Chicago to Director and field offices re NORJAK suspect named by former business associate

Document date 20 December 1971

Part 55pages 82–832 pagesDB Cooper-23220–23221

Also filed at: Part 17 pp. 22–23 · Part 104 pp. 135–136

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Document: Teletype Chicago to Director and field offices re NORJAK suspect named by former business associate
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 55 pp. 82–83 (DB Cooper-23220–23221), Teletype, dated 20 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-55%3A082-083

NR015 CG PLAIN 933PM NITEL 12-20-71 RWR TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) DETROIT (164-115) MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) SEATTLE (164-81) LOS ANGELES FROM CHICAGO (164-297)

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NORJAK

RE: SUSPECT [REDACTED]

RE MINNEAPOLIS TELETYPE TO BUREAU, DECEMBER EIGHTEEN, LAST. INSTANT DATE FORMER BUSINESS ASSOCIATE OF SUSPECT,

[REDACTED] CHICAGO, ADVISED SUSPECT QUITE CAPABLE OF PULLING OFF HIJACKING OF NORTH WEST ORIENT AIRLINES AS HE IS LICENSED PILOT, ACCOMPLISHED SKY JUMPER AND HAVING BETTER THAN AVERAGE KNOWLEDGE OF TERRAIN ARIZONA, OREGON AND GENERAL NORTHWEST.

SUBJECT [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] WHEN SUSPECT AND [REDACTED] DISSOLVED BUSINESS. SUSPECT THEREAFTER INVOLVED [REDACTED] WINNEMUCCA, NEVADA. LATER HEARD SUSPECT FLYING CHARTERED FLIGHT OUT OF LOS ANGELES, END PAGE ONE

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164-497-[illegible] SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED DEC 20 1971

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DB Cooper-23220

PAGE TWO CALIFORNIA, FOR UNKNOWN FIRM. SUSPECT'S COMMERCIAL PILOT LICENSE APPROVED SIXTY FOUR UNDER NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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WHILE TRAVELING THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST UNITED STATES TOGETHER ON BUSINESS SUSPECT MADE OBSERVING COMMENTS THE EASE OF ROBBING BANKS IN VARIOUS TOWNS. FOREGOING AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SUSPECT LEADS [REDACTED] TO BELIEVE POSSIBLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CAPTIONED MATTER. FURTHER, HEARD SUSPECT INDEBTED TO HEAVY EQUIPMENT FIRM, IDENTITY UNKNOWN, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FOR ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND SUPPORTS HIS SUSPICIONS.

SUSPECT DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, AGE APPROXIMATELY FORTY ONE, SIX FEET, ONE EIGHT FIVE POUNDS, WITH BLACK HAIR, DARK COMPLEXION, [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] PHOTOS OF SUSPECT SIMILAR TO ARTIST'S CONCEPTION BEING FORWARDED MINNEAPOLIS, SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES BY SEPARATE COVER.

SUBJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END

NEE FBI LOS ANGLES CLR

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DB Cooper-23221

Serials: 164-2111, CG 164-297, DE 164-115, LA 164-497, MP 164-73, SE 164-81