Seattle to Director, Los Angeles and New York - NORJAK daily summary re Bremerton bald-man photo lead
Document date 28 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-59:006-014 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director, Los Angeles and New York - NORJAK daily summary re Bremerton bald-man photo lead Id: Cooper-Part-59:006-014 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A006-014 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 59 pp. 6–14 (DB Cooper-24148–24156), Teletype, dated 28 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A006-014
NR001 SE PLAIN 12:55 AM URGENT 4/28/72 DCA TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) LOS ANGELES NEW YORK FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 9P DAILY SUMMARY
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NORJAK.
ON APRIL TWENTYSEVEN, INSTANT, INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED AT BREMERTON AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TO IDENTIFY THE BALD HEADED MAN WEARING SUNGLASSES AS PROVIDED BY [REDACTED] AT NEW YORK CITY, RESULTED IN ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS AND INDEPENDENT IDEN- TIFICATIONS; ONE AT THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SEATTLE, AND AT BREMERTON/THROUGH INTERVIEWS WITH FOUR PEOPLE WHO RECOGNIZED AND KNOW THE PERSON PHOTOGRAPHED AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] INQUIRIES AT THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS BASED ON A TELEPHONE CALL TO THAT OFFICE MADE FROM THE HOME PHONE OF [REDACTED] ON JANUARY SIX, SEVENTYTWO. IN SHOWING THE PHOTO OF THE BALD HEADED MAN AND THAT OF [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE
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164-4970 [illegible] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED ____ SERIALIZED ____ FILED ____ [illegible date, possibly 1/3/4/8]
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DB Cooper-24148
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[REDACTED] SEATTLE, A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THE PHOTO OF [REDACTED] WHOM SHE KNEW AS [REDACTED] UPON SEEING THE PHOTO OF THE BALD MAN SHE IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED IT AS THAT OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] PRESENTLY RESIDING AT [REDACTED] A HOTEL ON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN BREMERTON. SHE FURTHER DESCRIBED HIM AS A [REDACTED] WHO FREQUENTLY DEALS IN [REDACTED] WHO RE- QUESTED HER IDENTITY BE PROTECTED, SAID SHE WAS UNDER THE IM- PRESSION THAT [REDACTED] HAD RECENTLY COME INTO A LOT OF MONEY AS HE APPARENTLY WAS SPENDING QUITE A BIT AND HAD RECENTLY LEASED A NEW [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] MELODY LANE RESTUARANT, BREMERTON, IDENTIFIED PHOTO OF BALD HEADED MAN AS [REDACTED] WHO DRINKS IN THE MELODY LANE AND IS EMPLOYED AT THE LAKE FURNITURE COMPANY.
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[REDACTED] MELODY LANE, IDENTIFIED THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PHOTO AS THAT OF [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] EMPLOYED AT LAKE FURNITURE COMPANY, IDENTIFIED PHOTO AS THAT OF [REDACTED] WHO WORKS IN THE [REDACTED] NEXT THE PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-24149
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TO OFFICES OF [REDACTED] AND HIS FATHER. [REDACTED] BREMERTON, ALSO IDENTIFIED THE/ABOVE PHOTO AS [REDACTED] WHO RESIDES IN ROOM [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED]
ON APRIL TWENTY, SEVENTYTWO, IN FURNISHING CREDIT INFORMATION TO HAZELWOOD BUICK-PONTIAC DEALER, BREMERTON, [REDACTED] FURNISHED AD- DRESS AS [REDACTED] SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON.
DMV INFORMATION REVEALS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON, BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE SIX ZERO LBS., BLUE EYES, PLACE OF BIRTH NOT SHOWN.
THE ABOVE APPLICATION WAS MADE IN CONNECTION WITH PURCHASE ON APRIL TWENTY LAST, OF A [REDACTED] FOUR DOOR SEDAN, WHICH ALLEGEDLY WAS FOR THE USE OF HIS WIFE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ALSO OF THE SAME ADDRESS IN SILVERDALE.
[REDACTED] LOCATED BY BUREAU AGENTS AS HE DE- BARKED FROM FERRY AT BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, PM THIS DATE AND TAKEN TO BREMERTON RESIDENT AGENCY OFFICE, WHERE INTERVIEWED BY SAS.
[REDACTED] ADMITTED IN A THREE-PAGE SIGNED STATEMENT THAT HE IS
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DB Cooper-24150
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THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN THE WIG ON PACIFIC AVE- NUE IN BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, AND ALSO IS IDENTICAL TO THE INDI- VIDUAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH WITHOUT THE WIG MADE AVAILABLE BY [REDACTED] TO NEW YORK OFFICE. [REDACTED] DENIES BEING INDIVIDUAL IN PHOTOGRAPH WITH BLACK AND WHITE KNIT CAP, ALTHOUGH [REDACTED] ADVISES ALL PHOTOS ARE OF SAME INDIVIDUAL. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT PHOTOGRAPH OF HIM WEARING THE WIG WAS TAKEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IN FRONT OF A WIG SHOP ON PACIFIC AVENUE, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, WHEN HE WAS IN THE COMPANY OF [REDACTED] STATES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TOOK HIS PHOTOGRAPH WITH A POLAROID CAMERA AND THAT THE WIG WAS BORROWED FROM THE WIG SHOP UNDER THE GUISE OF PURCHASING SAME. [REDACTED] ADVISED THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TO BE USED BY [REDACTED] TO BE SHOWN TO A FEMALE PURCHASER OF [REDACTED] AS HE UNDERSTOOD THIS FEMALE EXPECTED TO BE ROMANCED AS PART OF THE SALE. [REDACTED] STATES THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS NEVER SHOWN TO THIS INDIVI- DUAL BECAUSE HE DECIDED AGAINST IT AND REQUESTED THE [REDACTED] NOT TO DO SO.
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[REDACTED] UNDERSTOOD THIS WOMAN RECEIVED A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, EITHER FRO AN ESTATE A SELEMEN TH ANDAS INSD END PAGE FOUR
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DB Cooper-24151
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IN INVESTING IT IN [REDACTED] FURTHER STATED [REDACTED] TOLD HIM THIS WOMAN [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON THE WATERFRONT OR [REDACTED] CLOSE BY. [REDACTED] SPENT QUITE A WHILE DISCUSSING THIS, AND [REDACTED] ASKED WHO WAS GOING TO LOOK AT HIM ROMANTICALLY, AND THEN IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT HE COULD WEAR A WIG AND IT BECAME A SORT OF A JOKE, AND THAT IS HOW THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN. [REDACTED] STATES HE DOES NOT RECALL WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPH WITHOUT THE WIG WAS TAKEN, BUT STATES IT IS OF HIM, AND THAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE ONE WITH HIM WEARING THE WIG, AS HE IS WEARING THE SAME CLOTHES. [REDACTED] STATES THE SUNGLASSES HE IS WEARING IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, AS HE RECALLED, WERE RECEIVED FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DENIES HE EVER MET [REDACTED] AT THE SWEPT WING MOTEL AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT OR AT THE EDGEWATER INN IN SEATTLE OR ANY WHERE ELSE. [REDACTED] FURTHER DENIES THAT HE KNOWS A [REDACTED] OR A [REDACTED] FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AND NEVER MET THEM TO HIS KNOWLEDGE. [REDACTED] FURTHER STATES HE NEVER RECEIVED ANY MONEY FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] OR ANY OF THESE MEN IN CONNECTION WITH THE PHOTOS, END PAGE FIVE
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DB Cooper-24152
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WHICH HE IDENTIFIES AS BEING OF HIMSELF. FOLLOWING PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] WAS OBTAINED BY OBSERVATION AND INTERVIEW: DOB [REDACTED] WHITE MALE, FIVE FT TEN INCHES TALL, ONE HUNDRED FIFTYFIVE TO ONE SIXTY- FIVE LBS., BLUE EYES, MEDIUM BUILD, PALE COMPLEXION, EDUCATION - HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, ATTENDED LONG BEACH JUNIOR COLLEGE, LOS ANGELES, AND NYU, NEW YORK CITY. BROTHER: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NEW JERSEY. EMPLOYED AS A [REDACTED] FORMER OCCUPATION: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAS TATTOO OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IS MARRIED TO [REDACTED] HAS THREE CHILDREN - [REDACTED] HE FORMERLY MARRIED TO [REDACTED] NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, BY WHOM HE HAS TWO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND ANOTHER PREVIOUS MARRIAGE TO [REDACTED] RIVERDALE, NEW JERSEY, BY WHOM HE HAS A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE ADMITS BEING ARRESTED IN SEVENTYONE IN BREMERTON, WASH- INGTON, FOR [REDACTED] REMARKS: END PAGE SIX
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DB Cooper-24153
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WRITES LEFT HANDED, LIGHTS HIS CIGARETTES WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. FORMER RESIDENCE: [REDACTED] ALASKA, TWELVE YEARS FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] COINCIDES PRECISELY WITH DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY [REDACTED] AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] AGREEABLE TO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION, IF AUTHOR- IZED BY HIS ATTORNEY AND HAS CONSENTED TO ADDITIONAL INTERVIEW, TEN AM, TWENTYEIGTH, INSTANT, IF AUTHORIZED BY HIS ATTORNEY.
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ON APRIL TWENTYSEVEN, INSTANT, HIJACKING WITNESS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SEATTLE, OBSERVED ABOVE MENTIONED PHOTO OF BALD-HEADED MAN AND STATED ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES WITH THE HIJACKER, HE COULD NOT MAKE AN IDENTIFICATION.
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WITNESS [REDACTED] SEATTLE, STATED THIS INDIVIDUAL IS DEFINITELY NOT HIJACKER.
WITNESS [REDACTED] STATED THIS INDIVIDUAL IS DEFINITELY NOT HIJACKER.
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ABOVE PHOTO FORWARDED BY PILOT COURIER TODAY TO BE SHOWN TO WITNESSES AT MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND AND EUGENE, OREGON. END PAGE SEVEN
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DB Cooper-24154
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INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED TO LOCATE BANK ACCOUNTS OF [REDACTED] SO RECORDS MAY BE EXAMINED. [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AND AD- VISED HE WAS UNABLE TO REACH HIS ATTORNEY UNTIL THIRTIETH IN- STANT, AT WHICH TIME HE WILL SEEK CONSENT TO TAKE POLYGRAPH EXAM- INATION.
INVESTIGATION TO DATE HAS LOCATED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHERE OFFICIAL DECLINED TO PRODUCE RECORDS WITHOUT SUBPOENA. [REDACTED] BEING CONTACTED TWENTYEIGHTH, INSTANT, TO SEE IF RECORDS MAY BE OBTAINED. [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
MAJOR CASE PRINTS OF [REDACTED] OBTAINED AS HAS CURRENT PHOTO- GRAPH OF HIM AND LATTER WILL BE FURNISHED TO BUREAU.
IN VIEW OF LABORATORY EXAMINATION REVEALING THAT BILLS ON XEROX COPY SPURIOUS, INVESTIGATION BEING DIRECTED TOWARD ES- TABLISHING ITSP AND FRAUD BY WIRE VIOLATION AGAINST [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] TOGETHER WITH OTHER IDENTIFIABLE CONSPIRATORS.
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DB Cooper-24155
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IT WOULD APPEAR ESSENTIAL THAT [REDACTED] GIVEN BY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO [REDACTED] FOR [REDACTED] TOGETHER WITH [REDACTED] BE OBTAINED EVEN IF NEC- ESSARY TO DO SO BY SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM.
U. S. ATTORNEY, SEATTLE, WILL BE CONSULTED AM TWENTYEIGHTH INSTANT RE THIS MATTER.
CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] BEING FUR- NISHED TO LOS ANGELES FOR DISPLAY TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO ESTABLISH POSITIVELY THAT HE IS INDIVIDUAL [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON FEBRUARY TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYTWO.
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BCD FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
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DB Cooper-24156