SA Thomas J. Manning to SAC Seattle re NORJAK: female informant claiming hijacker's identity
Document date 30 April 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-37:331-332 Document: Memo SA Thomas J. Manning to SAC Seattle re NORJAK: female informant claiming hijacker's identity Id: Cooper-Part-37:331-332 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-37%3A331-332 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. 331–332 (DB Cooper-14495–14496), Memo, dated 30 Apr 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-37%3A331-332
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 4/30/76
FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING
SUBJECT: NORJAK
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Re attached letter from [REDACTED] 3/21/76
[REDACTED] contacted 4/29/76 by writer. [REDACTED] she had contacted writer re information on subject COOPER. On personal contact with her which she insisted be secretive in view of "danger to her life" she furnished information re[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] advised on previous contact that on day of NORJAK incident
At 9:00 PM [REDACTED]
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She stated that [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] was the hijacker, COOPER. On previous contact and on 4/30/76 she could not state why she thought this was COOPER but insisted it was. On both occasions she was advised that the subject had jumped from the hijacked aircraft about 8:10 PM over Woodland in a wooded area and that [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] However she still insists it was COOPER.
She also stated that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] immediately after the FBI announced over her TV set "We have shot and buried COOPER, we know who has the money, bring it in". The writer advised [REDACTED] the FBI never made such an announcement but she was positive she had heard it. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] stated she feels COOPER is in it. However she could not state [REDACTED] She further stated that [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-14495
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll 5010-108-02
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[partially illegible] 167-81-[illegible] SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED [illegible] [illegible]
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She further advised that [REDACTED] Seattle [REDACTED] Seattle and thus gets money from them.
[REDACTED] is firmly convinced that what she recounted on the two contacts with her is the truth and the writer told her he had accepted the information on the first contact and was again accepting it. In view of her insistence that "something be done" about this matter it is recommended that all names in this memo be indexed to it so that if any other communications are received from this woman a reference will be found.
Recommand no furtheraction in this matter in view [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-14496
Serials: SE 164-81