Honolulu to Director and Seattle re photographs of Jack Bryant Coffelt
Document date 23 May 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:485-488 Document: Teletype Honolulu to Director and Seattle re photographs of Jack Bryant Coffelt Id: Cooper-Part-41:485-488 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A485-488 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. 485–488 (DB Cooper-16608–16610), Teletype, dated 23 May 1978, serial SE 164-51-7912 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A485-488
VZCZCHQ0179 1432306 OO HI DE HN O 232150Z MAY 78 FM HONOLULU (164-85) (P) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) IMMEDIATE SEATTLE (164-81) IMMEDIATE BT UNCLAS
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NORJAK (A); OO: SEATTLE. RE HONOLULU AIRTEL TO SEATTLE, APRIL 13, 1977, AND SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALLS TO HONOLULU, MAY 18 AND 23, 1978. ON MAY 19, 1978, [REDACTED] OF JACK BRYANT COFFELT (NOW DECEASED), ADVISED THAT PHOTOS OF BRYANT COFFELT AS OBTAINED BY SA [REDACTED] OF THE LOS ANGELES DIVISION WERE SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE, BUT SHE DID NOT THINK THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE IDENTICAL TO JACK COFFELT. SHE ADVISED THAT JACK COFFELT ALWAYS WORE HORN-RIMMED GLASSES AS COMPARED TO THE REGULAR FRAME GLASSES AS DISPLAYED IN THE ONE PHOTOGRAPH; AND IN ADDITION, JACK COFFELT DID NOT DISPLAY THE SMOKING MANNERISM
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OF HAVING HIS CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM HIS LIPS AS DEPICTED IN THE OTHER PHOTOGRAPH.
SHE FURTHER ADVISED SHE STILL HAS ONE PHOTO OF JACK COFFELT SOMEWHERE WHICH SHE HAS DISPLAYED TO THE FBI IN HONOLULU IN THE PAST, AND SHE WILL MAKE IT AVAILABLE AGAIN FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES. SHE STATED, HOWEVER, SHE WILL NOT ALLOW THE PHOTOGRAPH TO BE REPRODUCED.
A COMPARISON OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF JACK COFFELT WITH THAT OF THE BUREAU ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF "D. B. COOPER" IN EARLY 1977 WOULD LEAD AN OBSERVER TO CONCLUDE THAT THE TWO INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT IDENTICAL.
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[REDACTED] STATED SHE HAS RECENTLY MOVED, AND THE PHOTO IS IN HER PERSONAL POSSESSION SOMEWHERE, AND SHE WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE IT FOR ADDITIONAL COMPARATIVE PURPOSES.
[REDACTED] PROVIDED A FIVE-PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, IN WHICH MATTERS CONCERNING JACK COFFELT WERE DISCUSSED. SHE ADVISED AS THE LETTER EXPLAINS, MUCH OF THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER PERTAINED TO A BOOK WHICH COFFELT HAD WRITTEN
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[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS CONCERNED WITH REGARD TO THE EFFORTS OF ONE [REDACTED] OF JACK COFFELT'S, TO OBTAIN THE RIGHTS TO THE BOOK WRITTEN BY COFFELT SO THAT THE BOOK COULD BE PUBLISHED AND SUBSEQUENTLY MADE INTO A MOVIE. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE LETTER ALSO DEALT WITH SOME UNUSUAL CONTACTS SHE [REDACTED] HAVE HAD WITH ONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALLEGED TO BE A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE PRODUCER. AN ENTIRE COPY OF THE LETTER AND ENVELOPE WERE PROVIDED TO THE FBI, AND A COPY OF SAME IS BEING TELECOPIED TO THE SEATTLE DIVISION, INSTANT DATE.
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[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT ON THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, 1971, SHE AND JACK COFFELT WERE LIVING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA; HOWEVER, SHE COULD NOT ACCOUNT FOR ANY OF THE SPECIFICS WITH REGARD TO THAT THANKSGIVING DAY'S ACTIVITIES, AND SHE COULD THINK OF NO ONE WHO CAN VERIFY THEIR ACTIVITIES THAT DAY.
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[REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT FROM [REDACTED] SHE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
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DB Cooper-16609
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AND THAT AT HER PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT, THE AGENCY DEALT WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SHE FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL SHE CAN RECALL WORKING WITH AT THAT AGENCY WAS A GIRL BY THE NAME [REDACTED] (LAST NAME UNKNN); HOWEVER, TO THE BEST OF HER RECOLLECTION, [REDACTED] HAD MOVED TO TENNESSEE, CURRENT ADDRESS UNKNOWN.
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SHE ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, [REDACTED] SHE ALSO ADVISED THAT HER NEW ADDRESS IS [REDACTED] WAIKIKI, HONOLULU, HAWAII, PHONE [REDACTED]
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SEATTLE, AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WILL FORWARD TO HONOLULU ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF JACK COFFELT SO THAT SAME CAN BE DISPLAYED TO [REDACTED] IN HONOLULU.
HONOLULU, AT HONOLULU, HAWAII, WILL MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] RE COMPARISON OF HER PHOTOGRAPH OF JACK COFFELT WITH THOSE TO BE PROVIDED BY SEATTLE DIVISION.
AIRTEL TO SEATTLE FOLLOWS.
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DB Cooper-16610
Serials: 164-2111, HN 164-35, HN 164-85, SE 164-51-7912, SE 164-81