SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect identified from 'Unsolved Mysteries'
Document date 13 April 1993
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-50:367-369 Document: Airtel SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect identified from 'Unsolved Mysteries' Id: Cooper-Part-50:367-369 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A367-369 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. 367–369 (DB Cooper-21062–21063), Airtel, dated 13 Apr 1993, serial 164A-SE-81 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A367-369
FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)
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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: [ ] Teletype [ ] Immediate [ ] TOP SECRET [ ] Facsimile [ ] Priority [ ] SECRET [X] AIRTEL [ ] Routine [ ] CONFIDENTIAL [ ] UNCLAS E F T O [ ] UNCLAS
Date 4/13/93
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TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)
FROM : SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164A-SE-81) (P)[redacted]
SUBJECT : NORJAK OO: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference 4/12/93 telephone call from SA[redacted] Seattle, to SA[redacted] Missoula Resident Agency.
On 3/26/93, SA[redacted] interviewed a white male who identified himself only as[redacted] advised he had watched a recent episode of Unsolved Mysteries, which featured the D. B. COOPER case. After watching the show,[redacted] was certain that D. B. COOPER is actually[redacted] last known address -[redacted] Campbell, California, telephone number -[redacted] provided the following information concerning[redacted]
[redacted] became friends with[redacted] during the Korean War, where[redacted] was in either the 101st or 82nd Airborne Division. After the war,[redacted] remained friends with[redacted] and had periodic contacts with him. Both[redacted] and[redacted] were students at Pasadena City College from approximately[redacted]
[redacted] eventually became a[redacted] with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, from where he retired. During that time,[redacted] remained in contact with[redacted]
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(2) - Seattle 2 - Salt Lake City AMJ/jfj (4)
Approved: [signature] Transmitted ___________ (Number)
164A-SE-81-9220 SEARCHED...... INDEXED... SERIALIZED...[redacted] FILED...[redacted]
APR 1 2 1993
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b6 b7C
164A-SE-81
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[REDACTED] claimed to have known from friends in the FBI that [REDACTED] had been a suspect in the D. B. COOPER case. [REDACTED] claimed to have information concerning [REDACTED] the source of which [REDACTED] would not divulge, as follows:
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Approximately one year before the D. B. COOPER hijacking, [REDACTED] received training in free fall parachuting, and approximately six months prior to the hijacking, received training in night free falls. Additionally, after the hijacking, [REDACTED] periodically received checks from a Canadian trust company in a substantial amount. [REDACTED] had an alibi at the time of the hijacking that he was with his brother in New Mexico, which the brother did not corroborate.
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[REDACTED] advised that from his personal knowledge, [REDACTED] approximately six months prior to the hijacking, and that approximately a year after the hijacking, [REDACTED] saw [REDACTED] flashing a lot of money around. [REDACTED] thought that was strange because [REDACTED] was always in bad financial condition because he regularly lost jobs due to an alcohol problem.
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[REDACTED] claimed that from what he knew of the FBI investigation, the FBI eliminated [REDACTED] as a suspect because the FBI's records showed [REDACTED] was either 20 or 30 years too old or too young. [REDACTED] stated that the FBI's records as to [REDACTED] date of birth were erroneous.
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[REDACTED] presently attends an Episcopal Church in Campbell, which is just off Winchester Street, and worked with the FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP in either Campbell or San Jose, California, with a person named [REDACTED]
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Prior to viewing the Unsolved Mysteries television show, [REDACTED] had not thought of [REDACTED] in connection with the D. B. COOPER case for several years. Prior to the television show, [REDACTED] had never seen an artist's rendition of D. B. COOPER at the time of the hijacking. [REDACTED] however, saw the artist's rendition on Unsolved Mysteries, and immediately recognized the artist's rendition of D. B. COOPER as being [REDACTED] then called his wife into the room to view the picture of D. B. COOPER, and upon asking his wife who the
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DB Cooper-21062
164A-SE-81
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picture looked like, [REDACTED] wife answered that it looked like [REDACTED] additionally stated that the artist's rendition of what D. B. COOPER would presently look like resembled [REDACTED] today.
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[REDACTED] advised SA [REDACTED] that he would remain in contact with SA [REDACTED] regarding this matter.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-21063
Serials: 164A-SE-81, 164A-SE-81-9220
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