Alexandria to Director, Richmond and Seattle re NORJAK suspect lead and file review
Document date 6 January 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-37:037-042 Document: Teletype Alexandria to Director, Richmond and Seattle re NORJAK suspect lead and file review Id: Cooper-Part-37:037-042 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-37%3A037-042 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 37 pp. 37–42 (DB Cooper-14173–14178), Teletype, dated 6 Jan 1976, serial SE 164-81-6800 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-37%3A037-042
NR01 AX PLAIN 3:37 PM URGENT D JANUARY 6, 1976 PAK
TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) RICHMOND (164-74) SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: ALEXANDRIA (164-70) (RUC)
NORJAV, OFFICE OF ORIGIN: SEATTLE. REFERENCE [REDACTED]
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REFERENCE RICHMOND NITEL TO THE BUREAU, JANUARY 5, 1976; AND ALEXANDRIA FACSIMILE TO RICHMOND (ROANOKE RA), JANUARY 6, 1976.
FOR INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, BASED ON REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE, ALEXANDRIA CASE FILE IN THIS MATTER WAS REVIEWED AND APPROPRIATE SERIALS REGARDING [REDACTED] HAVE BEEN FURNISHED TO THE RICHMOND DIVISION VIA FACSIMILE FOR THEIR USE IN ANY FURTHER CONTACTS WITH [REDACTED] REGARDING THIS MATTER.
AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED TO THE BUREAU AND OFFICE OF ORIGIN, [REDACTED] WAS INTERVIEWED BY THE ALEXANDRIA DIVISION AND DENIED BEING IDENTICAL WITH THE UNSUB, AKA D. B. COOPER IN THIS CASE. SUBSTANTIAL FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION
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ELIMINATE
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164-81-6800 SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED ... [illegible] ... FILED ... JAN 5 1976 FBI — [illegible]
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DB Cooper-14173
PAGE TWO (AX 164-70)
REVEALED THAT THE UNSUB WAS UNIFORMLY DESCRIBED BY CREW MEMBERS AND PASSENGERS OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305 AS BEING IN HIS MID-40'S WITH AN OLIVE OR LATIN APPEARANCE. [REDACTED] AT THE TIME OF THE HIJACKING ON NOVEMBER 24, 1971, WAS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LATENT FINGERPRINT COMPARISON CONDUCTED BY THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION REVEALED THAT [REDACTED] FINGERPRINTS WERE NOT IDENTICAL WITH THOSE OF THE UNSUB INSOFAR AS A COMPARISON COULD BE MADE. CO-WORKERS AND THE PAYROLL OFFICER FOR [REDACTED] EMPLOYMENT AT THE TIME OF THE HIJACKING INDICATED THAT TO THE BEST OF THEIR RECOLLECTION AND BASED ON PAYROLL RECORDS, HE WAS PRESENT AT WORK ON THE DATE OF THE HIJACKING AND THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING. INTERVIEW AT EL PASO OF
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, INDICATES THAT HE PICKED UP [REDACTED]
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3:00 AM, THANKSGIVING DAY, 1971 AND SUBSEQUENTLY WENT HUNTING AT QUANTICO MARINE CORPS BASE, VIRGINIA.
A REVIEW OF THE BASIC FACTS OF THIS HIJACKING REVEALS THAT SHORTLY AFTER 3:00 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, NOVEMBER 24,
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DB Cooper-14174
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PAGE THREE (AX 164-72)
1971, A LONE WHITE MALE UNDERTOOK THE HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305. HE WAS LAST SEEN BY CREW MEMBERS AT 8:05 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. IT IS NOTED THAT [REDACTED] WAS REPORTED TO BE AT WORK AS MENTIONED ABOVE AND THAT THE HIJACKING BEGAN AT APPROXIMATELY 6:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME AND TERMINATED [REDACTED] 11:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. IT IS NOTED HE WAS PICKED UP AT 3:05 AM THE NEXT DAY TO GO HUNTING.
REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES THAT [REDACTED] HAS ADVISED [REDACTED] THAT HE LANDED [REDACTED]
IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE HIJACKER WAS LAST SEEN AT 8:05 PM, WHICH IS DURING THE HOURS OF DARKNESS AND HENCE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO NECESSITY FOR [REDACTED]
ADDITIONALLY, [REDACTED] HAS OSTENSIBLY INDICATED THAT [REDACTED]
ACCORDING TO A REVIEW OF THE FILES, THE HIJACKER DISPLAYED THE CONTENTS OF HIS ATTACHE CASE TO STEWARDESS [REDACTED] AND SHE DESCRIBED THEM AS A BUNDLE OF RED STICKS, A CYLINDRICAL SHAPED BATTERY AND VARIOUS WIRES INDICATING THE CONTENTS WAS ELECTRICAL IN NATURE.
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DB Cooper-14175
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PAGE FOUR (AX 164-72) THIS INFORMATION WOULD PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY [redacted] [redacted] ADDITIONALLY, REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES [redacted] [redacted] SUBSEQUENTLY TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED [redacted] [redacted] HIS CONDITION APPEARED TO BE THAT OF [redacted] IT IS NOTED THAT [redacted] CONTACTED [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] ADVISED THAT [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] HE ADVISED THAT HE [redacted] [redacted] HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAD NOT MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THAT [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] AND HE HAD RECEIVED [redacted]
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DB Cooper-14176
PAGE FIVE (AX 164-72)
[REDACTED] HE ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FACT INDICATED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] A REVIEW OF THE RECORDS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS ADVISED [REDACTED]
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BASED ON THE ABOVE, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT [REDACTED] IS HAVING UNFOUNDED FANTASIES REGARDING THREATS AND HARASSMENT DUE TO THIS INVESTIGATION.
REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FURNISHED BY RICHMOND, HAS REQUESTED THAT [REDACTED] BE PROTECTED DUE TO [REDACTED] FEAR OF PHYSICAL HARM FROM [REDACTED] IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS
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DB Cooper-14177
PAGE SIX (AY 164-72)
DIVISION TO RECONTACT EITHER [REDACTED] WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION. THEREFORE, IN VIEW OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ABOVE, THE ALEXANDRIA DIVISION ANTICIPATES NO FURTHER INTERVIEWS IN THIS MATTER, UAC.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
END.
BAP FBI SE CLP
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DB Cooper-14178
Serials: 164-2111, AX 164-70, AX 164-72, AY 164-72, RH 164-74, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-6800