To SAC Seattle re Sheriff Closner tip on former Skamania County resident (copy)
Document date 5 June 1981
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-46:101-101 Document: Memo to SAC Seattle re Sheriff Closner tip on former Skamania County resident (copy) Id: Cooper-Part-46:101-101 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A101-101 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 46 p. 101 (DB Cooper-18877), Memo, dated 5 Jun 1981, serial SE 164-81-8572 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A101-101
Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Date 6/5/81
From : SA [REDACTED]
Subject : NORJAK (A) OO: SEATTLE
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On April 10, 1981, Sheriff Bill Closner, Skamania County, Stevenson, Washington, provided the following infor- mation:
He recently spoke with a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in Stevenson, Washington, whose name he does not wish to reveal at this time. This individual in turn received infor- mation from [REDACTED] located in White Salmon, Washington. [REDACTED] provided the following information to the [REDACTED] who inturn provided it to him:
[REDACTED] is an individual who used to reside in Skamania County, Washington. [REDACTED] was a type of a [REDACTED] who dealt in [REDACTED] and had, apparently, several "dummy" corporations. [REDACTED] is a pilot, who, at one time, either had a lear jet or flew a lear jet. Further, [REDACTED] was knowledgeable parachuting.
[REDACTED] leads a "fast life". He split up with his wife approximately four years ago and is residing at an unknown location at this time.
The night that D. B. Cooper hijacked the aircraft in Portland, Oregon, [REDACTED] was supposed to attend a dinner party in the area. Unexpectedly, [REDACTED] indicated that he would be unable to attend the dinner party and subsequently ended up in the hospital the next morning with a back problem. He, Closner, is unaware of what hospital [REDACTED] was in. [REDACTED] also suffered ear problems at about the same time.
He, Closner, feels this information may be of assistance to the FBI in the D. B. Cooper matter. In the event the FBI wishes to speak to [REDACTED] concerning this matter, he requests that he be contacted first so that he can set up the appointment inasmuch as [REDACTED] might not be willing to talk if approached "cold".
Closner then provided a Department of Motor Vehicles' print out regarding [REDACTED] and Xeroxed copies of the Skamania County Sheriff's Office contact record with [REDACTED] A review of
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DB Cooper-18877
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164A-81-8572 SEARCHED ......INDEXED M SERIALIZED M ....FILED M JUN 5 [guess: 1981] FBI - SEATTLE FBI/DOJ
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8572