SAC Charlotte to SAC Seattle re Belmont Abbey College Cooper look-alike

Document date 27 February 1981

Part 46pages 75–762 pagesDB Cooper-18846–18847

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Document: Memo SAC Charlotte to SAC Seattle re Belmont Abbey College Cooper look-alike
Id: Cooper-Part-46:075-076
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 46 pp. 75–76 (DB Cooper-18846–18847), Memo, dated 27 Feb 1981, serial SE 164-81-8558 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A075-076

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) Date 2/27/81 From : SAC, CHARLOTTE (164A-219) (RUC)

Subject : NORJAK CAA - HIJACK

(OO: SEATTLE) (BUFILE 164-2111)

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For the information of Seattle, on 1/2/81, information was received from a source that [REDACTED] at Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, N. C., resembles a photograph of D. B. COOPER, recently shown in a newspaper in North Carolina in connection with an article on captioned matter.

A review of the City Directory for Belmont, N. C., on 1/6/81, revealed that [REDACTED] address was [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Belmont, N. C., and employment listed as "Employee of Belmont Abbey College".

On 1/7/81, contact was made with [REDACTED] (protect identity), [REDACTED] for Belmont Abbey College. [REDACTED] viewed the artist's conception drawings of unsub, after which he stated that [REDACTED] bears some slight resemblance to the drawings.

On 1/28/81, [REDACTED] (protect identity) made available a [REDACTED] which had a snapshot therein of [REDACTED] [REDACTED] at Belmont Abbey College.

[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] came to Belmont Abbey in [REDACTED] He has a [REDACTED] from Rider College in [REDACTED] and an [REDACTED] from Fairleigh Dickinson University in [REDACTED]

It was noted that the photograph of [REDACTED] is similar in appearance to the artist's conception drawing of unsub, except that [REDACTED] has a receding hairline and is partially bald.

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(2) - Seattle 1 - Charlotte

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164A-81-8558 SEARCHED........INDEXED...... SERIALIZED.....FILED........

MAR 5 1981 FBI....[illegible]

FBI/DOJ DB Cooper-18846

CE 164A-219

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On 1/29/81, a check of the Police Information Network (PIN) for the State of North Carolina revealed that [REDACTED] resides at [REDACTED] Belmont, N. C. His date of birth is listed as [REDACTED] North Carolina driver's license [REDACTED] which was issued 7/24/79, to expire [REDACTED].

[REDACTED] had a [REDACTED] listed to him and his [REDACTED] Belmont, N. C. and another older vehicle listed to him and his wife at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Belmont, N. C.

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On 1/29/81, [REDACTED] Charlotte Credit Bureau, Charlotte, N. C., advised that her records revealed that [REDACTED] Belmont, N. C., has been in file since 7/16/79. The record revealed that his previous address was [REDACTED] Northfield, Vermont.

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Charlotte, after review of above information, is not contacting [REDACTED] due to his position as [REDACTED] at an institution of higher learning, and due to the fact that he bears only a slight resemblance to unsub.

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Should office of origin desire further inquiry concerning [REDACTED] it is suggested that leads be set forth in Vermont, his prior address, and also at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in the State of New Jersey, in an attempt to determine his appearance and activities in 1971 at the time captioned crime occurred.

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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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2* DB Cooper-18847

Serials: 164-2111, CE 164-219, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8558