Sacramento investigative insert re Bakersfield, Redding and Sierra County inquiries (SC 164-50)
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-34:438-441 Document: Sacramento investigative insert re Bakersfield, Redding and Sierra County inquiries (SC 164-50) Id: Cooper-Part-34:438-441 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-34%3A438-441 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 34 pp. 438–441 (DB Cooper-13082–13085), Report, serial SE 164-81-6356 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-34%3A438-441
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1 SC 164-50 JCW/dlo
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AT BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA
On September 16, 1974, [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] advised that he recently became acquainted b7C with [REDACTED] (LNU), [REDACTED] currently residing at an unknown location in Bakersfield, at which time she re- counted that approximately two years ago, while residing in Redding, California, she housed three men who she suspected of being involved in an airplane hijacking which occurred in Washington State. [REDACTED] stated that he knows no additional information regarding these men nor is he aware of [REDACTED] whereabouts.
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AT REDDING, CALIFORNIA
Investigation revealed that [REDACTED] is probably b6 identical to [REDACTED] a former resident of Redding, b7C California, who currently resides at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Bakersfield, California, as [REDACTED] meets the criteria set forth by [REDACTED] concerning the female who he described as reportedly possessing information regarding an unsolved airplane hijacking incident in Washington.
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164- 81- 63 56 INDEXED [illegible] rt [guess: PRINT] Lt. Filed. at FBI [illegible] FBI—[illegible]
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2 SC 164-50 HWB/dlo
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AT BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA
On November 4, 1974, an attempt to contact [REDACTED] was negative as no one was home at that address.
On November 5, 1974, another attempt to locate [REDACTED] was unsuccessful at that location, al- though it was determined that she is employed as a [REDACTED] Alpha Beta Shopping Center, Brundage Lane, Bakersfield.
On that date, [REDACTED] advised that the allegation regarding her knowledge of those involved in the D. B. COOPER aircraft hijacking incident is completely false. [REDACTED] immediately surmised that the person providing the initial information was [REDACTED]. She stated that she met [REDACTED] through a friend, and since their first meeting, [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] stated that on one occasion, she and [REDACTED] talked about a good plot for a book that [REDACTED] and the circumstances mentioned by [REDACTED] in his report very closely coincide with the material discussed by them. She stated that she feels [REDACTED] is subject to hallucinations, and with the voluminous amount of materials he has collected from magazines and newspaper clippings, she feels as though [REDACTED] almost believes any outrageous report he hears regarding a crime situation.
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[REDACTED] stated that she never provided a residence for anyone at her former home in Redding, California, and reiterated that there is no basis in fact for the account provided by [REDACTED]
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3 SC 164-50
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AT SIERRA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
On October 25, 1974, Sheriff SAM DOYLE of the Sierra County, California, Sheriff's Office, telephonically advised the Sacramento Division of the FBI that some hunters in the vicinity of Sierra- ville, California, had located some property which he wished to bring to the attention of the FBI in view of the skyjacking case in which an individual known as D. B. COOPER parachuted from the craft approximately two years ago.
DOYLE stated that the hunters found among other things a harnass which probably was a portion of a parachute or parachutes. He advised that there were other quantities of what appeared to be camping equipment. He stated that the material found, however, was extremely deteriorated and it appeared that it probably had been exposed to the elements for ten or more years. He advised that he believed that his [REDACTED] at Loyalton, California, has the recovered property.
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On October 24, 1974, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Sacramento, telephonically con- tacted the Sacramento FBI Office. [REDACTED] advised he was calling to determine if the Sierra County Sheriff's Office had notified the FBI regarding some items that were located [REDACTED] Sacramento, [checkmark] California, telephone [REDACTED] on the evening of October 19, 1974.
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[REDACTED] advised they were deer hunting approxi- mately three miles from Sierraville, California, and found miscellaneous items to include a parachute, two jump suits, and two pair of paratrooper boots.
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On October 25, 1974, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] of the Sierra County Sheriff's Office was interviewed. He advised that after finding the property discovered by [REDACTED] of Sacramento, it
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DB Cooper-13084
4 SC 164-50
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was determined by his department that the property could in no way have been associated with the sky- jacking connected with D. B. COOPER within the past two or three years. He said there were large quantities of what appeared to be camping equipment and it was felt that the property had been exposed to the elements for at least ten years.
He stated that there formerly was a para- medic training facility operating out of the Stead Air Base near Reno, Nevada, and that trainees and instructors from that facility often parachuted into and trained in the Sierraville area.
He stated that he was quite certain that the highly deteriorated property found had been left by those trainees.
[REDACTED] advised that after coming to that conclusion he had disposed of the property at the Sierraville dump.
On October 25, 1974, a physical observation at the Sierraville dump concluded the discarded property could not be located.
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DB Cooper-13085
Serials: SC 164-50, SE 164-81-6356