SA to SAC Seattle re caller's tip on former Navy parachute rigger as NORJAK suspect
Document date 11 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-18:382-383 Document: Memo SA to SAC Seattle re caller's tip on former Navy parachute rigger as NORJAK suspect Id: Cooper-Part-18:382-383 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A382-383 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 18 pp. 382–383 (DB Cooper-5714–5715), Memo, dated 11 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1836 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A382-383
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.8 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 1/11/72
FROM : SA [REDACTED]
SUBJECT: NORJAK
RE: [REDACTED] POSSIBLE/SUSPECT
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On 1/3/72, [REDACTED] Washington, telephone [REDACTED] who is employed at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Washington, telephone [REDACTED] con- tacted the writer to advise that he awoke one morning last week with the thought that [REDACTED] whom he knew some 18 to 20 years ago in the U. S. Navy, might be a likely suspect in instant case. [REDACTED] said that [REDACTED] has long time experience as a parachute rigger and a jumper and was working in [REDACTED] California, in 1950 and 1951. He said this was an [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] He said that [REDACTED] is a eccentric person, is a man who has very definite ideas and who was an extremely good parachute rigger and jumper.
[REDACTED] continued that [REDACTED] left the Navy about 1954 at the end of his enlistment and went to work for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] somewhere in the Los Angeles, California, area, working in [REDACTED] He said that [REDACTED] had some very excellent design ideas and probably continued to work in this area.
[REDACTED] continued that he has not seen [REDACTED] in 18 or 19 years and does not know why he suddenly came to his mind as a possible suspect in this case. He said that he had seen the artist's conception earlier, but that for some reason on this particular morning, [REDACTED] came to mind and there is a likeness to the artist's conception. He said that at that time [REDACTED] was to the best of his recollection, described as follows:
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JEC:mlc (2)
164-81- 1836 SEARCHED... INDEXED... SERIALIZED... FILED... [REDACTED] JAN 10 1972 FBI—SEATTLE
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-5714
SE 164-81
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Race White Sex Male Age [redacted] (now) Height 6' - 6'1" Weight 180 - 190 lbs. Hair Dark
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[redacted] continued that [redacted] had a first class rigger's rating when he got out of the Navy. He said that aside from being [redacted] [redacted] California, during 1950 and 1951 that about 1953 he was based aboard [redacted] He said that he does not know if [redacted] was [redacted] He said that the [redacted] based at that time.
[redacted] concluded that he had not seen [redacted] in 18 to 19 years, but was furnishing the above for what it might be worth.
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DB Cooper-5715
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1836