Nitel Columbia to Director and Seattle re anonymous tip on man claiming to be D.B. Cooper
Document date 5 March 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-37:194-199 Document: Nitel Columbia to Director and Seattle re anonymous tip on man claiming to be D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-37:194-199 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-37%3A194-199 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. 194–199 (DB Cooper-14337–14342), Teletype, dated 5 Mar 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-37%3A194-199
NR 303 CO PLAIN 6:15PM NITEL MAR. 5,1976 RAA TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-E) FROM COLUMBIA (164-43) (P) "ORJACK.
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ON MARCH 4, 1976, AN ANONYMOUS CALL WAS RECEIVED IN THE AIKEN RA FROM AN INDIVIDUAL SOUNDING CAUCASIAN, APPROXIMATELY 65 YEARS OF AGE, WHO SAID HE HAD OVERHEARD [REDACTED] BRAG , THAT HE WAS D. B. COOPER WHO HAD HIJACKED AN AIRLINER SEVERAL YEARS AGO. THE CALLER NOTED [REDACTED] WAS DRINKING AT THE TIME HE MADE THIS STATEMENT. CALLER STATED [REDACTED] LIVED AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] S. C., AND DROVE A 1975 CADILLAC BEARING 1976 S. C. LICENSE [REDACTED] THE CALLER REFUSED TO DIVULGE HIS IDENTITY STATING HE DID NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED. RECORDS, S. C. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT (SCHD), MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION, COLUMBIA, S. C., DISCLOSED THAT LICENSE [REDACTED] IS REGISTERED TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] S. C., FOR A 1975 CADILLAC BEARING VIN [REDACTED]
RECORDS, DRIVERS LICENSE SECTION, SCHD, DISCLOSED S. C.
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[guess: 11.4] - [guess: 7-6879] [guess: Kar] [guess: Kel-] DB Cooper-14337
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PAGE TWO, CO 164-43
DRIVERS LICENSE INITIALLY ISSUED TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] S. C., ON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DESCRIBED WHITE MALE, BORN [REDACTED] 5 FEET 9 INCHES TO 6 FEET, 161-180 POUNDS, SSAN [REDACTED] HE PREVIOUSLY HAD N. C. DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER [REDACTED] DUE TO EXPIRE [REDACTED]
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ABOVE RECORDS DISCLOSED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] S. C., ISSUED S. C. DRIVER'S LICENSE [REDACTED] SHE IS DESCRIBED AS WHITE FEMALE, BORN [REDACTED] 5 FEET 5 TO 8 INCHES, 141-160 POUNDS, SSAN [REDACTED]
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RECORDS COLUMBIA CREDIT BUREAU SHOW [REDACTED] CARRIED IN FILE SINCE APRIL, 1973, SHOW HIS PRESENT ADDRESS AS [REDACTED] FORMER ADDRESS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] S. C., SAME DATE OF BIRTH AND SSAN, NOTING, HOWEVER, [REDACTED] ALSO SHOWN AS BEING EMPLOYED GIRLEY'S RED AND WHITE GROCERY, [REDACTED] S. C.
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DB Cooper-14338
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PAGE THREE, CO 164-48
RECORDS OF THE [REDACTED] PD AND AIKEN COUNTY SO, AIKEN, S. C., WHICH COVERS THE [REDACTED] S. C., AREA DISCLOSES NO INFORMATION IDENTIFIABLE WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] GIRLEY'S RED AND WHITE FOOD STORE, BEECH ISLAND, S. C., ADVISED [REDACTED] WAS EMPLOYED [REDACTED] WHEN HE QUIT WITHOUT FURNISHING ANY REASON. [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY LIVED IN [REDACTED], S. C., AND WORKED FOR EITHER THE PIGGLY-WIGGLY FOOD STORE OR A&P FOOD STORE IN [REDACTED] S. C. [REDACTED] BELIEVED [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY LIVED IN CHARLESTON, S. C., AS HE INDICATED TO HE A[guess: T] TIME FILLED OUT APPLICATION WITH WETTERAU WHOLESALE GROCERY COMPANY IN CHARLESTON. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] DID NOT APPEAR CONCERNED ABOUT MONEY AS HE BOUGHT A $5[guess: 8],000 HOUSE WHEN HE MOVED TO [REDACTED] S. C., AND COMMENCED WORKING [REDACTED] AND LIKEWISE PURCHASED A NEW 1975 CADILLAC. HE STATED [REDACTED] AND EXPRESSED THE OPINION THAT HE COULD NOT PAY OFF THE INDEBTEDNESS ON THE HOUSE AND AUTOMOBILE ON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED HE KNEW LITTLE ABOUT [REDACTED] BACKGROUND
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DB Cooper-14339
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PAGE FOUR, CO 164-48
OTHER THAN HE WAS ORIGINALLY OUT OF WASHINGTON, THAT [REDACTED] PRESENTLY LIVED IN WASHINGTON AND THAT EITHER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS A WHITE MALE, 5 FEET 10 INCHES, 190-200 POUNDS, PALE COMPLEXION, DARK HAIR (THIN-GREYING), A CONSTANT SMOKER, MAY HAVE TWO TO THREE CIGARETTES BURNING AT ONE TIME AND HAVING A LOW TONE OF VOICE. [REDACTED] FURTHER DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS INTELLIGENT, METICULOUS IN HIS WORK AND ORGANIZED WITH RESPECT TO HIS WORK, AND HE WOULD CHARACTERIZE [REDACTED] COULD FURNISH NO ADDITIONAL PERTINENT INFORMATION WHICH WOULD REFLECT ON [REDACTED] BACKGROUND OR HABITS. [REDACTED] WAS EXHIBITED A COMPOSIT PHOTOGRAPH OF UNKNOWN SUBJECT IN CAPTIONED CASE AND HE STATED THE PHOTOGRAPH AS SHOWING UNSUB WITH GLASSES CLOSELY RESEMBLED [REDACTED] ALTHOUGH THE LOWER PART OF [REDACTED] FACE IS SOMEWHAT FULLER. HE STATED HE COULD NOT OTHERWISE MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION FROM THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
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DB Cooper-14340
PAGE FIVE, CO 164-43
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[REDACTED] BELIEVED THAT [REDACTED] IS WORKING AT THOMAS AND HOWARD COMPANY OR ONE OF THEIR RETAIL OUTLETS IN THE COLUMBIA, S. C., AREA. [REDACTED] NOTED THAT [REDACTED] IS AN EXTREMELY [REDACTED]
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CHARLOTTE DIVISION AT RALEIGH, N. C. WILL CHECK RECORDS OF THE N. C. HIGHWAY PATROL MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION, TO DETERMINE WHEN [REDACTED] WAS ISSUED N. C. LICENSE [REDACTED] AND OBTAIN ALL BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH PRIOR STATE AT WHICH [REDACTED] MAY HAVE BEEN LICENSED AS A MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR. WILL CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION BASED ON INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM ABOVE RECORDS.
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COLUMBIA DIVISION AT [REDACTED] S. C. WILL AT PIGGLY- WIGGLY FOOD STORE OR A&P FOOD STORE IN [REDACTED] VERIFY EMPLOYMENT OF [REDACTED] AND OBTAIN ANY BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM EMPLOYMENT RECORDS.
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COLUMBIA AT CHARLESTON, S. C. WILL, AT WETTERAU WHOLESALE GROCERY COMPANY, ASCERTAIN IF [REDACTED] FILED EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION WITH THIS FIRM AND OBTAIN PERTINENT BACKGROUND
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DB Cooper-14341
PAGE SIX, CO 164-43
INFORMATION. CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION IN CHARLESTON AREA BASED ON INFORMATION FROM APPLICATION.
COLUMBIA AT AIKEN AND [REDACTED] S. C. WILL CONTINUE TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATION TO DEVELOP ASSOCIATES AND ADDITIONAL PERTINENT BACKGROUND INFORMATION CONCERNING [REDACTED] AND POSSIBLE CONNECTION WITH CAPTIONED CASE.
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SEATTLE PLS HOLD THIS TEL AND WE WILL CALL U TO SEE IF U WERE SUPPOSED TO GET IT
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PLS ACK JUST IN CASE
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FBI SE CLR TOG
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DB Cooper-14342
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