SAC Jackson to Director enclosing handwriting and hair samples for NORJACK suspect

Document date 29 August 1984

Part 47pages 221–2222 pagesDB Cooper-19541–19542

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Document: Airtel SAC Jackson to Director enclosing handwriting and hair samples for NORJACK suspect
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 47 pp. 221–222 (DB Cooper-19541–19542), Airtel, dated 29 Aug 1984, serial SE 164-81-877 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A221-222

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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 8/29/84

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)

FROM: SAC, JACKSON (164A-181) (P)

NORJACK; CAA - HIJACKING; OO: SEATTLE

Re Jackson telephone call to the Bureau, dated 8/2/84; Latent Fingerprint Section, Identification Division, report, dated 8/14/84; Jackson telephone calls to the Bureau, dated 8/23 and 8/24/84.

Enclosed for the Bureau is one sheet of lined paper containing handwriting samples of [REDACTED] two cardboard pill boxes containing left forearm hair samples of [REDACTED] one ziplock plastic bag containing head hair samples of [REDACTED] under separate cover.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

As discussed in referenced telephone calls of 8/23 and 8/24/84, with [REDACTED] and Supervisor [REDACTED] of the Latent Fingerprint Section, the major case prints requested under the referenced Latent Fingerprint Section report were sent to the Bureau by a Federal Express overnight delivery service, on 8/24/84, in order that a timely and expeditious evaluation of said prints could be made with those latents on file under Latent Case Number A-45410.

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3 - Bureau (1 - Package Copy-Enc. 4) (1) - Seattle (Info) (164A-81) 2 - Jackson JKF/dwd (6)

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Approved: ________ Transmitted ________ (Number) (Time) Per 164A-81-877 SEARCHED ☐ INDEXED ☐ SERIALIZED ☐ FILED ☐ ☆ U.S. Government Printing Office: 1984-431-613/6249 SEP 4 1984

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DB Cooper-19541

JN 164A-181

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For the information of the Bureau, information provided by a [REDACTED] of, along with the [REDACTED] of, [REDACTED] have implicated him as a possible suspect in the captioned matter. Investigation by Agents of the Jackson Division has resulted in the finding of a number of significant similarities between [REDACTED] and the subject of captioned matter.

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[REDACTED] is presently residing in a [REDACTED] facility outside of Toomsuba, Mississippi, while he awaits the repair of his personal vehicle which has an inoperable engine. It is expected that [REDACTED] will have this vehicle repaired or obtain other transportation from the Toomsuba, Mississippi area, and as such, all effort is being made to identify or eliminate him as a suspect in captioned matter.

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REQUEST OF THE BUREAU

It is requested that the Bureau will expeditiously make comparisons between the known hair samples of [REDACTED] and those hair specimens obtained at the time of the hijacking. It is further requested that the submitted handwritting sample be compared with any possible handwriting samples which might be available as evidence from the hi- jacking.

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As requested in telephone calls of 8/23 and 8/24/84, the Latent Fingerprint Section, Identification Division at FBIHQ, will compare the major case prints submitted of [REDACTED] to those latent prints collected from the scene of the hijacking.

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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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DB Cooper-19542

Serials: 164-181, 164-2111, JN 164-181, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-877