SAC WFO to Director re NORJACK investigation of Bryant Coffelt and R. L. T. Beckwith
Document date 2 March 1977
Also filed at: Part 121 pp. 309–310
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-120:391-392 Document: Airtel SAC WFO to Director re NORJACK investigation of Bryant Coffelt and R. L. T. Beckwith Id: Cooper-Part-120:391-392 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A391-392 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. 391–392 (DB Cooper-55427–55428), Airtel, dated 2 Mar 1977, serial SE 164-81-7369 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A391-392
3/2/77
AIRTEL
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) FROM: SAC, WFO (164-169) (P)
NORJACK (OO:SE)
RE: UNSUB; [redacted/blank box]
SOURCE [redacted/blank box]
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Re Los Angeles airtel to Bureau dated 1/24/77.
Enclosed for Seattle are the original and one copy of two FD-302's and an investigative insert. Enclosed for the Bureau and Los Angeles are one copy each of the FD-302's and the investigative insert.
Investigation at Washington, D.C., determined that the Hoffmann Furniture Company is no longer in business. The business was sold approximately five years ago. It is now Hoffmann Interiors, Inc., 7020 Westmoreland Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland. The enclosures represent the requested investigation in this matter.
WFO files reflected that COFFELT was the subject of WFOfile 87-14671 captioned "JACK BRYANT COFFELT, aka BRYANT COFFELT, JACK COFFELT; ITSP; IMPERSONATION (OO:KANSAS CITY)" in 1966, KCfile number 87-20360. No Bureau file number was noted. The investigation was instituted by Kansas City to determine the veracity of information received from the Lawrence, Kansas, Police Department that indicated that COFFELT was spending large amounts of money in Lawrence, Kansas, and that his wife, TAVE COFFELT, worked for the FBI and he worked for the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. (WDC). Investigation at Lawrence, Kansas, and WDC determined that COFFELT was a student of the University of Kansas and intermittently he resided in WDC. COFFELT was also the companion and chauffe[ur] [illegible - text cut off at right margin, obscured by redaction codes/handwritten file number]
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2-Bureau (Enc. 3) 2-Los Angeles (164-497)(Enc. 3) 2-Seattle (164-81)(Enc. 5) 1-WFO
TFD:sav (7)
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LO AS WFO [handwritten, sideways, partially legible]
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SUB [handwritten box, number below: 869]
164-81-7369 [handwritten, partially obscured]
SEARCHED ___ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ MAR 9 1977 FBI — SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-55427
WFO 164-169
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of ROBERT LINCOLN TODD BECKWITH, a wealthy elderly man from WDC, [illegible mark] the last direct descendant of ABRAHAM LINCOLN who freely gave COFFELT large sums of money. During an interview of COFFELT, he denied impersonating a Justice Department employee. He said TAVE COFFELT was actually TAVE THOMPSON, who, according to COFFELT, was never employed by the FBI. At the time of the interview, THOMPSON resided somewhere in New Jersey. The file further reflects that COFFELT was described as a white, male, DOB 2/20/16 at Carthage, Missouri, FBI Number 590 868. WFO files reflect no additional information re COFFELT.
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LEAD
WASHINGTON FIELD
AT WASHINGTON, D.C. Will attempt to locate and interview ROBERT TODD LINCOLN BECKWITH for any information he may have regarding COFFELT.
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DB COOPER-55428
Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7369, WF 164-169