SAC Buffalo to SAC Seattle re New York woman's tip from Star article sketch

Document date 6 March 1978

Part 41pages 304–3052 pagesDB Cooper-16354–16355

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:304-305

Document: Memo SAC Buffalo to SAC Seattle re New York woman's tip from Star article sketch
Id: Cooper-Part-41:304-305
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A304-305

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 41 pp. 304–305 (DB Cooper-16354–16355), Memo, dated 6 Mar 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A304-305

SAC, SEATTLE 3/6/78

SAC, BUFFALO (164-0) (RUC)

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper; Hijacking of Northwest Airline Flight Number 305 Enroute from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington 11/4 - 24/71 (OO: SEATTLE)

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Enclosed for Seattle is a photograph of [REDACTED] Rock Springs, Wyoming.

For information of Seattle, on 2/15/78, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] New York, advised that she recently read the [REDACTED] edition of the "Star Newspaper", which carried an article about the captioned matter. A composite sketch of COOPER was included. Upon examining the composite sketch, she was impressed with the similar appearance of an individual known to her as [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Rock Springs, Wyoming with whom she corresponded during a two year period starting in 1973. [REDACTED] advised that she began her correspondence with [REDACTED] through a Lonely Hearts magazine and that the enclosed picture was sent to her by [REDACTED] shortly afterward. She stated that she had never personally met this individual that had corresponded by letter and spoken to him on the telephone. Supposedly [REDACTED] had served in the United States Navy and when she knew him he was employed as an electrician in a power plant near Rock Springs, Wyoming.

[REDACTED] has no additional information about [REDACTED] and no other reason to believe that he could be

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DB Cooper-16354

BU 164-0

DAN COOPER other than the similarity in appearance.

The above information is being furnished to Seattle for information purposes only.

Buffalo File 164-46 on above subject has been destroyed. No further information.

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DB Cooper-16355

Serials: 164-0, BU 164-0, BU 164-46