Director FBI to Atlanta, Seattle, Portland re CBS News inquiry on Coffelt and NORJAK
Document date 19 May 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:457-460 Document: Teletype Director FBI to Atlanta, Seattle, Portland re CBS News inquiry on Coffelt and NORJAK Id: Cooper-Part-41:457-460 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A457-460 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. 457–460 (DB Cooper-16572–16575), Teletype, dated 19 May 1978, serial SE 164-81-7898 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A457-460
VZCZCHQ0 003 00 AT PD SE DE HQ 0003 1390125 ZNR UUUUU O 190019Z MAY 78 FM DIRECTOR FBI TO FBI ATLANTA IMMEDIATE FBI SEATTLE IMMEDIATE FBI PORTLAND IMMEDIATE BT UNCLAS NORJAK
RE BUTELCAL TO PORTLAND MAY 17, 1978, AND BUTELCALS TO SEATTLE AND ATLANTA MAY 18, 1978.
FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, [REDACTED] CBS NEWS, ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT THE DIRECTOR ON MAY 15, 1978, REGARDING CAPTIONED MATTER. ON THE SAME DATE, [REDACTED] WAS CONTACTED BY [REDACTED] PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE, AND WAS ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] AND ONE OF HIS ASSISTANTS, [REDACTED] HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING THE COOPER CASE FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS. THEY HAD TALKED TO NUMEROUS PEOPLE AND HAD FILMED INTERVIEWS WITH STEWARDESSES AND PASSENGERS WHO WOULD BE
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164-81-7898 SEARCHED [illegible] [illegible] MAY 1 91978
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DB Cooper-16572
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IN A POSITION TO KNOW THE DETAILS OF COOPER'S ACTIVITIES AND TO IDENTIFY PHOTOGRAPHS OF COOPER. COFFELT, REFERRED TO BY [REDACTED] IS BELIEVED IDENTICAL TO BRYANT COFFELT, WHITE MALE, DOB FEBRUARY 20, 1916, CARTHAGE, MISSOURI, FBI NO. 590 868. DURING COURSE OF THEIR INVESTIGATION THEY HAVE DEVELOPED SUSPECT, ONE JACK COFFELT, NOW DECEASED. ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] WHEN COFFELT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THAT HE, COFFELT, WAS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] HAS TOLD COFFELT'S STORY TO A FREE-LANCE WRITER BY THE NAME OF [REDACTED] AND CBS HAS TALKED TO [REDACTED] AND PRESUMABLY [REDACTED] SAID THAT THEIR INTERVIEW OF ONE OF THE STEWARDESSES HAS DISCLOSED THAT SHE IDENTIFIED A PICTURE OF COFFELT AS D. B. COOPER; HOWEVER, SHE CLAIMS THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS NEVER SHOWN TO HER BY THE FBI. CBS HAS ALSO INTERVIEWED A PASSENGER WHO SAID THE FBI DID SHOW HIM A PICTURE OF COFFELT WHICH HE IDENTIFIED AS COOPER BUT THE FBI NEVER FOLLOWED UP WITH ANY ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION.
[REDACTED] CLAIMS THAT CBS HAS LEARNED THAT A TEST FLIGHT PERFORMED FOR THE BUREAU DETERMINED THAT WHEN THE REAR DOOR OF THE PLANE WAS LET DOWN THE CABIN PRESSURE IN THE PLANE DROPPED.
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DB Cooper-16573
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PAGE THREE DE HQ 0003 UNCLAS THIS EVENT OCCURRED DURING THE ACTUAL FLIGHT WITH COOPER AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE CREW DETERMINED THE APPROXIMATE AREA THAT COOPER JUMPED FROM THE PLANE. CBS SAYS THEY HAVE TALKED TO OFFICIALS OF THE BOEING AIRCRAFT CORPORA- TION AND THEY SAY THAT A DROP OF CABIN PRESSURE, SUCH AS OCCURRED, WOULD NOT BE APPARENT TO THE CREW.
CBS HAS TALKED TO SA [REDACTED] WHO HAS BEEN THE CASE AGENT ON THE NORJAK CASE FOR THE PORTLAND OFFICE SINCE 1971 AND TO SAC JOHN REED OF THE SEATTLE OFFICE. [REDACTED] FURTHER STATED THAT WHEN COFFELT [REDACTED] THE ONLY PERSON TO VISIT HIM WAS THE SAC IN THE ATLANTA OFFICE. IN ADDITION THEY HAVE DEVELOPED SOME INDEPENDENT INFORMATION THAT COFFELT KNEW J. EDGAR HOOVER AND SENATOR HUBERT HUMPHREY.
CBS HAS INTERVIEWED SA [REDACTED] THE CASE AGENT IN PORTLAND, AND SAC JOHN REED IN SEATTLE. [REDACTED] CONTENDS THAT HIS QUESTIONS CONCERNING COFFELT WERE NOT ADEQUATELY ANSWERED BY EITHER [REDACTED] OR REED AND IT IS HIS FEELING THAT THE RELUCTANCE OF THE BUREAU TO TALK ABOUT COFFELT LEADS CBS TO BELIEVE THAT HE WAS EITHER AN INFORMANT OR HIS ACQUAINT- ANCESHIP WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER AND HUBERT HUMPHREY PRECLUDED
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DB Cooper-16574
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PAGE FOUR DE HHQ 0003 UNCLAS ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION OF COFFELT. [REDACTED] ADVISED [REDACTED] HE HAD ONE QUESTION THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANSWERED AND THAT IS, "WHY IS THE FBI SO CERTAIN THAT JACK COFFELT IS NOT D. B. COOPER?" LEADS: RECEIVING OFFICES ARE TO REVIEW APPROPRIATE FILES FOR INFORMATION REGARDING QUESTIONS RAISED BY [REDACTED] AND THERE- AFTER SUTEL RESULTS TO INCLUDE DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC COMMUNICATIONS WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO FBIHQ CONTAINING THE ANSWERS. IN ADDITION, ATLANTA IS TO CONTACT APPROPRIATE PERSONNEL AT [REDACTED] AND ASCERTAIN DATES ON WHICH BRYANT COFFELT [REDACTED] ALONG WITH OTHER PERTINENT BACKGROUND INFORMATION. ALL OFFICES SUTEL RESULTS. BT 0003
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DB Cooper-16575
Serials: SE 164-81-7898