Communication Newark to Seattle re anonymous female caller's information on D.B. Cooper's identity
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Original title: Communication Newark to Seattle re anonymous female caller naming 'JOHN' as D.B. Cooper
Document date 25 November 1996
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 51 pp. 98–99 (DB Cooper-21203–21204), Memo, dated 25 Nov 1996, serial 164A-SE-81 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-51%3A098-099
(12/31/1995)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 11/25/1996 To: Seattle Attn: Squad 5 From: Newark FT-1 Contact: [REDACTED]
Approved By: [REDACTED] Drafted By: [REDACTED]
Case ID #: 164A-SE-81 SG 164A -P/
Title: D. B. COOPER Information Concerning
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Synopsis: Anonymous complainant telephonically furnished information relating to identity of D. B. COOPER.
Details: On 11/25/96, 1:35 p. m., unfemale telephonically contacted NK Division and furnished the following information.
She said she had known this information for about ten years, and that only a handful of people know this information about the true identity of D. B. COOPER. She said she was motivated to call in by a recent newspaper article portraying COOPER as some kind of folk hero. She said COOPER was no folk hero. He was an experienced pilot and sky-diver, but was also a drug smuggler. She is opposed to drugs and wants to set the record straight about COOPER.
She said she did not know COOPER personally, but knows from others in a family that she associated with until recently that he used the name JOHN and [REDACTED]. He lived in Florida around 1985 or 1986 and travelled with [REDACTED] based there and [REDACTED] travelled with him.
He and [REDACTED] in NJ in 1986. He subsequently lived in Texas, in or near Austin, and in 1987 was reported to have died in a small plane crash in 1987 or 1988 in Texas, while smuggling drugs from Mexico. [REDACTED] supposedly was taken to the crash site at that time.
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SG 164A - P/ - [guess: 82877]
SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____
DEC 0 4 1996
[REDACTED - SEATTLE stamp]
330 CE203. EC
DB Cooper-21203
To: Seattle From: Newark Re: 164A-SE-81, 11/25/1996
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She said [REDACTED] mother is in Island Heights, NJ; [REDACTED] real name is [REDACTED] but she now uses the first name [REDACTED] last name unknown, and was last known to reside in COOPER's house in or near Austin, TX, as of 1987 or 1988. [REDACTED] mother's name is [REDACTED] being [REDACTED] name. She uses a P. O. Box in Island Heights, NJ, as an address, and was last known to be there using the name [REDACTED] about two and a half years ago.
She said JOHN may have been one of the original suspects in this case, although it could never be proven he was D. B. COOPER.
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Caller did not want to give her identity and did not want [REDACTED] to know she had furnished information. During the call, she referred to fact she was in NJ, that she was age [REDACTED] in 1971. She inquired if any reward was being offered for information relating to identity of D. B. COOPER, and stated she would phone back on 12/2/96 to inquire further on that point.
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Set Lead 1:
SEATTLE
AT SEATTLE
Seattle is requested to evaluate above information and advise if any leads for NK or SA are deemed warranted.
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Set Lead 2:
AT SEATTLE
Seattle is also requested to advise what should be related to complainant on the reward question should she call back.
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DB Cooper-21204
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b6 b7C b7D
Serials: 164A, 164A-SE-81