To SAC Seattle re letter to Seattle Post-Intelligencer Secret Witness program, with attached tipster letter
Document date 29 March 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-26:313-316 Document: Memo to SAC Seattle re letter to Seattle Post-Intelligencer Secret Witness program, with attached tipster letter Id: Cooper-Part-26:313-316 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A313-316 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 26 pp. 313–316 (DB Cooper-8714–8717), Memo, dated 29 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-3550 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A313-316
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 3/29/72
FROM : SA [REDACTED b6/b7C]
SUBJECT: NORJAK
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Attached is a copy of a letter received by the SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER in response to their Secret Witness program setting forth information concerning captioned matter. This letter was furnished by [REDACTED b6/b7C] of the POST INTELLIGENCER.
JSD:klb (3)
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[illegible initials/signature]
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164-81-3550 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ 29 1972 FBI-SEATTLE
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
DB Cooper-8714
Pursuant to our telephone conversation this morning I am jacker furnishing information to help apprehend the sky-[redacted] who recently obtained $200 thousand from the McChord Air Force Base banking facility and escaped from a Northwest Air Lines Boeing 727 jet [redacted] airliner.
During the past week while I was in conference with [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] it came to my attention that the sky-jacker used notes to communicate with the stewardess. Although only a few lines were received, I noticed a pattern in the dialog that immediately brought to mind an acquaintance of mine with whom I have had some contact during the past four years. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] has been working here in Wenatchee during [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] Kansas.)
In addition to general appearance in the sketch, the dialog used in the notes is characteristic of that used by [REDACTED] b6 b7C I have furnished detailed information on the subject, [REDACTED] to our local F.B.I. agent, [REDACTED] and to the Seattle office of the F.B.I. regarding where he resides at times in Utah. His association [REDACTED] in Nicaragua, including: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Nicaragua.
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DB Cooper-8715
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-8715
b6 b7C
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[redacted] has mentioned to me that during his tour in the U.S. Air Force that he was [redacted] [redacted] Boeing 707 jet airliner. [redacted] has broad flying experience background, [redacted] [redacted] More recently he purchased [redacted] Steward-Davis Inc., 3200 Cherry Ave., Long Beach, Calif. 90807, Tel: 213/636-1871 and 426-6455. I have been told that [redacted] [redacted] eastern U.S. airport. The plane was [redacted]
I am a professional pilot and am former U.S. Air Force [redacted] [redacted] I am anxious to see the sky-jacker brought to justice, and I want to collect the reward.
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DB Cooper-8716
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
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TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 3/29/72
FROM : SA [REDACTED] b6 b7C SUBJECT: NORJAK
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Attached is a copy of a letter received by the SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER in response to their Secret Witness program setting forth information concerning captioned matter. This letter was furnished by [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] of the POST INTELLIGENCER. b7C
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JSD:klb (3)
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[illegible initials/signature]
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164-81- 3550 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED ..... [guess: MAR] 29 1972 FBI-SEATTLE
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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DB Cooper-8717
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3550