Los Angeles to Director and offices re Blair inquiry into Coffelt as D.B. Cooper
Document date 19 March 1977
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-120:397-400 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Director and offices re Blair inquiry into Coffelt as D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-120:397-400 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A397-400 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. 397–400 (DB Cooper-55433, DB Cooper-55435, DB Cooper-55436), Teletype, dated 19 Mar 1977, serial SE 164-81-7420 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-120%3A397-400
LA0027 0780430Z [uncertain characters] RR HQ AX HI KC LV PD SE WF DE LA R 190430Z MAR 77
FM LOS ANGELES (164-497) (13) (P) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE ALEXANDRIA (164-72) ROUTINE HONOLULU (164-85) ROUTINE KANSAS CITY ROUTINE LAS VEGAS (164-60) ROUTINE PORTLAND (164-41) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) ROUTINE BT CLEAR MORJAK [guess: NORJAK], OO: SEATTLE.
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RE LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU, JANUARY 24, 1977, WASHINGTON FIELD AIRTEL TO BUREAU, MARCH 2, 1977, AND HONOLULU AIRTEL TO BUFFALO, MARCH 10, 1977.
RE: UNSUB; [REDACTED], SOURCE, [REDACTED]
FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, CLAIR [handwritten above: "CLAY"] BLAIR, MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, HAS VOLUNTEERED INFORMATION CONCERNING SUSPECT JACK BRYANT COFFELT DURING EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW AT LOS ANGELES.
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[REDACTED BOX] b6 b7C b7D
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164-81-7420 SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED MAR 18 1977
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DB COOPER-55433
PAGE TWO (LA 164-497) CLEAR
BLAIR RELATED THAT ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO, HE WAS ENGAGED BY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TO INVESTIGATE VERACITY OF INFORMATION BEING FURNISHED UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BY SCREENWRITER DIRK SUMMERS INDICATING THAT COFFELT WAS POSSIBLY HIGHJACKER KNOWN AS D. B. COOPER. BLAIR STATES TRAVELED WIDELY IN U.S. FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS INTERVIEWING PAST ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND SPENT 12 HOURS INTERVIEWING JAMES H. BROWN AND [REDACTED] WHO WAS SOURCE OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SUMMERS.
BLAIR STATES, DURING INTERVIEW OF BROWN, IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT NEITHER BROWN NOR [REDACTED] HAD EVER ACTUALLY SEEN A BUCKLE OR FASTENER ALLEGEDLY FROM PARACHUTE USED BY HIGHJACKER. BROWN STATED COFFELT HAD MADE CASUAL REFERENCE TO SOME BUCKLES BURIED SOMEWHERE.
BLAIR COVERED MANY FACETS OF HIS EFFORTS TO DETERMINE IF COFFELT HIGHJACKER, IN FACTUAL AND ORGANIZED MANNER., STATED HE REACHED CONCLUSION COFFELT WAS PROBABLY NOT HIGHJACKER BASED ON FOLLOWING FACTS:
DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING, BRYANT COFFELT WAS SUFFERING FROM SEVERE ALCOHOLISM AND ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
PAGE THREE (LA 164-497) CLEAR
BROWN HAD DISPLAYED LETTER DATED SEPTEMBER 27, 1976, TO HIM FROM COFFELT'S WIFE, "TAVE" COFFELT, AKA LORRAINE THOMPSON, 2463 KUHIO AVENUE [guess: #]2, APARTMENT 1105, HONOLULU. IN LETTER, "TAVE" TOLD BROWN, JACK COFFELT COULD NOT BE HIGHJACKER AS AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING, COFFELT UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. DOCTOR AND DURING ENTIRE PERIOD, IT WAS WELL KNOWN FACT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. HE WAS SEVERE ALCOHOLIC.
BLAIR STATES HE INTERVIEWED SEVERAL ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND CONFIRMED ALCOHOLISM PROBLEM DURING LATE 1971, AND COFFELT WAS ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
ALLUDING TO SERIOUS INJURIES TO LEG AND GROIN AREA WHICH SUMMERS THEORIZED WERE RECEIVED FROM JUMPING FROM AIRCRAFT, BLAIR STATES ASSOCIATES IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, RECALLED COFFELT HAD OPERATION ON FOOT IN 1967, AND HAD TO HIRE CAB TO TRAVEL ONE BLOCK. ALSO DETERMINED [REDACTED] NORTHERN VIRGINIA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, DIAGNOSED COFFELT HAD SEVERE THROMBOPLEBITUS OF LEGS AND WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, JULY 19, 1973.
BLAIR STATES ALSO VERIFIED THAT DURING PERIOD OF HIGH-
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DB COOPER-55435
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[illegible handwritten/annotation marks, circle around redacted text, 'b6' and 'b7c' exemption codes]
PAGE FOUR (LA 164-497) CLEAR JACKING AND ON DAY OF HIGHJACKING, "TAVE" EMPLOYED FOR POTOMAC TEMPORARIES, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA. BLAIR STATES HAD NOT INTERVIEWED "TAVE" IN HONOLULU NOR HAD HE ASCERTAINED NAME OF PSYCHIATRIST REPORTEDLY TREATING COFFELT AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING. BASED ON ABOVE INFORMATION AND IN ORDER TO BRING MATTER TO LOGICAL CONCLUSION WITH MINIMUM INVESTIGATION, FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE CONDUCTED:- HONOLULU, CONTACT "TAVE" LORRAINE THOMPSON, 2463 KUHIO AVENUE W2, APARTMENT 1105, HONOLULU, AND OBTAIN NAME OF PSYCHIATRIST TREATING COFFELT DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING. SET OUT LEAD FOR WASHINGTON FIELD TO VERIFY COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD. ARMED AND DANGEROUS. BT
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PUI0436Z
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DB COOPER-55436
Serials: 164-2111, AX 164-72, HN 164-85, LA 164-497, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7420, WF 164-169