SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle re NORJACK suspect Melvin Cooper
Document date 27 January 1982
Also filed at: Part 62 pp. 246–247
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-46:297-298 Document: Airtel SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle re NORJACK suspect Melvin Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-46:297-298 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A297-298 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. 297–298 (DB Cooper-19136–19137), Airtel, dated 27 Jan 1982 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-46%3A297-298
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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☒ AIRTEL ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ UNCLAS E F T O ☐ UNCLAS Date 1/27/82
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164A-50) (P) SUBJECT: NORJACK OO: SEATTLE SUSPECT: MELVIN COOPER
Re Sacramento airtel to Seattle, dated 1/5/82 and Seattle airtel to Sacramento, dated 1/19/82.
Enclosed for Los Angeles is one copy of Sacramento airtel dated 1/5/82 which contains information necessary to cover leads that are being set forth.
For the information of Seattle, recontact with [REDACTED] South Lake Tahoe, California determined that the Melvin Cooper she referred to, in 1971 would be approximately 45 years of age. She advised that she is attempting to ascertain his exact birth date.
For the information of Los Angeles it is noted that [REDACTED] in late December 1981 advised the Sacra- mento Office that Melvin Cooper, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] had bragged to friends of hers whom she would not identify as being identical with subject of captioned case. She advised that Melvin Cooper was killed in a helicopter crash in the Santa Barbara, Los Angeles area approximately five or six months ago. At that time he was employed in a helicopter rescue company working in the Los Angeles or Santa Barbara area.
(2) Seattle 2- Los Angeles (Enc. 1) 2- Sacramento FMH/wlp (6)
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[handwritten] [illegible signature] - 86/82 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ FEB 3 1982
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Approved: ___________ Transmitted ___________ (Number) (Time) DB Cooper-19136
SC 164A-50
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Referenced airtel from Seattle requested Sacramento to conduct additional investigation to determine if Melvin Cooper could possibly be identical to captioned subject.
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LEAD
LOS ANGELES
AT LOS ANGELES AND SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA; Will identify the crash of a helicopter approximately five or six months ago, thereafter determine if Melvin Cooper was employed in the rescue business and was in- volved in that particular crash. If Melvin Cooper identified conduct logical investigation to determine if he could possibly be involved in captioned matter.
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SACRAMENTO
AT BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA; Will contact the U. S. Forest Service, Bakersfield, California in an effort to identify employment record for Melvin Cooper.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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2* DB Cooper-19137