Nitel Los Angeles to Seattle and Sacramento re NORJAK suspect reported in Long Beach conversation

Document date 15 May 1972

Part 25pages 360–3634 pagesDB Cooper-8430–8433

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Document: Nitel Los Angeles to Seattle and Sacramento re NORJAK suspect reported in Long Beach conversation
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 25 pp. 360–363 (DB Cooper-8430–8433), Teletype, dated 15 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3409 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-25%3A360-363

NR 023 LA PLAIN 838 PM NITEL 5-15-72 DJW TO SEATTLE (164-81) SACRAMENTO (164-50) FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 4P

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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SUSPECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FBI NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AZUSA, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THAT DURING RECENT CONVERSATION WITH [REDACTED] IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, [REDACTED] MENTIONED HAVING FORMER ROOMMATE WHO HAD SPOKEN OF PLAN SIMILAR TO HIJACKING OF PLANE IN SEATTLE. THIS DATE, [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AT EMPLOYMENT, [REDACTED] LONG BEACH. ADVISED FORMER ROOMMATE REFERRED TO IN HIS CONVERSATION WITH [REDACTED] WHO USED NAME [REDACTED] STATED REMARKS MADE TO [REDACTED] BASED ON COMMENTS BY [REDACTED] WHILE DRINKING HEAVILY IN END PAGE ONE

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164-81 -3409 SEARCHED___INDEXED SERIALIZED /71 Z-FILED M MAY 1 6 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-8430

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LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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LONG BEACH BAR A MONTH OR TWO BEFORE THANKSGIVING, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.

[REDACTED] CANNOT RECALL SPECIFICS OF CONVERSATION OTHER THAN FACT [REDACTED] MADE STATEMENT TO EFFECT IT WAS TOO LATE TO START OVER, DEFINITELY SPOKE OF PARACHUTING FROM PLANE, AND MENTIONED A MILLION DOLLARS. PRICE STATED CONVERSATION DEFINITELY TOOK PLACE PRIOR TO THANKSGIVING DAY, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, AS [REDACTED] A TRANSIENT, MOVED INTO [REDACTED] APARTMENT ONE MONTH OR SO PRIOR TO LEAVING FOR OREGON. HE RECALLS [REDACTED] LEAVING ABOUT THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.

[REDACTED] ADDED [REDACTED] EMPLOYED [REDACTED] AND KNEW HIM TO HAVE RECENT DRUNK ARREST BY LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT (LBPD).

[REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAS [REDACTED] IN OREGON, SPECIFIC CITY NOT RECALLED. HE STATED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF HIJACKER NOT GOOD LIKENESS OF [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] [REDACTED] LONG BEACH, ADVISED [REDACTED] FIRST EMPLOYED

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DB Cooper-8431

LA-164-497 PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED] ON FEBRUARY TWO, NINETEEN SIXTY SIX AND QUIT ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY EIGHT, NINETEEN SIXTY SIX. [REDACTED] REHIRED NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE, NINETEEN SEVENTY AND QUIT JUNE TEN, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. ONLY OTHER INFORMATION IN RECORDS WAS ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] LONG BEACH, AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER [REDACTED]

HE RECALLS [REDACTED] AS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL WITH [REDACTED] LIVING IN OREGON. BELIEVES MONEY SENT DURING PERIOD OF LAST EMPLOYMENT OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER, TO AN ADDRESS IN PORTLAND, BUT NOT CERTAIN. [REDACTED] STATED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION APPEARS SIMILAR TO [REDACTED], BUT NOTES MOUTH APPEARS DIFFERENT. HE DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED] OF AGE, FIVE FEET TEN, ONE SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS, LIGHT BROWN RECEDING AND THINNING HAIR, FAIR COMPLEXION, EXCELLENT PHYSICAL CONDITION. STATED [REDACTED] CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN OVER THIRTY DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS, WAS ARTICULATE, BUT NEVER MENTIONED BEING PILOT OR PARACHUTIST.

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RECORDS, LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA POLICE DEPARTMENT REVEALED [REDACTED] FBI NUMBER [REDACTED] ARRESTED FEBRUARY TWENTY FIVE, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, END PAGE THREE 2-25-71

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DB Cooper-8432

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LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR

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FOR DRUNK DRIVING. DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE [REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FIVE FEET ELEVEN, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, HAZEL EYES. AT TIME OF ARREST, [REDACTED] RIDING MOTORCYCLE BEARING OREGON LICENSE [REDACTED]. FBI IDENTIFICATION RECORD IN FILE INDICATES [REDACTED] FINGERPRINTED BY AIR FORCE, JULY TWENTY FIVE, NINETEEN FIFTY TWO WITH AIR FORCE SERIAL NUMBER [REDACTED] AND HAS PRIOR ARRESTS SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA AND BOISE, IDAHO, IN NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR.

PORTLAND CONDUCT LOGICAL INVESTIGATION TO LOCATE AND ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF [REDACTED] DURING PERTINENT PERIOD, NOTING ON FEBRUARY TWENTY FIVE, NINETEEN SEVEN ONE, HAD MOTORCYCLE BEARING OREGON LICENSE [REDACTED]

SACRAMENTO, THROUGH CALIFORNIA DRIVER'S LICENSE DIVISION, OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND FURNISH TO PORTLAND, MINNEAPOLIS AND SEATTLE FOR DISPLAY TO WITNESSES.

LOS ANGELES, WILL FORWARD TO APPROPRIATE OFFICES PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] WEARING WIG, MUSTACHE AND GOATEE FOLLOWING DRUNK ARREST BY LBPD FEBRUARY NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.

MINNEAPOLIS AND PORTLAND ADVISED AIR MAIL.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS. PENDING.

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DB Cooper-8433

Serials: LA 164-497, SC 164-50, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3409

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