SAC Los Angeles to Director and offices re Jack Coffelt as Cooper suspect
Document date 18 March 1977
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-39:258-261 Document: Teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director and offices re Jack Coffelt as Cooper suspect Id: Cooper-Part-39:258-261 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A258-261 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. 258–261 (DB Cooper-15443), Teletype, dated 18 Mar 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A258-261
LAN027 C73S430Z PR H0 AX HI MC LV PD SE WF DE LA R 19[guess: 0]430Z MAR 77
FM LOS ANGELES (164-497) (13) (P) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE ALEXANDRIA (164-72) ROUTINE HONOLULU (164-85) ROUTINE KANSAS CITY ROUTINE LAS VEGAS (164-62) ROUTINE PORTLAND (164-41) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) ROUTINE BT CLEAR
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MORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.
RE. LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU, JANUARY 24, 1977, WASHINGTON FIELD AIRTEL TO BUREAU, MARCH 2, 1977, AND HONOLULU AIRTEL TO BUFFALO, MARCH 18, 1977.
RE: UNSUB; [redacted]
FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, [redacted] CALIFORNIA, HAS VOLUNTEERED INFORMATION CONCERNING SUSPECT JACK BRYANT COFFELT DURING EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW AT LOS ANGELES.
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SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED MAR 18 1977
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DB Cooper-15443
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[REDACTED] RELATED THAT ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO, HE WAS ENGAGED BY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TO INVESTIGATE VERACITY OF INFORMATION BEING FURNISHED UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BY [REDACTED] INDICATING THAT COFFELT WAS POSSIBLY HIGHJACKER KNOWN AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] STATES TRAVELED WIDELY IN U.S. FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS INTERVIEWING PAST ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND SPENT 12 HOURS INTERVIEWING [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] STATES, DURING INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT NEITHER [REDACTED] HAD EVER ACTUALLY [REDACTED] ALLEGEDLY FROM PARACHUTE USED BY HIGHJACKER. [REDACTED] STATED COFFELT HAD MADE CASUAL REFERENCE [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] COVERED MANY FACETS OF HIS EFFORTS TO DETERMINE IF COFFELT HIGHJACKER, IN FACTUAL AND ORGANIZED MANNER. STATED HE REACHED CONCLUSION COFFELT WAS PROBABLY NOT HIGHJACKER BASED ON FOLLOWING FACTS:
DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING, BRYANT COFFELT WAS SUFFERING FROM SEVERE ALCOHOLISM AND ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
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[REDACTED] HAD DISPLAYED LETTER DATED SEPTEMBER 27, 1976, TO HIM FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HONOLULU. IN LETTER, [REDACTED] JACK COFFELT COULD NOT BE HIGHJACKER AS AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING, COFFELT UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. DOCTOR AND DURING ENTIRE PERIOD, IT WAS WELL KNOWN THAT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. HE WAS SEVERE ALCOHOLIC. [REDACTED] STATES HE INTERVIEWED SEVERAL ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND CONFIRMED ALCOHOLISM PROBLEM DURING LATE 1971, AND COFFELT WAS ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. [illegible] ALLUDING TO SERIOUS INJURIES TO LEG AND GROIN AREA WHICH [illegible] [REDACTED] THEORIZED WERE RECEIVED FROM JUMPING FROM AIRCRAFT, [guess: BLAIR] STATES ASSOCIATES IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, RECALLED COFFELT HAD OPERATION ON FOOT IN 1967, AND HAD TO HIRE CAB TO TRAVEL ONE BLOCK. ALSO DETERMINED [REDACTED] NORTHERN VIRGINIA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, DIAGNOSED COFFELT HAD SEVERE THROMBOPHLEBITUS OF LEGS AND WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, JULY 19, 1973. [REDACTED] STATES ALSO VERIFIED THAT DURING PERIOD OF HIGH-
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JACKING A[illegible]D [guess: ON] DAY OF HIGHJACKING, [REDACTED] EMPLOYED FOR POTOMAC TEMPORARIES, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
[REDACTED] STATES HAD NOT INTERVIEWED [REDACTED] IN HONOLULU NOR HAD HE ASCERTAINED NAME OF PSYCHIATRIST REPORTEDLY TREATING COFFELT AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING.
BASED ON ABOVE INFORMATION AND IN ORDER TO BRING MATTER TO LOGICAL CONCLUSION WITH MINIMUM INVESTIGATION, FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE CONDUCTED:
...HONOLULU, CONTACT [REDACTED] HONOLULU, AND OBTAIN NAME OF PSYCHIATRIST TREATING COFFELT DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING.
SET OUT LEAD FOR WASHINGTON FIELD TO VERIFY COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
BT
PUI#436Z
Serials: 164-2111, AX 164-72, HN 164-85, IP 164-62, LA 164-437, LA 164-497, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, WF 164-169