SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect Bradley E. Ayers, forwarding photographs
Document date 1 December 1972
Also filed at: Part 113 pp. 348–349
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-58:001-002 Document: Airtel SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect Bradley E. Ayers, forwarding photographs Id: Cooper-Part-58:001-002 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-58%3A001-002 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 58 pp. 1–2 (DB Cooper-24029–24030), Airtel, dated 1 Dec 1972, serial SE 164-81-4465 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-58%3A001-002
12/1/72
AIRTEL
TO: SAC, SEATTLE FROM: SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK (Seattle File: 164-81)
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OO: SEATTLE (Seattle File: 164-129)
Re Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/8/72, concerning [redacted]
Enclosed for Seattle are two photographs of BRADLEY E. AYERS.
On 11/30/72, a photograph of [redacted] was displayed to Northwest Airlines Stewardess [redacted] and on 12/1/72, to [redacted] who advised that he in no manner resembled the Unknown Subject involved in Norjak.
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BRADLEY EARL AYERS
AYERS was suggested to the Minneapolis Office as a possible suspect by Washington County, Minnesota Sheriff ED WESTPHAL, Stillwater, Minnesota. WESTPHAL had a confidential [redacted]
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SEARCHED ......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... DEC 4 1972 FBI - SEATTLE
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(4) - Seattle (164-81) (Enc. 2) (2 - 164-129) 2 - Minneapolis RWG:kao
(6)
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164-81- 4465
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DB Cooper-24029
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(53)
MP 164-73
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source, who considered AYERS to be the type of individual who could have perpetrated the Norjak hijacking.
AYERS is described as follows:
Name BRADLEY E. AYERS Residence Route #1, Lake Elmo, Minnesota Date of Birth March 7, 1935 Height 5' 8" Weight 160 lbs. Date appointed March, 1970 Occupation Commercial Pilot; Bradley E. and Lee Ayers Insurance Company, 2933 Manning Avenue North Lake Elmo, Minnesota
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AYERS had been considered a suspect by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, St. Paul, Minnesota, [REDACTED] b3 [REDACTED] Photographs taken during the b6 course of this investigation were displayed to Northwest b7c Airlines stewardesses [REDACTED] on 11/30/72 and [REDACTED] on 12/1/72; and both stewardesses advised AYERS in no way resembled the Unknown Subject involved in Norjak.
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LEAD
SEATTLE
AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Will display photographs of AYERS as deemed appropriate to witnesses involved in Norjak.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-24030
Serials: 164-129, MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4465