Nitel teletype St. Louis to Acting Director, Indianapolis and Seattle re paratrooper suspect and Indiana leads
This copy: Part 27 pp. 283–288Also filed at Part 102 pp. 136–141 (primary)
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St. Louis to Acting Director, Indianapolis and Seattle re NORJAK suspect (paratrooper lead)
Document date 24 August 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-27:283-288 Document: Teletype St. Louis to Acting Director, Indianapolis and Seattle re NORJAK suspect (paratrooper lead) Id: Cooper-Part-27:283-288 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-27%3A283-288 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 27 pp. 283–288 (DB Cooper-9362–9367), Teletype, dated 24 Aug 1972, serial SE 164-81-383 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-27%3A283-288
NR 003 SL PLAIN 11:44 PM NITEL 8-24-72 BGH TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-2111) INDIANAPOLIS (164-62) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM ST. LOUIS (164-63) P 6P
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UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR, LAST. CAA - HI- JACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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FOR INFORMATION BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MO., TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED ST. LOUIS OFFICE CONCERNING IDENTITY OF UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER. [REDACTED] ADVISED IN INTERVIEW THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SERVED WORLD WAR TWO WITH [REDACTED] OF SUSPECT, KNOWN TO HER AS [REDACTED] FURTHER END PAGE ONE
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164-81-383/[illegible] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED ____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ AUG 2 4 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-9362
PAGE TWO SL 1S4-63
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STATED THAT [REDACTED] ARMY PARATROOPER SEVEN YEARS, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PRIOR TO CAPTIONED HIJACKING AND NOT HEARD FROM SINCE. PRIOR TO DESERTION HE DISCUSSED OBTAINING POT FULL OF MONEY AND RETIRING IN SOUTH AMERICA ON FARM. [REDACTED] ADVISED HAS KNOWN [REDACTED] SINCE AGE FIVE. FIRST KNEW [REDACTED] FROM SERVING [REDACTED] IN WORLD WAR TWO. [REDACTED] ENTERED ARMY AT [REDACTED] HADN'T SEEN [REDACTED] FOR SEVEN YEARS UNTIL SEPTEMBER, SEVENTY-ONE WHEN HE ARRIVED ON LEAVE. [REDACTED] REMAINED THERE THREE WEEKS, LEFT, AND LATER RETURNED WITH [REDACTED] WHO LIVES IN BRAZIL, INDIANA. [REDACTED] LEFT AGAIN IN EARLY OCTOBER AND HASN'T MAINTAINED CONTACT SINCE. [REDACTED] WAS SCHEDULED TO REPORT AS [REDACTED] IN NORTH CAROLINA. HAD PREVIOUSLY [REDACTED] AT SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] GREEN BERET PARATROOPER AND [REDACTED] END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-9363
PAGE THREE SL 164-63
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[REDACTED] THAN ANYONE IN SOUTH VIETNAM, [REDACTED] ALSO RECEIVED SOME [REDACTED] CITATIONS FOR HIS OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN- CLUDING ONE FROM PRESIDENT NIXON PERSONALLY. IN ADDITION TO [REDACTED] IN BRAZIL, INDIANA, [REDACTED] SOMEPLACE IN OREGON. [REDACTED] KNEW NOTHING FURTHER ABOUT HER. BEFORE [REDACTED] LEFT IN OCTOBER, HAD BEEN INVOLVED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] LIKED MONEY AND WOMEN AND "OULD LIKE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY WITH [guess: BOTH]. [REDACTED] KNEW PILOTS IN OREGON AND MENTIONED ROOMING WITH SOME. HE WAS FURTHER KNOWLEDGEABLE ON HIJACKING TECHNIQUES AND HAD DISCUSSED TYPES OF PLANES WHICH COULD BE HIJACKED. [REDACTED] PERSONALLY FELT THAT [REDACTED] COULD HAVE HIJACKED THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT. HE HAD THE NERVE TO DO IT AND WAS AFRAID OF NO ONE. IF ANYONE COULD SURVIVE IN THE WOODS SUCH AS THE AREA OF THE PACIFIC END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-9364
PAGE FOUR SL 164-63
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NORTHWEST, [REDACTED] COULD. [REDACTED] FROM MEMORY, DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS FOLLOWS: [REDACTED] ,FIVE SEVEN, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY TO SIXTY POUNDS, BLONDE HAIR, CREWCUT, MUSCULAR BUILD. [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT HE WOULD BET EVERYTHING THAT [REDACTED] WAS THE HIJACKER OF THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT. [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CURRENTLY RESIDE [REDACTED] [REDACTED], LOWELL, INDIANA. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAD [REDACTED] WHO ENLISTED IN ARMY AT UNION, MO. [REDACTED] STATED HAD TAKEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] BUT FILM HAD NOT YET BEEN DEVELOPED. FURTHER STATED WOULD DEVELOP FILM AND MAKE THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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ARMY RECRUITER ADVISED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ENLISTED [REDACTED], LAST. [REDACTED] RECORDS REFLECT [REDACTED] RESIDING [REDACTED] SNIDER, INDIANA. END PAGE FOUR
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DB Cooper-9365
PAGE FIVE
SL 164-63
[REDACTED] RESIDES [REDACTED] POSELAWN, INDIANA. [REDACTED] RECALLED COMMENTS MADE BY [REDACTED] DURING ENLISTMENT THAT HE WAS PROUD OF [REDACTED]
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INDIANAPOLIS AT SNIDER OR LOWELL, INDIANA - WILL LOCATE
[REDACTED] AND INTER- VIEW REGARDING [REDACTED] WILL OBTAIN COMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE DATA INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHS AS WELL AS DOB AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. THEREAFTER DETERMINE WHETHER [REDACTED] IS IN [REDACTED] WILL SET FORTH APPROPRIATE LEADS RESULTING FROM INTERVIEW.
AT BRAZIL, INDIANA - WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN ACCORDANCE WITH LEADS SET FORTH FOR [REDACTED] ABOVE.
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DB Cooper-9366
PAGE SIX SL 164-63
AT ROSELAWN, INDIANA - WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITH ABOVE LEAD.
AT FORT BENJAMIN HARRISON - WILL REVIEW RECORDS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DETERMINE DUTY STATUS AND SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEADS.
END
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FBI SEATTLE
CLR
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DB Cooper-9367
Serials: 164-2111, IP 164-62, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-383, SL 164-63