Nitel teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and San Francisco re interviews on Seattle meeting

Document date April 1972

Part 58pages 49–524 pagesDB Cooper-24076–24079

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Document: Nitel teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and San Francisco re interviews on Seattle meeting
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 58 pp. 49–52 (DB Cooper-24076–24079), Teletype, dated Apr 1972, serial LA 164-497-387 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-58%3A049-052

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TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-81) [handwritten annotation: PLS/RUA] SAN FRANCISCO FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497)

NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.

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RE SEATTLE NITEL TO BUREAU, APRIL THIRTEEN LAST.

RE UNSUB; [REDACTED] SOURCE. b6 [REDACTED] LOCATED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN b7C TARZANA, CALIFORNIA THIS DATE. [REDACTED] LOCATED RESIDENCE [REDACTED] VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA. SIMULTANEOUS INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED.

[REDACTED] REFUSED TO BE INTERVIEWED AND INVITED b6 AGENTS TO LEAVE. b7C

[REDACTED] ADVISED WOULD NOT SUBMIT TO INTERVIEW WITHOUT b6 CONSULTING ATTORNEY BEFOREHAND. INDICATED WOULD ADVISE FBI b7C IF ATTORNEY RECOMMENDS HE SUBMIT TO INTERVIEW.

[REDACTED] RECONTACTED LATE TODAY AND AGREED TO INTERVIEW b6 AT HIS RESIDENCE THIS EVENING. [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AT HIS b7C RESIDENCE IN TARZANA AND ADVISED AS FOLLOWS:

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Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent WA - 130A SE - 130A SF - [illegible] M Per [initials]

164-497-387 DB Cooper-24076

* U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1969 O - 346-090 (11)

LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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AFTER CONTACT BY FBI THIS MORNING HE CONSULTED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RECOMMENDED TO [REDACTED] THAT HE, [REDACTED] FURNISH FBI INFORMATION RE TRIP TO SEATTLE LATE FEBRUARY LAST.

ON FEBRUARY TWENTY TWO LAST [REDACTED] TRAVELED BY WESTERN AIRLINES TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. TRIP MADE AT SPECIFIC REQUEST OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND EXPENSES PAID.

UPON ARRIVAL SEATTLE [REDACTED] MET [REDACTED] AT MOTEL EVENING OF FEBRUARY TWENTY TWO LAST AT WHICH TIME [REDACTED] DISCUSSED [REDACTED] FOLLOWING MORNING [REDACTED] DRIVEN BY UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MALE IN [REDACTED] TO BEACH AREA, EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN TO [REDACTED] SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVAL [REDACTED] WERE JOINED BY [REDACTED] AND INDIVIDUAL [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] THEN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OR ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FEET, [REDACTED]

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DB Cooper-24077

LA 164-497 PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED] LASTED ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES AFTER WHICH [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] DEPARTED. [REDACTED] DEPARTED SEATTLE SAME DATE BY AIR WITH [REDACTED] THAT SAME EVENING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, RESIDENCE OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISES AT NO TIME DID [REDACTED] OTHER THAN TO STATE [REDACTED] [guess: INFERRED NOTHING TOOK] [illegible] TOOK PLACE IN SEATTLE AND EXTENSIVE NEWS COVERAGE BEING GIVEN HIJACKING. [REDACTED] ADMITS DISCUSSING SEATTLE TRIP WITH SEVERAL CLOSE FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AND POSSIBLY SPECULATED WITH THEM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] INSISTS HE HAS NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES - FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, AVERAGE FACE - NO DETAILS RECALLED, HAIR AND EYES UNKNOWN, NOT RECALLED TO HAVE SMOKED, WORE BLACK PLASTIC WRAP AROUND SUN GLASSES, A WOOLEN JOCKEY CAP, BALLOONED AT SIDES IN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO COVER HAIR.

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DB Cooper-24078

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b6 b7C

LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR

CAP DESCRIBED AS ABOUT SIX BLACK AND WHITE TRIANGLES RADIATING FROM THE TOP CENTER. WORE TAN TRENCH COAT AND BLACK SHOES. [REDACTED] STATES COULD NOT IDENTIFY PERSON IF SEEN AGAIN.

[REDACTED] STATED UNABLE TO EXPLAIN [REDACTED] RELUCTANCE TO BE INTERVIEWED AND DID NOT KNOW WHETHER [REDACTED] WOULD BE AMENABLE TO FBI INTERVIEW.

FULL DETAILS OF INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] FOLLOWS.

LA INDICES CONTAIN NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO [REDACTED] HOWEVER, NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION IDENTIFIABLE WITH [REDACTED] CONTAINED THEREIN.

UACB BACKGROUND CHECK THROUGH ESTABLISHED SOURCES WILL BE CONDUCTED WITH A VIEW TOWARDS RECOMMENDING TO BUREAU THAT [REDACTED] BE INTERVIEWED TO IDENTIFY [REDACTED] AT SEATTLE.

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-24079

Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, LA 164-497-387, SE 164-81