SAC Anchorage to SAC Portland re Fairbanks informant with Cooper information
Document date 1 July 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-45:185-188 Document: Memo SAC Anchorage to SAC Portland re Fairbanks informant with Cooper information Id: Cooper-Part-45:185-188 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A185-188 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 45 pp. 185–188 (DB Cooper-18366–18369), Memo, dated 1 Jul 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A185-188
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO : SAC, PORTLAND DATE: 7/1/80
FROM : [signature] SAC, ANCHORAGE (164-227)(RUC)
SUBJECT: UNSUB, aka D.B. Cooper CAA-HIJACKING (A) (OO: PD)
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Enclosed for Portland are three rental receipts in the name [REDACTED]
On 6/19/80, [REDACTED] and currently residing at [REDACTED] Fairbanks, Alaska, telephone [REDACTED] contacted SA [REDACTED] at the Fairbanks Resident Agency. [REDACTED] advised that he had information which he believed pertains to captioned matter. He advised that approximately one year after instant hijacking, he sent a letter to the Portland Office of the FBI suggesting that he may have positive information in this matter. He advised he was never contacted regarding this letter and he subsequently wrote a second letter during 1980, shortly after money, believed to be ransom money in this case, was found in the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon.
[REDACTED] advised that he has also not received an answer to the above letter.
[REDACTED] then explained that during 1971, he was a newspaper carrier for the Daily News-Miner at Fairbanks, Alaska. Included on his paper route was the [REDACTED] apartment building located at [REDACTED] Fairbanks, Alaska. [REDACTED] of that apartment building was occupied by a [REDACTED] who he [REDACTED] knew as the [REDACTED] at the F. W. Woolworth store in Fairbanks. [REDACTED] described [REDACTED] as follows:
Sex Male Race Caucasian Age Approximately 31 - 32 Height Approximately 5'10" Build Slender Hair Dark and cut short
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[date stamp] [illegible] 11/[illegible]-81-[illegible] SEARCHED... INDEXED... SERIALIZED... FILED...
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(2) - Portland (Enc. 3) [illegible] 1 - Anchorage
DLM:dml (3)
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DB Cooper-18366 Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings
AN 164-227
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Miscellaneous Did not wear glasses; clean- shaven.
Vehicle Late model (approximately [REDACTED] - b6 white or light yellow b7C [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] advised he had numerous conversations over a six b6 month period with [REDACTED] and determined that [REDACTED] expressed an b7C avid interest in flying and parachuting. [REDACTED] also discussed Vietnam as though he had been involved in that conflict. [REDACTED] never mentioned a family and resided alone. [REDACTED] recalled that [REDACTED] generally kept to himself and had few, if any, visitors.
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[REDACTED] recalled that [REDACTED] was a subscriber to the b6 newspaper from approximately 5/2/71 - approximately 11/20/71. b7C He further recalled that [REDACTED] moved from his apartment on approximately 11/24/71, indicating that he was traveling to the Los Angeles, California, area to become the [REDACTED] of the Woolworth store there.
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[REDACTED] recalled that approximately one or two days after b6 [REDACTED] left Fairbanks, Alaska, he recalled seeing the news accounts b7C concerning captioned hijacking. He recalled a strong resemblance between the composite drawings of captioned Unsub and [REDACTED] He advised that he immediately formed the opinion that [REDACTED] could have been D.B. Cooper; however, as a juvenile, he was so intrigued by the possibility that this crime could be conducted successfully that he chose not to contact anyone about his suspicions.
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Approximately one year after the crime he decided that he should make known his beliefs and he wrote his first letter to the FBI. When he did not receive an answer to this letter he assumed that the matter was resolved without needing to contact him and did not consider the matter further. His interest was again aroused when he saw news accounts regarding the recovery of money connected to this case. At that time, he wrote a second letter to the FBI concerning his suspicions.
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[REDACTED] advised that he also became concerned that records b6 for [REDACTED] might be destroyed with age. Based on this b7C concern he contacted [REDACTED] who own and operate the apartment building at [REDACTED], which was known as [REDACTED] apartments during 1971. [REDACTED] owned the building at that time also; however, have since changed the name of the building. [REDACTED] advised he was allowed to search rental receipts for the building and was successful in locating the three enclosed receipts for May, July, and October, 1971, in the
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DB Cooper-18367
AN 164-227
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name of [REDACTED] Two of these receipts show a middle initial b6 which appears to be [REDACTED] advised he was unable to locate the b7C other rental receipts for [REDACTED] however, did locate a rental receipt dated 11/22/71 in the name of [REDACTED] showing that a deposit was made on [REDACTED] He explained that this would indicate that [REDACTED] moved into that unit some time on or shortly after 11/22/71. He explained that he recalled that [REDACTED] did not actually leave the apartment until approximately one or two days before Thanksgiving, 1971. [REDACTED] advised he also found a rental receipt dated 4/5/71, in the name of [REDACTED] indicating that [REDACTED] was the occupant of [REDACTED] during April, 1971.
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[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] told him he b6 could keep these rental receipts and he was, therefore, furnishing b7C them to the FBI, without any desire to receive them back.
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[REDACTED] advised he could furnish no additional descriptive b6 information regarding [REDACTED] and was only furnishing this b7C information to relieve his own mind.
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On 6/20/80, teletype inquiry with the Alaska Department of Motor Vehicles determined that there is no record for a [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] with an address of [REDACTED] b7C Fairbanks, Alaska. It was determined that drivers' license records are routinely purged every five years.
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On 6/20/80, the records of the Fairbanks Police Department and the Alaska State Troopers, Fairbanks, Alaska, were negative for [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] Fairbanks, Alaska. b7C
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On 6/20/80, the records of the Interior Credit Bureau, 910 College Road, Fairbanks, Alaska, failed to reflect a reference identifiable with [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED], Fairbanks, Alaska. It was determined that the records b7C are routinely destroyed after five years of inactivity.
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On 6/20/80, [REDACTED] F.W. Woolworth b6 Company, 302 Cushman Street, Fairbanks, Alaska, telephone b7C [REDACTED] advised that a review of store records back to 1970 (records have been destroyed prior to that) fails to reflect any reference to a [REDACTED] having been employed at the store as an [REDACTED] or in any other capacity. [REDACTED] further advised that he came to the Fairbanks store during 1977 from the Los Angeles area where he served as the [REDACTED] of the Panorama City, California, Woolworth store for [REDACTED] He advised he was never familiar with a [REDACTED] who served as an [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-18368
AN 164-227
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[REDACTED] of any of the Los Angeles area Woolworth stores while he was at the Panorama City store.
[REDACTED] further advised that the national headquarters for F.W. Woolworth Company are located in the Woolworth Building on Broadway, New York, New York. He emphasized, however, that the company headquarters would not have any personnel records as these are maintained in the individual store where the employee is assigned.
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[REDACTED] further advised that [REDACTED] a Fairbanks area resident, had also made recent inquiry regarding [REDACTED] At that time, one of the senior store employees believed that she recalled someone by the name of [REDACTED] at the store. The employee was not certain whether or not the name she was thinking about was actually [REDACTED] or a similar name. She recalled that the person she was referring to was also associated in some way with the University of Alaska.
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On 6/23/80, [REDACTED] University of Alaska, Fairbanks, telephoned [REDACTED] advised that a review of University of Alaska employee and student records failed to reflect any reference identifiable with [REDACTED] or [REDACTED] Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Administrative
Inasmuch as logical investigation at Fairbanks, Alaska, fails to further identify the [REDACTED] described by [REDACTED] the above information is being furnished Portland for whatever action deemed appropriate and Anchorage is considering this matter RUC.
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DB Cooper-18369
Serials: AN 164-227