SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle re reinterview of James H. Brown about Bryant Coffelt
Document date 28 February 1977
Also filed at: Part 121 p. 305
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-120:387-387 Document: Memo SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle re reinterview of James H. Brown about Bryant Coffelt Id: Cooper-Part-120:387-387 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A387-387 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 p. 387 (DB Cooper-55422), Memo, dated 28 Feb 1977, serial SE 164-81-7385 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A387-387
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 2/28/77
FROM : SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60) RUC
SUBJECT: NORJACK OO: SEATTLE [handwritten: SUS] [box] 869
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Re Los Angeles airtel to the Bureau, 1/24/77.
On 2/23/77, Mr. JAMES H. BROWN, 3936 East Reno, Las Vegas, Nevada, was reinterviewed by SAs ROBERT J. MC KINLEY and EDWARD J. GALLAGHER.
At this time Mr. BROWN acknowledged that the individual he feels to be D. B. COOPER was BRYANT COFFELT. He stated that COFFELT never showed them parachute buckles but in an off-handed manner indicated he had buried them in the area where he landed after parachuting from the plane. He said that COFFELT claimed after he landed he sprayed the parachute with some type of chemical, not described, which disintigrated the parachute. BROWN stated that he and his son, BYRON, accompanied COFFELT to a point approximately 15 miles west of Dufur, Oregon to a place called Marion Point and that COFFELT claimed to have landed at a point which he pointed out about five miles in an easterly direction from Marion Point. He said COFFELT then pointed out a tall tree with a broken limb hanging down which he claimed to have hit and injured himself in landing. Mr. BROWN stated that he and [redacted] made a cursory look around this area but found no signs of anything being buried. He did note that there had been two impressions in the ground near the tree approximately a foot apart and skid marks which he felt could have been made by an individual in a parachute landing.
Mr. BROWN could offer no further information regarding this at this time.
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(2)- Seattle 1 - Los Angeles (164-497) (Info) 1 - Portland (164-41) (Info) 1 - Las Vegas RJM/kms (5)
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164-81-7385 SEARCHED ____ INDEXED ____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ [date stamp, partially legible: 1977] F[illegible]-SEATTLE
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[Statue of Liberty emblem] 5010-110 Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB COOPER-55422
Serials: LA 164-497, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7385