Little Rock to Director and field offices re NORJAK subject and alleged tape recordings

Document date 30 August 1977

Part 40pages 242–2454 pagesDB Cooper-15940–15943

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Document: Teletype Little Rock to Director and field offices re NORJAK subject and alleged tape recordings
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 40 pp. 242–245 (DB Cooper-15940–15943), Teletype, dated 30 Aug 1977, serial SE 164-81-7654 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A242-245

LRO006 24502122 RR HQ LV LA SD SE DE LR R 012230Z AUG 77 FM LITTLE ROCK (164-22)(P) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE LAS VEGAS (164-60) ROUTINE LOS ANGELES (164-497) ROUTINE SAN DIEGO (164-91) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-812) ROUTINE BT CLEAR NORJAK (A). OO: SEATTLE.

ON MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1977, [REDACTED] LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, APPEARED AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK., RESIDENT AGENCY AND ADVISED AS FOLLOWS:

THEY HAD VISITED WITH [REDACTED] ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1977. AT THAT TIME [REDACTED] GAVE THEM A HANDWRITTEN NOTE ADDRESSED TO [REDACTED] ATTORNEY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, WHICH SET FORTH FINANCIAL AGREEMENTS FAVORABLE TO [REDACTED]

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164-81-7654 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] SEP 1 1977 FBI—SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-15940

PAGE TWO LR 164-22 CLEAR

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COOPERATION. [REDACTED] WENT TO DURHAM AND SPOKE TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ATTORNEY, [REDACTED] OF AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND FRIEND OF [REDACTED] ATTORNEY IN ATLANTA. [REDACTED] DETERMINED THAT [REDACTED] HAD BEEN DISBARRED IN NORTH CAROLINA. [REDACTED] RETURNED TO [REDACTED] AND VISITED WITH [REDACTED] ON NIGHT, AUGUST 31, 1977. [REDACTED] RELATED TO THEM [REDACTED] TO FBI ABOUT A FEW SITUATIONS DURING THE HIJACKING. FIRST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FLEW THE AIRCRAFT. SECOND, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THIRD, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BY D. B. COOPER BUT SHE REFUSED IT. [REDACTED] CLAIMED COOPER (COFFELT) WENT INTO BATHROOM WHILE PLANE BEING REFUELED, [REDACTED] STOOD BY BATHROOM DOOR AND WAS HIT BY DOOR WHEN COOPER EXITED BATHROOM. [REDACTED] STATES HE INTERVIEWED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CLAIMED THAT [REDACTED] COULD BE MASTERMIND OF HIJACKING SINCE HE IS FORMER NORTHWEST

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DB Cooper-15941

PAGE THREE LR 164-22 CLEAR

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AIRLINES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CURRENTLY RESIDES IN [REDACTED] MONTANA. [REDACTED] DISPLAYED SEVERAL CASSETTE TAPE CARTRIDGES AND ONE REEL-REEL TAPE. 2 OF CASSETTE CARTRIDGES WERE ALLEGED BY [REDACTED] TO BE ORIGINAL TAPES/OF TELEPHONE CALLS BETWEEN [REDACTED] AND TAPED [REDACTED] /REEL TAPE IS [guess: A] COPY OF CASSETTE OF TELEPHONE CALLS BETWEE[N] [REDACTED] AND PART OF A PERSONAL INTERVIEW BETWEEN [REDACTED] [guess: HAVE] THESE AND SEVERAL TAPES WHICH THEY WILL GLADLY MAKE AVAILABLE TO FBI IF THEY ARE "ASKED", BUT THEY PREFER TO RELEASE THEM TO SA [REDACTED] LAS VEGAS / [guess: AN] TAPE INVOLVING [REDACTED] ALLEGES [REDACTED] REPLIED OREGON AND THEN CHANGED TO WASHINGTON BUT THE OREGON RESPONSE WAS SPONTANEOUS. [REDACTED] DISPLAYED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A PIECE OF NYLON CORD, APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF INCH LONG, IN A PLASTIC BAG. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CLAIMS TO HAVE DUG UP THE CORD NEAR THE "BIG ROCK." THIS WILL ALSO BE TURNED OVER TO FBI, UPON REQUEST, FOR LABORATORY ANALYSIS.

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DB Cooper 15942

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PAGE FOUR LR 164-22 CLEAR

[REDACTED] CLAIMS THAT [REDACTED] MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, WERE HIRED [REDACTED] MUSIC CORPORATION OF AMERICA (MCA), UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, TO CHECK OUT [REDACTED] STORY REGARDING COFFELT AND [REDACTED] TAPED OVER 40 HOURS OF INTERVIEWS AND THESE TAPES ARE IN CUSTODY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAS OTHER TAPE RECORDED CONVERSATIONS. [REDACTED] OF OPINION THAT [REDACTED] IS NOT BEING TRUTHFUL [REDACTED] BY COOPER AND THAT FBI HAS BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY MISLED AND LIED TO [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] DEPARTED ARKANSAS VIA AUTO SEPTEMBER 1, 1977, EN ROUTE LAS VEGAS.

LAS VEGAS: CONTACT [REDACTED] OBTAIN TAPE RECORDINGS, AND NYLON CORD.

LEADS TO REINTERVIEW [REDACTED] TO CONTACT MCA, [REDACTED] AND OTHERS BEING LEFT TO SEATTLE.

LITTLE ROCK DIVISION AT [REDACTED] ARKANSAS: WILL ATTEMPT TO INTERVIEW [REDACTED]

[REDACTED]

BT

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DB Cooper-15943

Serials: 164-2111, 164-812, LA 164-497, LR 164-22, LV 164-60, SD 164-91, SE 164-81-7654

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