To SAC Seattle re overheard conversation at Mandarin Restaurant, Bellevue

Document date 23 December 1977

Part 41page 2031 pageDB Cooper-16235

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Document: Memo to SAC Seattle re overheard conversation at Mandarin Restaurant, Bellevue
Id: Cooper-Part-41:203-203
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 41 p. 203 (DB Cooper-16235), Memo, dated 23 Dec 1977, serial SE 164-81-7748 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A203-203

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT memorandum

DATE: 12/23/77 REPLY TO ATTN OF: SA [REDACTED] (A) SUBJECT: NORJAK TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

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The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED] at Seattle:

On October 21, 1977, Seattle Police Department Officer [REDACTED] telephonex source [REDACTED] telephonically contacted SA [REDACTED] and advised that he was in the cocktail lounge of the Mandarin Restaurant in Bellevue, Washington when he overheard a conversation be- tween two older men.

One of the individuals was telling the other that [REDACTED] was D. B. COOPER. The man stated that COOPER is now living in South Africa and was "home free". [REDACTED] was unable to hear any more of the conversation. [REDACTED] ascertained from the bartender at the Mandarin Restaurant that the individual who stated he was D.B. COOPER's [REDACTED] [REDACTED] is employed by the Boeing Aircraft Company and was a former Bellevue City Councilman. [REDACTED] was believed to be in his 50's and [REDACTED] did not think that [REDACTED] was intoxicated.

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164-81-7748 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED [REDACTED] FILED [REDACTED]

DEC 23 1977

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 (REV. 7-76) GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 5010-112 DB Cooper-16235

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7748