Portland re NORJAK suspect James Ray Fugate
Document date 16 December 1971
Also filed at: Part 103 pp. 120–121
Copies may differ in what was redacted.
Report a problem
Email this to [email protected]
Id: Cooper-Part-24:682-683
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-24:682-683 Document: Teletype Portland re NORJAK suspect James Ray Fugate Id: Cooper-Part-24:682-683 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A682-683 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 24 pp. 682–683 (DB Cooper-4521–4522), Teletype, dated 16 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1260 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A682-683
Sub 200
---
NR 004 PD PLAIN 12:01 PM URGENT 12-16-71 LJQ TO: CLEVELAND EL PASO DALLAS MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) DENVER SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) 2P
NORJAK
RE: JAMES RAY FUGATE
FOR INFORMATION CLEVELAND, FUGATE FURNISHED BY MINNEAPOLIS AS SUSPECT IN HIJACK OF NORTHWEST ORIENT FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. FUGATE DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, DOB JANUARY EIGHT, THIRTYONE, POB PORTLAND, OREGON, SIX FEET ONE INCH, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY POUNDS, OLIVE COMPLEXION, SLIGHTLY GRAYING HAIR. INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY PORTLAND DISCLOSED [REDACTED] b6 Per FAA FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, GENERAL DISTRICT OFFICE (FAA-GADO), b7C Per FAA WAS IN POSSESSION OF INFORMATION THAT FUGATE HAD BEEN KILLED IN AN AIRPLANE CRASH DURING SUMMER, SEVENTYONE. END PAGE ONE
---
SEARCHED ......... INDEXED SERIALIZED ... MK FILED ... M DEC 10 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
---
164-81-1260
---
DB Cooper-4521
PD 164-41 PAGE TWO
---
b6 Per FAA b7C Per FAA
---
ON DECEMBER SIXTEEN, SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED] FAA-GADO, PORTLAND, ADVISED WHILE ATTENDING A SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, HE HAD LEARNED FROM OTHER FAA EMPLOYEES THAT FUGATE HAD BEEN KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH AT EXPRESSWAY AIRPORT, TOLEDO, OHIO, ON AUGUST NINE, SEVENTYONE. AT TIME OF CRASH, FUGATE WAS FLYING FOR A MAIL CONTRACT FIRM.
---
CLEVELAND, AT TOLEDO, OHIO. CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO VERIFY FUGATE'S DEATH ON AUGUST NINE, SEVENTYONE; UPON VERIFICA- TION, FURNISH APPROPRIATE FIELD DIVISIONS WITH DISCONTINUE ON FUGATE.
---
PENDING.
END JJT FBI SEATTLE CLR
---
DB Cooper-4522
Serials: MP 164-73, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1260