Butte to Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect near Caroline, Alberta

Document date 23 September 1981

Part 46pages 129–1335 pagesDB Cooper-18911–18915

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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-46:129-133

Document: Teletype Butte to Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect near Caroline, Alberta
Id: Cooper-Part-46:129-133
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 46 pp. 129–133 (DB Cooper-18911–18915), Teletype, dated 23 Sep 1981, serial SE 164-81-8583 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A129-133

3T0004 266 2307Z RR HQ SE DE BT R 23 2300Z SEP 81

FM BUTTE (164A-26) (RUC) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) (ROUTINE) SEATTLE (164A-81) (ROUTINE) BT UNCLAS

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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.

RE BUTTE TELCALL OF SA [REDACTED] WITH SUPERVISOR b6 [REDACTED] SEATTLE DIVISION, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981. b7C

FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU AND FOR CONFIRMATION TO SEATTLE OF REFERENCED TELCALL, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS SET FORTH:

ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1981, [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] ALBERTA, b7C CANADA, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] b7D [REDACTED] WHO HAD INFORMATION REGARDING THE D. B. COOPER CASE IN WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL HIJACKED AN AIRLINER IN THE UNITED

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164 A-81 - 8583 SEARCHED _____ [illegible] SERIALIZED _____ [illegible] SEP 23 1981

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DB Cooper-18911

ST 164A-26, PAGE TWO, UNCLAS

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STATES AND THEN PARACHUTED FROM THE AIRCRAFT. [REDACTED] TURNED THE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION OVER TO [REDACTED] WHO ADVISED THAT HIS OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER IS [REDACTED] AND HIS HOME TELE- PHONE NUMBER IS [REDACTED] IN THE CITY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] / [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT ONE [REDACTED] RESIDES NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF CAROLINE IN ALBERTA, CANADA. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] STATED THAT UNTIL RECENTLY, [REDACTED] HAS BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO CONVERSE WITH. HE STATED THAT RECENTLY, HOWEVER, HE HAS CAUGHT [REDACTED] IN THE ACT OF [REDACTED] AND SINCE [REDACTED] IS DEPENDENT UPON THE CONTINUATION OF HIS [REDACTED] FOR HIS LIVELIHOOD, HE HAS BECOME SOMEWHAT COOPERATIVE AND CONVERSANT WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TOLD [REDACTED] THAT D. B. COOPER, WHO PARACHUTED FROM THE HIJACKED AIRPLANE IN THE UNITED STATES, FORMERLY WAS [REDACTED] IN THE CAROLINE, ALBERTA, CANADA, AREA. HE STATED THAT WHEN HE STARTED THIS [REDACTED] HE, HIMSELF, PUT UP 60 PERCENT OF THE FINANCING AND THAT [REDACTED] PUT UP THE OTHER 40 PERCENT.

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DB Cooper-18912

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b6 b7C b7D

BT LS4A-26, PAGE THREE, UNCLAS

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HE STATED THAT THAT WAS PRIOR TO THE HIJACKING. HE STATED, HOWEVER, THAT SOME OF [REDACTED] ARE STILL RESIDING IN THE AREA AND DO WORK IN THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DID CONFIRM THAT THERE ARE PERSONS BY THE NAME OF [REDACTED] WHO DO WORK WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RECENTLY TOLD [REDACTED] THAT HE RECENTLY SAW [REDACTED] NORTH OF CAROLINE, ALBERTA, CANADA, AND HE WAS VERY DEFINITE IT WAS HIM, BUT HE WAS WEARING WHAT APPEARED TO BE A WIG AND FALSE BEARD. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE APPROACHED [REDACTED] BUT THAT [REDACTED] RAN. [REDACTED] HAS TOLD [REDACTED] THAT HE BELIEVED [REDACTED] PROBABLY WOULD CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED IN [REDACTED] TYPE EMPLOYMENT. HE STATED THAT [REDACTED] WAS VERY MUCH FAMILIAR WITH THE BACK COUNTRY AND PACKING AND [REDACTED] AND THAT TYPE OF ACTIVITY. [REDACTED] WAS OF THE OPINION THAT [REDACTED] PROBABLY KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE PERSON KNOWN TO HIM AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED THAT THE [REDACTED] HE KNOWS ALWAYS CARRIED A GUN AND HE WOULD ASSUME THAT HE WOULD BE DANGEROUS. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE IS AWARE THAT SOMEONE HAS MADE

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DB Cooper-18913

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b6 b7C

BT 164A-26, PAGE FOUR, UNCLAS

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A DEPOSIT FOR PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY OF [REDACTED] BUT THAT THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE AN IMMEDIATE SALE AND HE BELIEVED THAT EVEN IF THE PROPERTY SHOULD BECOME SOLD, [REDACTED] WOULD PROBABLY CONTINUE TO RESIDE IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE WOULD CONTINUE TO MAKE PERIODIC CONTACTS WITH [REDACTED] FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING GREATER RAPPORT WITH HIM. [REDACTED] ADVISED HE WOULD NOT SPECIFICALLY ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION REGARDING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED], ALBERTA, CANADA, IS APPROXIMATELY [REDACTED] OF GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, AND IT IS A [REDACTED] OF CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA. IT IS [REDACTED] OF RED DEER. HE ADVISED THAT THERE IS NO COMMERCIAL AIRPORT AT [REDACTED] HOWEVER, HE STATED THAT THERE IS A GOOD PAVED RUNWAY WHICH WOULD ACCOMMO- DATE EVEN A FAIR-SIZED TWIN-ENGINE AIRCRAFT IN THE EVENT THAT INVESTIGATORS MAY WISH TO FLY INTO THE AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF INTERVIEWING [REDACTED]

THE BUREAU IS REQUESTED TO FURNISHED THE ABOVE INFORMATION TO LEGAT, OTTAWA, FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AT THIS TIME ONLY AND THAT LEADS IN THIS MATTER ARE BEING LEFT TO THE DISCRETION

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DB Cooper-18914

BT 164A-26, PAGE FIVE, UNCLAS

OF THE OO.

UACB, OR UNLESS ADVISED BY SEATTLE, NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION

IN THIS MATTER IS BEING CONDUCTED BY BUTTE.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

BT

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2662315Z SE 1/PGP

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DB Cooper-18915

Serials: 164-2111, BT 164-26, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8583