Portland to Director and Seattle re CBS 60 Minutes interview on NORJAK
Document date 22 May 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:468-470 Document: Teletype Portland to Director and Seattle re CBS 60 Minutes interview on NORJAK Id: Cooper-Part-41:468-470 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A468-470 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. 468–470 (DB Cooper-16584–16585), Teletype, dated 22 May 1978, serial SE 164-81-7903 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A468-470
PDO 090 1430130Z OO HQ SE DE PD 002 O 222341Z MAY 78 FM PORTLAND (164-41) P TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) IMMEDIATE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE BT UNCLAS NORJACK
RE TELCALL OF [REDACTED] FBIHQ, TO ASAC [REDACTED] PORTLAND, MAY 22, 1978.
ON MAY 4, 1978, [REDACTED] REPRESENTING [REDACTED] OF CBS "SIXTY MINUTES" APPEARED AT THE PORTLAND DIVISION IN CONNECTION WITH CAPTIONED MATTER. ARRANGEMENTS FOR [REDACTED] APPEARANCE FOLLOWED A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN [REDACTED] FBIHQ, AND SAC, PORTLAND, AND SAC, SEATTLE, REGARDING "SIXTY MINUTES" DESIRE TO GET INFORMATION IN THIS CASE. THE BUREAU IS WELL AWARE OF "SIXTY MINUTES'" ATTEMPT TO VERIFY A SPECULATIVE SUSPECT IN THIS CASE BY THE NAME OF BRYANT COFFELT. IN THE INITIAL
PAGE TWO PD 164-41 UNCLAS DISCUSSION, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT PORTLAND WOULD NOT DISCUSS THIS MATTER WITH [REDACTED] OR "SIXTY MINUTES" AND [REDACTED] WAS SO ADVISED. SAC, PORTLAND, WAS SUBSEQUENTLY REQUESTED BY [REDACTED] TO MAKE SA [REDACTED] AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS BACKGROUND INFORMATION WITH [REDACTED] OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE, WITH THE STIPULATION THAT IT WOULD NOT BE ON FILM OR BE A RECORDED INTERVIEW.
[REDACTED] ARRIVED PORTLAND ON MAY 4, 1978. A BRIEF DISCUSSION WAS HELD BETWEEN [REDACTED] AND SAC REGARDING THE GROUND RULES FOR THIS INTERVIEW WITH SA [REDACTED] AFTER WHICH SA [REDACTED] WAS MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE LIMITED PUR- POSE OF PROVIDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION IN THIS CASE TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SAC WAS PRESENT DURING THE MAJORITY OF THE INTERVIEW, WHICH DID IN FACT CONCERN ITSELF WITH BACKGROUND DATA AS TO TIMES, PLACES, AND EVENTS. DURING THE COURSE OF THIS INTER- VIEW, NO NAMES OF PERSONS, PARTICULARLY WITNESSES OR SUSPECTS, WERE DISCUSSED. IT WAS CLEARLY POINTED OUT TO [REDACTED] THAT THE IDENTITIES OF PILOTS, STEWARDESSES AND PASSENGERS WOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED. EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THE NAMES HAVE APPEARED IN THE PRINTED MEDIUM, SUCH INFORMATION
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DB Cooper-16584
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PAGE THREE PD 164-41 UNCLAS
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WOULD NOT EMANATE FROM THE FBI. [REDACTED] ATTEMPTED TO MAKE INQUIRIES CONCERNING SUSPECTS, AND IT WAS SPECIFICALLY POINTED OUT TO HIM THIS INFORMATION WOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED, NOR WOULD THE BASIS UPON WHICH ANY PARTICULAR SUSPECT WAS CONSIDERED BE DISCUSSED. IN FACT, DURING THE COURSE OF THIS INTERVIEW, NO SUCH DISCUSSION DID OCCUR AND SPECIFICALLY, THE NAME OF COFFELT WAS NOT UTTERED BY THE SAC, SA [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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THE INFORMATION FURNISHED [REDACTED] DID NOT EXCEED THAT WHICH HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN RELEASED TO THE MEDIA, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH IS WELL KNOWN TO THE BUREAU, AND SPECIFICALLY, IT DID NOT EXCEED THAT INFORMATION WHICH IS CONTAINED IN THE ALLEN LANSBURG PRODUCTIONS (FREE LANCE) TELEVISION DOCUMEN- TARY FILMED IN FEBRUARY, 1977. BT
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DB Cooper-16585
Serials: 164-2111, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7903