SAC Detroit to Director re NORJAK suspect in Michigan
Document date 6 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-18:463-466 Document: Teletype SAC Detroit to Director re NORJAK suspect in Michigan Id: Cooper-Part-18:463-466 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A463-466 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. 463–466 (DB Cooper-5795–5798), Teletype, dated 6 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1878 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A463-466
1/6/72
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TELETYPE IMMEDIATE
TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) FROM: DETROIT (164-115)
NORJAK.
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RE BUREAU TELCALLS TO DETROIT, JAN. FIVE AND SIX, LAST; AND DETROIT TELCALL TO BUREAU, JAN. SIX, INSTANT.
SUSPECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ON THIS DATE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING BUSINESS AND THEY WOULD HANDLE THE SHOPS AND OUTSIDE WORK. [REDACTED] WAS TRUSTED AND WAS VERY CLOSE TO [REDACTED] DURING LATTER PART OF SUMMER, SEVENTY-ONE, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) INITIATED AN AUDIT OF THE COMPANY AND SOME IRREGULARITIES WERE NOTED IN RECORDS. COMPANY HIRED THEIR OWN ACCOUNTANTS TO CONDUCT AUDIT WITH IRS, WHICH AUDIT IS STILL BEING CONDUCTED. IN OCT. SEVENTY-ONE, [REDACTED] QUIT HIS EMPLOYMENT. FROM PRELIMINARY FINDINGS IT APPEARS THAT [REDACTED] BETWEEN [REDACTED] THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG HE HAD BEEN [REDACTED] NOR DO THEY KNOW AT THIS TIME THE EXACT AMOUNT.
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(1 - Seattle (AM) (Info.) MCN:DLL (2)
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SEARCHED___INDEXED SERIALIZED___FILED JAN 8 1972 FBI - SEATTLE SAC [initials]
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164-81-1878
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DB Cooper-5795
DE 164-115 PAGE TWO
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BECAUSE OF SUSPICION DIRECTED TOWARDS [REDACTED] UNTIL, RECENTLY MAINTAINED AN INTEREST IN HIS ACTIVITIES AND THEY DID NOT KNOW OF HIM [REDACTED] MICH., AREA SINCE LEAVING THEIR EMPLOY. ON NOV. TWENTY-NINE, SEVENTY-ONE, HE WAS [REDACTED] FOR COMPANY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ON DEC. TWENTY-SEVEN, SEVENTY-ONE, [REDACTED] CALLED EMPLOYER AND SAID HE WAS SICK AND WOULD NOT BE IN. THEY HAVE NOT SEEN [REDACTED] SINCE THAT TIME.
ON DEC. TWENTY-EIGHT, SEVENTY-ONE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND RECEIVED [REDACTED] ESTIMATES ON THE VALUE [REDACTED] AND THE PRICE HE SOLD IT WAS DESIGNED TO EFFECT A QUICK SALE. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT PRICES TO ENCOURAGE QUICK SALE. [REDACTED] OPERATES [REDACTED] AND ON DEC. TWENTY-THREE, SEVENTY-ONE, LEASED [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-5796
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b6 b7C
DE 164-115 PAGE THREE
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[redacted] WAS RETURNED [redacted] ON DEC. THIRTY-ONE, SEVENTY-ONE, AND THE LOG SHOWED IT HAD [redacted] [redacted] HAS REGISTRY NUMBER [redacted] AND IS PRESENTLY LOCATED AT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. THE LOG WOULD BE [redacted] AND WOULD SHOW THE IDENTITY OF [redacted]
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[redacted] ADVISED [redacted] HAS NO BACKGROUND OF PARACHUTING AND DURING SEVENTY HAD [redacted] WHICH HAD BEEN GIVING HIM PROBLEMS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. [redacted] HAS NOT HAD MILITARY EXPERIENCE. [redacted] DESCRIBED [redacted] AS WHITE MALE, BORN [redacted] FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES TALL, HAZEL EYES, BROWN HAIR, BALD, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, TWO HUNDRED THIRTY TO TWO HUNDRED FORTY POUNDS, WEARS PRESCRIPTION GLASSES WITH WIRE FRAMES, SOMETIMES [redacted] [redacted]
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DURING SEVENTY-ONE, [redacted] TRAVELED [redacted] TO ACAPULCO, MEXICO, ON VACATION AND THEN RETURNED TO [redacted] CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE MET [redacted] ON BUSINESS. [redacted] WAS AWARE SUSPECT LEFT [redacted] AREA AND GONE TO SOUTH AMERICA. [redacted]
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DB Cooper-5797
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b6 b7C
DE 164-115 PAGE FOUR ARE NOT CONTEMPLATING PROSECUTION AND DO NOT KNOW AT THIS TIME WHAT ACTION, IF ANY, WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST [REDACTED] BY THEM. [REDACTED] WAS NOT BONDED SO LOSS WOULD HAVE TO BE ABSORBED BY COMPANY.
INFORMATION COPY FURNISHED SEATTLE BY AIR MAIL.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-5798
Serials: 164-2111, DE 164-115, SE 164-81-1878