Urgent teletype SAC Dallas to SAC Detroit re Braniff passenger resembling Cooper

Document date 17 February 1972

Part 22pages 317–3193 pagesDB Cooper-6667–6669

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-22:317-319

Document: Urgent teletype SAC Dallas to SAC Detroit re Braniff passenger resembling Cooper
Id: Cooper-Part-22:317-319
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 22 pp. 317–319 (DB Cooper-6667–6669), Teletype, dated 17 Feb 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-22%3A317-319

2/17/72

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TELETYPE URGENT

TO: SAC, DETROIT FROM: SAC, DALLAS (164-191)

NORJAK.

RE "SUSPECT [redacted]

ON FEB. SIXTEEN, LAST, [redacted] A PASSENGER ON BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, FLIGHT FOUR ZERO THREE, FROM DETROIT TO HOUSTON, STOP-OVER AT DALLAS, WAS INTERVIEWED BY DALLAS AGENTS BECAUSE SKY MARSHALS RIDING SAID FLIGHT ADVISED HE WAS A LOOK-ALIKE OF DAN COOPER, SUSPECT IN NORJAK. [redacted] HAS SIMILARITIES IN DESCRIPTION TO CHECK HIM OUT FURTHER. HE WAS EN ROUTE TO HOUSTON TO ATTEND THE [redacted] [redacted] AND IS RETURNING TO DETROIT FEB. EIGHTEEN, NEXT.

FOLLOWING HIS BACKGROUND ON [redacted] RESIDES [redacted] [redacted] MICHIGAN, TELEPHONE [redacted] [redacted] OCCUPATION, [redacted] [redacted]

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CC - Seattle (AM) 1 - Dallas HJM: mo (2)

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SEARCHED ___ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ FEB 19 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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[guess: Lu]-f / -2319

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DB Cooper-6667

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DL 164-191 PAGE TWO

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[REDACTED] DETROIT, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] W/M, DOB, [REDACTED] HEIGHT FIVE FT. ELEVEN, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY LBS., EYES BROWN, HAIR BLACK - SPARCE - PARTED LEFT SIDE, COMPLEXION MEDIUM TO OLIVE AND SMOOTH, SIDEBURNS TO LOWER PART OF EAR, SMOKES A PIPE BUT NO CIGARETTES, SSN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MICHIGAN DRIVER'S LICENSE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE WAS VAGUE ON HIS MILITARY SERVICE BUT RECALLS BEING IN U.S. NAVY, BELIEVED TO BE FIFTY-EIGHT - FIFTY- NINE, AT ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA. SERIAL NUMBER NOT KNOWN BUT MILITARY OCCUPATION WAS IN DATA PROCESSING. [Selective Service Number] [REDACTED] DENIES ANY ARREST RECORD. DENIES TRAVEL ON NOV. TWENTY-THREE - TWENTY-SIX- SEVENTY-ONE. SALARY SIXTEEN THOUSAND PER ANNUM. HE WAS CARRYING NINE TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS IN WALLET. BILLS CHECKED AGAINST RANSOM LIST, NEGATIVE. [REDACTED] WHERE HE HAS

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DB Cooper-6668

DL 164-191 PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED] DENIES EVER PILOTING A PLANE, HAVING ANY FLYING EXPERIENCE OR BELONGING TO ANY PARACHUTE OR SKY DIVING CLUBS OR AFFILIATE GROUPS.

DETROIT DETERMINE WHEREABOUTS NOV. TWENTY-THREE - TWENTY- SIX - SEVENTY-ONE. IF NOT ESTABLISHED, OBTAIN PHOTO AND SEND TO MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND AND [REDACTED] [handwritten: Seattle] FOR DISPLAY TO WITNESSES.

[REDACTED] REQUESTED THAT IF IT IS NECESSARY TO CONTACT [REDACTED] DO NOT CONTACT HER PRIOR TO HIS RETURN TO DETROIT SINCE [REDACTED]

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AIRMAIL COPY TO SEATTLE.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

-P-

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DB Cooper-6669

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Serials: DL 164-191