Phoenix to Seattle and Denver re disabled veteran suspect in Tucson

Document date 23 May 1972

Part 26pages 114–1174 pagesDB Cooper-8510–8513

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-26:114-117

Document: Teletype Phoenix to Seattle and Denver re disabled veteran suspect in Tucson
Id: Cooper-Part-26:114-117
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 26 pp. 114–117 (DB Cooper-8510–8513), Teletype, dated 23 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3447 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A114-117

NR 001 PX PLAIN 301AM 5-23-72 5-22-72 NITEL WKC LO: SEATTLE (164-81) DENVER (164-98) FROM: PHOENIX (164-100) (4P)

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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE. SUSPECT: [REDACTED]

RE PH TEL MAY FIFTEEN LAST.

[REDACTED], AN UNEMPLOYED DISABLED VETERAN, RESIDES [REDACTED] TUCSON, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] ,AND [REDACTED], ALL THREE RECEIVING DISABILITY COMPENSATION FROM VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, BORN [REDACTED], [REDACTED], PHILADELPHIA, FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE HUNDRED FORTYTWO POUNDS, HAZEL EYES, DARK BLOND, LONG HAIR, RECEDING HAIRLINE, SERVED IN U. S. ARMY RANGERS, [REDACTED]. HE IS A

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164-81-3447 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... MAY 23 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-8510

PAGE TWO PX 164-100

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KOREAN VETERAN AND ADVISED HE HAS BEEN IN AND OUT OF VA HOSPITALS, HAVING [REDACTED] FOR SERVICE CONNECTED DISABILITY AND IS CURRENTLY SUFFERING [REDACTED] FOR WHICH HE IS BEING TREATED AS AN OUT PATIENT AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN TUCSON. [REDACTED] STATES HE IS GRADUATE OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WITH [REDACTED] CLAIMS THAT HE ONCE WORKED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AGO. SAID HIS GROUP [REDACTED] CLAIMS THAT THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER TWENTYONE, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE, HE WAS IN TUCSON RESIDING AT ABOVE SAME ADDRESS AND HAD BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL UP UNTIL THE FIRST PART OF NOVEMBER FOR A PERIOD OF EIGHT WEEEKS AFTER HAVING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ON HIS ARRIVAL IN TUCSON AND WAS HOSPITALIZED AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN TUCSON. PRIOR TO THAT TIME HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING.

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DB Cooper-8511

PAGE THREE PX 164-100

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[REDACTED] DENIES HAVING BEEN IMPLICATED IN INSTANT OFFENSE. HE STATES, HOWEVER, HE IS TRAINED IN USE OF PARACHUTES AND GIVEN SUCH TRAINING WHEN [REDACTED] HE CLAIMS TO BE [REDACTED] IN THE UNITED STATES [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] ADVISED THE TWO MEN RESIDING IN THE HOUSE WITH HIM ARE [REDACTED] BOTH OF WHOM, ACCORDING TO [REDACTED]

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IT SHOULD BE NOTED AT THE TIME [REDACTED] WAS INTERVIEWED, HE, TOO, APPEARED TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE; HOWEVER, DISCLAIMS BEING AN ALCOHOLIC. FOR INFORMATION OF DENVER, EFFORTS WILL BE MADE TO LOCATE AND CHECK [REDACTED] VA CLAIM FILE AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN TUCSON. HE ALSO CLAIMS THAT [REDACTED] CAN VOUCH FOR HIS PRESENCE IN TUCSON ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE. [REDACTED] ADDRESS AS GIVEN ABOVE, THE HOUSE IN

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DB Cooper-8512

PAGE FOUR PX 164-100 WHICH HE RESIDES, IS PART OF WHAT IS KNOWN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LESS THAN SECOND RATE, WHICH IS ACTUALLY LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE VILLAGE OF SOUTH TUCSON, ARIZONA.

DENVER WILL ADVISE MORE DETAILS AS TO WHY [REDACTED] IS CONSIDERED A SUSPECT INASMUCH AS IT DOES NOT APPEAR HIS PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION IS SIMILAR TO UNSUB NOR DOES HE RESEMBLE COMPOSITE OF UNSUB.

PHOENIX WILL TRY TO VERIFY [REDACTED] PRESENCE IN TUCSON IF POSSIBLE FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN THE TWO DISABLES VETERANS WITH WHOM HE RESIDES.

PENDING

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

END.

SWD FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB Cooper-8513

Serials: DN 164-98, PX 164-100, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3447