Buffalo to Seattle re NORJAK lead, hitchhiker's account of man with hijacking clipping
Document date 23 May 1980
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Id: Cooper-Part-44:213-215
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-44:213-215 Document: Teletype Buffalo to Seattle re NORJAK lead, hitchhiker's account of man with hijacking clipping Id: Cooper-Part-44:213-215 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-44%3A213-215 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 44 pp. 213–215 (DB Cooper-18059–18061), Teletype, dated 23 May 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-44%3A213-215
BU0003 14422432 PP SE DE BU Subs 0 P 2322432 MAY 80 [REDACTED] -[guess: Soull] FM BUFFALO (164-134) (P) TO SEATTLE PRIORITY BT
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UNCLAS
NORJAK. OO SEATTLE
RE BUFFALO TELCAL TO SEATTLE, MAY 23, 1980.
ON MAY 23, 1980, FORMER BUFFALO SAC RICHARD D. ROGGE TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED BUFFALO OFFICE TO ADVISE THAT HE HAD INFORMATION TO PROVIDE CONCERNING CAPTIONED MATTER. ROGGE WAS CALLING ON BEHALF OF [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED] BUFFALO, N.Y., TELEPHONE [REDACTED] ACCORDING TO ROGGE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE BUFFALO, NY AREA. [REDACTED] RESULTED IN INFORMATION CONCERNING CAPTIONED SUBJECT. ON MAY 23, 1980, [REDACTED] (PROTECT IDENTITY) WAS CONTACTED IN REGARDS TO [REDACTED] AND PROVIDED
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164-81-[guess: 8397] MAY [guess: 8] 3 [illegible]
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DB Cooper-18059
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PAGE TWO BU 164-134 UNCLAS THE FOLLOWING INFO: ON MAY 21, 1980, [REDACTED] IN REGARDS TO A LOCAL EMPLOYMENT. [REDACTED] AT THAT TIME ADVISED THAT IN JANUARY OF 1980 HE WAS HITCHHIKING ON ROUTE 5 GOING TOWARDS SEATTLE DURING A SNOWSTORM. AT THAT TIME AN UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MALE (W/M) DRIVING A LATE MODEL CADILLAC STOPPED TO GIVE HIM A RIDE. THIS W/M WAS ONLY DESCRIBED AS BEING IN HIS 40'S AND HAVING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND UNIDENTIFIED W/M PROCEEDED TO THE SEATTLE AREA UNTIL THEY CAME TO AN UNIDENTIFIED BODY OF WATER. AT THIS POINT, [REDACTED] AND UNIDENTIFIED W/M PROCEEDED TO TAKE A MOTORBOAT TO [REDACTED] ON [REDACTED] WAS A LOG CABIN IN WHICH UNIDENTIFIED W/M APPARENTLY RESIDED. ONCE INSIDE UNIDENTIFIED W/M SHOWED [REDACTED] A PARACHUTE WITH THE WORD NASA WRITTEN ACROSS IT. UNIDENTIFIED W/M THEN PROCEEDED TO TELL [REDACTED] A STORY OF HOW SEVERAL YEARS EARLIER HE HAD HIJACKED AN UNIDENTIFIED PLANE FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS. UNIDENTIFIED W/M EXPLAINED THAT AFTER RECEIVING THE ONE MILLION DOLLARS HE PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE. AT THAT POINT UNIDENTIFIED W/M SHOWED [REDACTED] LARGE AMOUNTS OF
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DB Cooper-18060
PAGE THREE BU 164-134 UNCLAS
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.CASH WHICH [REDACTED] BELIEVED TO BE CLOSE TO ONE MILLION DOLLARS. BEFORE RETIRING FOR THE NIGHT UNIDENTIFIED W/M SHOWED [REDACTED] A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED HIJACKING IN WHICH A PHOTO OF THE PERPETRATOR OF THIS HIJACKING WAS SHOWN. THE PHOTO WAS THAT OF THE UNIDENTIFIED W/M IN THE ROOM WITH [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] WAS GIVEN $100 BY THE UNIDENTIFIED W/M THE FOLLOWING DAY AND WAS TRANSPORTED FROM [REDACTED] BY BOAT. AT THIS POINT, [REDACTED] STATED HE CONTINUED HIS HITCHHIKING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
BUFFALO AT BUFFALO, N.Y. - WILL CONTACT [REDACTED] AT HIS HOME ADDRESS, [REDACTED], BUFFALO, NY, AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE AND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INTERVIEW.
SEATTLE IS REQUESTED TO CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION.
FD-302S FOLLOW. BT
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# 1442246Z SE 1
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DB Cooper-18061
Serials: 164-134, BU 164-134