Washington Field to Director, Portland and Seattle re NORJAK skydiving suspects in Oregon

Document date 12 January 1972

Part 18pages 493–4975 pagesDB Cooper-5827, DB Cooper-5828, DB Cooper-5829, DB Cooper-5831

Also filed at: Part 105 pp. 17–19

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Document: Teletype Washington Field to Director, Portland and Seattle re NORJAK skydiving suspects in Oregon
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 18 pp. 493–497 (DB Cooper-5827, DB Cooper-5828, DB Cooper-5829, DB Cooper-5831), Teletype, dated 12 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1895 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A493-497

NR 017WF PLAIN 10:30 PM URGENT 1-12-72ASW TO DIRECTOR PORTLAND SEATTLE FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169)

NORJAK.

RE SUSPECT [REDACTED]

TODAY, [REDACTED] WHO IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY [REDACTED] WASHINGTON,DC, FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

IN APPROXIMATELY SIXTY HE WAS [REDACTED] AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, CORVALLIS, OREGON, AND BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

DURING THE ENSUING YEARS, [REDACTED] ALWAYS HAD SOME TYPE OF MASTERMIND SCHEME FOR MAKING A FAST BUCK AND OFTEN TALKED OF A BANK ROBBERY, SMUGGLING, ETCETERA: HOWEVER, HE WAS ALWAYS BROKE AND WHEN [REDACTED] FIRST MET HIM HE WAS EMPLOYED AT [REDACTED] CORVALLIS. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND IT WAS RUMORED IN CORVALLIS

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ASAC ADV. 9:55, 1/12 (COA)

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164-81-1895 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED JAN 02 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-5827

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[REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN SKY DIVING AND HAS DONE MOST OF HIS JUMPING AT [REDACTED] IN WESTERN OREGON. DURING PAST FIVE YEARS HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE MADE JUMPS IN TEXAS AND NEVADA. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IS ALSO A SKY DIVER. [REDACTED] LAST SAW [REDACTED] IN SIXTYEIGHT AT AN AIRPORT IN CORVALLIS WHEN [REDACTED] OR THROUGH THERE [REDACTED] DESCRIPTION NOT RECALLED. [REDACTED] HAS SEEN [REDACTED] MORE FREQUENTLY AND LAST SAW HIM IN SEATTLE ON APPROXIMATELY OCTOBER FIFTEEN, LAST. AT THAT TIME, [REDACTED] HAPPENED TO BE VISITING IN SEATTLE AND [REDACTED] CAME, PRESUMABLY FROM PORTLAND, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS ALONE AND WAS DRIVING LATE MODEL PICKUP TRUCK, MAKE UNKNOWN, POSSIBLY LIGHT BLUE IN COLOR. END PAGE TWO

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DB Cooper-5828

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[REDACTED] [REDACTED] BELIEVES THAT [REDACTED] HAD BORROWED TRUCK FROM [REDACTED] WHO HAD DRIVEN IT FROM [REDACTED] TO PORTLAND. WHILE IN PORTLAND, [REDACTED] PURCHASED WOOD BURNING STOVE WHICH HE INDICATED WAS CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR [REDACTED] WHO RESIDE IN A TRAILER, PRESUMABLY IN CORVALLIS.

[REDACTED] HAD OCCASION TO RIDE IN PICKUP TRUCK AND NOTED [REDACTED] REGISTRATION ON SUN VISOR REFLECTING VEHICLE WAS REGISTERED TO [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] THE VEHICLE WAS BEARING [REDACTED] LICENSE TAGS AND [REDACTED] OBSERVED A SET OF OREGON LICENSE TAGS IN REAR OF VEHICLE ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL SET OF TAGS, STATE UNKNOWN.

[REDACTED] STATED HE HAS NOT SEEN NOR HEARD FROM ANY OF [REDACTED] SINCE OCTOBER, LAST AND THAT [REDACTED] IS EMPLOYED [REDACTED]

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DB Cooper-5829

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PAGE FOUR IN CORVALLIS.

[REDACTED] ALSO STATED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RESIDING AT [REDACTED] CORVALLIS, OREGON, MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE [REDACTED] ACTIVITIES.

[REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, FORTYFIVE DASH FIFTY (LOOKS YOUNGER), FIVE FEET TEN INCHES DASH SIX FEET, ONE NINE ZERO POUNDS, DARK HAIR RECEDING AT TEMPLES, SPEAKS SPANISH FLUENTLY.

[REDACTED] DESCRIBED BY [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED] SIX FEET THREE INCHES, ONE FIVE ZERO POUNDS TO ONE SIX ZERO POUNDS, VERY THIN BUILD, DARK HAIR, NO MILITARY SERVICE DUE TO UNKNOWN PHYSICAL DISABILITY. REPORTEDLY EMPLOYED [REDACTED] AT PORTLAND, OREGON.

LEAD. PORTLAND AT CORVALLIS, OREGON. WILL CONTACT [REDACTED] AND DETERMINE WHERE ABOUTS OF [REDACTED] ON DATE [REDACTED]

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OF HIJACKING. IF INDICATED, WILL CONTACT [REDACTED] ABOVE ADDRESS, RE HER KNOWLEDGE OF [REDACTED] ACTIVITIES.

(UNSUB CONSIDERED DANGEROUS). PENDING.

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DCA

FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB Cooper-5831

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Serials: SE 164-81-1895, WF 164-169

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