Las Vegas to Seattle and Los Angeles re researchers claiming Coffelt was D.B. Cooper

Document date 23 July 1977

Part 40pages 160–1612 pagesDB Cooper-15852–15853

Also filed at: Part 121 pp. 34–35

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-40:160-161

Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Seattle and Los Angeles re researchers claiming Coffelt was D.B. Cooper
Id: Cooper-Part-40:160-161
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A160-161

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 40 pp. 160–161 (DB Cooper-15852–15853), Teletype, dated 23 Jul 1977, serial SE 164-81-7699 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A160-161

LV0120 2341453Z RR LA SE DE LV R 230308Z JUL 77 FM LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P) TO SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE TO LOS ANGELES (164-479) BT CLEAR

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NORJACK, OO: SEATTLE

REMYTELETYPE.

JAMES BRYANT COFFELT, AKA JACK BRYANT COFFELT.

RE LITTLE ROCK TELETYPE TO BUREAU, JULY 20, 1977.

[REDACTED] LAS VEGAS, INTERVIEWED

JULY 21, 1977, AND ADVISED THEY HAVE DONE CONSIDERABLE RESEARCH REGARDING THIS MATTER, INASMUCH AS THEY FEEL D. B. COOPER WAS IDENTICAL TO JACK COFFELT.

[REDACTED] AND

DOING RESEARCH REGARDING HIS KNOWLEDGE OF JACK COFFELT

[REDACTED] WITH COFFELT

IN THE MOUNT HOOD AREA WHERE COFFELT CLAIMED HE JUMPED FROM THE AIRPLANE AND LOST THE EXTORTION MONEY. THE [REDACTED] ARE

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164-81-7699

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[illegible stamp] 22 [illegible] 7

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DB Cooper-15852

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b6 b7C b7D

PAGE TWO LV (164-62) CLEAR

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UNAWARE OF THE PRESENT WHEREABOUTS OF [REDACTED] BUT EXPECT HIM TO TELEPHONICALLY CONTACT THEM WITHIN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THEY ADVISED THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF [REDACTED] FROM COFFELT [REDACTED] SETTING FORTH THE DETAILS OF THE HIJACKING. THEY STATED [REDACTED] OF COFFELT [REDACTED] BY COFFELT, HOWEVER, COFFELT IS NO RELATION [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED THEY WILL INSTRUCT [REDACTED] TO IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO LAS VEGAS FOR INTERVIEW WHEN HE CONTACTS THEM.

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7-22-77 [REDACTED] TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED FBI LAS VEGAS THAT [REDACTED] HAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAMES BRYANT COFFELT AS IDENTICAL TO D.B. COOPER.

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[REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] DURING HIS INTERVIEW WITH HER. HE ADVISED [REDACTED] IS IN [REDACTED] GIVEN TO HIM BY COFFELT WHICH CLAIMED [REDACTED] WAS UNABLE TO DESCRIBE OVER THE TELEPHONE [REDACTED] HOWEVER SOUNDED ANXIOUS TO CO-OPERATE. [REDACTED] DID NOT INTEND TO RETURN TO LAS VEGAS IN THE NEAR FUTURE THEREFORE WAS ADVISED TO CONTACT SA [REDACTED] IN LOS ANGELES WHICH HE AGREED TO DO.

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BT

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DB Cooper-15853

Serials: 164-479, LV 164-60, LV 164-62, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7699