SAC Seattle to Director re annual NORJAK status, suspect totals, McCoy and Unsolved Mysteries call tallies
Document date 13 February 1990
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-50:140-142 Document: Airtel SAC Seattle to Director re annual NORJAK status, suspect totals, McCoy and Unsolved Mysteries call tallies Id: Cooper-Part-50:140-142 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A140-142 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 50 pp. 140–142 (DB Cooper-20745–20746), Airtel, dated 13 Feb 1990, serial SE 164-81-9141 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A140-142
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Date 2/13/90
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1 TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) 2 FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) 3 SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE
5 NORJAK Suspects at Start of 1989: 1,003 6 NORJAK Suspects at End of 1989: 1,041 7 Number of Suspects Processed and Eliminated During the Year: 24
Occasionally, suspects are reopened because new 9 evidence indicates a "second look" is warranted. One suspect that received national press coverage was [REDACTED] 10 [REDACTED] 11 [REDACTED] was considered a suspect because he [REDACTED] [REDACTED] prior to NORJAK. He matches the general 12 description of UNSUB, also known as DAN COOPER. [REDACTED] 13 [REDACTED] He served in the military and may have had airborne training.
The Newark Division advised by airtel dated 7/24/89, 15 that a review of [REDACTED] U.S. Army records reflect no receipt by [REDACTED] of airborne training. A review of suspect File [REDACTED] 16 reflected that [REDACTED] photograph has been displayed to the three victim stewardesses. All three stated that [REDACTED] was not 17 identical to UNSUB.
18 No further investigation will be conducted by Seattle concerning [REDACTED]
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
21 2 - Bureau (2)- Seattle RNN:jhf()//?
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[guess: Sue] K K WSOLVAS MYST[guess: ERY]
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Searched ___ Serialized ___ Indexed ___ Filed ___
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Approved: ___ Transmitted ___ Per ‖o4A-81-9141‖ (Number) (Time)
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er-20744
SE 164A-81
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In a recently completed manuscript, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (D. B. Cooper - No Longer a Mystery)," RUSSELL P. CALAME, former SAC, Salt Lake City Division, and BERNIE A. RHODES, former Chief U.S. Probation and Parole Agent, contend RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., (Suspect Number 386) was COOPER.
MC COY was considered a suspect because he hijacked a plane five months after NORJAK using essentially the same scheme as UNSUB. MC COY's physical description is similar to UNSUB; however, his age at the time of NORJAK was 29. UNSUB's age was described by witnesses as mid-40s.
MC COY was placed in a Brigham Young University classroom on 11/23/71, the day prior to NORJAK. UNSUB was last seen at about 8:00 p.m. on 11/24/71, when he parachuted into dense woods in southern Washington State. A friend placed MC COY at his residence in Provo, Utah, at 10:00 a.m. on 11/25/71. In April of 1972, all three stewardesses stated they were quite certain MC COY was not identical to COOPER after viewing his photograph.
When Mc COY's home was searched after his arrest, $499,970.00 were recovered from his UNITED AIRLINES hijacking on 4/7/72. No NORJAK ransom money was found.
A comparison between MC COY's fingerprints and NORJAK partials was made with negative results.
This case was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries," a National Broadcasting Company television series, on 10/12/88 and again on 3/10/89. As a result of that exposure, 206 telephone calls were received after the 10/12/88 show and 193 calls were received after the 3/10/89 show.
The telephone calls fit into five categories:
1. SIGHTING: The caller had recently seen an individual resembling the artist's composite of UNSUB. (No lead)
2. RESEMBLANCE: The caller had an acquaintance who resembled the artist's composite of UNSUB. (No lead)
3. FORMER SUSPECT: The caller was suggesting a suspect that had been previously processed as a NORJAK suspect.
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DB Cooper-20745
SE 164A-81
4. NEW SUSPECT: The caller was providing information on a new suspect. This information was dictated into Seattle File Number 164A-81 and appropriate leads have been set out.
5. NO LEAD: The caller did not provide any information of lead value.
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A summary of these telephone calls follows:
DATES OF BROADCAST TYPE OF CALL 10/12/88 3/20/89 TOTALS
SIGHTING 30 15 45
RESEMBLANCE 23 46 69
FORMER SUSPECT 13 13 26
NEW SUSPECT 9 17 26
NO LEAD 131 102 233
NUMBER OF CALLS 206 193 399
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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3*
DB Cooper-20746
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-9141