SAC Los Angeles to Acting Director re NORJAK suspect and El Segundo interviews
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SAC Los Angeles to Acting Director re NORJAK suspect interviews and leads
Document date 10 July 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 27 pp. 13–16 (DB Cooper-8987–8990), Airtel, dated 10 Jul 1972, serial SE 164-81-3688 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-27%3A013-016
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 7/10/72
Transmit the following in ___________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via AIRTEL AIR MAIL (Priority)
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TO: ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
RE: NORJAK
OO: Seattle
Re Los Angeles teletype to the Bureau dated 6/30/72.
Re: Suspect [REDACTED] aka [REDACTED]
Copies of this airtel are furnished Knoxville and Phoenix as future investigation may be requested of those divisions if whereabouts of [REDACTED] not positively established during interview of [REDACTED] upon his return from abroad in mid July 1972.
For the information of Knoxville and Phoenix, [REDACTED] white male American, born [REDACTED] has been furnished as possible suspect in this matter.
Investigation at Los Angeles reveals that during mid 1969 one [REDACTED] not further described
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2 - Bureau (AM) 2 - Indianapolis (164-62) (AM) 2 - Knoxville (AM) 2 - Phoenix (AM) 2 - Salt Lake City (164-24) (AM) 2 - Seattle (164-81) (AM) 2 - Springfield (164-31) (AM) 2 - Los Angeles crs/kah (16)
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164-81 - 3688 SEARCHED .... INDEXED SERIALIZED / FILED JUL 14 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent _____ M Per _____ GPO: 1970 O - 405 DB Cooper-8987
LA 164-497
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[REDACTED] El Segundo, California, was interviewed concerning a fist fight aboard an American Airlines (AAL), plane arriving in Los Angeles. [REDACTED] furnished his occupation as [REDACTED] Wescal Corporation, El Segundo, and was traveling with [REDACTED] El Segundo, described as the [REDACTED] of Wescal Corporation. AUSA, Los Angeles, declined prosecution of the participants in the fracas and no further investigation was conducted.
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On 7/5/72, [REDACTED] El Segundo, advised [REDACTED] a former shareholder in Wescal Corporation and for about three months during 1969
[REDACTED]
She had spoken with [REDACTED] on numerous occasions while he was [REDACTED] but had no knowledge of his activities after 1969. She observed the artist's conception of the hijacker and advised, in her opinion, the sketch did not resemble [REDACTED]
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She advised [REDACTED] of Wescal/Corporation are now [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] California, and [REDACTED] might have knowledge concerning [REDACTED]
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On the same date, [REDACTED] confidentially furnished information from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] is one of the defendants in [REDACTED] U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, case captioned [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] added the [REDACTED]. including defendant [REDACTED] is represented in the matter by
[REDACTED] Phoenix, telephone [REDACTED] advised [REDACTED] was not personally known to him and requested his cooperation be kept strictly confidential.
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On 7/6/72, [REDACTED] El Segundo, advised she was acquainted with both [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] whom she knew as [REDACTED] and the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She stated [REDACTED] had been a business associate of [REDACTED] She advised [REDACTED] had moved from El Segundo in 1971 and were last known to have resided in Shelbyville, Tennessee, where [REDACTED] is associated with the Bedford Manufacturing Company, telephone b6 [REDACTED] She recalled [REDACTED] was in the Los Angeles b7C area about Thanksgiving of 1971. [REDACTED] added that on prior occasions [REDACTED] had been a guest at their home on Thanksgiving Day, but was not with them on 11/25/71. She recalled he was staying with [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] about that time and although she was not positive, she believed she had heard from unrecalled friends that [REDACTED] at the home of [REDACTED] on Thanksgiving Day 1971. She did not know the address or employment of [REDACTED]
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She observed the artist's conception of the hijacker and stated in her opinion the drawing did not resemble [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] face was much fuller, shorter and broader b7C than the man depicted in the drawing.
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Intensive daily efforts to contact [REDACTED] or b6 [REDACTED] b7C California, and neighborhood inquiries to ascertain their whereabouts were unproductive. Two vehicles in the parking area of the residence bore California license plates registered to [REDACTED] Lakewood, California, and [REDACTED]
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On 7/6/72, discreet inquiries in the vicinity of [REDACTED] Lakewood, revealed that [REDACTED] / b6 resided [REDACTED] at this address and that b7C [REDACTED] residing in [REDACTED] It was ascertained that a postcard had been received by [REDACTED] postmarked [REDACTED] from Edinburgh, Scotland, advising that [REDACTED] planned to visit Perth, Glasgow, and fly from London to Boston, U.S.A. on [REDACTED] They planned to return to [REDACTED] It was further ascertained that [REDACTED] was currently on [REDACTED] at an
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unknown location and [REDACTED] was on two week vacation visiting relatives in North Carolina.
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U.S. Postal Inspector's Office, Anaheim, California, advised that [REDACTED] currently receives mail at the address of [REDACTED] California, and no change has been furnished.
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LEAD
LOS ANGELES
AT [REDACTED] AND LAKEWOOD, CALIFORNIA: Will interview [REDACTED] and conduct all necessary investigation in attempt to positively establish whereabouts of [REDACTED] on 11/24/71.
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Inasmuch as information developed to date indicates [REDACTED] may well have been in [REDACTED] during pertinent period, no additional leads are being set forth by the Los Angeles Division pending completion of above interviews.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-8990
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Serials: 164-2111, 164-31, IP 164-62, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3688, SU 164-24