SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK suspect (Merrill Lynch account, 101st Airborne background)
Document date 20 May 1988
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-49:074-077 Document: Airtel SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK suspect (Merrill Lynch account, 101st Airborne background) Id: Cooper-Part-49:074-077 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-49%3A074-077 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 49 pp. 74–77 (DB Cooper-20163–20166), Airtel, dated 20 May 1988, serial SE 164-81-8917 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-49%3A074-077
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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 5/20/88
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) ATTN: [REDACTED] Criminal Investigation Division (CID), Personal Crimes Section
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)(P)
NORJAK; OO: SEATTLE
RE: [REDACTED] Norjak Suspect [REDACTED]
RE: Seattle airtel to Newark, 4/15/87; Newark teletype to the Bureau, 4/16/87; St. Louis letter to Newark, 5/4/87; Newark teletype to the Bureau, 5/13/87 Newark teletype to the Bureau, 5/26/87; Seattle airtel to the Bureau, 6/8/87; Newark airtel to Seattle, 6/8/87; Seattle airtel to the Bureau, 8/11/87; San Francisco airtel to Seattle, 9/18/87; Sacramento airtel to Seattle, 2/1/88.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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2 - Bureau (164-2111) 3 - Newark (2 - 164A-196) (1 - 164A-402) 1 - San Francisco (INFO)(164A-220) (GP) Seattle (164A-81) RNN:bbm (9)
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164A -81 - 8917
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Searched Serialized Indexed Filed
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DB Cooper-20163
SE 164A-81
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[REDACTED] is being considered a NORJAK suspect because he was a former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division, and he has stated that he has large quantities of money in the stock market managed by MERRILL LYNCH in San Francisco. In addition, [REDACTED] was in the Washington State area at the time the crime was committed, and he has bragged that he was D.B. COOPER.
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[REDACTED] is described as follows: Sex: Male Race: Caucasian Height: 5'10" Weight: 175 pounds Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel Date of birth: [REDACTED] Place of Birth: [REDACTED] Scars: [REDACTED] Occupation: [REDACTED] SSAN: [REDACTED] FBI #: [REDACTED] Army Service No.: [REDACTED] Time in Military: [REDACTED] First wife: [REDACTED] Second wife: [REDACTED] Third wife: [REDACTED] Son: [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] was discharged from the military under less than honorable conditions and was [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED]
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By teletype dated 5/13/87, the Newark Division advised [REDACTED] had been arrested by the WASHINGTON STATE POLICE based upon an NCIC entry made by the Denville, New Jersey Police Department, charging [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-20164
SE 164A-81
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[REDACTED] in regard to [REDACTED] that he [REDACTED] On 5/14/87, [REDACTED] was interviewed by Special Agents of the FBI. He stated that he had lived in the Vancouver, Washington area from 1967 to 1974, working as a [REDACTED] at CROWN ZELLERBACH and ALCOA. He advised that he had not done any skydiving since 1959, and that he had made 10-11 jumps in the military with the 101st Airborne Division. [REDACTED] was released from the VANCOUVER JAIL on [REDACTED] The authorities in New Jersey refused extradition.
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After being interviewed, [REDACTED] provided Major Case Prints to Agents of the FBI. These prints were forwarded to the Latent Fingerprint Section of the FBI Laboratory, where they were compared with the NORJAK parcels obtained at the time of the hijacking. The FBI Laboratory advised by letter, dated 6/26/87, that the previously reported and unidentified latent prints in this case are not the fingerprints or palm prints of [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] was interviewed by Agents of the FBI from the Sacramento Division. [REDACTED] stated that regarding a possible MERRILL LYNCH Account, belonging to [REDACTED] this could be a property settlement that [REDACTED] received after [REDACTED] He told her that he received [REDACTED] in funds, which he put into a MERRILL LYNCH account in the Bay area. He referred to this as his [REDACTED] which he could not touch until age 50½, without paying tax penalties. [REDACTED] also advised concerning the possibility that [REDACTED] might be D.B. COOPER, that [REDACTED] seemed to have a great and continuing interest in the folklore surrounding COOPER. [REDACTED] was an avid fisherman and hunter and told her he was very familiar with the terrain around Mount St. Helens. He always read a lot and paid attention of the media comments and stories about COOPER.
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[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] did not have any real tattoos, but she did recall he had one [REDACTED] [REDACTED] On November 3rd, and later on November 24, 1987, [REDACTED] advised upon viewing the 1969 arrest photo, and the 1971 sketch of UNSUB, that there did appear to be an uncanny strong resemblance between the two.
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According to [REDACTED] smoked heavily, about 3 packs a day, up until about March, 1984, and then quit "cold turkey". He always smoked filtered cigarettes usually KENTS, and did not smoke RALEIGH's ever (to her recollection).
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DB Cooper-20165
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3
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b6 b7C
SE 164A-81
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[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] was a habitual liar and loved to fabricate stories. In November, 1987, it was learned through discreet contacts with MERILL LYNCH in San Francisco, that they had no account listed in the name of [REDACTED]
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By airtel dated April 13, 1988, the Newark Division set forth leads at San Francisco, Santa Clara, California, and San Jose, California. Upon completion of the San Francisco Division leads, the Seattle Division will consider a second interview with [REDACTED] or a polygraph examination of [REDACTED] on the specific issue of him being D.B. COOPER and committing captioned hijacking.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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b6 b7C
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4* DB Cooper-20166
Serials: 164-2111, NK 164-196, NK 164-402, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8917, SF 164-220