Nitel teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and New York re NORJAK attempts to interview subject

Document date 28 April 1972

Part 59pages 23–253 pagesDB Cooper-24165–24167

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Document: Nitel teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director, Seattle and New York re NORJAK attempts to interview subject
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 59 pp. 23–25 (DB Cooper-24165–24167), Teletype, dated 28 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A023-025

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Date: 4/28/72

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) SAC, NEW YORK (164-627)

FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)

NORJAK.

RE SEATTLE TEL CALL TO LOS ANGELES APRIL TWENTY EIGHT INSTANT AND NEW YORK AND BUREAU TEL APRIL TWENTY EIGHT INSTANT.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH SEATTLE REQUEST IN RE TEL CAL, AN EFFORT WAS MADE TO LOCATE [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. AT TWO FORTY P.M., P.S.T., TODAY, [REDACTED] TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED LOS ANGELES OFFICE AND AGREED TO MEET PERSONALLY WITH BUREAU AGENTS AT THREE P.M. AT THREE FIVE P.M., P.S.T., TODAY, [REDACTED] CONTACTED AT AN OUTDOOR HAMBURGER STAND AT THE CORNER OF WESTWOOD AND OHIO BOULEVARD, WEST LOS ANGELES. AFTER INSURING [REDACTED] NOT IN POSSESSION OF RECORDING EQUIPMENT, [REDACTED] WAS AGAIN REQUESTED TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE FBI [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RESPONDED HE WAS PREPARING

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164-497 GES/gar (1)

Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-24165

Sent 7:03-SE PM Per [signature] 7/23 -NY [illegible] 4/27-[illegible]

LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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[REDACTED] THE HIJACKING SO HE WOULD [REDACTED] IN THE NEAR FUTURE. HE ADDED THE [REDACTED] AND PREPARATIONS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED HAD BEEN INFORMED BY [REDACTED] NEW YORK, THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT THIS POINT HE WAS INFORMED THE FBI HAD IDENTIFIED THE BALDING WHITE MALE DEPICTED IN THE PICTURE FURNISHED BY HIM THROUGH [REDACTED] IN NEW YORK. [REDACTED] RESPONDED "HAVE I BEEN TAKEN?" [REDACTED] WAS TOLD AGENTS WERE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION; HOWEVER, ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION WAS BEING CONDUCTED BY FBI TO DETERMINE IF ANY OTHER VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW WITHIN FBI JURISDICTION HAS BEEN COMMITTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE [REDACTED] HE HAD CONDUCTED. [REDACTED] ASKED IF THERE WOULD BE ANY CRIMINAL ACTION AGAINST [REDACTED] OR THE MAN HE KNEW AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] WAS TOLD FBI IS STRICTLY INVESTIGATIVE AGENCY AND WHETHER OR NOT PROSECUTION UNDERTAKEN IS WITHIN PURVIEW OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY. [REDACTED] WAS TOLD RECEIPTS, [REDACTED] ESSENTIAL TO FBI CONTINUING INVESTIGATION AND HE RESPONDED [REDACTED] HAS THIS MATERIAL. [REDACTED]

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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE

CLAIMS HE HAS NO OBJECTION TO BEING FURNISHED THESE ITEMS TO FBI BUT SINCE HE, [REDACTED] DOES NOT KNOW LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS, HE DESIRES REQUEST BE MADE TO [REDACTED] NEW YORK. [REDACTED] NOTED RECEIPTS, [REDACTED] IN POSSESSION OF [REDACTED] NEW YORK.

FOR INFORMATION SEATTLE, L A DETERMINED THIS DATE NO RECORD IDENTIFIABLE WITH [REDACTED] COULD BE LOCATED LAPD, LASO, OR CREDIT BUREAU OF GREATER L.A. [REDACTED] GIRLFRIEND OF [REDACTED] ADVISED TODAY [REDACTED] WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW PHOTO UNTIL AM, MAY FIRST, NEXT, L.A. WILL ADVISE RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] EFFORTS to LOCATE [REDACTED]

Continuing.

[handwritten:] [guess: Hood/Hoote]- It is recommended NY recontact [REDACTED] UACB, in effort to obtain receipts, [REDACTED] this will be done.

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Serials: 164-2111, LA 164-497, NY 164-627, SE 164-81