SAC Sacramento to Director re Robert Wesley Jones aka Robert Wesley Rackstraw
Document date 6 March 1978
Part of: SAC Sacramento to Director re NORJAK suspect Rackstraw, arrest and leads
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:301-301 Document: Airtel SAC Sacramento to Director re Robert Wesley Jones aka Robert Wesley Rackstraw Id: Cooper-Part-41:301-301 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A301-301 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 p. 301 (DB Cooper-16349), Airtel, dated 6 Mar 1978, serial SE 164-81-7890 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A301-301
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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☒ Airtel ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ E F T O ☐ CLEAR Date 3/6/78
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) ATTN: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50)(P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) OO: Seattle
Enclosed for Seattle is one copy of LHM dated 2/3/78 concerning ROBERT WESLEY JONES, aka Robert Wesley Rackstraw, Sacramento to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] who was recently arrested by the New York Division and is awaiting transfer back to Stockton, California after waiving extradition. He claims RACKSTRAW is his true name and all records except birth records list him as RACKSTRAW.
Also enclosed for Seattle is one copy of RACKSTRAW's resume wherein he claims to hold Army aviator and paratrooper insignia, as well as Vietnamese paratrooper wings, and to have received training in both demolitions and underwater demolitions while in the U.S. Army.
RACKSTRAW's military record discloses he was forced to resign his first lieutenant's commission in June, 1971, and he was extremely bitter over his severance. His descrip- tion and sketch of NORJAK subject are very similar. When arrested by the FBI in February, 1978, he admitted to the arresting agent that he would be fully capable of successfully
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1 - Bureau 2 - Seattle (164-81)(Enc. 2) 2 - San Francisco (164-220) 2 - St. Louis (164-63) 3 - Sacramento (2 - 164-50) [REDACTED] WLL/kj (10)
Approved: ___________ Transmitted ___________ (Number) (Time)
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _2_ FILED ___ MAR 8 1978 FBI — SEATTLE
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164-81-7890 DB Cooper-16349
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933
Serials: 164-2111, SC 164-50, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7890, SF 164-220, SL 164-63