SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect, interviews of acquaintances
Document date 4 September 1974
Also filed at: Part 61 pp. 101–104
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Date: 9/4/74
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Via __AIR MAIL__ AIRTEL . . (Priority)
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle
Re: [REDACTED]
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Re Seattle airtel to Los Angeles 7/22/74.
On 7/24/74, the records of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office (LACSO) and the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment (LAPD) were caused to be reviewed by SAC C. ROBERT STRANGER and no record could be located identifiable with [REDACTED].
A subsequent review of telephone directories covering the Greater Los Angeles area and surrounding communities failed to reveal any [REDACTED]. However, noted in the Central Los Angeles Directory was the name of [REDACTED] a subscriber to telephone number [REDACTED] Los Angeles.
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[Handwritten date stamp]: 1l [guess: .LC] 1 - 63/6 [Stamp]: SEARCHED ___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED__FILED__ [guess: 24] SF:DD .7
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Approved: ___[signature]_____ Sent ________M Per ________ Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-12996
* U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1959 O - 346-090 (11)
LA 164-497
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On 8/27/74, telephonic contact was made with the person identifying herself as [REDACTED] at the above phone number. [REDACTED] stated she had become acquainted with [REDACTED] in about 1969 or 1970. She stated they met as she both in the entertainment field. [REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] of Los Angeles. She stated [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in Los Angeles in 1972.
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On 8/29/74, the records of the LAPD were reviewed and revealed a file number [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] LAPD records indicated [REDACTED]
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On the same date, [REDACTED] was personally contacted at [REDACTED] Los Angeles. [REDACTED] advised she became acquainted with [REDACTED] She stated she [REDACTED] and their relationship was only casual. She recalled that sometime in the Spring of 1972, [REDACTED] had telephonically contacted her from Seattle, Washington, and said he was coming to Los Angeles.
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[REDACTED] then admitted that [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-12997
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b6 b7C
LA 164-497
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[REDACTED] She stated [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
She stated [REDACTED] current where- abouts but assumes he still lives in Seattle where he moved after [REDACTED] The only thing she did know was that [REDACTED]
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Regarding her prior statement that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] stated this was true and [REDACTED] She stated [REDACTED] as she did not want to get involved with the furnishing of names of former friends and associates.
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On 8/29/74, [REDACTED] Wilshire Division, LAPD, confirmed that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] advised the suspects in this matter were never positively identified but were believed to be members of a gang apprehended in late 1973 by the LAPD during [REDACTED] This gang was later identified and convicted of a series of gun shop robberies in the Los Angeles area.
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On 8/29/74, [REDACTED] Homicide Division Southwest, LAPD, advised that [REDACTED] was [REDACTED] of Los Angeles. [REDACTED] stated his records indicate [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-12998
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b6 b7C
LA 164-497
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On 9/3/74, [REDACTED] was interviewed at his place of business, [REDACTED] Los Angeles, California. [REDACTED] stated he had been acquainted with [REDACTED]
for several years. [REDACTED] stated he was [REDACTED] and had become personally acquainted with [REDACTED] He recalls that about 1969 or 1970, [REDACTED] had become involved in a dispute with [REDACTED] and was [REDACTED] Apparently in sympathy [REDACTED] also became involved in a dispute with [REDACTED] and was [REDACTED] Shortly thereafter, [REDACTED] was sent from [REDACTED] He refused to go [REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] in Los Angeles, moved to Seattle where he was [REDACTED]
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He described [REDACTED] who in his own mind had suddenly become [REDACTED] then largely due to his own actions, everything for him fell through.
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He recalls that about November 1971, [REDACTED] referred to by [REDACTED] as [REDACTED] came [REDACTED] driving a 1970 Cadillac. This was the first time he had met [REDACTED] and when they came into the shop, [REDACTED] did most of the talking and he, [REDACTED] tended to believe that the Cadillac was owned by [REDACTED] He later found this was not true. [REDACTED] located a work sheet dated 11/30/71, for work on a 1970 Cadillac bearing California license [REDACTED] He recalls that after [REDACTED] several days passed and [REDACTED] brought the car in again. This time they [REDACTED] recalled the car was black on black and they wanted the new paint job in the same color. After the car was painted, [REDACTED] picked it up and indicated they were returning to Seattle where he assumed they both lived.
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DB Cooper-12999
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b6 b7C b7D
LA 164-497
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About a month later, [REDACTED] brought the car in to be worked on. After the work was completed, he had taken the car to an address furnished by [REDACTED] Los Angeles.
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About two weeks later, she brought the car to the shop and stated [REDACTED] was involved in some type of [REDACTED] in Seattle and would probably be in jail for awhile, wanted to leave the car with him, [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] added that [REDACTED] had [REDACTED] from him, which was never repaid, and the last work on the 1970 Cadillac was never paid for by [REDACTED] He got the distinct impression during his contact with both [REDACTED] in 1972 that they were broke. [REDACTED] stated his records indicate that the 1970 Cadillac was repossessed from him by a Stockton, California, firm on 10/19/72. He recalls the repossessing firm had contacted him three or four months prior to that date and told him of the status of the car. At that time he had taken all the belongings of [REDACTED] and/ or [REDACTED] Included in these belongings [REDACTED] He added that a short time, perhaps two or three weeks, after he had [REDACTED] had talked with him of some problems she was having [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] stated he would cooperate in any way possible with the FBI. He stated he does not know any of the specifics concerning the background [REDACTED] 1970 Cadillac nor whether [REDACTED] He added that [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-13000
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b6 b7C b7D
LA 164-497
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As Los Angeles is unaware of the status of investigation concerning this matter in the Seattle Division, the setting forth of any leads will be left to the discretion of the office of origin and Los Angeles will conduct no further investigation until specifically requested by Seattle.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-13001
Serials: LA 164-497, SE 164-81