Las Vegas re military flights into Nellis AFB from Hill AFB, November 1971

Document date 19 April 1972

Part 25pages 20–212 pagesDB Cooper-7981–7982

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 25 pp. 20–21 (DB Cooper-7981–7982), Teletype, dated 19 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-25%3A020-021

FBI Date 4/19/72 Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT (Type in plaintext or code) Via TELETYPE (Priority) URGENT

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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) AND SACS, PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) SALT LAKE CITY (164-24)

FROM : SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60)

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

RE LAS VEGAS TEL, APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST/AND SALT LAKE CITY

TEL, APRIL NINETEEN INSTANT.

ATTENDANT WHO WAS ON DUTY ELEVEN PM, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE

LAST TO SEVEN AM, NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX LAST, LOCATED AND INTERVIEWED

THIS DATE. DOES NOT RECALL ANY DETAILS CONCERNING CHARGE MADE FOR

GASOLINE ON MC COY'S BANK AMERICARD. INSPECTION OF CARBON WITH

STATION COPY OF CHARGE SLIP INDICATES THAT WORDS "NO, CAROL" WRITTEN

NEAR LICENSE NUMBER. ATTENDANT STATES HE BELIEVES HE CHECKED

LICENSE BUT NOT POSITIVE.

ONLY AIR FORCE BASE WHERE MILITARY PLANES COULD LAND IN

LAS VEGAS AREA IS NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NORTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS.

CHECKS WITH NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE OPERATIONS INDICATE THAT

INDIVIDUALS WHO COME IN ON MILITARY PLANES ARE NOT LOGGED

INDIVIDUALLY. PERSONNEL STATE THERE WOULD BE NO WAY OF KNOWING

WHETHER A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL ARRIVED IN LAS VEGAS. OPERATIONS

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[check mark] - LV 164-60 1 - LV 164-72 LGD:zjn (2) /

Approved: _____________ Sent ___________ Special Agent in Charge

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164-81- [illegible] SEARCHED ...INE[illegible] ED SERIA[LIZED] /M[illegible] FILED [illegible] APR 1 9 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-7981

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LV 164-60

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PERSONNEL STATE THAT INDIVIDUAL NAMES WOULD BE AVAILABLE AT POINT OF ORIGIN OF FLIGHT AND WOULD BE REFLECTED ON A PASSENGER MANIFEST.

THREE FLIGHTS DURING MONTH OF NOVEMBER WITH PASSENGER CARRYING CAPABILITY LANDED AT NELLIS WITH PRIOR STOP AT HILL AIR FORCE BASE:

ONE - NOVEMBER THREE, C ONE ONE RIGHT FROM NELLIS TO HILL AND RETURN

TWO - NOVEMBER EIGHTEEN, T THIRTY-NINE FROM HILL TO NELLIS

THREE - NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, T THIRTY-NINE FROM OFFETT FIELD, NEBRASKA TO HILL AIR FORCE BASE TO CASTLE, NEW MEXICO, TO NELLIS.

A CHECK OF THE LOGS REVEALED NO NATIONAL GUARD PLANES OR RESERVE AIR FORCE PLANES FROM SALT LAKE CITY COMMERCIAL AIR FIELD TO NELLIS DURING MONTH OF NOVEMBER.

SALT LAKE CITY CONSIDER CHECK AT HILL AIR FORCE BASE FOR ANY PASSENGER MANIFEST DURING NOVEMBER LAST SHOWING MC COY AS PASSENGER.

INVESTIGATION CONTINUING.

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Approved: _______________ Sent _____________ M Per _____________ Special Agent in Charge

DB Cooper-7982

Serials: 164-2111, AX 164-72, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SU 164-24