Citizen letter to Director Kelley suggesting a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania D.B. Cooper suspect
Document date 26 August 1976
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 38 pp. 133–134 (DB Cooper-14801–14802), Letter, dated 26 Aug 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-38%3A133-134
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August 26, 1976
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Clarence M. Kelley, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20535
Re: Unknown Subject, aka D. B. Cooper Aircraft Piracy--Northwest Airlines November, 1971
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Dear Mr. Kelley:
Reference is made to the apparently unsolved incident in November, 1971 in which an unknown male individual using the name D. B. Cooper extorted $200,000 cash from Northwest Airlines in the state of Washington and disappeared from the pirated aircraft enroute to Reno, Nevada.
[REDACTED] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, telephone [REDACTED] furnished the following information when contacted on an unrelated personal matter.
[REDACTED] stressed that he has no direct, specific information that the information he furnished concerning [REDACTED] below, may or may not relate to the D. B. Cooper air piracy incident.
[REDACTED] businessman who has lived all his life in the general [REDACTED] area, advised that he had known a [REDACTED] white, male, who would now be in his late 50s or early 60s, muscular, originally from the Lancaster County area, who possibly could be the unknown individual using the name D. B. Cooper.
In brief, according to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Lancaster County area, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was a member of the Pennsylvania State Police who resigned from the force; was an aviator and parachutist; was an active hunter, fisherman, and outdoor camper; was a [REDACTED] area; and then about 10-15 years ago, after having been [REDACTED] by the Pennsylvania State Police on [REDACTED] and disappear[ed]
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cc: SAC, Philadelphia (Information) [REDACTED] Pa.
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[signature/date: illegible] - 8/ - [guess: 76] 78 SEARCHED..............INDEXED............... SERIALIZED..............FILED............... SEP 7 1976 FBI CORRESPONDENCE
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DB Cooper-14801
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[REDACTED] said that the knowledge, physical ability, and personality of [REDACTED] were such that he would have been knowledgeable enough about flying and parachuting to have been able to plan the scheme used by D. B. Cooper in the air piracy incident; physically capable of surviving in the wilderness; and clever and conceited enough to have used his true surname to out- wit law enforcement, audacious enough to have carried the air piracy out, and self-disciplined enough to avoid spending the extorted money until all chance of prosecution had passed.
[REDACTED] said he has no information as to the possible current whereabouts of [REDACTED]
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A cursory check of records in the Office of the Clerk of Common Pleas Court-Criminal, Lancaster County Court House, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, reflects that [REDACTED] by Cpl. Frank W. Spickle[r] Pennsylvania State Police (Snickler died some years ago) on charges [REDACTED] [REDACTED] with numerous similar counts.
[REDACTED] entered [REDACTED]
A notation in the Court record shows that under date of [REDACTED] was transferred to the State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia, Pa. and on [REDACTED] to the State Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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In the course of making this preliminary check in the Office of the Clerk of Common Pleas Court-Criminal, [REDACTED] advised that some years ago his office had requested assistance from the Pennsylvania State Police to locate [REDACTED] in an effort to collect the unpaid fine. [REDACTED] said it is his recollection that the Pennsylvania State Police eventually advised his office that it had solicited the aid of the FBI in locating [REDACTED] with negative results other than that Cooper had last been heard from in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. [REDACTED] said he could not date when his office had received this information nor did he know of the extent of any FBI efforts to locate [REDACTED] at that time.
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The writer, who was FBI Resident Agent in Lancaster County dur- ing the [REDACTED] period, has no specific recollection of having known [REDACTED] personally and has no information as to the possibility that [REDACTED] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, might or might not be the unknown D. B. Cooper of captioned matter.
This information is being brought to the attention of the Bureau for any action it may deem proper.
Sincerely yours,
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DB Cooper-14802