Seattle to Director, New York and Los Angeles re Edgewater Inn records and photo displays
Document date 23 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-58:075-080 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director, New York and Los Angeles re Edgewater Inn records and photo displays Id: Cooper-Part-58:075-080 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-58%3A075-080 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. 75–80 (DB Cooper-24104–24109), Teletype, dated 23 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-58%3A075-080
NR004 SE PLAIN 6:03 PM URGENT REXUW DCA O DIRECTOR, FBI NEW YORK LOS ANGELES FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 6P
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RE: UNSUB; [REDACTED] - SOURCE RE LOS ANGELES TELETYPE TO BUREAU, SEATTLE AND NEW YORK, APRIL TWENTYTHREE, INSTANT.
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FOR THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF NEW YORK IN THE EVENT BUREAU GRANTS AUTHORITY FOR INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS FURNISHED: INTERVIEW WITH [REDACTED] AT TARZANA, CALIFORNIA, DISCLOSED THAT HE HAD TRAVELLED TO SEATTLE AND STAYED AT THE EDGE- WATER INN, FEBRUARY TWENTYTWO, SEVENTYTWO, WHERE HE AND [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALSO FROM LOS ANGELES. [REDACTED] HAD IN- DICATED ON LATER INTERVIEW THAT AT SEATTLE THEY WERE DRIVEN BY A MAN NAMED [REDACTED] IN A RENTED [REDACTED] CAR TO A WATER-SIDE PARK IN THE NORTH AREA OF SEATTLE WHERE [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE
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164-4972 SEARCHED [...] INDEXED [...] SERIALIZED [...] FILED [...] 72 LES
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DB Cooper-24104
PAGE TWO SE 164-81
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[REDACTED] RECORDS OF EDGEWATER INN REFLECT A TELE- PHONE CALL FROM ROOM REGISTERED TO [REDACTED] TO TELEPHONE NUMBER AREA CODE [REDACTED] IN SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON, LISTED TO A [REDACTED]
TRANSPORTATION AT THE MOTEL WHICH WAS FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] WAS IN A YELLOW SMALL CAR AND INVESTIGATION NOW REFLECTS THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DOES IN FACT POSSESS SUCH A CAR WHICH IS A PINTO. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IS [REDACTED] YEARS OLD, HAS BROWN HAIR, WEARS A BEARD AND OTHERWISE FITS THE DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] WAS INTERVIEWED ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS APRIL TWENTYTWO, TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYTWO AND HAS NOT GIVEN A COM- PLETE AND ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF HIS INVOLVEMENT OR ASSOCIATION WITH [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] STATED THAT THE ONLY TIME HE SAW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS ON A FRIDAY NIGHT, LATER CORRECTED WHEN [REDACTED] WIFE REMINDED HIM IT WAS A MONDAY, DURING THE LATTER PART OF FEBRUARY, LAST, DATE NOT RECALLED, WHEN [REDACTED] END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-24105
PAGE THREE SE 164-81
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AT LENGTH FOR PERSONAL BACKGROUND. AFTER THAT INTERVIEW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAD DINNER AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SEATTLE, AND ON THAT SAME EVENING [REDACTED] WAS GIVEN [REDACTED] CASH BY [REDACTED] ON BEHALF OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BASED ON HIS THEORY OF THE NOV. TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, HIJACKING OF A NORTHWEST AIRLINES PLANE. [REDACTED] WAS GIVEN A RECEIPT FOR THAT PAYMENT. [REDACTED] STATED THE MONEY WAS ACTUALLY FOR EXPENSES INCURRED BY HIM IN RESEARCH AND TRAVEL ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
[REDACTED] ADMITS HAVING MADE SEVERAL CALLS TO THE EDGEWATER INN, SEATTLE, FOR [REDACTED] BUT MAINTAINS THAT HE NEVER GOT IN TOUCH WITH HIM IN THE MOTEL. HIS REASON FOR CALLING, WAS TO SEE IF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND IF [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] SUBSEQUENTLY CALLED [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED] HOME IN CALIF- ORNIA TO SEE IF [REDACTED] THOUGHT [REDACTED] FOR THE HIJACKING. [REDACTED] SAID [REDACTED] WAS ENTHUSIASTIC AND THOUGHT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HOWEVER, [REDACTED] SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE HE WAS GOING TO GET THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-24106
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PAGE FOUR SE 164-81
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[REDACTED] WAS SHOWN TWO SEPARATE PHOTOGRAPHS. ONE OF A MAN WEARING A BLACK AND WHITE KNIT CAP AND SUNGLASSES AND ANOTHER OF A MAN STANDING AT THE CURB, ALSO WEARING SUNGLASSES AND SHOWING STORE FRONTS. THE LATTER PICTURE BELIEVED MADE AT BREMERTON, WASHINGTON. [REDACTED] DENIES KNOWING ANYTHING WHATEVER ABOUT EITHER PICTURE AND STATES HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR BEING MADE AND DS N KN E IDEN[T]ITY OF THE PERSONS IN THE PICTURES. HOWEVER, HE DID SUGGEST THAT PERHAPS THE MAN IN THE BLACK AND WHITE CAP WAS A[REDACTED] OF BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON.
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[REDACTED] INTERVIEWED APRIL TWENTYTWO AND TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTY- TWO AND STEADFASTLY DENIES BEING THE MAN IN EITHER PHOTO AND MAIN- TAINS HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM. [REDACTED] STATED HE CAN CONFIRM BY RECORDS HIS WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE AND FEB. TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYTWO, THE LATTER DATE BEING THE ONE ON WHICH THE PHOTO OF THE MAN IN THE KNIT CAP WAS MADE. THIS WILL BE DONE THROUGH RECORDS ON MONDAY, APRIL TWENTYFOUR.
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DURING INTERVIEW WITH [REDACTED] HE SUGGESTED THAT CONTACT BE MADE WITH [REDACTED] FOR THE BREMERTON SUN. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON INTERVIEWED ON APRIL TWENTYTHREE, INSTANT AND ADVISED SHE HAD END PAGE FOUR
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DB Cooper-24107
PAGE FIVE SE 164-81
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TALKED TO [REDACTED] OF SEABECK, WASHINGTON, SEVERAL TIMES AS A RESULT OF A "D. B. COOPER ADD" HE HAD PLACED IN THE NEWSPAPER IN CONNECTION WITH A [REDACTED] ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SAID HE HAD TALKED TO A MAN WHOM HE BELIEVED TO BE THE HIJACKER, RECOGNIZING HIS VOICE AS SOMEONE HE KNEW BEFORE AND HAD DEALT WITH. [REDACTED] TOLD HER HE HAD SEEN SOME TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS WHICH HE INFERRED WERE FROM THE HIJACKING LOOT. [REDACTED] ALSO TOLD HER [REDACTED] AND THAT THEY WERE [REDACTED] AND THAT HE, [REDACTED] DROVE THEM AROUND AND SAID [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TOLD HER HE WAS ORIGINALLY [REDACTED] IN CALIFORNIA IN WHICH [REDACTED] AND WAS GOING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SHE STATED SHE CALLED [REDACTED] IN LOS ANGELES AND HE AT FIRST DENIED EVER HEARING THIS STORY AND THEN SAID HE GOT A CALL LATE ONE NIGHT BASED ON A WILD SUPPOSITION WHICH WAS SO WILD HE DISREGARDED THE CALL. [REDACTED] TOLD [REDACTED] ABOUT [REDACTED] AND, AFTER MAKING SOME INQUIRY, THEY DECIDED NOT TO USE IT SINCE THEY DOUBTED HIS VERACITY. END PAGE FIVE
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DB Cooper-24108
PAGE SIX SE 164-81
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A PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] AS WELL AS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE UNSUB IN THE BLACK AND WHITE KNIT CAP WILL BE FORWARDED TO NEW YORK BY AIR COURIER TODAY. IF [REDACTED] IS INTERVIEWED THESE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOULD BE EXHIBITED TO HIM TO DETERMINE IF [REDACTED] IS [REDACTED] AND ANY INFORMATION HE CAN FURNISH ON UNSUB IN KNIT CAP.
NEW YORK ALSO SHOULD SHOW TO [REDACTED] THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MAN STANDING IN THE STREET AS ORIGINALLY FURNISHED BY THE NEW YORK OFFICE TO THE BUREAU TO SEE IF HE CAN IDENTIFY THE PERSON PHOTO- GRAPHED.
NEW YORK WILL BE ADVISED SUBSEQUENTLY OF FLIGHT SCHEDULES. E N D
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NEED CORRECTION PAGE FOUR LINE SEVEN FIRST THREE WORDS GA
"DOES NOT KNOW THE IDENTITY..." OK? GREAT! JJS FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
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DB Cooper-24109
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