Urgent teletype Indianapolis to Acting Director re NORJAK suspect and leads
Document date 3 July 1972
Also filed at: Part 59 pp. 422–424
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-26:379-381 Document: Urgent teletype Indianapolis to Acting Director re NORJAK suspect and leads Id: Cooper-Part-26:379-381 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A379-381 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. 379–381 (DB Cooper-8785–8786), Teletype, dated 3 Jul 1972, serial SE 164-81-3581 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A379-381
NR 005 IP PLAIN 519 PM URGENT 7-3-72 JAT TO ACTING DIRECTOR LOS ANGELES [REDACTED b6/b7C] ST. LOUIS SEATTLE (164-81) ELIMINATE WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE FROM INDIANAPOLIS (164-62) 3P NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE RE SPRINGFIELD TEL JUNE TWENTYNINE LAST AND INDIANAPOLIS TEL JUNE THIRTY LAST. FOR INFO WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE, [REDACTED b6/b7C] WMA, BORN [REDACTED] HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AS A SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER. [REDACTED] TERRE HAUTE, IND. PD AND BUSINESS MAN, ADVISED THIS DATE KNOWLEDGE OF SUSPECT [REDACTED] AND ADDRESS AS [REDACTED] SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA." [REDACTED] IS OLD FRIEND OF SUSPECT AND OBTAINED HIS ADDRESS END PAGE ONE
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164-81-3581 SEARCHED __ INDEXED __ SERIALIZED __ FILED __ JUL 3 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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NDB Cooper-8785
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OK
IP 164-62 PAGE TWO
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THROUGH A PRETEXT OF [REDACTED] WHO APPARENTLY RECENTLY RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHO ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] IS A RETIRED [REDACTED] FROM THE USAF, AS OF FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS AGO. RETIREMENT WAS FROM THE ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA AREA, WHERE HE WAS STATIONED. [REDACTED] BELIEVED RETIREMENT WAS FORCED DUE TO [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHO IS ORIGINALLY FROM TERRE HAUTE, IN HIS LETTER [REDACTED] TOLD HIM THAT [REDACTED] WANTED HIS ADDRESS KEPT SECRET.
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ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] WAS IN TERRE HAUTE AREA ABOUT FIVE TO SIX MONTHS AGO AND WAS FINANCIALLY DESTITUTE. HE PRESENTLY REPORTEDLY OWNS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] VERIFIED THAT [REDACTED] ALWAYS WEARS WHITE SHIRTS AND IN ADDITION WOULD HAVE ALL TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE TO SUCCESSFULLY HAVE PULLED CAPTIONED HIJACKING. [REDACTED] ALSO BELIEVES THAT [REDACTED] IN THE PAST HAS HAD EXPERIENCE IN SKYDIVING.
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BUREAU REQUESTED TO ATTEMPT TO VERIFY [REDACTED] BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INTEREST IN COSTA RICA THROUGH LIAISON ABROAD. LOS ANGELES, THROUGH ABOVE INFO ON [REDACTED] ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW CONCERNING ACTIVITIES OF [REDACTED] ATTEMPT END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-8786
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b6 b7C
IP 164-62 PAGE THREE TO LOCATE RECENT PHOTO AND HANDWRITING. ST. LOUIS, AT MILITARY RECORD CENTER. ATTEMPT TO LOCATE MORE IDENTIFYING INFO ON [REDACTED] IN ORDER THAT HE MAY BE LOCATED AND INTERVIEWED. WASHINGTON FIELD. CONTACT PASSPORT DIVISION, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOR PASSPORT INFO, PHOTO AND HANDWRITING. INDIANAPOLIS, AT REQUEST OF [REDACTED], WILL WAITE UNTIL WEEK OF JULY TEN NEXT BEFORE INTERVIEWING [REDACTED] OF OPINION [REDACTED] MAY NOT BE COOPERATIVE. [REDACTED] HAS OFFERED TO ACT IN ATTEMPTING TO SOLICIT ADDITIONAL INFO. OTHER INVESTIGATION CONTINUING AT INDIANAPOLIS. AM COPY TO SPRINGFIELD. [REDACTED] END JFK 'FBI SEATTLE CLR
Serials: IP 164-62, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3581