Salt Lake City to Director, Las Vegas, Portland and Seattle re McCoy parachute jumps and travel

Document date 19 April 1972

Part 25pages 16–183 pagesDB Cooper-7977–7979

Also filed at: Part 94 pp. 180–182

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Document: Teletype Salt Lake City to Director, Las Vegas, Portland and Seattle re McCoy parachute jumps and travel
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 25 pp. 16–18 (DB Cooper-7977–7979), Teletype, dated 19 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2812 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-25%3A016-018

NR002 SU PLAIN 5:38 PM URGENT 4/19/72 3P

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TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) LAS VEGAS (164-60) PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SALT LAKE CITY (164-24)

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Sul 3 82

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NORJAK. RE: RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR. - SUSPECT.

RE SALT LAKE CITY TELEPHONE CALLS TO PORTLAND AND LAS VEGAS APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST.

[REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, ADVISED APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST MC COY LIKED TO WEAR CONSERVATIVE SOLID COLORED CLIP-ON TIES SIMILAR TO PHOTOGRAPHS OF TIES IN NORJAK. [REDACTED] STATED HE HAD BEEN OUT SOCIALLY WITH MC COY AND RECALLED THAT AT A MOVIE ONE NIGHT MC COY WORE A CLIP-ON TIE AND REMOVED HIS TIE WHEN HE SAT DOWN TO WATCH THE MOVIE. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS SHOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF TIE CLASP RECOVERED IN NORJAK CASE AND STATED CLASP LOOKS FAMILIAR BUT HE CANNOT SAY FOR SURE IF MC COY HAD ONE EXACTLY LIKE IT. HE SAID IT IS TYPE OF TIE CLASP MC COY WOULD WEAR. [REDACTED] WHO WAS INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY HAD SIMILAR COMMENTS [REDACTED] CONCERNING TIE AND TIE CLASP. END PAGE ONE

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164-81 - 2812 SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED 2212 FILED 14 APR 19 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-7977

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[guess: asac] [guess: anne] [guess: or]

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[REDACTED] STATED MC COY MADE HIS FIRST FREE FALL PARACHUTE JUMP IN OCTOBER SEVENTYONE WHILE ON A FLIGHT WITH [REDACTED] MC COY HAS MADE NUMEROUS MILITARY TYPE JUMPS AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW- ING HIS FIRST FREE FALL JUMP HE BEGAN PRACTICING JUMPS WITH THE ALTA PARACHUTE CLUB IN SALT LAKE CITY.

[REDACTED] WAS QUESTIONED CONCERNING POSSIBILITY OF MC COY AND OTHER NATIONAL GUARD MEN OBTAINING MILITARY FLIGHTS. [REDACTED] STATED USUALLY ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN FLIGHT IS TO PRESENT NATIONAL GUARD IDENTIFICATION CARD.

FLIGHT OPERATIONS, HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UTAH, HAS NO RECORD OF MILITARY HOPS BY MC COY IN NOVEMBER SEVENTYONE OR APRIL LAST. RECORD LOCATED OF FLIGHT BE [REDACTED] (CLOSE FRIEND OF MC COY), MC COY AND TWO BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON JANUARY TWENTYFOUR LAST.

CHECK OF SERVICE STATIONS, CEDAR CITY, UTAH, TODAY INDICATED DATES OF CHARGE TICKETS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE AND TWENTYSIX LAST BY MC COY ARE PROBABLY ACCURATE DATES, HOWEVER BOTH SERVICE STATION OPERATORS STATE THEY HAVE MADE ERRORS IN PAST ON DATES ON CHARGE TICKETS AND COULD NOT BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN AS TO DATES.

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DB Cooper-7978

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LAS VEGAS AND PORTLAND WILL CHECK MILITARY AIR FIELDS YOUR AREAS TO DETERMINE ANY FLIGHTS BY MC COY NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, TWENTYFOUR OR TWENTYFIVE LAST.

EFFORTS CONTINUING SALT LAKE CITY TO INTERVIEW CLOSE ASSOCIATES OF MC COY TO EXHIBIT PHOTOGRAPHS OF TIE AND TIE CLASP AND TO DEVELOP FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MC COY.

UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END.

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FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB Cooper-7979

Serials: 164-2111, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-2812, SU 164-24

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