Columbia to Director and Seattle re tipster claim that E. A. Lame is D.B. Cooper
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Original title: Teletype Columbia to Director and Seattle re tipster claim that E. A. Lane is D.B. Cooper
Document date 5 March 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-119:399-404 Document: Teletype Columbia to Director and Seattle re tipster claim that E. A. Lame is D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-119:399-404 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A399-404 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. 399–404 (DB Cooper-54969–54974), Teletype, dated 5 Mar 1976, serial SE 164-81-6879 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A399-404
NR 003 CO PLAIN 6:15PM NITEL MAR. 5,1976 RAA TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-8) FROM COLUMBIA (164-48) (P) NORJACK.
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ON MARCH 4, 1976, AN ANONYMOUS CALL WAS RECEIVED IN THE AIKEN RA FROM AN INDIVIDUAL SOUNDING CAUCASIAN, APPROXIMATELY 60 YEARS OF AGE, WHO SAID HE HAD OVERHEARD E. A. LAME BRAG THAT HE WAS D. D. COOPER WHO HAD HIJACKED AN AIRLINER SEVERAL YEARS AGO. THE CALLER NOTED LAME WAS DRINKING AT THE TIME HE MADE THIS STATEMENT. CALLER STATED LAME LIVED AT [REDACTED] NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C., AND DROVE A 1975 CADILLAC BEARING 1976 S. C. LICENSE NBF 248. THE CALLER REFUSED TO DIVULGE HIS IDENTITY STATING HE DID NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED.
RECORDS, S. C. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT (SCHD), MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION, COLUMBIA, S. C., DISCLOSED THAT LICENSE NBF 248 IS REGISTERED TO E. A. AND [REDACTED] NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C., FOR A 1975 CADILLAC BEARING VIN [guess: 6B69S5Q166885].
RECORDS, DRIVERS LICENSE SECTION, SCHD, DISCLOSED S. C. [text continues, cut off at bottom of page]
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164-81-6879 [guess: SUB 8-4] [illegible: Kar-Kar]
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DB COOPER-54969
PAGE TWO, CO 164-48
DRIVERS LICENSE INITIALLY ISSUED TO EDWARD ANTHONY LAME, 1583 GREEN VALLEY, NORTHWEST, ORANGEBURG, S. C., ON JULY 17, 1973. LAME DESCRIBED WHITE MALE, BORN APRIL 3, 1923, 5 FEET 9 INCHES TO 6 FEET, 161-180 POUNDS, SSAN 531-16-2565. HE PREVIOUSLY HAD N. C. DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER 1420573, DUE TO EXPIRE APRIL 3, 1975.
ABOVE RECORDS DISCLOSED ROSSIE GRAY LAME, 1583 GREEN VALLEY DRIVE, ORANGEBURG, S. C., ISSUED S. C. DRIVER'S LICENSE AUGUST 27, 1973. SHE IS DESCRIBED AS WHITE FEMALE, BORN SEPTEMBER 9, 1909, 5 FEET 5 TO 8 INCHES, 141-160 POUNDS, SSAN 251-14-9080.
RECORDS COLUMBIA CREDIT BUREAU SHOW EDWARD ANTHONY LAME CARRIED IN FILE SINCE APRIL, 1973, SHOW HIS PRESENT ADDRESS AS 2007 WHITE PINE ROAD, NORTH AUGUSTA, FORMER ADDRESS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ORANGEBURG, S. C., SAME DATE OF BIRTH AND SSAN, NOTING, HOWEVER, WIFE SHOWN AS [REDACTED] LAME ALSO SHOWN AS BEING EMPLOYED GIRLEY'S RED AND WHITE GROCERY, NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C.
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DB COOPER-54970
PAGE THREE, CO 164-48
RECORDS OF THE NORTH AUGUSTA PD AND AIKEN COUNTY SO, AIKEN, S. C., WHICH COVERS THE NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C., AREA DISCLOSES NO INFORMATION IDENTIFIABLE WITH EDWARD ANTHONY LAME. [REDACTED] GIRLEY*S RED AND WHITE FOOD STORE, BEECH ISLAND, S. C., ADVISED EDWARD ANTHONY LAME WAS EMPLOYED BY HIM AS A BUTCHER FROM SUMMER OF 1975 TO JANUARY, 1976, WHEN HE QUIT WITHOUT FURNISHING ANY REASON. LAME PREVIOUSLY LIVED IN ORANGEBURG, S. C., AND WORKED FOR EITHER THE PIGGLY-WIGGLY FOOD STORE OR A&P FOOD STORE IN ORANGEBURG, S. C. [REDACTED] BELIEVED LAME PREVIOUSLY LIVED IN CHARLESTON, S. C., AS HE INDICATED TO HE AE TIME FILLED OUT APPLICATION WITH WETTERAU WHOLESALE GROCERY COMPANY IN CHARLESTON. [REDACTED] STATED LAME DID NOT APPEAR CONCERNED ABOUT MONEY AS HE BOUGHT A $50,000 HOUSE WHEN HE MOVED TO NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C., AND COMMENCED WORKING FOR HIM AND LIKEWISE PURCHASED A NEW 1975 CADILLAC. HE STATED HE PAID LAME $300 PER WEEK AND EXPRESSED THE OPINION THAT HE COULD NOT PAY OFF THE INDEBTEDNESS ON THE HOUSE AND AUTOMOBILE ON THE SALARY HE WAS PAYING HIM. [REDACTED] STATED HE KNEW LITTLE ABOUT LAME*S BACKGROUND
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DB COOPER-54971
PAGE FOUR, CO 164-48
OTHER THAN HE WAS ORIGINALLY OUT OF WASHINGTON, THAT HIS PARENTS PRESENTLY LIVED IN WASHINGTON AND THAT EITHER LAME OR HIS PARENTS OWNED A GOOD BIT OF PROPERTY IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON.
[REDACTED] DESCRIBED LAME AS A WHITE MALE, 5 FEET 10 INCHES, 190-200 POUNDS, PALE COMPLEXION, DARK HAIR (THIN-GREYING), A CONSTANT SMOKER, MAY HAVE TWO TO THREE CIGARETTES BURNING AT ONE TIME AND HAVING A LOW TONE OF VOICE. [REDACTED] FURTHER DESCRIBED LAME AS INTELLIGENT, METICULOUS IN HIS WORK AND ORGANIZED WITH RESPECT TO HIS WORK, AND HE WOULD CHARACTERIZE LAME AS "COOL AND CALCULATING". [REDACTED] COULD FURNISH NO ADDITIONAL PERTINENT INFORMATION WHICH WOULD REFLECT ON LAME'S BACKGROUND OR HABITS.
[REDACTED] WAS EXHIBITED A COMPOSIT PHOTOGRAPH OF UNKNOWN SUBJECT IN CAPTIONED CASE AND HE STATED THE PHOTOGRAPH AS SHOWING UNSUB WITH GLASSES CLOSELY RESEMBLED LAME, ALTHOUGH THE LOWER PART OF LAME'S FACE IS SOMEWHAT FULLER. HE STATED HE COULD NOT OTHERWISE MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION FROM THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
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DB COOPER-54972
PAGE FIVE, CO 164-43
[REDACTED] BELIEVED THAT LAME IS WORKING AT THOMAS AND HOWARD COMPANY OR ONE OF THEIR RETAIL OUTLETS IN THE COLUMBIA, S. C., AREA. [REDACTED] NOTED THAT LAME IS AN EXTREMELY COMPETENT BUTCHER AND HE WAS ABLE TO MAKE MONEY FOR HIM DURING HIS EMPLOYMENT.
CHARLOTTE DIVISION AT RALEIGH, N. C. WILL CHECK RECORDS OF THE N. C. HIGHWAY PATROL MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION, TO DETERMINE WHEN LAME WAS ISSUED N. C. LICENSE 1420573 AND OBTAIN ALL BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH PRIOR STATE AT WHICH LAME MAY HAVE BEEN LICENSED AS A MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR. WILL CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION BASED ON INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM ABOVE RECORDS.
COLUMBIA DIVISION AT ORANGEBURG, S. C. WILL AT PIGGLY- WIGGLY FOOD STORE OR A&P FOOD STORE IN ORANGEBURG, VERIFY EMPLOYMENT OF LAME AND OBTAIN ANY BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM EMPLOYMENT RECORDS.
COLUMBIA AT CHARLESTON, S. C. WILL, AT VETTERAU WHOLESALE GROCERY COMPANY, ASCERTAIN IF LAME FILED EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION WITH THIS FIRM AND OBTAIN PERTINENT BACKGROUND
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DB COOPER-54973
PAGE SIX, CO 164-48 INFORMATION. CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION IN CHARLESTON AREA BASED ON INFORMATION FROM APPLICATION.
COLUMBIA AT AIKEN AND NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C. WILL CONTINUE TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATION TO DEVELOP ASSOCIATES AND ADDITIONAL PERTINENT BACKGROUND INFORMATION CONCERNING LAME AND POSSIBLE CONNECTION WITH CAPTIONED CASE. END.
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SEATTLE PLS HOLD THIS TEL AND WE WILL CALL U TO SEE IF U WERE SUPPOSED TO GET IT
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PLS ACK JUST IN CASE
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FBI SE CLR TOG
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DB COOPER-54974
Serials: 164-2111, 164-8, CO 164-43, CO 164-48, SE 164-81-6879