To SAC Seattle transmitting Post-Intelligencer Secret Witness letter re Bellingham suspect

Document date 29 March 1972

Part 24pages 172–1732 pagesDB Cooper-7563–7564

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-24:172-173

Document: Memo to SAC Seattle transmitting Post-Intelligencer Secret Witness letter re Bellingham suspect
Id: Cooper-Part-24:172-173
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A172-173

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 24 pp. 172–173 (DB Cooper-7563–7564), Memo, dated 29 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-2596 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A172-173

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 3/29/72

FROM : SA [REDACTED]

SUBJECT: NORJAK

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Attached is a copy of a letter received by the SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER in response to their Secret Witness program setting forth information concerning captioned matter. This letter was furnished by [REDACTED] [REDACTED] the POST INTELLIGENCER.

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JSD:klb (3)

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[illegible signature/initials]

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164-81- 2596 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] ....... 9 1972 FBI-SEATTLE

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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-7563

This will probably be the worst tip you will get but I have only seen the picture of the plane hijacker once in your paper so I can't be too sure. He looks like a guy that was around Bellingham for a time & was a self-styled Big Time operator. He seems to me to be just the type to pull a trick like that. I have his name but no address. There is no address in either the phone book or city directory. His name is [REDACTED] He was the [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] The number will be my original rifle number I had years ago.

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DB Cooper-7564

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b6 b7C

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2596