Citizen letter and envelope from Spencer, Iowa naming a Cooper look-alike

Document date 14 January 1983

Part 47pages 90–912 pagesDB Cooper-19377–19378

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Document: Citizen letter and envelope from Spencer, Iowa naming a Cooper look-alike
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 47 pp. 90–91 (DB Cooper-19377–19378), Letter, dated 14 Jan 1983, serial SE 164-81-8715 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A090-091

[REDACTED letterhead graphic] Dia[REDACTED] SPENCER, IOWA [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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January 14, 1983

F. B. I. U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC 20537

Dear Sir:

While watching a television program depicting the $200,000.00 highjack heist of an airplane involving a demand for parachutes, I saw a composite picture of the thief who has never been apprehended and was reminded of a former acquaintance who moved to[REDACTED] [REDACTED] Bellevue, Washington from here around 1965.

His name is [REDACTED] a former employee of the Clay County National Bank in Spencer, Iowa who I under- stand is unemployed and has been for some time.

I have no knowledge as to his military service and any connection with parachute training and I am merely going on the strength of the picture and his whereabouts.

[REDACTED sender name/signature block]

nk

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Not a D.B. Cooper

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164A-81-8715 SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED C.[illegible] FEB 7 1983 [illegible]

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Where Service and Friendship Meet

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DB Cooper-19377

[REDACTED — black box over sender name and address]

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SPENCER, IOWA [REDACTED] ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

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SPENCER, IA JAN14 1-PM 1987

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F. B. I. U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC 20537

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-19378

Serials: SE 164-81-8715