SAC Butte to SAC Seattle re Sandpoint, Idaho witness and suspect interview
Document date 18 August 1972
Also filed at: Part 112 pp. 419–420
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 27 pp. 240–241 (DB Cooper-9319–9320), Memo, dated 18 Aug 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-27%3A240-241
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 8/18/72
FROM : SAC, BUTTE (164-26) (RUC)
SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle
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Remytel, 7/15/72.
Re: [REDACTED]
The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED]
On 7/28/72, [REDACTED] was contacted at [REDACTED] DON's DRIVE-INN, Sandpoint, Idaho, and stated that she is currently living with [REDACTED] in Sagle, Idaho, area. To the best of her recollection, [REDACTED] and her had Thanksgiving dinner together on November 25, 1971.
To the best of her recollection, she stated she saw him in Sandpoint, Idaho, on 11/24/71, at approximately 2:00 p.m., when she had reported for work. To the best of her recollection, [REDACTED] had been in the Sandpoint area most of the fall and winter of that year and did not feel that he was capable of committing NORJAK.
She stated that she did not feel that [REDACTED] was a good likeness to the artist's conception of the UNSUB in this matter.
Efforts to locate [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] the ARCO SERVICE STATION, were unsuccessful.
On 7/29/72, [REDACTED] appeared at the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, RA and informed SA [REDACTED] that he did not know or could not recall where he was on 11/24/71; however, he said he could say for sure that he was in the Sandpoint, Idaho, area. He stated that he was in Sandpoint for Thanksgiving and spent that day with his girlfriend.
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(2) - Seattle 1 - Butte RPR/gld (3)
SEARCHED.......... INDEXED.......... SERIALIZED... [checkmark] FILED... [checkmark] AUG 2 4 1972 FBI—SEATTLE
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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-9319 5010-108-02
BT #164-26
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[REDACTED] advised that he had recently received his private pilot's license and denied that he was an accomplished pilot, stating that he had never jumped from a plane with a parachute and had no background or education in the use of a parachute.
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[REDACTED] stated that he was [REDACTED], 6 feet tall, 185 pounds, and had served the military in the Army Medics. He worked for seven years for the [REDACTED] at Sandpoint, Idaho, [REDACTED] and he was terminated from this employment over a [REDACTED]
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He stated he knew nothing of this affair at the time and did not learn of it until later.
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[REDACTED] did not appear to resemble the artist's conception of the UNSUB. [REDACTED] also advised that he borrowed money from the Idaho First National Bank at Sandpoint, Idaho, to finish paying for [REDACTED] which he had purchased.
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In view of the above and previous investigation regarding [REDACTED] no further investigation is being conducted in this matter.
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DB Cooper-9320