SAC San Francisco to SAC Seattle re source information on Rackstraw
Document date 6 February 1979
Also filed at: Part 42 pp. 251–253
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-40:404-406 Document: Airtel SAC San Francisco to SAC Seattle re source information on Rackstraw Id: Cooper-Part-40:404-406 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A404-406 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. 404–406 (DB Cooper-16033–16034), Airtel, dated 6 Feb 1979, serial SE 164-81-8069 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A404-406
2/6/79
AIRTEL AIR MAIL
TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (P) (SJRA)
RE: NORJAK (A) OO: SE
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ROBERT RACKSTRAW
On 2/5/79, [REDACTED] (PROTECT IDENTITY), [REDACTED] telephone [REDACTED] telephonically contacted the FBI, San Jose, Calif., and advised that [REDACTED] ROBERT RACKSTRAW. Source stated
[REDACTED] Source advised that he is providing this information to the FBI because he read in the newspaper that RACKSTRAW is possibly identical to D.B. COOPER, the man who hijacked an airliner in 1971 and thought that the FBI would possibly want to talk [REDACTED] concerning RACKSTRAW's activities.
The source requested that his identity be protected [REDACTED]
On 2/5/79, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California, telephone [REDACTED] appeared at the San Jose FBI Resident Agency and provided the following information:
[REDACTED] met ROBERT RACKSTRAW during [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Recently [REDACTED] saw a picture of RACKSTRAW in the paper and identified him [REDACTED]
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(2) - Seattle 2 - San Francisco WRS:rvs (4)
[Handwritten] Sub 9335
164-81-8069
SEARCHED __ INDEXED SERIALIZED [REDACTED] FILED [REDACTED] FEB 9 1979 FBI — SEATTLE
SF 164-220 WRS:rvs
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[REDACTED] met RACKSTRAW while [REDACTED] working in a restaurant named [REDACTED] California. RACKSTRAW came into the restaurant[REDACTED] a casual conversation occurred and [REDACTED] and RACKSTRAW became acquainted.
[REDACTED] knew RACKSTRAW by his true name. [REDACTED]
Shortly after meeting, [REDACTED] and RACKSTRAW moved to San Jose, California. [REDACTED] is certain that she and RACKSTRAW were in San Jose during November of 1971. During the period in question, November, 1971, to 1973, she saw RACKSTRAW on a daily basis, [REDACTED] RACKSTRAW very rarely was gone overnight and [REDACTED] cannot remember that RACKSTRAW was gone overnight during November of 1971.
RACKSTRAW smoked occasionally, but [REDACTED] could not remember his brand of cigarettes.
Referring to RACKSTRAW's mannerisms, she described him as robust, but polite in speech, with no noticeable accent. He talked fast on occasion.
During November and December, 1971, RACKSTRAW had a full mustache, and she does not remember him shaving it off. At the time RACKSTRAWwas about twenty-eight (28) years old and looked his age.
After [REDACTED] RACKSTRAW moved to San Jose in September or October of 1971, RACKSTRAW enrolled in and attended real estate school. About January of 1972, RACKSTRAW [REDACTED] Later on [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California. The last four numbers of her telephone number are [REDACTED]
In 1972, RACKSTRAW got a second job working at the Radio Shack in Cupertino, California.
[REDACTED] advised that there was no indication whatsoever that RACKSTRAW obtained a sizeable amount of money during the time that she knew him, 1971-1973. [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-16033
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SF 164-220 WRS:rvs
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stated that during this time, there was no indication that RACKSTRAW was involved in any illegal activity.
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3* DB Cooper-16034
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8069, SF 164-220