Handwritten citizen letter to FBI Seattle naming 'Dan Cooper' of El Rancho as suspect
Document date 15 February 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-43:224-229 Document: Handwritten citizen letter to FBI Seattle naming 'Dan Cooper' of El Rancho as suspect Id: Cooper-Part-43:224-229 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-43%3A224-229 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 43 pp. 224–229 (DB Cooper-17434, DB Cooper-17435, DB Cooper-17437, DB Cooper-17438), Handwritten note, dated 15 Feb 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-43%3A224-229
F.B.I. -3- #2 persons 2 - 15 - 19 80 This ex-Army [REDACTED] looked exactly like all photos of "D. B." Cooper as drawn By a newspaper artist, etc. My suspect was as follows: (Was) 1 - [guess: Identification] 6' 1 1/2" tall -
2 - Weight about 175 lbs -
3 - Color saudy Blond - dark Blue eyes at the [guess: time] - deeply tanned skin - very [guess: treas-] [guess: ured] 4 - features - 1[guess: high] narrow forehead - long facial [guess: structure] - a so- so lower jaw - hat Broad hat narrow per se. It was more narrow than Broad Rest G Good solid well structured Chin lever, the [guess: Beer] -
5 - He smoked a pipe continuously
6 - Was soft spoken in well modulated and strong masculine voice.
7 - Very agreeable and pleasant personality. Not [guess: Pushy] - But articulate - well Called Legren.
F.B.I. -4 [redacted]
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8 - And [guess: forced] to respond to any and all orders -
9 - [redacted] dark eyed and very pleasant [redacted] - She also worked - in [redacted] [guess: dealer] in El Centro. I D - [guess: they] drove a [redacted]
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11 - Now, [guess: were] given this Ex-Army [guess: Parachuter] Army [redacted] great [guess: chance] - would (the [guess: Reserve]) [guess: interviewed] in the form of Ransom - And would like [guess: have] the news?
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12 - My reply - Yes! - He had the [guess: control] - the drive and the [guess: elegant] [guess: living] desire of Army [redacted] [guess: wearing] [guess: place] W# 2 - Now [guess: received] to every day [guess: living], last of Post W or # 2 in 1956 He was [guess: buying] then to re-enlist for [guess: his] army [guess: tenure] Pre - Korean War
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DB Cooper-17434
J.B.J. -4- [REDACTED] 2-15-1980
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I say [REDACTED] ? Cooper D - of El Rancho Drive-in [guess: Theater] [guess: Jan. March] 1950 is a logical suspect for the - the [guess: Ransom] and [guess: plunge] from a 727, in darkness [guess: descending] a storm in the lower [guess: Cascades] of Washington [guess: Stale].
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As an [REDACTED] of Los Angeles, [guess: Mrs] Employed by [REDACTED] of Palm Springs - and associates. Too many times I listened to these two [guess: affable] gentlemen [guess: discuss] their [guess: parachuting] [guess: articles] during World War # 2.
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[REDACTED] stressed "the Reason" they [guess: selected] [guess: men] of darker skins - [guess: liars] [guess: because] our white faces did not show up in [guess: reared] [guess: battles] while [guess: dropping] in the [guess: furrows] of [guess: East Africa]. See [guess: forgotten] - how I present my case [guess: before] the
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DB Cooper-17435
J.B. 2 fact - there is an ingredient one can take internally "to darken skin - Investigators While skinned Caucasians Have used [guess: cheap] drugs to color their skins in order to penetrate - the Black peoples [guess: Bettos]. fact. So take an individual like my Ex Army [REDACTED] cy W W#2 - parachutist - Cecil not overly ambitious who did work in Service Stations in El [guess: Centro] California during January - March - April [guess: of] 1950 ? You take this slow easy [guess: outwardly] - kind of personality - forever seeking on a pipe stem - an inveterate pipe smoker - And who shared great Empathy with American Born. By parachutist - [REDACTED] also b6 b7C of U.S. Army W W#2 - you Have 1pers a powerful - knowledgable combination of [guess: 2] men - Skilled - ambitious and daring enough to pull off the "D.B." Cooper Hijacking
F.B.I. [REDACTED] -6 1 - 15 - 1980 - I can still hear them eagerly discussing their [guess: crimes] and [guess: parachuting] experiences of W.W.# 2.
But I've tried all these years and cannot get a handle on "D.B." [guess: Cooper] [guess: plan] Cooper - [guess: Len] [illegible] that [guess: was] his real name / Dan Cooper. So your lone clue is to locate one [REDACTED] - [guess: American] Born - Mexican American - [REDACTED] of Los [guess: Angeles] whom you can locate through - Film Service Rentals of Los Angeles - their chief - Releasing [guess: outlet] for all theaters [guess: wherein] the Los Angeles - Imported [guess: Correntes] theater - management. [guess: sector] - [guess: for] his memory Back to [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] . no relation [guess: with] [REDACTED] The El [guess: Rancho] [guess: Movies] - in theaters of El Centre California - and [guess: Rest] of whom [guess: at] that point in time presided in Palm Springs California .
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b6 b7C
DB Cooper-17437
[redacted - b6/b7C] F.B.I. [redacted] 7 [redacted] 0-1 [illegible] 1980 Hello ... I took so long in coming up with [redacted] home is [guess: migratory] - Rest Uh it was simply a blank letter last week. "D. B." Cooper I [guess: Dan] Cooper I I Believe uses the real name of. [guess: has] been [guess: contacted] [guess: for] past. Rest "D. B." Cooper name he [guess: Rolls] [guess: level] me.
You see I [guess: as] [redacted - b6/b7C] [redacted] "Dan Cooper" was personally selected by me as an Excellent Employee. Prospect. To work for the El Rancho [guess: Motor]-Inn as of January 1950,
Of course I do not know if this [guess: plot] in the least can help. I can only hope it [guess: will]. Most Cordially
[redacted - b6/b7C] [redacted] week a story out now in Frontier Times - March 1950 - and January 1960 - [guess: Hook] & [guess: Horn] also [guess: would] [illegible] DB Cooper-17438 [guess: 1980]