To SAC Seattle indicating Richard Floyd McCoy Jr is not identical with the NORJAK UNSUB
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Original title: Memo to SAC Seattle concluding Richard Floyd McCoy Jr is not identical with the NORJAK UNSUB
Document date 10 June 1992
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 50 pp. 229–230 (DB Cooper-20918–20919), Memo, dated 10 Jun 1992 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A229-230
Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 6/10/92
From : SA [REDACTED]
Subject: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re subject 386 RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR.
The following information is a summary of investigation conducted by SA [REDACTED] that indicates that RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., is not identical with Unknown Subject (UNSUB):
Physical differences:
MC COY COOPER
28 years old 45 years old Ears stick out Ears do not stick out Blue eyes Brown eyes Did not smoke (?) Did smoke
In April 1972, all three stewardesses of the hijacked NORTHWEST ORIENT airplane after viewing MC COY's photograph stated that they were quite certain that MC COY was not identical to COOPER.
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When MC COY's home was searched after his arrest by the FBI for the UNITED AIRLINES hijacking, $499,970.00 of the $500,000.00 ransom was recovered. None of the DB COOPER ransom was found.
After MC COY was convicted and received a 45-year sentence for the UNITED AIRLINES hijacking, no attempt was made to plea bargain the NORJAK hijacking even though it would have been to MC COY's financial as well as his personal advantage to do so.
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[case number] 164A-9156 SEARCHED __ INDEXED __ SERIALIZED [illegible]
JUN 1 0 1992
FBI-SEATTLE DB Cooper-20918
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(3)- Seattle RNN/mjb (3) [initials]
164A-SE-81
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A [REDACTED] at Brigham Young University, [REDACTED] placed MC COY at his residence in Provo, Utah, at 10:00 a.m. on 11/25/71, the day after NORJAK. UNSUB was last seen at about 8:00 p.m. on 11/24/71, when he parachuted into dense woods in the southern part of the state of Washington.
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COOPER instructed the NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES pilot to fly south after taking off from Seattle/Tacoma International Airport. He did not specify any direction nor any vector that should be flown nor did he specify any changes while in flight. It was clear from this command that COOPER did not particularly care where the plane went as long as it went south from Seattle. This would tend to imply that COOPER was not being met on the ground by an accomplice nor did he intend to find something he had left on the ground such as a car or clothing or other paraphernalia to aid him after he reached the ground subsequent to his parachuting from the airplane.
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In view of this it would have been necessary for UNSUB to have landed on the ground on the evening of 11/24/71, at about 8:00 p.m. and somewhere in a dense wooded area in southern Washington and somehow have made it back to his home in Provo, Utah, by 10:00 a.m. the next morning. He was observed in his home completely rested without marks or physical injuries of any kind by the above-named Brigham Young University [REDACTED] It seems highly unlikely that an individual would have been able to maneuver from the wooded area in Washington to Provo, Utah, without taking some sort of airplane transportation to do so. The nearest airport to where UNSUB would have landed in southern Washington was the Portland airport which was the airport at which the NORJAK hijacking originated. During the evening of 11/24/71, it was quite busy with law enforcement personnel of all kinds including FBI Agents in and about the airport conducting interviews and conducting other investigation.
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In view of the above information, it seems unlikely that MC COY is identical with UNSUB subject in this matter.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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2*
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DB Cooper-20919
Serials: 164-9156