Re tip on Howard Gattis, ex-paratrooper resembling Cooper composite

Document date 15 December 1975

Part 119page 3781 pageDB Cooper-54947

Open in FBI Vault (Part 119, page 378 of the PDF)
Report a problem

Email this to [email protected]

Id: Cooper-Part-119:378-378

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-119:378-378

Document: Memo re tip on Howard Gattis, ex-paratrooper resembling Cooper composite
Id: Cooper-Part-119:378-378
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A378-378

What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)?


What does the scan show?

Open in email app

A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 119 p. 378 (DB Cooper-54947), Memo, dated 15 Dec 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A378-378

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

---

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)(P) DATE: 12/15/75

FROM : SA [redacted]

SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE RE: HOWARD GATTIS

On 12/15/75, Deputy [redacted] Thurston Co. SO, Olympia, Washington, advised he was recently contacted by GUY ADAMS, 1034 Midway, Olympia, Washington, who advised that he had seen 協 the D.B. COOPER composite drawing, and he believed [redacted] [redacted] HOWARD GATTIS, appear similar. He further advised that GATTIS was an ex-paratrooper, and he felt he would be capable of the hijacking. GATTIS is formerly from Yellville, Arkansas, but he was in the Pasco - Yakima area about the time of the hijacking. GATTIS now lives somewhere in Springfield, Mo.

---

LEAD

SEATTLE

AT OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON Will interview GUY ADAMS, 1034 Midway, concerning GATTIS.

---

PTS (2)

---

11-4-81 Sub 8/2 [handwritten] SEARCHED ... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... FILE [rubber stamp, partially legible] 975 [handwritten] DB COOPER-54947 [printed Bates number]

---

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan 5010-110

Serials: SE 164-81