SA to SAC Seattle re records check on Spokane suspect, recommended for elimination
Document date 22 May 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:503-504 Document: Memo SA to SAC Seattle re records check on Spokane suspect, recommended for elimination Id: Cooper-Part-41:503-504 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A503-504 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. 503–504 (DB Cooper-16626–16627), Memo, dated 22 May 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A503-504
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT memorrandum DATE: 5/22/78 REPLY TO ATTN OF: SA [REDACTED]
SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) OO: SEATTLE
XX: Re: [REDACTED]
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
Re memo of SA [REDACTED] 3/29/78.
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Current Spokane, Washington, directories reflect [REDACTED] resides at [REDACTED] Spokane, Washington, telephone [REDACTED]
On 4/17/78, inquiry at the registrar's office, Spokane Community College, revealed [REDACTED] is a student here, [REDACTED] Records re- flect [REDACTED] graduated from Evergreen High School, Vancouver, Washington, in [REDACTED] He has Social Security Number [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He has been attending here for the last two years.
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Records of Spokane County Sheriff - Spokane Police Combined Records Bureau reflect [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Spokane, Washington, has been cited for [REDACTED] but has had no arrests. Records reflected a description as white male, 5'10", 170 pounds, hazel eyes.
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On 5/17/78, [REDACTED] was interviewed at Spokane Community College pursuant to appointment and before commencement of the interview, [REDACTED] stated he sus- pected the nature of the inquiry in that he had been contacted about this hijacking case previously. [REDACTED] advised he has been living in Spokane, Washington, since 1973. He is pre- sently unemployed, but is attending school. He previously [REDACTED] Western Sports Parachute Center in Vancouver, Wash- ington, [REDACTED] and is an exper- ienced sports parachute jumper. He said that after the incident of the hijacking in 1971, (he recalled it was at Thanksgiving time) he has been jokingly been referred to as possible suspect by a number of acquaintances because of his experience in parachute jumping and it was noted that [REDACTED] somewhat resembles the artist's conception of the unsub, which has received wide publicity. [REDACTED] was born [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He is otherwise described as 5'10", [guess: 164]-81-[guess: 2921]
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JDJ/tcs (2) DB Cooper-16626 Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan ☆U.S.GPO:1977-0-241-530/3360
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SE 164-81
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175 pounds, black hair, hazel eyes, medium complexion. [REDACTED] has thin, fairly short black hair combed straight back, smooth face, slightly tapered chin, and, at time of interview, was wearing slightly dark lensed glasses of pilot or tear dropped shape.
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When asked what his circumstances were at the time of the hijacking incident; [REDACTED] replied that he was then employed at Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River. His employer was [REDACTED] and he was living in the [REDACTED] Washington. He was so employed until he was seriously injured in [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He said he remembers hearing about the incident as [REDACTED] to Vancouver at Thanksgiving Time, 1971, and was interested in it because of his knowledge of parachute jumping. He said he heard that the sports parachutes delivered to the hijacker had been rigged so as not to open and wondered if unsub had not been killed in the jump. Had the chute worked properly, said [REDACTED] the unsub could well have, in his opinion, landed safely, particularly because of the weather at the time. It is his opinion that the unsub did not jump where the search was intensified or at least where the airplane pilot said he felt a motion of the plane as the man jumped. [REDACTED] says he doubts a plane of that size would react to the weight of a man leaving the aircraft. (These technicals observations certainly must have been considered by airline personnel with more knowledge of such than [REDACTED].
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[REDACTED] said he was contacted once before while employed at Lower Granite Dam, but he was not at all antagonistic at being interviewed. He was cordial and friendly.
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It is being left to the discretion of the case Agent whether to have [REDACTED] employment with [REDACTED] at Lower Granite Dam and residence at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Washington, at Thanksgiving Time, 1971, verified. It appears he can be eliminated as a suspect in this case.
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DB Cooper-16627
Serials: SE 164-81