St. Louis to WFO, San Francisco and Seattle re military records check

Document date 25 August 1980

Part 45pages 324–3263 pagesDB Cooper-18543–18545

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-45:324-326

Document: Teletype St. Louis to WFO, San Francisco and Seattle re military records check
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 45 pp. 324–326 (DB Cooper-18543–18545), Teletype, dated 25 Aug 1980, serial SE 164-81-8490 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A324-326

SL0004 2382328 PP WF SF SE DE SL P 252116Z AUG 80 FM ST. LOUIS (164-M) (RUC) TO WASHINGTON FIELD (164-301) PRIORITY SAN FRANCISCO PRIORITY SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE BT UNCLAS NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE RE SUSPECT [REDACTED]. UNSUB; AKA D. B. COOPER, CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT; INFORMATION CONCERNING (OO: WASHINGTON FIELD). RE WASHINGTON FIELD TEL TO ST. LOUIS, AUGUST 15, 1980, NO COPY TO SEATTLE. AVAILABLE RECORDS AT FEDERAL RECORDS CENTER, MILITARY BRANCH, ST. LOUIS, MO., DISCLOSED [REDACTED] ENLISTED U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS AND SERVED ACTIVE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HONORABLY DISCHARGED AS [REDACTED] TO ACCEPT APPOINTMENT. [REDACTED] UNDER SERVICE NUMBER [REDACTED], SSAN [REDACTED] ACCEPTED APPOINTMENT AS [REDACTED] U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS AT

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164-81-8490 SEARCHED .... INDEXED .... SERIALIZED .... FILED .... AUG 25 1980

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DB Cooper-18543

PAGE TWO SL 164-M UNCLAS

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LA JUNTA ARMY AIR FIELD, LA JUNTA, COLO., AND SERVED ACTIVE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HONORABLY RELEASED FROM ACTIVE DUTY AS A [REDACTED] AT SANTA ANA, CALIF. ON TERMINAL LEAVE [REDACTED]

SERVED FOREIGN SERVICE [REDACTED] TEN AND ONE-HALF MONTHS AS COMBAT PILOT ON [REDACTED] AIRCRAFT WITH FIVE COMBAT MISSIONS TOTALING 30 COMBAT HOURS AND HAD APPROXIMATELY FIVE HUNDRED HOURS MILITARY FLYING TIME.

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NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION CONTAINED IN AVAILABLE RECORDS, HOWEVER EFFICIENCY REPORT INDICATED [REDACTED] WAS STRICTLY A "LONE-WOLF". SELDOM SEEN IN COMPANY OF OTHER MEN OF SQUADRON AND WAS GENERALLY BLUNT OR INDIFFERENT TOWARD THEM.

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PARENTS LISTED AS [REDACTED] BORN IN [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] BORN IN [REDACTED] BOTH LISTED AS DECEASED. BROTHER, [REDACTED] AND UNCLE, [REDACTED] LISTED RESIDING [REDACTED] SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, IN SEPTEMBER, 1946.

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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED AS WHITE/MALE, BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 5'11", 175 LBS., BLUE EYES AND BROWN HAIR. NO PHOTO IN FILE. LAST KNOWN ADDRESS SHOWN AS [REDACTED]

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PAGE THREE SL 164-M UNCLAS

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[REDACTED] SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, IN OCTOBER, 1949. PRIOR EMPLOY- MENT INDICATED AS U.S. MARITIME SERVICE, PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON, [REDACTED]

RECORDS INDICATED [REDACTED] HAD VETERANS ADMINISTRATION (VA) DISABILITY CLAIM WITH VA REGIONAL OFFICE, TEXTILE TOWER, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, UNDER VA CLAIM NUMBER [REDACTED] DATED [REDACTED] RECORDS FURTHER INDICATED HE WAS RECEIVING [REDACTED] DISABILITY FROM VA FOR [REDACTED] AND A HISTORY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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VA COMPUTER LOCATION SYSTEM DISCLOSED [REDACTED] VA CLAIM FOLDER LAST ON FILE VA REGIONAL OFFICE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., UNDER VA CLAIM NUMBER [REDACTED] SAN FRANCISCO, EXPEDITIOUSLY REVIEW [REDACTED] VA CLAIM FOLDER, DETERMINE AMOUNT OF VA COMPENSATION, ANY PERTINENT MEDICAL HISTORY AND FURNISH RESULTS TO WASHINGTON FIELD AND SEATTLE. WASHINGTON FIELD ADVISED [REDACTED] IS ATTEMPTING TO DEPART THE UNITED STATES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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COPY OF [REDACTED] SERVICE RECORD FORWARDED TO SEATTLE VIA AIRTEL. BT

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DB Cooper-18545

Serials: 164-301, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8490