SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle re NORJACK tip from Burnsville, Minnesota caller

Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) Date 7/21/83 From : SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164A-73) (RUC) Subject: NORJACK; SAA - HIJACKING; OO: SEATTLE

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For information of Seattle, on 5/11/83, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Burnsville, Minnesota, telephone [REDACTED], telephonically contacted the Minneapolis Office and advised that he had information concerning captioned case and requested a personal meeting with a Bureau Agent.

On 5/16/83, [REDACTED] was interviewed by Minneapolis Division SA, at which time he advised he is a [REDACTED] having [REDACTED] in approximately 1960 after [REDACTED]. He is currently a self- employed [REDACTED] [REDACTED] subsequently provided the following information regarding captioned case matter:

[REDACTED] stated that all of the information that he is furnishing was received by him from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] St. Louis Park, Minnesota. [REDACTED] is a white female, approximately 50 years of age, who is employed as a [REDACTED] by [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Minneapolis. [REDACTED] is a regular [REDACTED] [REDACTED] is aware that [REDACTED] is a [REDACTED] currently employed as a [REDACTED] Approximately one week prior to the interview of [REDACTED] he [REDACTED] was in [REDACTED] office, at which time [REDACTED] confided the following information to him.

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(2) - Seattle 1 - Minneapolis MGG:dlg (3)

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164A-81-8732 SEARCHED [INDEXED] SERIALIZED [FILED] JUL 25 1983 [REDACTED]

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DB Cooper-19427

MP 164A-81

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In approximately 8/81, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] at the [REDACTED] located on Normandale Boulevard, Bloomington, Minnesota (a Minneapolis suburb). [REDACTED] resides at [REDACTED] Minnesota, telephone [REDACTED] and is the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] During this evening, [REDACTED] admitted to the group of [REDACTED] other individuals that he had knowledge concerning the group that planned and executed the hijacking of a Northwest Airlines aircraft several years ago, which later became somewhat famous as the "D. B. Cooper" case. [REDACTED] stated that the hijacker, upon receipt of the ransom money, parachuted from the aircraft and landed in an area near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The exact landing spot was marked by a large "X" on the ground. The hijacker then disguised himself as a hunter and drove out of the area utilizing a Jeep Scout vehicle. The hijacker had in his possession a Washington State driver's license which he utilized to identify himself when he was stopped by an unnamed law enforcement agency during his trip out of the mountains. [REDACTED] additionally claimed that [REDACTED] is the individual's true name and that he is currently residing in the Blaine, Minnesota, area, another Minneapolis suburb. [REDACTED] currently has two different families, neither family knowing of the existence of the other.

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Minneapolis Division indices are negative regarding [REDACTED] Indices list one reference for [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] This file has been destroyed. Minneapolis b7C indices list two references for [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Review of these files failed to determine whether references were identical to [REDACTED] mentioned above. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company tele- phone directory for the Minneapolis area reflects listings for numerous [REDACTED] none bearing the [REDACTED]

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In view of the inconsistencies between information b6 provided by [REDACTED] and that previously known by the FBI concerning b7C captioned matter, Minneapolis Division is conducting no further investigation into this matter unless advised to the contrary by Seattle.

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DB Cooper-19428