SAC Memphis to SAC Seattle re Jack Coffelt as NORJAK suspect, with interview insert
Document date 21 August 1989
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-50:158-160 Document: Airtel SAC Memphis to SAC Seattle re Jack Coffelt as NORJAK suspect, with interview insert Id: Cooper-Part-50:158-160 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A158-160 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. 158–160 (DB Cooper-20763–20765), Airtel, dated 21 Aug 1989 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A158-160
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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 8/21/89
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TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) FROM : SAC, MEMPHIS (164A-SE-81) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SE
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CC Jack Coffelt [redacted]
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Re SE airtel to ME, dated 7/31/89 and ME telcalls to SE, 8/17-18/89.
Enclosed here for the information of the Seattle Division are two copies of two separate photographs depicting "Jack Coffelt taken approximately 1957." Also enclosed are photoccopies of two articles by [REDACTED] which were published in the October and November, 1983 issues of Las Vegas magazine; a photocopy of an article which appeared in the August, 1980 issue of Hustler magazine; and a photocopy of a letter to [REDACTED] by [REDACTED] dated 12/14/83.
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On 8/17/89, based on a request of the Seattle Division to locate and interview [REDACTED] based on anonymous telephone call received following the broadcast of the Norjak matter on the "Unsolved Mysteries" television show, she was located and interviewed at Memphis, Tenn.
[REDACTED] white female, born [REDACTED], was contacted at her residence of [REDACTED] Memphis, Tenn., and reported she [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] having met [REDACTED] while she was employed as [REDACTED] at the Tennessee Hotel
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
2-Seattle (Encs. 8) [handwritten: turned 9/5] 2-Memphis JJB:vet (4) [handwritten: NO LEADS 1/5/90] [handwritten: NEC.]
[stamp: 164A-SE-81-9147] [stamp: SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____]
AUG 2 8 1989
Approved: [signature] Transmitted ________ (Number) (Time)
W/EA/DB Cooper-20763
ME 164A-SE-81
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where [REDACTED] had been a guest. She reported a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MARK COFFELT, was killed four and one-half years ago in a Texas traffic accident. [REDACTED] in the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and he left the Memphis, Tennessee area. She did not hear from him until [REDACTED] At that time, COFFELT was apparently passing through Memphis and made arrangements to [REDACTED] She kept a record of this check as having been negotiated through the FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB) OF CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND, and subsequently got in contact with COFFELT sometime in 1968 or 1969, at which time she again met with him and [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
As it relates to the Norjak matter, [REDACTED] reported COFFELT had mentioned to her many times [REDACTED] he had parachute training and recounted now forgotten locations where he had supposedly made parachute jumps. She noted when [REDACTED] but toward [REDACTED] COFFELT had apparently come into a large amount of money, since [REDACTED] he had new clothes, jewelry, and was driving a brand new automobile.
She advised the first time she became aware of COFFELT's possible involvement in the Norjak matter was when she was out west visiting in Idaho and came across the Hustler magazine article. She noticed a similarity between the composite photographs of the Norjak subject and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] made available for copy, two photographs depicting JACK COFFELT [REDACTED] and noted these photos were taken in approximately [REDACTED] She noted the sunglasses depicted in these two photos as being the type of sunglasses constantly worn by COFFELT who claimed he had some type of eye difficulty.
[REDACTED] advised during this contact, she did not want "anything from COFFELT," and particularly noted she did not want any notoriety or publicity concerning [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She reported following the publication of two separate articles in the Las Vegas magazine, she was contacted by [REDACTED] [REDACTED] who was [REDACTED] of [REDACTED] during his incarceration at Leavenworth Penitentiary. She reported she communicated by telephone and written communication with [REDACTED] and made available for copy a handwritten letter she had received from [REDACTED] in 1983.
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DB Cooper-20764
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2
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b6 b7C
164A-SE-81
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[REDACTED] advised she knew "JACK" COFFELT to be a "con man and a braggart" and advised she could never really trust anything he would say or tell her. She did, however, comment it was her opinion COFFELT had a mentality of being well capable of thinking up the Norjak scheme, although she acknowledged her opinion may have been largely formed by the various magazine articles.
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Memphis Division has communicated telephonically with the Seattle Division and is aware COFFELT was formerly considered as a suspect concerning captioned matter and was subsequently eliminated from further consideration. The facts concerning that elimination were discussed during referenced telcalls. The enclosed information is therefore being submitted for review and for general information purpose, at the present time. It is noted [REDACTED] appears to be a very stable person and would cooperate fully with the FBI should additional contact with her be required.
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Memphis Division continues captioned matter in pending status based upon a separate request received from the Seattle Division in a communication, dated 8/7/89, requiring investigation at Centerville, Tenn.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-20765
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3*
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b6 b7C
Serials: 164A-SE-81, 164A-SE-81-9147, ME 164A-SE-81