New Orleans to Acting Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect in Berwick, LA
Document date 18 January 1973
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-29:392-395 Document: Teletype New Orleans to Acting Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect in Berwick, LA Id: Cooper-Part-29:392-395 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A392-395 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. 392–395 (DB Cooper-10488–10491), Teletype, dated 18 Jan 1973, serial SE 164-81-1361 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A392-395
NR 007 NO PLAIN 702PM URGENT 1-18-73 PHJ TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-211) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM NEW ORLEANS (164-136) (P) APG
NORJAK; OO - SEATTLE.
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FOR INFORMATION BUREAU AND SEATTLE, INVESTIGATION NEW ORLEANS DIVISION JAN. SEVEN, LAST, CAPTIONED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AFTER [REDACTED] APPROACHED WEALTH[L]Y BERWICK, LA., BUSINESSMAN [REDACTED] CLAIMING HE HAD ACCESS TO LARGE QUANTITY [REDACTED] IN OLD MEXICO, NEW MEXICO, AND ARIZONA AND REQUESTING [REDACTED] FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND TRANSPORTING SAME TO CANADA FOR SALE. [REDACTED] LEFT BERWICK, LA., JAN. ELEVEN, LAST, TO RETURN TO RANGELY, COLO., WHERE HE HAS BEEN RESIDING PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. THIS DATE [REDACTED] ADVISED HAD MET WITH [REDACTED] JAN. SEVENTEEN, LAST, AT [REDACTED] , COLO., WHERE FURTHER DISCUSSIONS TOOK PLACE REGARDING PURCHASE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CLAIMS TO HAVE GAINED CONFIDENCE OF [REDACTED] AND DURING MEETING JAN. SEVENTEEN, LAST, [REDACTED] REQUESTED [REDACTED] WHO HAS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH NUMEROUS POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON, D. C., TO ASCERTAIN IF HE [REDACTED] WAS SUSPECT IN "HIJACKING OF AIRPLANE END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED___ INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ #2 JAN 18 1973 FBI-SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-10488
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b6 b7C
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164-81- 4/361
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[guess: x. source]
NO (164-136) PAGE TWO
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OVER WASHINGTON OR OREGON APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR AGO AT WHICH TIME TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS WAS OBTAINED UNDER THREAT TO BLOW UP BLANE." WHEN QUERIED BY [REDACTED] AS TO HOW A HIJACKER COULD ESCAPE FROM SUCH A PLANE [REDACTED] STATED THAT PLANE WOULD BE SLOWED TO ALMOST STALLING SPEED AND EXIT WOULD BE MADE THROUGH REAR EXIT OF BOEING SEVEN TWO SEVEN. [REDACTED] MADE STATEMENT THAT HE PREVIOUSLY HAD TRAINING AS A PARATROOPER. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] APPEARED TO BE VERY CONCERNED THAT HE MIGHT BE SUSPECT IN MATTER.
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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE; BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SIX FEET; ONE SEVEN FIVE DASH ONE EIGHT ZERO LBS.: BROWN HAIR; BLUE EYES; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER [REDACTED] FBI NUMBER [REDACTED] AND IDENTIFICATION RECORDS REFLECT [REDACTED]
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END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-10489
NO (164-136) PAGE THREE
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AT NEW ORLEANS INVESTIGATION [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] FOR LAS VEGAS PD AND HUNTINGTON, CALIF., PD AND SERVED AS PARATROOPER WITH U. S. ARMY [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] SUSPECT IN [REDACTED] AND INVESTIGATION INDICATES [REDACTED] IN PAST HAS OPERATED AS "CON MAN" IN ATTEMPTING TO SELL [REDACTED] THAT DID NOT EXIST.
[REDACTED] ADVISED DURING CONTACTS WITH [REDACTED] ALWAYS CARRIES [REDACTED] AND HAS [REDACTED] IN BRIEFCASE AND, THERE- FORE, SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
[REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] IS NOW BALD BUT FEELS THAT HE SHAVES HIS HEAD. IT IS NOTED THAT IN PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] IN POSSESSION NEW ORLEANS OFFICE AS OF NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE [REDACTED] HAD FULL HEAD OF HAIR. [REDACTED] HAS WORKED [REDACTED] IN COLORADO AND ARIZONA AND IS DESCRIBED AS OUTDOOR TYPE. [REDACTED] ADVISED SUBJECT [REDACTED] CURRENTLY IN RANGELY, COLORADO OR PUEBLO, COLORADO, BUT ANTICIPATES [REDACTED] TO COME TO BERWICK, LA., NEXT WEEK. END PAGE THREE
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-10490
NO (164-136) PAGE FOUR
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BUREAU AND SEATTLE SHOULD NOTE POSSIBILITY, IN VIEW OF [REDACTED] PRIOR CONNECTIONS [REDACTED] THAT [REDACTED] COULD HAVE FENCED MONEY OBTAINED IN ANY HIJACKING [REDACTED] WHICH HE IS NOW ATTEMPTING TO MOVE.
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THE BUREAU IS REQUESTED, IF APPROPRIATE, TO COMPARE ANY AVAILABLE EVIDENCE WITH [REDACTED] FBI NUMBER [REDACTED]
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SEATTLE AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: WILL THROUGH INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED TO DATE ASCERTAIN IF [REDACTED] APPROPRIATE SUSPECT IN MATTER AND ADVISE NEW ORLEANS WHERE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUBJECT [REDACTED] SHOULD BE SENT TO DISPLAY TO APPROPRIATE WITNESSES.
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NEW ORLEANS AT NEW ORLEANS, LA.: WILL MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] REGARDING [REDACTED] AND UPON RECEIPT OF INFORMATION FROM SEATTLE FORWARD PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] DIRECTLY TO APPROPRIATE OFFICES.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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E N D ...
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DCA FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-10491
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b6 b7C
Serials: NO 164-136, SA 164-211, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1361