Denver to Seattle and Salt Lake City re NORJAK suspect and Northeast Airlines extortion

Document date 27 January 1972

Part 20pages 204–2063 pagesDB Cooper-6161–6163

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-20:204-206

Document: Teletype Denver to Seattle and Salt Lake City re NORJAK suspect and Northeast Airlines extortion
Id: Cooper-Part-20:204-206
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-20%3A204-206

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 20 pp. 204–206 (DB Cooper-6161–6163), Teletype, dated 27 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-2065 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-20%3A204-206

NR003 DN PLAIN 457V PM URGENT 1-27-72 JSG TO: SEATTLE (164-81) SALT LAKE CITY FROM: DENVER (164-98) 3P

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[blank box, likely routing/classification area]

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NORJAK

RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO DENVER DATED JANUARY TWENTY FIVE LAST.

ON JANUARY TWENTY SIX INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WYOMING, ADVISED HE SAW ARTIST SKETCH OF HIJACKER IN SALT LAKE CITY "TRIBUNE". SKETCH GOOD LIKENESS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, IN FIFTY FOUR. HE STATED [REDACTED] UNTIL FIFTY FOUR AND THEN JOINED U. S. NAVY WHERE HE WAS AN [REDACTED] HE ALSO RECEIVED PARACHUTE JUMP TRAINING IN THE NAVY. IN APPROXIMATELY FIFTY SEVEN, [REDACTED] WENT TO WORK FOR [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY. END PAGE ONE

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164-81-2065 SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ...... SERIALIZED ... FILED ... JAN 28 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-6161

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b6 b7C

DN 164-98 PAGE TWO

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WHERE HE WORKED [REDACTED] AFTER THAT, [REDACTED] LOST CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] UNTIL APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO WHEN HE SAW [REDACTED] IN A BAR IN SALT LAKE CITY. AT THAT TIME, [REDACTED] SAID HE HAD CHANGED HIS NAME TO [REDACTED] AND WAS ENGAGED IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] GAVE THE IMPRESSION HE HAD PILOT'S LICENSE. [REDACTED] HAS HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH [REDACTED]

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HE DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED] FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE SIX FIVE POUNDS, SANDY BROWN HAIR, HIGH FOREHEAD, SHARP NOSE, SQUEAKY VOICE, POSSIBLY HAZEL EYES. HE STATED [REDACTED] IN SALT LAKE CITY, [REDACTED] (LNU). HE COULD FURNISH NO ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND.

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FD THREE ZERO TWOS FOLLOW. PORTLAND FURNISHED COPY OF INSTANT COMMUNICATION BY AIRMAIL. END PAGE TWO

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DB Cooper-6162

DN 164-98 PAGE THREE

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THIS INDIVIDUAL IS BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXTORTION OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ON NORTHEAST AIRLINES BY THREATENING THE CREW OF THE AIRLINES WITH A PACKAGE WHICH HE STATED CONTAINED A BOMB. HE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. SALT LAKE CITY AT [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] ATTEMPT TO GAIN ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND RE [REDACTED] (END TELE) P VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-6163

Serials: DN 164-98, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2065