Atlanta to Director and field offices re attorney contacted about NORJAK subject
This copy: Part 40 pp. 195–198Also filed at Part 61 pp. 413–416 (primary)
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Atlanta to Director re attorney contacted about Coffelt/NORJAK claim
Document date 27 July 1977
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Id: Cooper-Part-40:195-198
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-40:195-198 Document: Teletype Atlanta to Director re attorney contacted about Coffelt/NORJAK claim Id: Cooper-Part-40:195-198 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A195-198 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 40 pp. 195–198 (DB Cooper-15891, DB Cooper-15893), Teletype, dated 27 Jul 1977, serial SE 164-81-7628 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A195-198
ATO420 2081910 PP SE DE AT P 271910Z JUL 77 FM ATLANTA (164-954) (GUC) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) PRIORITY LITTLE ROCK (164-22) PRIORITY DENVER (164-93) PRIORITY SAN DIEGO (164-91) PRIORITY MINNEAPOLIS (164-93) PRIORITY LOS ANGELES (164-497) PRIORITY SEATTLE (164-31) PRIORITY WFO PRIORITY BT CLEAR
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NORJAK; OO: ATLANTA
RE LITTLE ROCK TELETYPE TO THE DIRECTOR JULY 20, 1977.
[REDACTED] ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ADVISED ON JULY 25, 1977, THAT APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE WEEKS AGO HE RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL AT HIS OFFICE FROM
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[REDACTED] A HIGHLY RESPECTED ATLANTA ATTORNEY, HAS HAD A LONG ASSOCIATION WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN HIS PHONE CALL IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS [REDACTED] AND ADVISED [REDACTED] THAT HE WANTED [REDACTED] TO BE HIS LAWYER. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE WAS DEALING WITH ONE [REDACTED] IN FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, IN REGARD TO SELLING A STORY CONCERNING INSTANT MATTER. [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] THAT HE, [REDACTED], HAS NOT BEEN RETAINED BY [REDACTED] AND HAS NOT SEEN [REDACTED] BUT INASMUCH AS HE KNEW [REDACTED] AND "ON THE BASIS THAT I WILL HELP YOU IN ANY LEGAL MATTERS IN WHICH I AM QUALIFIED, YOU MAY ADVISE [REDACTED] THAT I AM YOUR ATTORNEY." APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS AGO HE RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM [REDACTED] WHOM HE DESCRIBED AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, AND RELATED TO [REDACTED] THAT HE HAD UNDERTAKEN TO ADVISE [REDACTED] IN CERTAIN LEGAL MATTERS. [REDACTED] FELT THAT NEITHER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAD CONTACTED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
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PAGE THREE AT (164-454) CLEAN NOR DOES HE RECALL ANY REFERENCE BY EITHER OF [REDACTED] TO JAMES EARL RAY AND ADDITIONALLY, [REDACTED] DOES NOT KNOW AN ATTORNEY AMED [REDACTED] IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT [REDACTED] IS A CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF THE HONORABLE GRIFFIN B. BELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES. [REDACTED] SOMETIME IN APRIL, 1977, RELATED TO [REDACTED] OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, HIS CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JUDGE BELL AND OFFERED TO RELATE [REDACTED] VERSION OF INSTANT MATTER AND THE IDENTITY OF DAVID BRYANT COFFELT AS HIJACKER TO JUDGE BELL TO SEE IF THIS WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO JUDGE BELL AND THE FBI. [REDACTED] CONSENTED AND AGREED THAT [REDACTED] SHOULD TURN OVER TO FBI A FILE OF CORRESPON- DENCE AUTHORED BY [REDACTED] AND RELATING TO [REDACTED] EFFORTS TO SELL A STORY TO MOVIE AND TELEVISION MEDIA IN WHICH DAVID BRYANT COFFELT, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND NOW DECEASED, IS IDENTIFIED AS THE HIJACKER IN INSTANT MATTER. [REDACTED] HAS DISCUSSED THE COFFELT-COOPER RELATIONSHIP WITH JUDGE BELL AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INTERVIEWED BY AGENTS IN ATLANTA
PAGE FOUR AT (164-254) CLEAR AND FURNISHED HIS FILE CONCERNING THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] STATES THAT HE DOES NOT RECALL SPECIFICALLY [REDACTED]
HOWEVER, HIS FILE WHICH HE HAS TURNED OVER TO FBI, ATLANTA, AND WHICH HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO FBI, LAS VEGAS, CONTAINS MANY [REDACTED] WHICH [REDACTED] CLAIMS HE HAS NOT TAKEN THE TIME TO READ BUT MERELY ACKNOWLEDGED, MIGHT WELL CONTAIN SUCH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAS RECENTLY WRITTEN [REDACTED] THAT HE DOES NOT ANY LONGER DESIRE TO REPRESENT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN THE COFFELT COOPER MATTER.
[REDACTED] REITERATED HIS CONTINUED COOPERATION WITH FBI IN THIS MATTER AND URGED USE OF THE CORRESPONDENCE WHICH HE HAS PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED FOR WHATEVER VALUE IT MIGHT OFFER. BT
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DB Cooper-15893
Serials: 164-2111, 164-31, 164-954, AT 164-254, KC 164-454, LA 164-497, LR 164-22, PG 164-93, SD 164-91, SE 164-81-7628