Nitel teletype Omaha to Seattle and Los Angeles re NORJAK suspect in Des Moines - file copy

Document date 12 April 1972

Part 58pages 22–254 pagesDB Cooper-24048–24050

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 58 pp. 22–25 (DB Cooper-24048–24050), Teletype, dated 12 Apr 1972, serial 164-487-377 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-58%3A022-025

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4/12/72

PLAINTEXT

TELETYPE NITEL

TO: SEATTLE LOS ANGELES

FROM: OMAHA (149-179)

NORJAK.

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RE [REDACTED]

INVESTIGATION, DES MOINES, IOWA, REFLECTS [REDACTED] WAS EMPLOYED AT [REDACTED] DES MOINES, IOWA, FOR SEVERAL YEARS UP TO NINETEEN SEVENTY AT WHICH TIME HE WAS DISMISSED IN VIEW OF [REDACTED]

RECORDS, VA HOSPITAL, DES MOINES, IOWA REFLECT [REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] HAS RECORD OF TREATMENT [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] HE LISTED SSAN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND U. S. ARMY SERIAL NUMBER [REDACTED] AND VA CLAIM NUMBER [REDACTED] HE WAS [REDACTED]

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(1)- Los Angeles (164-60) (A.M) LJH:dme (2)

164-487-377 [Handwritten initials] SEARCHED [REDACTED] INDEXED [REDACTED] SERIALIZED [REDACTED] FILED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 1972 FILES [stamp: OPS]

OM 149-179 PAGE TWO

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[REDACTED] HE WAS RELEASED SAME DATE AND RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALLED HOSPITAL APRIL THREE LAST AND APPEARED AT HOSPITAL SAME DATE BUT LEFT HOSPITAL WITHOUT TREATMENT AND DID NOT RETURN. HOSPITAL RECORDS REFLECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] RECORDS, [REDACTED] DES MOINES, IOWA, REFLECT [REDACTED] APPEARED [REDACTED] MARCH TWENTYEIGHT, LAST AND PURCHASED THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTY EIGHT CENTS CASHIERS CHECK WITH A THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTYEIGHT CENTS CASHIERS CHECK DATED MARCH FOURTEEN LAST, NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DRAWN ON THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BRANCH OF [REDACTED] AND RECEIVED THE FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR DIFFERENCE IN CASH. HE REAPPEARED AT [REDACTED] APRIL THREE LAST AND PURCHASED A THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR CASHIERS CHECK WITH ABOVE DESCRIBED THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTYEIGHT CENTS CASHIERS

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OM 149-179 PAGE THREE

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CHECK, RECEIVING TWO HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTYEIGHT CENTS DIFFERENCE IN CASH. HE MADE NO STATEMENTS TO BANK EMPLOYEES AS TO PURPOSE OF CHECKS. BANK HAS NO RECORD OF PRESENT OR PAST SAVINGS OR CHECKING ACCOUNTS, OR SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES IN [REDACTED] NAME.

ON APRIL TWELVE INSTANT [REDACTED] DES MOINES, IOWA ADVISED [REDACTED] ON APRIL THREE LAST AND [REDACTED] PAID TWENTY DOLLARS FEE IN CASH. [REDACTED] REFUSED TO DISCUSS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AS QUOTE A TWENTY DOLLAR JOB UNQUOTE AND THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PERSONS INTERVIEWED AT DES MOINES, IOWA, ADVISED [REDACTED] HAS [REDACTED] BUT THEY ARE UNAWARE OF [REDACTED] NO VERIFICATION AT DES MOINES OF BACKGROUND AS PARATROOPER BUT [REDACTED] SUPPOSEDLY PREVIOUSLY HAD PILOT'S LICENSE.

INVESTIGATION AT DES MOINES FAILS TO PLACE [REDACTED] IN DES MOINES PREVIOUS TO FIRST OF MARCH, LAST.

LOS ANGELES [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA. CONDUCT INVESTI- GATION TO ESTABLISH [REDACTED] WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-

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OM 149-179 PAGE FOUR

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FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE, AND TO ESTABLISH WHETHER HE HAS A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY.

AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. WILL CONTACT REPRESENTATIVE OF LOS ANGELES [REDACTED] AND ASCERTAIN [REDACTED] FORM OF PAYMENT FOR CASHIERS CHECK DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY.

AT FOLLOWS ALONG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] FOR LOS ANGELES, LAS VEGAS, AND SEATTLE DIVISIONS.

AIR MALE COPY FURNISHED TO LAS VEGAS. ARMED AND DANGEROUS. P.

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DB Cooper-24050

Serials: 164-487-377, LV 164-60, OM 149-179