Las Vegas to Seattle and Los Angeles re researchers claiming Coffelt was D.B. Cooper

This copy: Part 121 pp. 34–35Also filed at Part 40 pp. 160–161 (primary)

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Las Vegas to Seattle and Los Angeles re NORJAK contacts

Document date 23 July 1977

Part 121pages 34–352 pages

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Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Seattle and Los Angeles re NORJAK contacts
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 121 pp. 34–35, Teletype, dated 23 Jul 1977, serial SE 164-81-2609 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-121%3A034-035

Page 1 of 2Part 121 p. 34

LVO120 2040453Z RR LA SE DE LV R 230300Z JUL 77 FM LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P) TO SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE [REDACTED BOX] TO LOS ANGELES (164-479) BT CLEAR NORJACK, OO: SEATTLE REMYTELETYPE. JAMES BRYANT COFFELT, AKA JACK BRYANT COFFELT. RE LITTLE ROCK TELETYPE TO BUREAU, JULY 20, 1977. [REDACTED] LAS VEGAS, INTERVIEWED JULY 21, 1977, AND ADVISED THEY HAVE DONE CONSIDERABLE RESEARCH REGARDING THIS MATTER, INASMUCH AS THEY FEEL D. B. COOPER WAS IDENTICAL TO JACK COFFELT. [REDACTED] AND DOING RESEARCH REGARDING HIS KNOWLEDGE OF JACK COFFELT [REDACTED] WITH COFFELT IN THE MOUNT HOOD AREA WHERE COFFELT CLAIMED HE JUMPED FROM THE AIRPLANE AND LOST THE EXTORTION MONEY. THE [REDACTED] ARE

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164-81-2609 [guess: last digit uncertain, could be 2607 or 2609]

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SEARCHED..........INDEXED SERIALIZED..........FILED JUL 22 1977 FBI - SEATTLE

Page 2 of 2Part 121 p. 35

PAGE TWO LV (164-6[guess: D]) CLEAR UNAWARE OF THE PRESENT WHEREABOUTS OF [redacted] BUT EXPECT HIM TO TELEPHONICALLY CONTACT THEM WITHIN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THEY ADVISED THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF [redacted] FROM COFFELT [redacted] SETTING FORTH THE DETAILS OF THE HIJACKING. THEY STATED [redacted] OF COFFELT [redacted] BY COFFELT, HOWEVER, COFFELT IS NO RELATION [redacted] [redacted] ADVISED THEY WILL INSTRUCT [redacted] TO IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO LAS VEGAS FOR INTERVIEW WHEN HE CONTACTS THEM. 7-22-77 [redacted] TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED FBI LAS VEGAS THAT [redacted] HAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAMES BRYANT COFFELT AS IDENTICAL TO D.B. COOPER. [redacted] ADVISED [redacted] DURING HIS INTERVIEW WITH HER. HE ADVISED [redacted] IS IN [redacted] GIVEN TO HIM BY COFFELT WHICH CLAIMED [redacted] WAS UNABLE TO DESCRIBE OVER THE TELEPHONE [redacted] HOWEVER SOUNDED ANXIOUS TO CO-OPERATE. [redacted] DID NOT INTEND TO RETURN TO LAS VEGAS IN THE NEAR FUTURE THEREFORE WAS ADVISED TO CONTACT SA [redacted] IN LOS ANGELES WHICH HE AGREED TO DO. BT

Serials: 164-479, LV 164-60, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2609