Investigative insert at Spokane, Washington re Fairchild AFB lead and parachute-trained suspect
Document date 3 March 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-23:120-121
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-23:120-121 Document: Investigative insert at Spokane, Washington re Fairchild AFB lead and parachute-trained suspect Id: Cooper-Part-23:120-121 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-23%3A120-121 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 23 pp. 120–121 (DB Cooper-7267–7268), Report, dated 3 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-2421 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-23%3A120-121
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The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED]
AT SPOKANE, WASHINGTON
On March 2, 1972, [REDACTED] Fairchild Air Force Base, advised he is not familiar with anyone matching the photograph of D. B. COOPER but stated that [REDACTED] who formerly associated closely with the instructors at Sted Air Force Base, has a photographic memory and would possibly be able to recall anyone matching the description if such a person had gone through the Survival training at Sted Air Force Base.
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[REDACTED] is working for a bank in Reno but [REDACTED] [REDACTED] did not recall which bank it was but thought it was possibly [REDACTED] He did recall that [REDACTED] was a[REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] also advised that a [REDACTED] (FNU) [REDACTED] who is now stationed at Homestead Air Force Base with the [REDACTED] was [REDACTED] at Sted Air Force Base and may possibly have [REDACTED] of many of the training schools. He suggested [REDACTED] be contacted to determine if such [REDACTED] are available.
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On March 3, 1972, [REDACTED] an [REDACTED] Fairchild Air Force Base, advised he had a former Staff Sergeant working under him named (FNU) [REDACTED] that he has been thinking about since the Norjak caper took place. [REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] would fit the general description in both height and appearance of the subject and has the type of mentality that would be capable of pulling off such a hijack.
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[REDACTED] described [REDACTED] as being a dare devil with 16 years of military training, most of which was spent in the survival or parachuting type of schools. He had an extremely high I.Q. with a great amount of patience and has parachuted over 500 times. [REDACTED] can parachute from
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164-81-2421 SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ [illegible] 1972
DB Cooper-7267
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any type of airplane and could pinpoint his landing to within an extremely small area. He has also had a large amount of navigational type training and would possibly have been able to pick out a logical jumping space. He was also trained very highly in evasion tactics.
Much of [REDACTED] training took place in jumping b6 from the back of C-123s and C-141s which are very similar b7C to the Norjak plane.
[REDACTED] stated he considers [REDACTED] as basically b6 crooked and describes him as being a schemer, who is b7C always thinking of some big project and usually puts-in a great deal of planning. Because of [REDACTED] training [REDACTED] considers him as being very dangerous.
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DB Cooper-7268
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b6 b7C
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2421