Handwritten citizen tip letter to FBI Seattle re gang associates, with enclosed clipping and envelope
Document date 22 April 1977
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 pp. 102–104 (DB Cooper-23028–23030), Letter, dated 22 Apr 1977, serial SE 164-81-7476 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A102-104
Gentlemen:
You may be interested in checking what the associates of this gang were doing when a Northwest Airlines plane was hi-jacked for $200 000.
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Sub B 164-81-7476 [illegible handwritten initials/routing marks] N DB Cooper-23028
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[illegible]BBERY, SMUGGLING
Adventurer pleads guilty on 3 charges
William D. Cooper, a 46-year-old Willow River, Minn., adventurer who once tried to lead a snowmobile trip across the north pole to Moscow, has pleaded guilty to bank robbery, marijuana and money smuggling, and making illegal gun purchases.
He faces up to 24 years in federal prison when sentenced within a month.
Cooper pleaded guilty yesterday to three indictments before U.S. District Judge Joseph Alsop in St. Paul. He admitted smuggling marijuana across the Mexican border, flying some of it across himself. Subsequently, the marijuana was transported to the Twin Cities, mostly by automobile.
He also pleaded guilty to taking more than $100,000 into Mexico without reporting it to customs officers and to buying two revolvers, illegal for a convicted felon.
Last week, he pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Miles Lord to being involved in the Jan. 22, 1974, robbery of the Sturgeon Lake (Minn.) State Bank. Three others have been charged in that crime. None of the $4,960 taken in the robbery was recovered.
Cooper and a son are owner-operators of a hunting and fishing lodge in northwest Canada.
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DB Cooper-23029
PROCLAIM LIBERTY... USA 13c ALWAYS U[SE] ZIP CODE
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22 APR 1977
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Seattle, Washington.
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DB Cooper-23030
Serials: SE 164-81-7476