Citizen letter to FBI Tacoma alleging CIA/China Airlines connection to hijacking
Document date 14 January 1972
Part of: To SAC Seattle transmitting letter received at Tacoma RA re CIA/China Airlines theory
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 19 p. 94 (DB Cooper-5949), Letter, dated 14 Jan 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-19%3A094-094
[redacted] Special Agent F.B.I., Tacoma, 98402
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Jan. 14, 1972
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Incomplete details of our conversation regarding hijacking:
1.. "We", of the pilot, probably referred to an entire crew jumping in practice.. A co-pilot, navigator, jump master (if jumpers carried) and a cargo master.. Probably a very cohesive crew..
2.. The landing field, if Sandpoint, Ida., was approached across a gorge not far from end of runway,
3.. The collar of the tall suspect, (headless horseman costume) was six inches wide in rear, but tapered to about 3 inches in front, and was lined with a brown fur..
4..C.I.A. connections almost certain if he flew outside the continental U.S.. Saturday Review of Jan. 1, 1972, in an article on the Pentagon papers, page 25, end of paragraph 2: "Later, Lansdale describes in a brief passage CIA"s "proprietary" Civil Air Transport.. To the innocent world this company was the National Airline of Taiwan.""
The "pilot's" "experience is probably listed China Airlines..
And where would a 727 operating out of Taiwan drop "personnel" - probably Mainland China...
5.. Where could $200,000 be changed on the black market, by some one with proper credentials? Taiwan, Hongkong or Manila? Where a CIA--China Airlines pilot could have met black market operators?
China Airlines operates out of San Francisco to Honolulu Wed., Fri., and Sun. at 1:15 p.m., and on to Taipei and Hongkong..The airline is probably so small that every pilot would probably know every other pilot.. And would there be a lifetime pass for an old trusted employee? Or a flight with an old friend without being on the manifest?
While the schedule was changed Dec. 1, Continental and Pan Am operate flights out of Portland now every night at t[o] Haw[aii] 6:40 p.m. China Airlines operates flights from Honolulu Mon, Tues., Thurs., and Sat at 1:15 p.m. for Taiwan..
6..The pilot's clothes were expensive.. The closest weave I could spot in Nordstrom Best's were $205 and $215.. The faint off-white yellow shirts start at $22.50 If that faint single thread were actually a Hongkong weave of a gold thread-- it would be more than $50..Not simple tastes..
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DB Cooper-5949
Serials: 98402