SAC Atlanta to Director re NORJAK information from airline passenger
Document date 24 August 1977
Also filed at: Part 62 pp. 115–116
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-40:239-240 Document: Airtel SAC Atlanta to Director re NORJAK information from airline passenger Id: Cooper-Part-40:239-240 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A239-240 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. 239–240 (DB Cooper-15937–15938), Airtel, dated 24 Aug 1977, serial SE 164-81-7652 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A239-240
FD-36 (Rev. 7-27-76) FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: [ ] Teletype [ ] Immediate [ ] TOP SECRET [ ] Facsimile [ ] Priority [ ] SECRET [x] Airtel [ ] Routine [ ] CONFIDENTIAL [ ] E F T O [ ] CLEAR
Date 8/24/77
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, ATLANTA (164-254)(RUC)
SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) (OO: SEATTLE)
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Re Atlanta airtel to the Director dated 5/13/77, Little Rock teletype to the Director dated 7/20/77, and Seattle airtel to the Director dated 8/17/77.
For information of the New York Division, enclosed references relate information developed concerning efforts made by [REDACTED] of Las Vegas, Nevada, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] relating to instant matter in which one DAVID BRYANT COFFELT (allegedly deceased) is identified as D.B. COOPER, hijacker in instant matter.
On 8/16/77, [REDACTED] Atlanta, Georgia, telephonically contacted the Atlanta Office and furnished the following information:
She is employed by HEW, Peachtree and 7th Street, Atlanta, and on [REDACTED] she was on a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., when she overheard the following story:
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3 - Bureau (164-2111) 1 - Los Angeles (164-497)(Info) 2 - Seattle (164-81) 2 - New York (Enc.3) 1 - Atlanta JRMW:psm (9)
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164-81-7652 SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED AUG 29 1977 FBI - SEATTLE Per DB Cooper-15937
AT 164-254
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Sitting next to her on this flight was one [REDACTED], who identified himself [REDACTED] for Newsday, a prominent newspaper on Long Island, New York. She stated that she had verified through library sources his identity and veracity and that he told her [REDACTED] [REDACTED] the subject's escapade and had just met with the subject [REDACTED] [REDACTED] under another name. She stated that [REDACTED] showed her a penciled drawing on a handkerchief that the subject had done portraying a "snoopy" parachute dropping from an aircraft holding a sack of money. She stated that [REDACTED] told her and two fellow passengers that the subject is a former Boeing employee and he removed a panel from the ceiling of the jet (in the lavatory) and hid there and later got off the aircraft after it had landed and things had cooled down.
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LEADS:
NEW YORK DIVISION
Will locate [REDACTED] through Newsday newspaper on Long Island, New York and interview him concerning any information he would care to furnish regarding the identity of the individual identified as D. B. COOPER the suspect in this matter.
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OFFICE OF ORIGIN HAS POINTED OUT THAT THE [REDACTED] AND POSSIBLY OTHERS ARE ANXIOUS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION WHICH WOULD UPDATE THE SCRIPT BEING PROPOSED AND WRITTEN AND MAKE IT MORE VALUABLE OR WOULD VERIFY THE INFORMATION AND, THEREFORE, MAKE IT MORE PLAUSIBLE. ALL OFFICES COVERING LEADS ARE REMINDED THAT INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS HIJACKING IS NOT TO BE CONFIRMED OR DENIED DURING INTERVIEWS. INTERVIEWS SHOULD BE CONDUCTED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ONLY.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-15938
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2*
Serials: 164-2111, AT 164-254, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7652