From Bellingham, Washington complainant to FBI Portland claiming to identify Cooper, with envelope
Document date 10 June 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-35:138-140 Document: Letter from Bellingham, Washington complainant to FBI Portland claiming to identify Cooper, with envelope Id: Cooper-Part-35:138-140 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-35%3A138-140 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 35 pp. 138–140 (DB Cooper-13544–13546), Letter, dated 10 Jun 1975, serial SE 164-81-6571 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-35%3A138-140
b6 b7C b7D Bellingham, Wash.
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June 10, 1975
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Agent [REDACTED]
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If not for my inherent procrastion you might have gotten this letter a year or two earlier, and if not for the urgings of many of my friends you may not have received it at all. You may not be the best person[to]contact, but I lifted your name from the May 25th Seattle P I Sunday Northwest magazine section. To shorten what otherwise could be a long story I will say that it is possible I may know the real name of the man called "Cooper."
My friends have urged me to contact the FBI and tell the same story I have told them. They labor under the delusion I'll get rich from all [guess: the] rewards. But reward or not I will relate to you, or some other agent, what I know (and do not know) if you can do what you can to keep my name confidential.
I have no need at all for a homocide bent, revenge crazy crook on my trail sometime in the future!
I lost track of this man sometime in 1964, but from what little I know of the hijacking case everything fits. The composite sketch is not a likeness, but two of the features are certainly his.
I haven't said anything up to now for two reasons. 1. The nagging fear I could be causing an innocent person a lot of trouble, and 2. should I be right the guilty party would not look to kindly on me.
I say something now for a number of reasons. Unlike my friends who are positive I once knew the man who was to become D. B. Cooper, I am not sure. I guess I'd like to know too.
Please feel free to have an agent or yourself contact me. Maybe you will agree with my friends.
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[REDACTED signature]
DB Cooper
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In confidence;
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164-81-6571
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DB Cooper-13544
[REDACTED]
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ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN-97208
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BELLINGHAM [guess: JAN] 10 PM [illegible]
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DELIVERY ADDRESS MISSING OR IMPROPER [illegible]
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Agent [REDACTED] Portland FBI office Federal Bureau of Investigation Portland, Oregon 97208
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b6 b7C b7D
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DB Cooper-13545
[REDACTED - black bar over sender name/address]
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ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN-97208
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BELLINGHAM, WA JUN 10 PM [guess: 1975]
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Agent [REDACTED]
Portland FBI office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Portland, Oregon [guess: 97226]
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[guess: DELIVERY] DATA [illegible] MISSING OR IMPROPER [illegible]
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DB Cooper-13546
Serials: SE 164-81-6571