WFO to Director and Seattle re transient-housing tip on Cooper suspect
Document date 22 August 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-45:311-314 Document: Teletype WFO to Director and Seattle re transient-housing tip on Cooper suspect Id: Cooper-Part-45:311-314 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A311-314 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. 311–314 (DB Cooper-18525–18528), Teletype, dated 22 Aug 1980, serial SE 164-81-8486 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A311-314
VZCZCWF0024 OO HQ SE DE WF#0024 2352105 ZNR UUUUU O 222102Z AAUG 80. FM FBI WASHINGTON FIELD (164-301) (P) (SQ C-4) TO DIRECTOR FBI IMMEDIATE ATTENTION PERSONAL CRIMES UNIT FBI SEATTLE IMMEDIATE BT
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NORJAK, CAA, (OO:SEATTLE) RE BUREAU TEL AUGUST 22, 1980.
WASHINGTON FIELD INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER ON JUNE 26, 1980 BASED ON TELEPHONE CALL FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OF A TRANSIENT TYPE TEMPORARY HOUSING FACILITY IN WASHINGTON, D. C. (WDC). ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] A RESIDENT IDENTIFIED AS [REDACTED] COULD POSSIBLY BE D. B. COOPER, THE UNSUB IN CAPTIONED HIJACKING. [REDACTED] VIEWED COMPOSITE DRAWING OF UNSUB, D. B. COOPER, AND STATED BASIC FACIAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE SIMILAR.
SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION DETERMINED [REDACTED] IS IDENTICAL TO HOLDER OF FBI NUMBER [REDACTED] A WHITE MALE
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164-81-8486 SEARCHED [...] INDEX [...] SERIALIZED [...] FILED [...] [...] 0[?] 1980
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[guess: Surpass]
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DB Cooper-18525
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BORN [REDACTED] WAS ARRESTED IN [REDACTED] AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA FOR BANK ROBBERY AND RECEIVED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AGAIN ARRESTED IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, [REDACTED] PRIOR TO CAPTIONED HIJACKING, ON CHARGE OF [REDACTED] THIS CHARGE [REDACTED]
EFFECTIVELY VANISHED AFTER HIS ARREST [REDACTED] AND WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN UNTIL [REDACTED] WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED ON [REDACTED] WDC. [REDACTED] SUPRA, BELIEF THAT [REDACTED] AND UNSUB, D. B. COOPER ARE ONE IN THE SAME BASED ON THE FOLLOWING: 1. [REDACTED] CAUSES $900.00 TO BE WIRED FROM A VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON BANK TO A WDC BANK, MONTHLY. 2. [REDACTED] HAS EXPRESSED TO HIM A FEAR OF THE FBI SINCE RECENT MEDIA REPORTS THAT MONEY CONNECTED TO THIS HIJACKING WAS RECOVERED IN THE MOUNTAINS IN WASHINGTON STATE. 3. [REDACTED] BELIEVED TO BE FORMER ARMY PILOT, PARATROOPER WITH PURPORTED "OUTDOOR" EXPERTISE. 4. [REDACTED] AGE AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS COMPATIBLE WITH ARTIST CONCEPTION DRAWING.
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DB Cooper-18526
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FINGERPRINTS OF [REDACTED] NOT IDENTICAL TO THE UNIDENTIFIED LATENT FINGERPRINTS ON FILE IN THIS CASE.
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INVESTIGATION BY THE SEATTLE FBI OFFICE HAS DETERMINED MONEY WIRED BY [REDACTED] TO WDC ORIGINATES FROM A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH REGULAR MONTHLY DEPOSITS BY U.S. GOVERNMENT CHECKS STARTING NOVEMBER, 1976 AT $730.00 AND INCREASING TO $945.00
AS OF MAY 30, 1980. ON AUGUST 4, 1980, [REDACTED] ORDERED HIS SAVINGS ACCOUNT BALANCE REDUCED TO $5.00 BY WIRING $666.00 TO A WDC BANK. INVESTIGATION CONTINUES TO FURTHER IDENTIFY THE GOVERNMENT CHECKS USED FOR DEPOSIT.
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IT IS NOTED INVESTIGATION HAS DETERMINED [REDACTED] WAS A COMMISSIONED [REDACTED] IN U.S. ARMY WITH TEN MONTHS OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE AS A PILOT. [REDACTED] DISCHARGED IN FEBRUARY, [REDACTED] AND GRADUATED FROM THE [REDACTED]
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ON [REDACTED] RECEIVED A U.S. PASSPORT FOR REPORTED TRAVEL TO THE NETHERLANDS. [REDACTED] HAS TOLD [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE WILL BE TRAVELING ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1980 TO LONDON. IN ADDITION, [REDACTED] HAS TOLD ANOTHER ASSOCIATE HE INTENDS TRAVEL TO PORTUGUAL.
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DB Cooper-18527
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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN REFERENCE TELETYPE, AS REPORTED BY INTERPOL, IS FACTUALLY INCORRECT. AS A COURTESY GESTURE, WASHINGTON FIELD REPORTED IN SUBSTANCE THE ABOVE INFORMATION TO A INTERPOL REPRESENTATIVE. FOLLOWING THIS, WASHINGTON FIELD CONTACTED LEGAT, LONDON FOR ADVICE AND FORWARDING [REDACTED] PHOTO AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION VIA AIRTEL TO FBIHQ FOR DISSEMINATION TO LEGAT, LONDON.
THE BUREAU IS REQUESTED TO FURNISH ABOVE TO LEGAT, LONDON. NO INVESTIGATION OR SURVEILLANCE REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. SHOULD SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION REQUIRE OVERSEAS INVESTIGATION, SAME WILL BE REQUESTED THROUGH FBIHQ ONLY. BT #0024
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DB Cooper-18528
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Serials: 164-301, SE 164-81-8486
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