Honolulu to Director and Seattle re Tave Coffelt photograph comparison
Document date 23 May 1978
Part of: Honolulu to Director and Seattle re photographs of Jack Bryant Coffelt
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Id: Cooper-Part-121:130-131
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-121:130-131 Document: Teletype Honolulu to Director and Seattle re Tave Coffelt photograph comparison Id: Cooper-Part-121:130-131 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-121%3A130-131 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 121 pp. 130–131 (DB Cooper-55680), Teletype, dated 23 May 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-121%3A130-131
VZCZCHQO179 1432306 OO HI DE HN O 232150Z MAY 78 FM HONOLULU (164-85) (P) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) IMMEDIATE SEATTLE (164-81) IMM[E]D[I]ATE BT UNCLAS NORJAK (A); OO: SEATTLE.
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RE HONOLULU AIRTEL TO SEATTLE, APRIL 13, 1977, AND SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALLS TO HONOLULU, MAY 18 AND 23, 1978.
ON MAY 19, 1978, TAVE COFFELT, FORMER COMMON-LAW WIFE OF JACK BRYANT COFFELT (NOW DECEASED), ADVISED THAT PHOTOS OF BRYANT COFFELT AS OBTAINED BY SA [REDACTED] OF THE LOS ANGELES DIVISION WERE SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE, BUT SHE DID NOT THINK THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE IDENTICAL TO JACK COFFELT. SHE ADVISED THAT JACK COFFELT ALWAYS WORE HORN-RIMMED GLASSES AS COMPARED TO THE REGULAR FRAME GLASSES AS DISPLAYED IN THE ONE PHOTOGRAPH; AND IN ADDITION, JACK COFFELT DID NOT DISPLAY THE SMOKING MANNERISM
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164-81-79[illegible, handwritten] [stamp, partially legible: RECEIVED / INDEX ... MAY 23 1978 ... SEATTLE]
DB COOPER-55680
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[REDACTED] (exemption codes noted: b6, b7C, b7D) [REDACTED] (exemption codes noted: b6, b7C) [REDACTED] (exemption codes noted: b6, b7C, b7D)
PAGE TWO HN 164-35 UNCLAS OF HAVING HIS CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM HIS LIPS AS DEPICTED IN THE OTHER PHOTOGRAPH.
SHE FURTHER ADVISED SHE STILL HAS ONE PHOTO OF JACK COFFELT SOMEWHERE WHICH SHE HAS DISPLAYED TO THE FBI IN HONOLULU IN THE PAST, AND SHE WILL MAKE IT AVAILABLE AGAIN FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES. SHE STATED, HOWEVER, SHE WILL NOT ALLOW THE PHOTOGRAPH TO BE REPRODUCED.
A COMPARISON OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF JACK COFFELT WITH THAT OF THE BUREAU ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF "D. B. COOPER" IN EARLY 1977 WOULD LEAD AN OBSERVER TO CONCLUDE THAT THE TWO INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT IDENTICAL.
TAVE COFFELT STATED SHE HAS RECENTLY MOVED, AND THE PHOTO IS IN HER PERSONAL POSSESSION SOMEWHERE, AND SHE WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE IT FOR ADDITIONAL COMPARATIVE PURPOSES.
TAVE COFFELT PROVIDED A FIVE-PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM HER BROTHER, CURT THOMPSON, GARDENA, CALIFORNIA, IN WHICH MATTERS CONCERNING JACK COFFELT WERE DISCUSSED. SHE ADVISED AS THE LETTER EXPLAINS, MUCH OF THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER PERTAINED TO A BOOK WHICH COFFELT HAD WRITTEN