SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle re palm prints of NORJAK suspect Robert Wesley Rackstraw

*FD-36 (Rev. 7-27-76)

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AIRTEL Date 5/5/78

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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) OO: Seattle

Re: ROBERT WESLEY RACKSTRAW Sub Number [REDACTED] 933

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Re Seattle airtel to Sacramento dated 4/7/78.

Suspect RACKSTRAW was approached by SA [REDACTED] [REDACTED] on 4/24/78, at the San Joaquin County Jail, French Camp, California, and he refused palm prints or interview without permission of his attorney. He identified his attorney as [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was contacted and he advised SA [REDACTED] that he did not desire to have his client interviewed concerning NORJAK, but that he was agreeable to palm prints being taken.

On 5/4/78, SA [REDACTED] returned to the jail to take the palm prints, but RACKSTRAW again declined and advised that he wanted SA [REDACTED] to contact his attorney, [REDACTED] Oakland, California, telephone [REDACTED] He stated that [REDACTED] is his primary attorney, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in Calaveras County.

[REDACTED] was telephonically contacted by SA [REDACTED] on 5/4/78, and he advised that it would be necessary for the government to get a court order to obtain the palm prints. He stated RACKSTRAW has denied being D. B. COOPER, but he does not want his client interviewed concerning it nor will he cooperate in the investigation as it might possibly not be in RACKSTRAW's best interest.

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2-Seattle 3-San Francisco (164-220) 2-Sacramento WLL:js Approved: _____(7)_____ Transmitted ________ (Number) (Time)

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ MAY 1 0 1978

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164-81-933 DB Cooper-16015

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SC 164-50

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On 5/4/78, this matter was discussed with AUSA [REDACTED] Sacramento, California, and he advised that the court order should be obtained by the Seattle Office through the U. S. Attorney at Seattle.

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On 5/4/78, Stockton Police Department, advised he has heard that [REDACTED] is a lawyer in Oakland [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] He wondered if this would indicate that RACKSTRAW's suspected involvement in the 1975 theft of the explosives at the Felton Quarry, Santa Cruz, California, some of which were later recovered from the NWLF by the FBI at Richmond, California, in early 1976, might mean that RACKSTRAW intentionally obtained the explosives for the radicals. He stated that [REDACTED] reportedly was formerly in partnership with [REDACTED] another reported [REDACTED] [REDACTED] reportedly [REDACTED] by the San Francisco Police Department, is [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and has [REDACTED]

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Seattle Division will discuss this matter of palm prints with the U. S. Attorney to determine if a court order will issue or whether it has to be handled as a subpoena to the Federal Grand Jury in Seattle. It is noted that RACKSTRAW is presently feigning a back injury which requires him to be transported in a wheel chair, and custodial personnel feel he is doing this in an attempt to effect a possible escape attempt. If U. S. Marshals are to transport him they should be warned that RACKSTRAW is a former U. S. Army Green Beret and Vietnam veteran and is highly skilled in the use of his hands and feet as weapons.

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San Francisco Division will advise if the involvement of [REDACTED] on the defense team possibly indicates some interest by the NWLF in protecting their source of explosives. RACKSTRAW is known to have purchased a great deal explosive between the time he murdered his

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2 DB Cooper-16016

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