Director to SAC Seattle re manual review of 5,200 missing-person cards
Document date 11 April 1977
Also filed at: Part 122 pp. 229–230 · Part 122 pp. 234–235 · Part 122 pp. 240–242
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-122:207-211 Document: Airtel Director to SAC Seattle re manual review of 5,200 missing-person cards Id: Cooper-Part-122:207-211 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-122%3A207-211 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 122 pp. 207–211 (DB Cooper-56336–56340), Airtel, dated 11 Apr 1977, serial SE 164-81-7445 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-122%3A207-211
Airtel
4/11/77
To: SAC, Seattle (164-81)
From: Director, FBI (164-2111)
NORJACK OO: SEATTLE
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ReButelcal to Seattle 3/30/77.
Enclosed for Seattle are Xerox copies of missing person index cards which generally fit the description of captioned unsub.
In connection with captioned investigation it was suggested by the Criminal Investigative Division that a manual search of the missing persons indices be conducted here at FBIHQ Identification Division. Approximately 5200 cards containing information regarding missing persons were reviewed in an effort to identify logical suspects who were reported as missing at about the time the hijacking occurred. Identification Division personnel were furnished with a composite description of Dan Cooper and as a result the below listed white males were developed as suspects. Each of the individuals were reported as missing during latter 1971 or 1972.
This search was based upon the presumption that unsub may have perished during the jump from the aircraft and that some relative somewhere may have filed a missing person report.
Enclosures - 17
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DB COOPER-56336 164-81-7445 [some digits appear struck through/overwritten]
Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK
Sixteen of the 21 persons fitting Cooper's description have fingerprint cards on file within the Identification Division and each were compared to the latents developed in captioned matter with negative results.
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1. [REDACTED BOX] X b6/b7c Height: 5'8" Weight: 137 [REDACTED BOX], Florida, or Congressman J. Herbert Burke, Washington, D. C.
2. [REDACTED BOX] b6/b7c Height: 6' Weight: 180 Presently Bureau fugitive, Miami Office of Origin
3. Stephen Robert Chan X DOB: 11/18/40 POB: Oakland, California Height: 5'10" FBI# 75 844 L1 Contact Wilma Chan Frankel, Justin Road, Harrison, New York Reported as missing November, 1971
4. [REDACTED BOX] b6/b7c Height: 5'11" [REDACTED BOX] Missing since November, 1971 [REDACTED BOX] South Carolina
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DB COOPER-56337
Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK
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5. [redacted box]
Height: 5'11" Weight: 200 [redacted box]
Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
[redacted box]
Information received at FBIHQ as missing person on 3/16/72
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6. [redacted box]
Height: 5'6" Weight: 121 Hair: Brown Missing since 1971, however, information not received at FBIHQ until 10/14/75 [redacted box] Missouri
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7. Gediminas Alexandra Semeta X DOB: 7/26/39 POB: Joniskas, Lithuania Height: 5'9" Weight: 171 Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel FBI# 32 760 K3 Reported as missing since November, 1971 [redacted box] Ohio
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8. Roy Denton Anderson, Jr. DOB: 3/30/27 POB: Plant City, Florida Height: 5'11"
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DB COOPER-56338
Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK
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Weight: 190 Hair: Brown FBI# 190 175 L2 Missing since 1971, however, information not received until 6/11/73 Contact Senator Strom Thurmond, Washington, D. C.
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9. Gerald Kay Foulke DOB: 11/19/29 POB: Dayton, Ohio Height: 5'8" Weight: 175 Hair: Brown FBI# 473 156 E Missing since 1971, no specific date given [REDACTED] Maryland
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10. Richard Vincent Chatham DOB: 2/28/20 POB: Mexico, Missouri Height: 6'1" Weight: 220 FBI# 996 344 E Missing since 12/5/71 Contact Mrs. Grace Chatham, mother, 407 East Bolivar Street, Mexico, Missouri Records reflect that Chatham left a mental institution in November, 1971
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11. Manny W. Tripp DOB: 2/2/17 Height: 6'3" Weight: 200 Hair: Brown FBI# 960 250 J7 Date of disappearance unavailable, however, missing person information received at FBIHQ 5/22/72 Contact Congressman Charles E. Bennett, Washington, D. C., or [REDACTED] Florida Note: Although this individual fits the general description of unsub, it is felt that he may be too old to be the hijacker (age 54 in 1971)
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DB COOPER-56339
Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK
The following individuals reported as missing in 1971 or 1972 have since been arrested by law enforcement authorities:
12 - 15.
James Edward Davis X DOB: 1/7/41 POB: Washington, D. C. Height: 6'2" Weight: 162 FBI# 603 211 D Missing since 1971, however, arrested on a loitering charge 5/19/72 at Sacramento, California
Frank Edward Louth, aka Frank Edward Painter DOB: 11/5/28 Height: 6'1" Weight: 190 FBI# 514 561 A Hair: Brown Contact Mrs. Draga K. Louth, wife, 1642 East Street, Tracy, California Information was not received until 11/28/72, however, identification files reflect that Louth was arrested at Grants Pass, Oregon, on 8/6/72 for drunkenness
[REDACTED] X Height: 5'10" [REDACTED] Missing since 1971
[REDACTED] Massachusetts Identification files reflect that [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Pennsylvania Information received at FBIHQ on 7/28/72 Identification files reflect that [REDACTED]
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5 ... DB COOPER-56340
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7445