ASAC Bibler to SAC Seattle re Air Force denial of live jumps and authorized drop assistance
Document date 30 December 1971
Also filed at: Part 75 p. 12
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 18 pp. 52–53 (DB Cooper-5385–5386), Memo, dated 30 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1680 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A052-053
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 12/30/71 FROM : ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER [handwritten signature] SUBJECT: NORJAK
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Reference is made to telephone call from SA ELGIN E. OLROGG 12/30/71, in which he said that permission had been denied by Air Force to use Air Force volunteers in a life parachute drop but that they had authorized assist- ance in connection with the dummy drop.
Reference also made to Springfield teletype 12/30/71 in which they pointed out that the Military Air Life Command at Scott Field had given a favorable reply to the request from McChord Air Force Base, but believed that the first test should be conducted with a 200-lb. dummy.
I called OLROGG and told him that it did not appear from the wording of Springfield teletype that McChord was precluded from furnishing live volunteers. He said apparently there was a question of interpretation but that the man he talked to in McChord was pretty firm that they were not going to furnish any live [redacted]. He said, however, that he would continue contact with McChord to get the final word.
I sent a teletype to Minneapolis and told them to advise [redacted] immediately that it would appear the only clearance we had so far from the Air Force was to supply personnel to assist in a dummy drop and not a live parachute jump.
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PRB:eon (3)
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164-81-1680 SEARCHED ______ INDEXED ______ SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] DEC 30 1971 FBI—SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-5385
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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b6 b7c
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/30/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER
NORJAK
Reference is made to telephone call from SA ELGIN E. OLROGG 12/30/71, in which he said that permission had been denied by Air Force to use Air Force volunteers in a life parachute drop but that they had authorized assist- ance in connection with the dummy drop.
Reference also made to Springfield teletype 12/30/71 in which they pointed out that the Military Air Life Command at Scott Field had given a favorable reply to the request from McChord Air Force Base, but believed that the first test should be conducted with a 200-lb. dummy.
I called OLROGG and told him that it did not appear from the wording of Springfield teletype that McChord was precluded from furnishing live volunteers. He said apparently there was a question of interpretation but that the man he talked to in McChord was pretty firm that they were not going to furnish any live [illegible]. He said, however, that he would continue contact with McChord to get the final word.
I sent a teletype to Minneapolis and told them to advise [REDACTED] immediately that it would appear the only clearance we had so far from the Air Force was to supply personnel to assist in a dummy drop and not a live parachute jump.
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PRB:eon (3)
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164-81 - 1680 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED SERIALIZED /[illegible] FILED [illegible] DEC 30 1971 FBI — SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-5386
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b6 b7C
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1680