Urgent teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director and other offices re NORJAK subject's refusal to be interviewed and records checks

Document date 27 April 1972

Part 59pages 42–454 pagesDB Cooper-24184–24187

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Document: Urgent teletype SAC Los Angeles to Director and other offices re NORJAK subject's refusal to be interviewed and records checks
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 59 pp. 42–45 (DB Cooper-24184–24187), Teletype, dated 27 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A042-045

FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

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Date: 4/27/72

Transmit the following in ___PLAINTEXT___ (Type in plaintext or code) Via __TELETYPE__ ___URGENT___ (Priority)

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) SAC, NEW YORK (164-627) SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DCA

FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)

NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.

RE BUREAU TELETYPE TO LOS ANGELES APRIL TWENTYSIX LAST.

A FEMALE IDENTIFYING HERSELF AS THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS CONTACTED AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES, TODAY. SHE ADVISED [REDACTED] WAS NOT IN; HOWEVER, WOULD HAVE HIM CONTACT THE LOS ANGELES FBI OFFICE UPON HIS RETURN.

SUBSEQUENTLY, [REDACTED] TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE LOS ANGELES OFFICE AND ADVISED HE WAS UNDER STRICT ORDERS FROM [REDACTED] NEW YORK NOT TO TALK TO ANYONE CONCERNING THIS MATTER WITHOUT A [REDACTED]

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164-497 CRS/rr (1)

Approved: ______[signature]_______ Sent ______ M Per [signature] Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-24184

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

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LA 164-497 PAGE TWO

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PRESENT. HE CLAIMED AS AN [REDACTED] HE COULD NOT CONSENT TO ANY INTERVIEW WITHOUT [REDACTED] CONCURRENCE. ADDED THAT [REDACTED] HAS NO LEGAL COUNSEL IN LOS ANGELES AND ANY ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS MUST BE ARRANGED BY CONSULTING HIS SUPERIORS, [REDACTED] NEW YORK.

SHORTLY THEREAFTER, [REDACTED] RECONTACTED THIS OFFICE. STATED HAD JUST BEEN IN CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] NEW YORK, AND AGAIN INSTRUCTED HIM NOT TO CONSENT TO INTERVIEW WITHOUT [REDACTED] PRESENT. HE ADDED [REDACTED] NEW YORK, INFORMED HIM TWO REPRESENTATIVES OF FBI, NEW YORK, HAD REQUESTED ANSWERS TO FOUR QUESTIONS WHICH HE WAS PREPARED TO ANSWER OVER THE TELEPHONE.

[REDACTED] WAS INFORMED THE FBI PREFERRED TO TALK TO HIM PERSONALLY AND HE RESPONDED SAYING WOULD ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO BE INTERVIEWED PERSONALLY.

[REDACTED] THEN STATED THE ANSWERS TO THE FOUR QUESTIONS POSED TO [REDACTED] IN NEW YORK BY THE FBI WERE AS FOLLOWS:

THE SOURCE OF THE MOST RECENT PHOTOGRAPH FURNISHED TO THE FBI IN NEW YORK WAS FURNISHED TO HIM BY THE INTERMEDIARY, [REDACTED] IT IS NOTED [REDACTED] DURING INTERVIEW AT NEW YORK STATED HE HAD LEARNED TRUE NAME OF [REDACTED] WAS

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DB Cooper-24185

LA 164-497 PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED] STATED HE WAS NOT PRESENT AT TIME ABOVE PHOTO WAS TAKEN AND DOES NOT KNOW WHEN, WHERE OR BY WHOM. IT WAS TAKEN.

HE ADDED HE COULD NOT GO TO SEATTLE AS HIS SCHEDULE WAS TOO BUSY RIGHT NOW AND A TRANSCRIPT HAS ALREADY BEEN FURNISHED CONTAINING A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN INFINITE DETAILS OF WHERE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE.

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HE DOES NOT DESIRE TO FURNISH ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HAS RECENTLY UNDERGONE A SERIOUS HEART OPERATION, HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE MATTER OTHER THAN BEING THE PERSON WHO FURNISHED THE MONEY. [REDACTED] DID NOT AMPLIFY AND REFUSED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

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RECORDS, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES REVEAL [REDACTED] MALE, BORN [REDACTED] FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY POUNDS, BROWN EYES, BLACK HAIR, ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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DB Cooper-24186

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LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR

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TELEPHONE COMPANY RECORDS REVEAL [REDACTED] IS SUBSCRIBER TO TELEPHONE NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

LOS ANGELES INDICES CONTAIN SEVERAL REFERENCES TO A [REDACTED] IN CONNECTION WITH [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND RELATED TYPE ACTIVITIES.

INSUFFICIENT DESCRIPTIVE DATA AVAILABLE IN REFERENCES TO IDENTIFY WITH [REDACTED] OF THIS MATTER.

RECORDS LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CREDIT BUREAU OF GREATER LOS ANGELES REVIEWED AND NO RECORD IDENTIFIABLE WITH [REDACTED] LOCATED.

RECORDS DUN AND BRADSTREET, LOS ANGELES, FAILED TO REVEAL ANY CORPORATION IDENTIFIABLE WITH [REDACTED] OR [REDACTED] IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, LOS ANGELES, REVEALS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] LOS ANGELES, IS CURRENTLY REGISTERED TO VOTE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY. HE REGISTERED ON MARCH FIVE SIXTYEIGHT, INDICATED HE WAS A [REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] YEAR NOT SHOWN, IN [REDACTED]

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DB Cooper-24187

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