SAC Dallas to SAC Seattle re Boeing Flight Test Data Center personnel check
Document date 29 September 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-28:162-163 Document: Airtel SAC Dallas to SAC Seattle re Boeing Flight Test Data Center personnel check Id: Cooper-Part-28:162-163 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-28%3A162-163 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 28 pp. 162–163 (DB Cooper-9695–9696), Airtel, dated 29 Sep 1972, serial SE 164-81-3966 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-28%3A162-163
FD-36 (Rev. 6-22-64)
FBI
Date: 9/29/72
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, DALLAS (164-191) (RUC) SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE
Re: [REDACTED]
Re Dallas letter to Seattle 7/28/72, concerning captioned matter.
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Enclosed are two copies of an insert from the Houston Office, which reveals [REDACTED] is not willing to be interviewed by FBI Agents, except through his attorney in Long Beach. No further action is being taken concerning this suspect.
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On 9/28/72, [REDACTED] Dallas, Texas, furnished the following:
He said right after the NORJACK case, Aviation Week Magazine had printed a great deal of minute detail concerning the hijack and particularly technical data with respect to the Boeing 727, which was the plane hijacked. It was obvious to him, he said, that the hijacker had to know a great deal about this airplane, because he knew at what degree to have the flaps leveled, the air speed, the time to put the gears down, and etc.
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According to [REDACTED] only an individual who was highly technically qualified in this aircraft would know this information. Therefore he suggested as a lead that
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(2) - Seattle (Enc. 2) 1 - Dallas HJM/jma (3)
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164-81-3966 SEARCHED......... INDEXED......... SERIALIZED...[checked].. FILED..[checked]...... OCT 4 1972 FBI—SEATTLE
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Approved: _______________ Sent _____________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-9695
*U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972 — 455-574
DL 164-191
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the Seattle Office might wish to check the personnel records at the Flight Test Data Center at Boeing Aircraft to deter- mine if there was a picture available of a former employee who might fit the description of the hijacker. He said he realized this might be a "wild" lead, but it might be worth pursuing. This is being left to the discretion of the Seattle Office, as to whether this lead should be pursued.
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DB Cooper-9696
Serials: DL 164-191, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3966