SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re NORJAK, Ariel Store witness account, with Seattle lead
Document date 8 December 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-39:065-066 Document: Airtel SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re NORJAK, Ariel Store witness account, with Seattle lead Id: Cooper-Part-39:065-066 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A065-066 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 39 pp. 65–66 (DB Cooper-15224–15225), Airtel, dated 8 Dec 1976, serial SE 164-81-7290 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A065-066
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Date: 12/8/76
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Via AIRTEL AIRTEL (Precedence)
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (F)
SUBJECT: NORJAK (OO: Seattle) BuFile 164-2111
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On 12/7/76, [REDACTED] for the Oregon Journal Daily Newspaper, Portland, Oregon, advised that on 11/24/76, he visited the Ariel Dam area where instant hijacking ended in 1971 to gather information for an anniversary story. While there he talked with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] the Ariel Store and asked her if there had been any developments known to her in the case. She at first replied in the negative and then said that he might try contacting a [REDACTED] at telephone number [REDACTED] contacted a woman at the above num- ber who identified herself as [REDACTED] and she told him she resides in the area [REDACTED] Wash- ington. She related that on the night of the hijacking in 1971, [REDACTED]
During the time she waited for her husband to return home she heard a low flying jet airplane. She mentioned this to her husband when he returned and he told her that on his drive home along an old logging road between [REDACTED] [REDACTED] he had seen a well dressed man walking along the road and thought it strange to see such an individual in that area at that time of the night. [REDACTED] said he asked why she had not reported this to the authorities and she ad- vised that she and her husband had not even heard about the hijacking for a period of two weeks after it happened and had felt that law enforcement officers were so busy they would not be interested in this information. [REDACTED] said he attempted to get in touch with the woman's husband to get his report of the incident but had not been able to contact him. /64-81-7290
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(C) - Seattle (2) - Portland
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Approved: ______ Sent ______ M Per ______ Special Agent in Charge
DB Cooper-15224
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[guess: jul] [guess: 874]
PD 164-41
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LEAD
SEATTLE
AT [REDACTED] WASHINGTON. Will contact [REDACTED] telephone for full details of the above alleged incident.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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DB Cooper-15225
Serials: 164-2111, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7290