SAC Los Angeles to Director and Seattle re James Bryant Coffelt investigation
This copy: Part 41 pp. 521–524Also filed at Part 62 pp. 158–161 (primary)
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Los Angeles to Director and Seattle re Jack Bryant Coffelt inquiries
Document date 26 May 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-41:521-524 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Director and Seattle re Jack Bryant Coffelt inquiries Id: Cooper-Part-41:521-524 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A521-524 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. 521–524 (DB Cooper-16643, DB Cooper-16644, DB Cooper-16646, DB Cooper-16647), Teletype, dated 26 May 1978, serial SE 164-51-7931 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-41%3A521-524
LAO 027 RR HQ SE DE LA R 260500Z MAY 78 FM LOS ANGELES (164-497) (3) (RUC) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE BT U N C L A S NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.
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RE JAMES BRYANT COFFELT, AKA JACK BRYANT COFFELT, BRYANT ARTHUR JAMES COFFELT (TN), [REDACTED].
RE SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALL TO LOS ANGELES MAY 23, 1978 AND LOS ANGELES TELEPHONE CALL TO SEATTLE MAY 25, 1978.
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ALSO KNOWN AS [REDACTED] CALI- FORNIA, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AT HIS RESI- DENCE DURING EVENING OF MAY 24, 1978, IN PRESENCE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT WHICH TIME THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED:
[REDACTED] HAS NOT SEEN [REDACTED] SINCE APPROXIMATELY
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164-51-7931 MAY 25 1978 DB Cooper-16644
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PAGE TWO (LA 164-497) U N C L A S
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MARCH 1957, AND NEVER PERSONALLY MET JACK COFFELT, ALTHOUGH HE TALKED WITH HIM ON THE TELEPHONE ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. HE WAS UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION REGARDING COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING THE PERTINENT PERIOD. HE RECALLED THAT IN 1969, HE PURCHASED SOME PROPERTY IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, FROM [REDACTED] AND AT THAT TIME, SHE WAS RESIDING AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
[REDACTED] RECALLED THAT COFFELT ALLEGEDLY WORKED AT ONE TIME AT A HOSPITAL IN THE ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, AREA BUT COULD NOT REMEMBER THE NAME OR LOCATION. SHE ALSO RECALLED THAT, WHILE THE COFFELTS WERE LIVING IN THE VIRGINIA AREA, THEY WERE FRIENDLY WITH A "HEAVY SET ATTORNEY" WHO LIVED [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY INTERVIEWED). SHE STATED ON AT LEAST ONE OCCASION, JACK COFFELT CALLED HER, ATTEMPTING TO BORROW MONEY.
[REDACTED] ALSO MENTIONED THAT [REDACTED] HAS NUMEROUS BOXES CONTAINING PERSONAL PROPERTY STORED IN HER GARAGE, BUT WAS RELUCTANT TO GO THROUGH THIS MATERIAL WITHOUT [REDACTED] PERMISSION.
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SHE ALSO HAD IN HER POSSESSION THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF COFFELT WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO HER BY [REDACTED] HOWEVER, SHE WAS NOT AWARE DATE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN. WHILE AT [REDACTED] RESIDENCE, INTERVIEWING AGENT TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED [REDACTED] IN HONOLULU, HAWAII, AT TELE- PHONE NUMBER [REDACTED] REGARDING HER PROPERTY STORED IN THE [REDACTED] GARAGE. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT THE BOXES DO NOT CONTAIN ANY DOCUMENTS, CANCELLED CHECKS, ETCETERA, WHICH WOULD ESTABLISH COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD. SHE STATED THE BOXES ONLY CONTAINED CLOTHING AND PERSONAL ITEMS. AFTER DESCRIBING PHOTOGRAPHS IN POSSESSION OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED SHE BELIEVED THEY WERE TAKEN IN ABOUT 1962.
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DURING ABOVE CONVERSATION, [REDACTED] WAS UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION REGARDING COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING THANKSGIVING 1971 OTHER THAN THEY WERE LIVING IN THE ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, AREA. BOTH [REDACTED] STATED THAT DURING NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH COFFELT, HE NEVER INDICATED
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PAGE FOUR (LA 164-497) U N C L A S THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN ANY TYPE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
PHOTOGRAPHS FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] BEING FORWARDED TO SEATTLE BY AIRTEL.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, SE 164-51-7931, SE 164-81