SAC Minneapolis to Director re NORJAK letters received at Cricket Theater

Document date 8 May 1979

Part 42pages 311–3122 pagesDB Cooper-17041–17042

Also filed separately as sections:

Open in FBI Vault (Part 42, page 311 of the PDF)
Report a problem

Email this to [email protected]

Id: Cooper-Part-42:311-312

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-42:311-312

Document: Airtel SAC Minneapolis to Director re NORJAK letters received at Cricket Theater
Id: Cooper-Part-42:311-312
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A311-312

What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)?


What does the scan show?

Open in email app

A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 42 pp. 311–312 (DB Cooper-17041–17042), Airtel, dated 8 May 1979, serial SE 164-81-8103 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A311-312

x Airtel

---

5-8-79

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) (ATTN: DOCUMENT SECTION; FBI LABORATORY)

FROM: SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) (C)

SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE

---

Enclosed for Document Section, FBI Laboratory, is one envelope and two letters. Enclosed for Seattle are Xerox copies of the letters and envelope.

From 4-13-79 to 5-5-79, a musical production was presented at the Cricket Theater at 345 - 13th Avenue Northeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, entitled, "The D. B. Cooper Project." This production is based on titled air hijacking.

The fact that two typewritten letters were written to the Cricket Theater by an individual who signed the letters [REDACTED] came to the attention of the Minneapolis Office in a newspaper article dated 5-2-79 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

On 5-7-79, [REDACTED] Cricket Theater, gave these letters to a Special Agent of the Minneapolis Division for examination. Two letters and one envelope were received and are being forwarded to the FBI Laboratory.

[REDACTED] requested a receipt for the letters and desired their return. She further advised that numerous individuals at the theater handled the envelope and letters. One envelope received by the theater was lost. [REDACTED]

---

2 - Bureau (Encs. 3) 2 - Seattle (164-81)(Encs.) 1 - Minneapolis RLN:kaf (6)

---

164-81-8103 SERIALIZED [illegible] MAY 10 [illegible]

DB Cooper-17041

---

[guess: Julie]

---

b6 b7C

MP 164-73

---

advised that it was postmarked Chicago and was received at the theater on 4-10-79 or 4-11-79. The second envelope was postmarked Los Angeles and received at the theater on 4-25-79.

The Document Section of the FBI Laboratory is requested to conduct a typewriter analysis of the letters and envelope and upon completion forward them to the Identification Division, Latent Fingerprint Section for examination.

Office of origin is requested to advise FBI Laboratory if further specific requests for examination of these letters and envelope is advisable.

Upon completion of examination, Minneapolis has promised return of letters to Cricket Theater.

---

2*

---

DB Cooper-17042

Serials: 164-2111, MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8103