SAC Mobile to SAC Minneapolis re NORJAK suspect tip

Document date 7 September 1993

Part 51pages 74–752 pagesDB Cooper-21178–21179

Open in FBI Vault (Part 51, page 74 of the PDF)
Report a problem

Email this to [email protected]

Id: Cooper-Part-51:074-075

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-51:074-075

Document: Airtel SAC Mobile to SAC Minneapolis re NORJAK suspect tip
Id: Cooper-Part-51:074-075
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-51%3A074-075

What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)?


What does the scan show?

Open in email app

A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 51 pp. 74–75 (DB Cooper-21178–21179), Airtel, dated 7 Sep 1993, serial SE 164-81-9251 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-51%3A074-075

FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)

FBI

TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☒ AIRTEL ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ UNCLAS E F T O ☐ UNCLAS

Date 9/7/93

---

TO : SAC, MINNEAPOLIS

FROM : SAC, MOBILE (164-SE-81) (RUC)

SUBJECT : NORJAK; D. B. COOPER CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT (OO: SEATTLE)

---

On 8/11/93, [REDACTED] SSAN [REDACTED] W/M, DOB [REDACTED] Alabama, (PROTECT IDENTITY BY REQUEST)/telephonically contacted the Mobile, Alabama, FBI office and advised he had recently seen the episode of "America's Most Wanted" which portrayed the D. B. COOPER airplane hijacking. [REDACTED] stated he had possible information concerning the subject, D. B. COOPER.

[REDACTED] was interviewed on 8/17/93, and provided the following information:

[REDACTED] stated the portrait of D. B. COOPER looked exactly like a friend of his, [REDACTED] advised he and [REDACTED] were friends when they lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1973 or 1974. [REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] said he sold cars and also drove a monorail while living in Seattle. [REDACTED] returned to Minneapolis in 1984, and appeared to be very wealthy. [REDACTED] and purchased a

---

2 - Minneapolis (1)- Seattle (Info) 2 - Mobile SBW/rbc (5)

---

164A-81-9251 SEARCHED... SERIALIZED... OCT 1 9 1993

---

DB Cooper-21178

---

b6 b7C b7D

---

[illegible signature or handwritten mark]

164-SE-81

---

[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] may have been a former paratrooper when he was in the Army and he gave the following description of [REDACTED]

Name [REDACTED] Race White Sex Male Height 5'10" Weight 175 Hair Light brown on sides, bald on top

---

LEAD:

MINNEAPOLIS DIVISION

AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

Conduct appropriate fugitive investigation and report findings to Seattle.

---

DB Cooper-21179

---

2*

Serials: SE 164-81-9251