SAC Detroit to SAC New York re Dan Cooper / D.K. Cooper lead
Document date 6 February 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-120:096-097 Document: Memorandum SAC Detroit to SAC New York re Dan Cooper / D.K. Cooper lead Id: Cooper-Part-120:096-097 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A096-097 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 120 pp. 96–97 (DB Cooper-55099–55100), Memo, dated 6 Feb 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A096-097
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, NEW YORK DATE: 2/6/76
FROM : SAC, DETROIT (164-115) (P)
SUBJECT: UNSUB, aka, Dan Cooper; Northwest Airlines, Flight 350, Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION OO: SEATTLE
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2/np 5US 828 [guess: illegible, could be "SUB 828" or "SUS 828"] OPEN (REOPEN) ORIGIN: Seattle [handwritten, partially illegible] SUPV: [illegible signature/initials] CASE: 164-627 DATE: 1-31-76 [guess, handwritten] SECT: 26 (11) [circled] wr/64-627-2D4 [handwritten]
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For the information of New York and Seattle Divisions Mr. WILLIAM C. TREMBLAY is the Assistant Managing Editor and Director of the "Secret Witness Program" of a local Detroit newspaper. The "Secret Witness Program" offers rewards in varying amounts to individuals who anonymously furnish infor- mation to the newspaper in current local investigations and cases of national prominence.
By letter dated 1/26/76 Mr. TREMBLAY advised the Detroit of the following information which he had anonymously been furnished by a "tipster":
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"Regarding the 'D.B. Cooper' who hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight over Washington four years ago, I knew a D.K. Cooper (who some- times wrote his name so that the K looked like a B) and who hurriedly left the country for Uganda, South Africa on the day of the hijacking. Mr. Cooper became quite interested in flying a few months before leaving the country and left the organization he was managing, with large financial problems. About two years ago he,
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2 - New York 1 - Seattle (164-81) (Info) 2 - Detroit EJJ:psn (5)
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2/28 28 [handwritten, illegible] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ FEB [illegible] 1976 [guess] 26 DB COOPER-55099
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
DE 164-115
returned in especially good financial condition and obtained a position as Manager of the New York State Credit Union League of which I believe he is still associated."
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LEADS:
NEW YORK
AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Will, through New York State Credit Union League attempt to identify and locate D.K. COOPER and attempt to determine if identical with D.B. COOPER.
DETROIT
AT DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Will maintain contact with Mr. WILLIAM TREMBLAY in the event anonymous "tipster" furnishes any additional information.
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[illegible: possibly "679-7320"] 204 5th [guess: partial address, e.g. "204 5th Ave"]
(518) 482-8891 [illegible: possibly "120 Westmore Ave"] 1211 Albany,
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[illegible] DONALD K. COOPER
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DB COOPER-55100
Serials: DE 164-115, NY 164-627, SE 164-81