SAC Alexandria to Director, Richmond and Seattle eliminating Jerry Arthur Cooper as suspect
Document date 6 January 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-119:106-111 Document: Teletype SAC Alexandria to Director, Richmond and Seattle eliminating Jerry Arthur Cooper as suspect Id: Cooper-Part-119:106-111 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A106-111 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. 106–111 (DB Cooper-54595, DB Cooper-54598, DB Cooper-54600), Teletype, dated 6 Jan 1976, serial SE 164-81-6800 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A106-111
NR01 AX PLAIN 3:37 PM URGENT D JANUARY 6, 1976 PAK
TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) RICHMOND (164-74) SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: ALEXANDRIA (164-7?) (RUC)
NORJAK, OFFICE OF ORIGIN: SEATTLE. REFERENCE SUSPECT JERRY ARTHUR COOPER.
REFERENCE RICHMOND NITEL TO THE BUREAU, JANUARY 5, 1976; AND ALEXANDRIA FACSIMILE TO RICHMOND (ROANOKE RA), JANUARY 6, 1976.
FOR INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, BASED ON REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE, ALEXANDRIA CASE FILE IN THIS MATTER WAS REVIEWED AND APPROPRIATE SERIALS REGARDING SUSPECT JERRY ARTHUR COOPER HAVE BEEN FURNISHED TO THE RICHMOND DIVISION VIA FACSIMILE FOR THEIR USE IN ANY FURTHER CONTACTS WITH [REDACTED] REGARDING THIS MATTER.
AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED TO THE BUREAU AND OFFICE OF ORIGIN, SUSPECT JERRY ARTHUR COOPER WAS INTERVIEWED BY THE ALEXANDRIA DIVISION AND DENIED BEING IDENTICAL WITH THE UNSUB, AKA D. B. COOPER IN THIS CASE. SUBSTANTIAL FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION [text cut off, continues on next page]
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Sub 781 164-81-6800 SEARCHED ... INDEXED ... SERIALIZED ... FILED ... JAN 6 1976 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-54595
PAGE TWO (AX 164-79) REVEALED THAT THE UNSUB WAS UNIFORMLY DESCRIBED BY CREW MEMBERS AND PASSENGERS OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305 AS BEING IN HIS MID-40'S WITH AN OLIVE OR LATIN APPEARANCE. JERRY ARTHUR COOPER AT THE TIME OF THE HIJACKING ON NOVEMBER 24, 1971, WAS 26 YEARS OF AGE. LATENT FINGERPRINT COMPARISON CONDUCTED BY THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION REVEALED THAT COOPER'S FINGERPRINTS WERE NOT IDENTICAL WITH THOSE OF THE UNSUB INSOFAR AS A COMPARISON COULD BE MADE. CO-WORKERS AND THE PAYROLL OFFICER FOR COOPER'S EMPLOYMENT AT THE TIME OF THE HIJACKING INDICATED THAT TO THE BEST OF THEIR RECOLLECTION AND BASED ON PAYROLL RECORDS, HE WAS PRESENT AT WORK ON THE DATE OF THE HIJACKING AND THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING. INTERVIEW AT EL PASO OF ROBERT HOCKMAN, FACILITY MANAGER - CHIEF OF MAINTENANCE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, INDICATES THAT HE PICKED UP JERRY COOPER, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], AND MET WITH OTHERS OF COOPER'S [REDACTED] 3:00 AM, THANKSGIVING DAY, 1971 AND SUBSEQUENTLY WENT HUNTING AT QUANTICO MARINE CORPS BASE, VIRGINIA. A REVIEW OF THE BASIC FACTS OF THIS HIJACKING REVEALS THAT SHORTLY AFTER 3:00 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, NOVEMBER 24,
PAGE THREE (AX 164-72) 1971, A LONE WHITE MALE UNDERTOOK THE HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305. HE WAS LAST SEEN BY CREW MEMBERS AT 8:05 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. IT IS NOTED THAT COOPER WAS REPORTED TO BE AT WORK AS MENTIONED ABOVE AND THAT THE HIJACKING BEGAN AT APPROXIMATELY 6:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME AND TERMINATED [illegible: garbled/overtyped text, possibly a correction] 11:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. IT IS NOTED HE WAS PICKED UP AT 3:00 AM THE NEXT DAY TO GO HUNTING.
REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES THAT COOPER HAS ADVISED [REDACTED] THAT HE LANDED IN THE SNOW AND HID FOR APPROXIMATELY FOUR HOURS FROM HUNTERS WHO WERE IN THE AREA. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE HIJACKER WAS LAST SEEN AT 8:05 PM, WHICH IS DURING THE HOURS OF DARKNESS AND HENCE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO NECESSITY FOR COOPER TO HAVE HIDDEN FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR HOURS FROM HUNTERS. ADDITIONALLY, COOPER HAS OSTENSIBLY INDICATED THAT HE CARRIED A PARACHUTE ONTO THE AIRCRAFT IN AN ATTACHE CASE. ACCORDING TO A REVIEW OF THE FILES, THE HIJACKER DISPLAYED THE CONTENTS OF HIS ATTACHE CASE TO STEWARDESS [REDACTED] AND SHE DESCRIBED THEM AS A BUNDLE OF RED STICKS, A CYLINDRICAL SHAPED BATTERY AND VARIOUS WIRES INDICATING THE CONTENTS WAS ELECTRICAL IN NATURE.
PAGE FOUR (AX 164-72) THIS INFORMATION WOULD PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF A PARACHUTE BEING IN THE ATTACHE CASE.
ADDITIONALLY, REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES COOPER WENT TO TEXAS WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LEFT HIM WHEN HE BECAME INTOXICATED AND STARTED TO TELL [REDACTED] ABOUT THE HIJACKING. COOPER SUBSEQUENTLY TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED HIS FAMILY AND STATED HE WAS IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT AND WAS RETURNING TO VIRGINIA. UPON HIS RETURN HIS CONDITION APPEARED TO BE THAT OF A MAN PHYSICALLY BEATEN. IT IS NOTED THAT JERRY, ARTHUR COOPER CONTACTED THE ALEXANDRIA DIVISION IN DECEMBER, 1975, AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD GONE TO HOUSTON, TEXAS, WITH [REDACTED] AFTER THE PUBLICITY REGARDING THE FBI INVESTIGATION OF HIM (WHICH COOPER HIMSELF FURNISHED TO THE NEWSPAPERS). COOPER ADVISED THAT AFTER ONE NIGHT IN TEXAS, HE FOUND A NOTE ON HIS TRUCK WINDOW TELLING HIM THAT HE HAD NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH. HE ADVISED THAT HE THEN RETURNED TO VIRGINIA IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAD NOT MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THAT HE HAD BEEN SHOT AT WHILE DRIVING HIS VEHICLE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, HIS HOME HAD BEEN RANSACKED, AND HE HAD RECEIVED NUMEROUS THREATENING TELEPHONE
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DB COOPER-54598
PAGE FIVE (AX 164-72) CALLS. HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD REPORTED THESE ACTS TO THE LOCAL POLICE AUTHORITIES IN FAIRFAX COUNTY AND ALEXANDRIA AND IN FACT INDICATED THAT HE RECEIVED A POLICE ESCORT THE DAY HIS VEHICLE WAS SHOT AT. A REVIEW OF THE RECORDS OF THE ALEXANDRIA POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FAIRFAX CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT FAILED TO REVEAL ANY RECORD OF ANY SUCH OCCURRENCE. COOPER WAS ADVISED BY THE CASE AGENT THAT THE FBI COULD NOT FURNISH HIM PROTECTION FROM ANY UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY BE THREATENING HIM AS A RESULT OF PUBLICITY IN THIS MATTER. HE WAS FURTHER ADVISED TO CONTACT LOCAL POLICE AUTHORITIES WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING ANY FURTHER INCIDENTS WHICH HE FELT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS THREATENING OR HARASSING.
BASED ON THE ABOVE, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT COOPER IS HAVING UNFOUNDED FANTASIES REGARDING THREATS AND HARASSMENT DUE TO THIS INVESTIGATION.
REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES THAT [REDACTED] THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION FURNISHED BY RICHMOND, HAS REQUESTED THAT HER IDENTITY BE PROTECTED DUE TO HER FEAR OF PHYSICAL HARM FROM JERRY COOPER. IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS
PAGE SIX (AX 164-72) DIVISION TO RECONTACT EITHER [redacted] OF [redacted] WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION. THEREFORE, IN VIEW OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ABOVE, THE ALEXANDRIA DIVISION ANTICIPATES NO FURTHER INTERVIEWS IN THIS MATTER, UAC.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END. PGP FBI SE CLR
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DB COOPER-54600
Serials: 164-2111, AX 164-72, AX 164-79, RH 164-74, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6800