SAC Chicago (Rockford RA) to SAC Minneapolis re Rockford walk-ins naming D.B. Cooper suspect
Document date 2 July 1992
Also filed at: Part 69 pp. 47–48
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-50:265-267 Document: Memo SAC Chicago (Rockford RA) to SAC Minneapolis re Rockford walk-ins naming D.B. Cooper suspect Id: Cooper-Part-50:265-267 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A265-267 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. 265–267 (DB Cooper-20954–20956), Memo, dated 2 Jul 1992 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A265-267
Memorandum
To : SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) From : SAC, CHICAGO (ROC RA) WOB[redacted] Date 7/2/92
Subject: UNSUB, aka D. B. Cooper CAA - HIJACKING OO: MINNEAPOLIS
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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Enclosed for Minneapolis are eight photographs of [redacted] and one copy of a drawing of D. B. COOPER provided by [redacted]
On 6/29/92 [redacted] (PROTECT IDENTITY), [redacted] Rockford, Illinois, telephone [redacted] and [redacted] (PROTECT IDENTITY), [redacted] Rockford, telephone [redacted] voluntarily appeared at the Rockford RA. They stated they had recently seen a photo of the fugitive aircraft hijacker "D. B. COOPER" on a television program, and they both believed [redacted] [redacted] to be COOPER.
They based this belief upon their perception of a very strong facial resemblance between COOPER and [redacted] as well as what they described as [redacted] strange behavior which led them to believe he was a fugitive from the law. They noted that follow- ing the telecast they went to the library and obtained a copy of a drawing of COOPER which they believed strongly resembled [redacted] They also provided a copy of the drawing of COOPER.
In explaining this allegation they provided the following:
[redacted] at Rockford, Illinois, on [redacted] They [redacted] in [redacted] stated that throughout [redacted]
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(2) - Minneapolis (Encs. 9) 1 - Chicago
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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SERIALIZED [redacted] INDEXED [redacted] JUL 2 3 1992 FBI MINNEAPOLIS FBI - SEATTLE A DB Cooper-20954
164-73
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[REDACTED] was extremely secretive about his past and identity. On occasion he said he was [REDACTED] and at one time he said [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
She described [REDACTED] as a [REDACTED] who [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and he was described as going to extremes to avoid having his photograph taken. He was said to have voiced [REDACTED] when [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
She noted that he claimed to be retired, and she knew him to have an income of [REDACTED] per month, yet he lived in a manner well beyond that income. When [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]
She noted that whenever he [REDACTED] he visited the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She noted that [REDACTED] but she could not provide addresses, etc., for [REDACTED]
She said he complained of [REDACTED] years ago and that he had mentioned that he enjoyed skydiving.
He is alleged to have rifles and shotguns in his home at [REDACTED] Santa Rosa, California.
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She noted the following personal data and physical description of [REDACTED]
Name [REDACTED] Race White Sex Male DOB [REDACTED] (not confirmed by documentation) Height 5'7" Weight 160 pounds Hair Black (turning gray) Build Thin shoulders, large stomach
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DB Cooper-20955
164-73
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Employment Allegedly retired from [REDACTED] San Francisco, California, possible occupation - [REDACTED] said to have worked in Alaska on Alaskan Pipeline and a nuclear plant in Houston or Beaumont, Texas for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in early 1970s believed to have worked in the State of Washington or Alaska; recently employed by [REDACTED] Petaluna, California
Education Graduated from high school in Klamath Falls, Oregon
Parents [REDACTED](deceased)[REDACTED] [REDACTED] Medford, Oregon
Daughters [REDACTED] Santa Rosa, California Occupation: [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Washington, D. C. Occupation: [REDACTED]
Finances Has bank account at SECURITY PACIFIC BANK, Medford, Oregon; holds Master Card from same bank
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[REDACTED] requested confidentiality, and she also requested that she be considered for any applicable monetary reward should her suspicions prove correct.
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Leads are being left to the discretion of OO; however, if [REDACTED] allegations concerning [REDACTED] aversion to being photographed and/or otherwise identified are correct, it may be beneficial to identify him.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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DB Cooper-20956
Serials: MP 164-73