Salt Lake City to Acting Director re NORJAK suspect and Westward Manufacturing and Engineering Contractors

Document date 30 June 1972

Part 26pages 558–5592 pagesDB Cooper-8968–8969

Also filed at: Part 59 pp. 419–420 · Part 112 pp. 381–382

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 26 pp. 558–559 (DB Cooper-8968–8969), Teletype, dated 30 Jun 1972, serial SE 164-81-3679 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-26%3A558-559

NR001 SU PLAIN 3:32 PM URGENT 6/30/72 2 P

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TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-2111) LOS ANGELES SEATTLE (164-81) SPRINGFIELD (164-31) FROM SALT LAKE CITY (164-24)

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NORJAK, OO: SE.

RE SPRINGFIELD TELETYPE TO THE BUREAU, JUNE TWENTYNINE, LAST.

ON JUNE TWENTYNINE, LAST, [REDACTED] U.S. POST OFFICE, MEXICAN HAT, UTAH, ADVISED THAT WESTWARD MANUFACTURING HAD GONE OUT OF BUSINESS IN APPROXIMATELY NOVEMBER, SEVENTY, AND THAT MOST OF THE EMPLOYEES LEFT THEN. SHE HAS A FEW FORWARDING ADDRESSES, BUT NONE FOR [REDACTED] SHE VAGUELY RECALLS [REDACTED], AND STATES THAT HE LEFT AT LEAST TWO YEARS AGO BEFORE THE PROJECT FAILED. [REDACTED] WAS ONE OF THE [REDACTED] IN THE COMPANY, BUT ALL INQUIRIES NOW SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE COMPANY'S HOME OFFICE IN EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA.

[REDACTED] MEXICAN HAT TRADING POST, VAGUELY RECALLED [REDACTED] BUT DOES NOT KNOW HIS PRESENT WHEREABOUTS. HE STATED WEST- WARD MANUFACTURING DECLARED BANKRUPTCY, AND THE COMPANY OWES MONEY END PAGE ONE

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164-81-3679 SEARCHED... INDEXED... SERIALIZED... FILED... JUN 30 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-8968

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TO HIM AND OTHERS IN MEXICAN HAT. THE COMPANY'S ATTORNEYS CAN BE REACHED AT ONE ONE ONE M LIOTAS TRUST, FOUR ONE ONE WEST FIFTH STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. HE ADVISED THAT HE HAS HEARD THAT THE COMPANY IS TRYING TO SET UP SOME TYPE OF PLANT IN TENNESSEE.

WESTWARD MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS, INC., WERE THE SUBJECTS OF SALT LAKE CITY FILE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DEALING WITH THE POSSIBLE EMBEZZLEMENT OF MONEY FROM THE NAVAJO INDIAN TRIBE. THE ADDRESS OF THEIR HOME OFFICE WAS LISTED AS TWO TWO FIVE ZERO EAST IMPERIAL HIGHWAY, EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, TELEPHONE (TWO ONE THREE) SIX FOUR ONE DASH TWO ONE FOUR ZERO.

[REDACTED] AT MEXICAN HAT, WAS CONTACTED DURING THIS INVESTIGATION, BUT HE HAS MOVED BACK TO THE LOS ANGELES AREA, AND HE IS SUING THE COMPANY.

LOS ANGELES AT EL SEGUNDO AND LOS ANGELES, ATTEMPT TO LOCATE COMPANY RECORDS TO DETERMINE BACKGROUND INFORMATION REGARDING [REDACTED] IF [REDACTED] CAN BE LOCATED, HE WOULD BE HELPFUL TO THIS INVESTIGATION.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB Cooper-8969

Serials: 164-2111, 164-31, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3679, SU 164-24