Buffalo to Director and Seattle re Richard Floyd McCoy and NORJAK
Document date 18 July 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-45:210-213 Document: Teletype Buffalo to Director and Seattle re Richard Floyd McCoy and NORJAK Id: Cooper-Part-45:210-213 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A210-213 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. 210–213 (DB Cooper-18402–18405), Teletype, dated 18 Jul 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A210-213
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[guess: Richard] [guess: Floyd] [guess: McCoy] [guess: Sub] 386, l
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FM BUFFALO (164-146) (RUC) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE GT
UNCLAS
NORJAK, CAA - HIJACK (A), (OO: SEATTLE)
RE BUFFALO TELCAL TO BUREAU, JULY 18, 1983.
FOR INFO OF BUREAU, ASAC [REDACTED], BUFFALO WAS ASSIGNED TO SALT LAKE CITY DIVISION AT TIME OF CAPTIONED HIJACKING. DURING COURSE OF INVESTIGATION OF HIJACKING CASE COMMITTED BY SUBJ RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., APRIL 9, 1972, SIMILARITIES WERE NOTED BETWEEN SUBJECT OF NORJAK CASE AND MC COY. INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED BY SU DIVISION AND OTHER DIVISIONS TO ESTABLISH WHETHER, IN FACT, MC COY WAS THE PERPETRATOR OF THE HIJACKING IN NORJAK. BUREAU FILES WILL CONTAIN RESULTS OF THAT INVESTIGATION DURING PERIOD APRIL, 1972 THRU SUMMER, 1972.
AS BUREAU AND SEATTLE ARE AWARE, THERE WAS LITTLE PHYSICAL
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DB Cooper-18402
PAGE TWO BU 164-146 UNCLAS
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IN NORJAK AND 10 FINGERPRINTS WERE OBTAINED.
ASAC, BUFFALO WAS RECENTLY CONTACTED BY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SU. PURPOSE OF THIS CALL WAS TO REFRAIN HIS RECOLLECTION RE MC COY HIJACKING. [REDACTED] STATED HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO MAKE SPEECH RE THIS HIJACKING. DURING COURSE OF CON- VERSATION [REDACTED] ADVISED HE HAD TAKEN SIGNED STATEMENT FROM MC COY WHEREIN MC COY DESCRIBED SCENARIO OF HIJACKING IN WHICH HE WAS ARRESTED. [REDACTED] WAS ASKED WHETHER HE RECALLED THAT AT TIME OF MC COY HIJACKING, MC COY HAD BEEN CONSIDERED SUSPECT IN NORJAK. [REDACTED] STATED HE DID NOT RECALL THAT, HOWEVER, HE DOES RECALL THAT AT TIME HE TOOK SIGNED STATEMENT FROM MC COY WHICH CONSUMED SEVERAL HOURS, AT CONCLUSION OF SIGNED STATEMENT MC COY TURNED TO HIM AND ASKED HIM, "NOW DON'T YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE OTHER ONE?" [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE DID NOT REALIZE WHAT MC COY MAY HAVE BEEN REFERRING TO AND BECAUSE HE WAS PRESSED FOR TIME ON HIS PRE-SENTENCING REPORT, HE SAID, "NO, NOT NOW. I'LL TRY TO GET BACK TO YOU." AFTER OBTAINING SIGNED STATEMENT, [REDACTED] WENT TO FEDERAL JUDGE WILLIS W. RITTER AND TOLD THE JUDGE THAT HE HAD TALKED TO MC COY AND MC COY HAD PROVIDED HIM WITH ALL OF DETAILS OF HIJACKING FOR WHICH HE WAS ARRESTED. JUDGE RITTER
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DB Cooper-18403
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PAGE THREE BU 1C4-143 UNCLAS
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EXPRESSED CONCERN AT PROPRIETY OF OFFICER [REDACTED] TAKING SUCH A SIGNED STATEMENT AND ORDERED SIGNED STATEMENT SEALED IN COURT RECORDS. OFFICER [REDACTED] STATED HE DID NOT GET BACK TO TALK TO MC COY ABOUT ANY FURTHER MATTERS. MC COY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SENTENCED TO FORTY YEARS IN PRISON AND WAS INCARCERATED AT LEWISBURG FEDERAL PENITENTIARY, LEWISBURG, PA.
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FOLLOWING HIS INCARCERATION MC COY ESCAPED FROM PRISON AND HE AND ANOTHER PRISONER PERPETRATED SEVERAL BANK ROBBERIES IN INDIANAPOLIS, KENTUCKY AND NORTH CAROLINA AREAS. SUBSEQUENT IN- VESTIGATION LOCATED MC COY AT VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. AND MC COY WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT TIME OF HIS ARREST BY FBI AGENTS. [REDACTED]
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AT TIME OF MC COY'S TRIAL IN 1972 [REDACTED] NAME UNRECALLED, COOPERATED AND TESTIFIED AGAINST MC COY. [REDACTED] FEARFUL OF MC COY AND WAS PROVIDED PROTECTION BY FBI AGENTS DURING COURSE OF TRIAL. AT TIME OF NORJAK CONTINUING THRU TIME OF HIS ARREST, [REDACTED]
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IT IS NOT KNOWN AT PRESENT TIME WHAT ATTITUDE OF [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-18404
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PAGE FOUR SU 164-145 · UNCLAS
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IN VIEW OF STATEMENT MADE BY OFFICER [REDACTED] RE MC COY'S COMMENTS ABOUT TALKING ABOUT "THE OTHER ONE," SEATTLE AND BUREAU MAY WISH TO REVIEW INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED TO ESTABLISH MC COY AS SUBJECT OF NORJAK AND POSSIBLY CONSIDER THE REINTERVIEW OF [REDACTED]
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IT SHOULD BE POINTED OUT, SHORTLY AFTER TIME OF MC COY'S ARREST [REDACTED] WERE INTERVIEWED REGARDING MC COY'S WHEREABOUTS AT TIME OF NORJAK AND THEY INDICATED THAT MC COY WAS IN PROVO, UTAH DURING PERTINENT PERIOD. SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION, HOWEVER, ESTABLISHED THAT MC COY WAS NOT, IN FACT, IN PROVO BUT WAS IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA AT LEAST PART OF THAT TIME. NEITHER [REDACTED] WOULD FURNISH EXPLANATIONS WHY THEY WERE UNTRUTHFUL REGARDING MC COY'S EXACT WHEREABOUTS.
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DB Cooper-18405
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Serials: 164-2111, BU 164-146, SE 164-81, SU 164-145