SAC Butte to SAC Seattle re NORJAK subject and Spartanburg telephone call
Document date 18 January 1978
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Id: Cooper-Part-41:245-246
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:245-246 Document: Memo SAC Butte to SAC Seattle re NORJAK subject and Spartanburg telephone call Id: Cooper-Part-41:245-246 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A245-246 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 41 pp. 245–246 (DB Cooper-16279–16280), Memo, dated 18 Jan 1978, serial SE 164-81-7776 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A245-246
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 1/18/78
SAC, BUTTE (164-26) (RUC)
NORJAK (A) OO: Seattle Bufile #164-2111
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RE: [REDACTED]
Re Seattle letter to Butte, 12/23/77.
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On 1/12/78, [REDACTED] Sandpoint, City PD, Sandpoint, Idaho, advised that he and [REDACTED] with the Sandpoint City PD, interviewed [REDACTED] on 12/15/77. [REDACTED] was claiming to be D. B. COOPER and the one responsible for skyjacking the aircraft on 11/24/71 over the State of Washington. [REDACTED] is described as follows:
Race White Sex Male DOB 4/30/37 Hair Brown Eyes Brown SSAN 247-54-3981
[REDACTED] was accompanied by [REDACTED] [REDACTED] a white female, DOB [REDACTED] 5' 4", 105#, blonde hair, brown eyes, SSAN [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] indicated that [REDACTED] came into the PD and advised the officers that he was D. B. COOPER and responsible for the skyjacking. At that time, he was staying at the KANIKSU MOTEL, Room 7, in Sandpoint, Idaho. After interviewing him for a short time, [REDACTED] recalled that he had [REDACTED] and at that time he was an [REDACTED] in Maxwell, Alabama. [REDACTED] was turned over to [REDACTED] and transported back to that facility at that time.
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(2) - Seattle 1 - Butte DBW/ddp (3)
164 - 81 - 7776
SEARCHED ______ INDEXED ______ SERIALIZED ____ C-FILED ______ JAN 23 1978 FBI -- SEATTLE
DB Cooper-16279
BT #164-26
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[REDACTED] indicated that he made a long distance telephone call on 12/15/77 to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Spartanburg General Hospital, Spartanburg, South Carolina. [REDACTED] indicated that he was a psychologist and [REDACTED]
He further stated that he had not been in touch with [REDACTED] for some time and offered to sup- ply him with travel expense money if it was needed. He also indicated that [REDACTED] was quite proficient in the marshal arts and had put on several demonstrations where he broke bricks and boards. [REDACTED] assured [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was not D. B. COOPER.
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[REDACTED] stated that it never came out as to where [REDACTED] was on 11/24/71. He thought, however, that it had been proven that [REDACTED] residence back East someplace. [REDACTED] also in- dicated that [REDACTED] left Sandpoint, Idaho, on 12/16/77 leaving no forwarding address. At the time, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] indicated it appeared that [REDACTED] was residing at [REDACTED] South Carolina. He had only $17.00 to his name, and they had arrived in Sandpoint by bus. [REDACTED] has no idea how they left nor where they were going.
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Any leads to be set forth as a result of this information is being left to the discretion of the Office of Origin inasmuch as [REDACTED] has already been investigated as a suspect in this matter.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-16280
Serials: 164-2111, BT 164-26, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7776