SAC Anchorage to SAC Seattle re NORJAK, forwarding FD-302 and suspect photograph

Document date 22 May 1973

Part 31pages 179–1802 pagesDB Cooper-11364–11365

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Document: Memo SAC Anchorage to SAC Seattle re NORJAK, forwarding FD-302 and suspect photograph
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 31 pp. 179–180 (DB Cooper-11364–11365), Memo, dated 22 May 1973, serial SE 164-81-4722 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-31%3A179-180

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 5/22/73 FROM : SAC, ANCHORAGE (164-59) (RUC)

SUBJECT: NORJAK (OO:SE)

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Enclosed for Seattle Division is one copy of an FD-302 reflecting the interview of [REDACTED] Anchorage, Alaska, in which [REDACTED] furnished a suspect, [REDACTED] FBI No. [REDACTED]. Also enclosed is a photograph of [REDACTED].

For the information of Seattle Division, [REDACTED] was the subject of an investigation by the San Francisco Division, entitled [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] was acquitted [REDACTED] by jury trial. The San Francisco Division file number is [REDACTED] and the Portland Division file number is [REDACTED].

Further, [REDACTED] was the subject of [REDACTED] [REDACTED] dated [REDACTED] with reference to the above- mentioned San Francisco [REDACTED].

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The following additional investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED] at Anchorage, Alaska:

Initiation of investigation in this matter was predi- cated upon receipt of information from [REDACTED] Anchorage, Alaska Police Department, who advised on 5/7/73 that [REDACTED] informed him that [REDACTED] might be identical to the hijacker of the Northwest Airlines aircraft of about two years ago in the Seattle, Washington area.

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On 5/18/73, [REDACTED] Alaska State Troopers Anchorage, advised that [REDACTED] FBI No. [REDACTED] was returned to Anchorage following his acquittal [REDACTED] in San Francisco, California, in July, 1970. [REDACTED] had been indicted by the State of Alaska for [REDACTED]

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[Stamp:] 164-81-4722 [Stamp:] SEARCHED.........INDEXED......... SERIALIZED...[guess: FILED]...AK... MAY 24 1973

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AN 164-59

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[REDACTED] Alaska, in 1965. He stated that [REDACTED] was the most

[REDACTED] and the case collapsed. [REDACTED] on [REDACTED] and immediately left Alaska to return to the Portland, Oregon area.

He advised he cannot locate at the moment his reports on the investigation, which would reflect the address of [REDACTED] [REDACTED] residence in Oregon, but he noted that the Portland Division of the FBI assisted him in his State case and that office will probably have the most current address for [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] made available a photograph of [REDACTED] taken while [REDACTED] noted the photograph depicts [REDACTED] with a full beard, which, [REDACTED] advised, [REDACTED] He noted again that [REDACTED] by the Portland Division of the FBI and that Division may be in possession of a photograph depicting [REDACTED] clean-shaven.

[REDACTED] advised he does not know whether [REDACTED] was ever a pilot and/or parachutist.

He described [REDACTED] as being intelligent, confident and entirely capable of pulling off captioned matter.

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LEAD

SEATTLE

AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. Will conduct investigation to determine if [REDACTED] may be identical to UNSUB.

It is noted that since there is a possibility that [REDACTED] may have already been investigated by Seattle Division for captioned matter, leads for Portland Division are being left to the discretion of Seattle Division.

CONSIDER UNSUB ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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DB Cooper-11365

Serials: AN 164-59, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4722