New York to Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re recontact of subject and interview discrepancies

NR012 NY PLAIN 530 PM IMMEDIATE 4-2[redacted]72 JAH TO DIRECTOR 164-2111 LOS ANGELES 164-497 SEATTLE 164-81 FROM NEW YORK 164-627 GP

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RE NEW YORK TEL. APRIL TWENTYFIVE LAST.

[REDACTED] RE- CONTACTED APRIL TWENTYSIX INSTANT. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE HAD GONE TO WASHINGTON, DC EVENING OF APRIL/TWENTYFIVE, INSTANT BY HIMSELF TO CONTACT [REDACTED] PERSONAL ATTORNEY WHO IS REPRESENTING [REDACTED] DECLINED TO INDICATE WHERE HE HAD CONTACTED [REDACTED] AND ADVISED HE [REDACTED] RETURNED FROM WASHINGTON, DC TO NYC AT TWO AM APRIL TWENTY SIXTH, INSTANT. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE WAS AN ASSISTANT USA IN THE SDNY APPROXIMATELY TEN YEARS AGO AND WAS PERSONALLY DESIROUS OF ASSISTING THE FBI AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] HAD INDICATED TO HIM DURING THE LATER AFTERNOON OF APRIL TWENTYFIVE INSTANT THAT HE, [REDACTED] PLANNED TO RETURN TO HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES. [REDACTED] EMPHATICALLY STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THE FLIGHT NUMBER OF THE AIRCRAFT [REDACTED] MAY HAVE TAKEN TO LOS ANGELES AND DID NOT HAVE ANY CONTACT NUMBER FOR [REDACTED] IN NEW YORK. HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER [REDACTED] MAY HAVE STAYED AT A HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY OR WITH UNKNOWN FRIE[NDS] AND HIS INQUIRY OF [REDACTED] AND STAFF MEMBERS END PAGE ONE

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SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED.....C....FILED..... 18 APR 2 6 1972

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PAGE TWO FOR [REDACTED] WHEREABOUTS WHILE IN NEW YORK WAS UNPRODUCTIVE. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] HAD DETERMINED THROUGH A REVIEW OF HIS OWN RECORDS THAT HE HAD STAYED AT THE SWEPTWING MOTEL AT THE SEATTLE AIRPORT ON FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH INSTANT. [REDACTED] VOLUNTARILY MADE AVAILABLE A XEROX COPY OF A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AS D.B. COOPER WHICH [REDACTED] THIS [REDACTED] A COPY BEING FORWARDED TO BUREAU. [REDACTED] INDICATED THAT [REDACTED] WAS FURNISHED ON SATURDAY, APRIL FIFTEENTH, INSTANT, TO DEPARTMENT AT WHICH TIME [REDACTED] DID NOT INDICATE TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THAT HE WAS REPRESENTING [REDACTED] ALSO MADE AVAILABLE A POLAROID PHOTOGRAPH OF A BALDING WHITE MALE WHO IS IDENTICAL TO THE INDIVIDUAL OBSERVED WEARING A WIG, AND IS WEARING IDENTICAL CLOTHING AND SUNGLASSES. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] INDICATED TO HIM THAT HE HAD RECEIVED THIS PHOTOGRAPH FROM [REDACTED] HAD ADVISED END PAGE TWO

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PAGE THREE [REDACTED] HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE EITHER PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN OR THE DATE WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] WILL MAKE A DECISION BY APRIL TWENTY SEVEN, INSTANT AS TO WHETHER HE WILL AUTHORIZE THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] WILL ALSO MAKE A DECISION AS TO RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL OR A COPY OF THE RECEIPT [REDACTED] OBTAINED FROM [REDACTED] FOR THE [REDACTED] PAYMENT ON FEBRUARY TWENTY, INSTANT. THIS RECEIPT IS ALLEGEDLY SIGNED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED HE DOES NOT KNOW WHERE THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OR RECEIPT ARE CURRENTLY LOCATED AND HE DOES NOT HAVE POSSESSION OF THEM. [REDACTED] INTRODUCED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO THE NYO AGENTS. [REDACTED] ALSO ADVISED [REDACTED] HAD MADE A DECISION NOT TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALLEGED HIJACKER AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHEN COMPARED WITH VARIOUS NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FROM WEST END PAGE THREE

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PAGE FOUR COAST PAPERS WHICH HAD REPORTED NUMEROUS INTERVIEWS OF PASSENGERS ON THE FLIGHT AND INTERVIEWS OF OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN THE SEATTLE AREA. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALLEGED HIJACKER AND WISHED TO FURNISH [REDACTED] FOR POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE. [REDACTED] ADVISED HE UNDERSTOOD NO COMMITMENTS COULD BE MADE BY THE FBI TO ALLOW [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IF THE HIJACKER WAS APPREHENDED AS A RESULT OF INFORMATION FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] AS [REDACTED] HE DID REQUEST IT BE MADE A MATTER OF RECORD AND WOULD APPRECIATE [REDACTED] IF THE HIJACKER WAS APPREHENDED SO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALLEGED HIJACKER. NO COMMITTMENT WHATSOEVER MADE TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] VOLUNTEERED THE INFORMATION THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NOT FURTHER IDENTIFIED, WHO HAD REVIEWED THE END PAGE FOUR

PAGE FIVE [REDACTED] HAD NOTED A NUMBER OF DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN INTERVIEWS OF ALLEGED WITNESSES ON THE HIJACKED AIRCRAFT, AND [REDACTED] ALLEGED HIJACKER. [REDACTED] OF OPINION [REDACTED] ALSO CONTACTED UNKNOWN REPRESENTATIVES OF FAA. SPECIFICALLY, [REDACTED] VOLUNTEERED BY [REDACTED] PERTAIN TO THE CORRECT FIRST NAME OF COOPER AS DAN RATHER THAN D. B. COOPER; HIJACKER SITTING ON LEFT SIDE RATHER THAN RIGHT SIDE; PURCHASE OF ROUND TRIP TICKET RATHER THAN ONE WAY TICKET; SOME QUESTION AS TO TYPE OF AND NUMBER OF PARACHUTES LEFT ON BOARD; WHETHER OR NOT HIJACKER HAD A DRINK ON BOARD FLIGHT AS ALLEGED BY SOME UNKNOWN FEMALE PASSENGER IN NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OR DID NOT HAVE A DRINK AS ALLEGED [REDACTED] AND "SOMETHING ABOUT A NOTE". [REDACTED] STATED IT WAS HIS OPINION THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALLEGED HIJACKER. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THE LOS ANGELES ADDRESS FOR [REDACTED] DOING BUSINESS WITH OFFICE SPACE IN LOS ANGELES UNDER THE FIRM NAME OF [REDACTED] ASSUMES THAT [REDACTED] COULD BE CONTACTED AT THAT FIRM OR AT HIS HOME ADDRESS IN LOS ANGELES THIS DATE APRIL TWENTY SIXTH, INSTANT. END PAGE FIVE

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