SAC Butte to SAC Las Vegas re photograph of NORJAK suspect from Billings Gazette
Document date 9 January 1973
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Id: Cooper-Part-29:298-299
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-29:298-299 Document: Airtel SAC Butte to SAC Las Vegas re photograph of NORJAK suspect from Billings Gazette Id: Cooper-Part-29:298-299 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A298-299 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 29 pp. 298–299 (DB Cooper-10382–10383), Airtel, dated 9 Jan 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A298-299
1/9/73
AIRTEL AIR MAIL
TO : SAC, LAS VEGAS FROM : SAC, BUTTE (164-26) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle
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[REDACTED] Enclosed to Las Vegas is one photograph of [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] a local Billings, Montana, newspaper, advised on 1/8/73, that a former employee [REDACTED] that had worked on the [REDACTED] for the "Gazette" from [REDACTED] bore a striking resemblance to the individual whose photo- graph appears in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin for December, 1972, who used the name DAN COOPER.
[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] employment with the "Gazette" was terminated [REDACTED] in view of [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] He stated that when [REDACTED] left Montana he secured employment with the [REDACTED] at Carson City, Nevada, and believed that [REDACTED] had been fired from the job at Carson City [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] described [REDACTED] as an ex-Marine of World War II; however, he did not believe that he had been a
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2 - Las Vegas (Enc. 1) (AM) (1) - Seattle (164-81) (Info) (AM) 2 - Butte MFR/spr (5)
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164-5/ - 4310 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED.....FILED...... JAN 1 1 1973
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DB Cooper-10382
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b6 b7C
BT #164-26
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parachutist but in his opinion was smart enough to pull off such a job as was done on 11/24/71, in Oregon. He stated that [REDACTED] was an avid outdoorsman interested in hunting and fishing and he was a soft-spoken individual.
[REDACTED] described [REDACTED] as follows:
Race White Sex Male Nationality American DOB Social Security # [REDACTED] Education Two years college Former residence [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] had been divorced prior to coming to Billings from the east coast.
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LEAD
LAS VEGAS DIVISION
AT CARBON CITY, NEVADA
Contact the [REDACTED] and determine the presence whereabouts of [REDACTED] and thereafter determine if [REDACTED] identical with photograph of white male using name DAN COOPER in hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines on 11/24/71.
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Armed and Dangerous
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DB Cooper-10383