATED THAT DURING THE SPRING OF 1972, COOPER SOLD HIM A RUGER SIX SHOT .22 CALIBER REVOLVER, WHICH HE STILL OWNS FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING MONIES TO MEET THESE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
DB COOPER-54577
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PAGE THREE WFO 164-169
[REDACTED] STATED THAT ONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT POTOMAC WHO IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED WITH THE METRO, ROSSLYN VIRGINIA, MIGHT BE ABLE TO VERIFY WHETHER OR NOT COOPER WAS ON THE JOB DURING THE THANKSGIVING WEEKEND OF 1971.
ALEXANDRIA IS REQUESTED TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT THE METRO SITE, GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKWAY AND 14TH STREET BRIDGE, ROSSLYN, VIRGINIA. END.
KMB FBI SE CLR FOR ONE
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DB COOPER-54578
Serials: AX 164-70, SA 164-111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6695, WF 164-169
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