SAC Seattle to file re Arvidis Kiperts and 'D. B. Cooper' bank robbery note
Document date 9 November 1973
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Id: Cooper-Part-32:432-433
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-32:432-433 Document: Memo SAC Seattle to file re Arvidis Kiperts and 'D. B. Cooper' bank robbery note Id: Cooper-Part-32:432-433 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-32%3A432-433 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 32 pp. 432–433 (DB Cooper-12071–12072), Memo, dated 9 Nov 1973, serial SE 164-81-5030 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-32%3A432-433
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : FILE (164-81) DATE: 11/9/73
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE Sub: ARVIDIS KIPERTS [handwriting: partly illegible]
SUBJECT: NORJAK
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On 11/9/73, SAC MATTSON called from Portland. He advised that on 12/10/71 the Wilsonville, Oregon Branch of the National Bank of Oregon was held up by a lone robber. At the time the robber entered the bank, a customer was being served by a teller and on the customer leaving the robber approached the teller, held herup and departed. The teller advised that while waiting for the customer to depart the robber had gone to a desk at the side of the lobby where he did some scribbling. In conducting the investigation the Agent recovered from this area a note with the name "D. B. Cooper" printed on it. Suspecting that ARVIDIS KIPERTS was the individuals who perpetrated this robbery in preparing the affidavit for a search warrant at KIPERTS' home in Vancouver, Washington, on 11/3/73 allusion was made to this incident. Subsequent to the search of the home and recovery of KIPERTS' diary and a substantial number of guns there has been a lot of notoriety attached to his arrest and one of the newspaper reporters has noted this reference in the affidavit. The newspapers are now running stories linking KIPERTS with the captioned case. KIPERTS' diary recovered from his home shows that on 11/24/71 he attended an auto show at the Collesium in Portland, Oregon. From 11/25-29/71, he visited [REDACTED] in Bellevue. His diary also reflects that during this time, specific date not shown, he purchased a gun at the Bazaar (probably Gov-Mart Bazaar) in Renton. It is a 30-30 Marlin lever action carbine and they believed he paid $105 for it.
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The description of KIPERTS does not resemble that of the Unsub in this case. However, I suggested to SAC MATTSON that if they have a photograph of KIPERTS that it be shown to the witnesses in Portland.
I telephonically contacted ASAC [REDACTED] in San Diego and advised him to furnish a photograph of KIPERTS taken after he was arrested by San Diego put in the hands of a pilot courier at once and get it to us as quick as possible.
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SEARCHED.../.... INDEXED...[illegible] SERIALIZED...[illegible]...FILED........... NOV 9 1973
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SE 164-81
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In view of the above, we should immediately:
1. Interview [REDACTED] in Bellevue and determine from him without suggestion if possible the period of time KIPERTS was in Bellevue on 11/25-29/71. Specifically, he should be asked when KIPERTS arrived there, what he did while there, and specifically questioned as to whether or not it is possible that he pulled the captioned case.
2. In addition, we should contact the "Bazaar" in Renton at once to verify the purchase of this gun.
3. We should immediately verify independently if possible the information furnished by [REDACTED] concerning this matter.
4. Upon receipt of the photograph from San Diego it should be displayed to the witnesses in this case immediately and the Portland Office advised as soon as possible of the results of these inquiries.
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DB Cooper-12072
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-5030