NITEL SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK call from person claiming to be hijacker

Document date 14 January 1972

Part 18pages 500–5012 pagesDB Cooper-5834–5835

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Document: NITEL SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK call from person claiming to be hijacker
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 18 pp. 500–501 (DB Cooper-5834–5835), Teletype, dated 14 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1897 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-18%3A500-501

FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 1/14/72

Transmit the following in __________ PLAINTEXT (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE NITEL (Priority)

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

NORJAK

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ON JANUARY FOURTEEN, SEVENTYTWO, [REDACTED] SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT UNKNOWN MALE TELEPHONED HIM THIS EVEN- ING AND SAID HE WAS D. B. COOPER AND WANTED TO MAKE A STATE- MENT. [REDACTED] TAPE RECORDED ENTIRE CONVERSATION, WHICH LASTED LESS THAN SIXTY SECONDS, IN WHICH INDIVIDUAL ADVISED AFTER HE PARACHUTED FROM THE AIRCRAFT, HE BROKE HIS ANKLE. HE WAS THEN TAKEN OUT OF THE AREA BY A FRIEND, IDENTIFIED ONLY AS AN EX- VIETNAM HELICOPTER PILOT, IN A CESSNA ONE FIFTY AIRPLANE. HE SAID HE HAD THE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND WANTED TO MAKE THIS STATEMENT FOR FBI'S BENEFIT. STATED WAS IN SEATTLE BUT WILL BE MOVING FAST.

VOICE SOUNDED LIKE THAT OF A VERY YOUNG WHITE MALE, POSSIBLY TWNTY TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE, WITH NO UNUSUAL SPEECH CHARACTERISTICS.

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Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent 11:36 PM Per [signature] DB Cooper-5834

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b6 b7C

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164-81- 1897 [signature]

FD-36 (Rev. 3-22-64)

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PAGE TWO

SE 164-81

[REDACTED] ADVISED HE HAS NOT AND WILL NOT [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] AND ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO PICK UP THE TAPE.

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Approved: ___________________________ Sent _______________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-5835

Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1897