To SAC Seattle re Skamania County suspect follow-up, with lead
Document date 18 July 1981
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Id: Cooper-Part-46:104-105
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-46:104-105 Document: Memo to SAC Seattle re Skamania County suspect follow-up, with lead Id: Cooper-Part-46:104-105 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A104-105 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 pp. 104–105 (DB Cooper-18881–18882), Memo, dated 18 Jul 1981 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A104-105
Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)(P) Date 7/18/81 From : SA [REDACTED] Subject : NORJAK(A) OO: Seattle
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Re Seattle memo of SA [REDACTED] 6/5/81.
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On 6/23/81, Sheriff Bill Closner, Skamania County Sheriff's Office, Stevenson, Washington, advised he wished to contact the Stevenson [REDACTED] who originally provided him with the information concerning [REDACTED] as a possible suspect in the D.B. Cooper matter. He said the [REDACTED] was not currently available.
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On 7/6/81, Sheriff Closner, supra, advised he had con- tacted the [REDACTED] who indicated he had no objections if the FBI interviewed [REDACTED] the original source of information in this matter. Sheriff Closner said he would attempt to set up an appointment with [REDACTED] who was not retired, and then advise the FBI.
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On 7/16/81, Sheriff Closner, supra, stated he had been unable to locate [REDACTED] in White Salsom, Washington or elsewhere. He said the [REDACTED] would be willing to the FBI however.
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On 7/16/81, [REDACTED] Stevenson, Wash., telephone [REDACTED] voluntarily appeared in the Skamania County Sheriff's Office, Stevenson, Washington, and provided the following information:
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He heard from [REDACTED] who is a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] living in the White Salmon area that [REDACTED] an ex-resident of [REDACTED] (a rural area of Skamania County, Washington), was taking sky-diving lessons at the Evergreen Landing Strip in Vancouver, Washington shortly before the hi-jacking of an aircraft by D.B. Cooper. He also heard from [REDACTED] that the night before or the night of the Cooper hi-jacking, [REDACTED] was supposed to attend a dinner party in [REDACTED] but called to say he would be unable to attend because he had injured his back sky-diving and was in a hospital.
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2 - Seattle JTG/jg SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ JUL 22 1981 DB Cooper-18881
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name unknown. He further heard from [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] had a jet aircraft at Hood River, Oregon and flew back and forth to Longdon, England.
He has met [REDACTED] on occasion and has heard that he, [REDACTED] is now apparently divorced. He has heard that [REDACTED] is living somewhere in Eastern Oregon while his ex-wife lives in the Portland-Vancouver area.
The individual who knows [REDACTED] very well is [REDACTED]
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Another indivdual knowledgeable of what [REDACTED] was talking about is [REDACTED] at SD&S in White Salsom, Washington.
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LEAD
SEATTLE AT [REDACTED] (SKAMANIA COUNTY), WASHINGTON
Contact [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] and determine from him characteristics of [REDACTED] indicative of his habits and behavior so that [REDACTED] can either be eliminated as a suspect or investigation can continue.
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DB Cooper-18882
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Serials: SE 164-81