Las Vegas to Director re McCoy collect call, airline and gas station checks

NR047 WA PLAIN 727PM 355 PM URGENT 4-18-72 EB TO DIRECTOR, FBI 164-2111 LOS ANGELES SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND SEATTLE ALL OFFICES VIA WASHINGTON

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FROM LAS VEGAS 164-60

NORJAK

RE RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., AKA DAN COOPER, D. B. COOPER, D. COOPER, J. JOHNSON - SUSPECT.

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RE SALT LAKE CITY TEL APRIL SEVENTEEN LAST. SALT LAKE CITY TELCALL APRIL SEVENTEEN LAST NOTES POSSIBILITY MC COY DROVE FROM SALT LAKE CITY TO LAS VEGAS, FLEW TO PORTLAND TO COMMIT HIJACKING, RETURNED TO LAS VEGAS, AND DROVE BACK TO SALT LAKE CITY. INVESTIGATION INDICATES COLLECT CALL TO MC COY'S RESIDENCE NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE LAST AT TEN FORTY-ONE PM FROM LAS VEGAS AS WELL AS GAS PURCHASE IN LAS VEGAS SAME DATE USING BANK AMERICARD. RECORDS, WESTWARD HO MOTEL, LAS VEGAS, CHECKED FOR ENTIRE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, SEVENTY-ONE AND NO REGISTRATION LOCATED FOR MC COY UNDER KNOWN NAMES AND ALIASES OTHER THAN RESERVATION ON NOVEMBER TWO, PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED. ALL AIRLINE MAN[IFESTS] [THAT] [HAD] HAVE FLIGHTS TO PORTLAND FROM LAS VEGAS DESTROYED AF[TER] NINETY DAYS.

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SEARCHED INDEXED [illegible stamps] DB Cooper-24062

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[guess: author's] [illegible] DB Cooper-24062

PAGE TWO LV 164-60

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FOR INFORMATION, AIRWEST, UNITED AIRLINES AND WESTERN PROVIDE SERVICE BETWEEN LAS VEGAS AND PORTLAND. NO DIRECT FLIGHTS, ALL ARE VIA EITHER LOS ANGELES OR SAN FRANCISCO. RE SALT LAKE CITY TEL REQUESTED LAS VEGAS TO INSTITUTE CHECK OF AIRLINE RECORDS FOR ABOVE AIRLINES IN AN EFFORT TO DETERMINE IF MC COY UNDER HIS TRUE NAME OR THAT OF D. COOPER, DAN COOPER OR J. JOHNSON TOOK FLIGHT FROM LAS VEGAS TO PORTLAND ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-THREE OR TWENTY-FOUR AND RETURNED TO LAS VEGAS FROM PORTLAND NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR OR TWENTY-FIVE LAST.

LOS ANGELES CHECK RECORDS OF WESTERN AIRLINES FOR RESERVATION FOR MC COY FOR ABOVE DATES AND SUTEL.

SAN FRANCISCO CHECK RECORDS AIRWEST AND UNITED AIRLINES.

PHOTOGRAPH OF MC COY DISPLAYED TO SECURITY AND HOTEL PERSONNEL CONCERNING COLLECT CALL MADE NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE LAST WITHOUT EFFECTING ANY IDENTIFICATION.

GASOLINE CHARGE SLIP ON BANK AMERICARD STATED IN RE SALT LAKE CITY TEL LAS VEGAS INDICATES PURCHASE AT POWER THRUST, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE LAST. POWER THRUST STATION FROM WHICH GAS PURCHASED LOCATED TWO MILES SOUTH OF END PGE TWO

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DB Cooper-24063

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TROPICANA HOTEL ON DIRECT ENTRANCE TO INTERSTATE FIFTEEN. IT IS POINTED OUT THIS ACCESS TO INTERSTATE FIFTEEN IS FOR SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC ONLY. DATE WRITTEN ON GAS RECEIPT IS NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX, SEVENTY-ONE, FOR FIVE AND SIX-TENTHS GALLONS OF GAS. MANAGER INDICATES, AFTER LOCATED TICKET, THAT IT WAS OBVIOUSLY MADE BY HIS ATTENDANT WHO WORKED THE ELEVEN PM TO SEVEN AM SHIFT. MANAGER INDICATES THAT HE DID NOT CHANGE HIS DATE STAMP UNTIL NINE AM ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX, SEVENTY-ONE; THEREFORE, THE GAS COULD HAVE BEEN PURCHASED BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND SEVEN AM, NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX AND STILL BEAR DATE STAMP OF NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE.

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SALT LAKE CITY REQUESTED TO ADVISE WHETHER COLLECT CALL AT TEN FORTY-ONE WAS MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OR PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.

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AT CEDAR CITY ASCERTAIN TIME OF PURCHASE OF GAS ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX, SEVENTY-ONE.

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INVESTIGATION CONTINUING TO LOCATE ATTENDANT WHO WAS ON DUTY AT ABOVE POWER THRUST STATION NIGHT OF NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE - TWENTY-SIX, SEVENTY-ONE. END

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DB Cooper-24064