Nitel teletype SAC Los Angeles to Seattle and Sacramento re NORJAK suspect lead from Azusa, California
Document date 15 May 1972
Also filed at: Part 78 pp. 196–200 · Part 94 pp. 270–274
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-59:367-371 Document: Nitel teletype SAC Los Angeles to Seattle and Sacramento re NORJAK suspect lead from Azusa, California Id: Cooper-Part-59:367-371 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A367-371 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. 367–371 (DB Cooper-24515–24519), Teletype, dated 15 May 1972, serial LA 164-497-493 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A367-371
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
F.B.I
Date: 5/15/72
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FEE SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) O&W
FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
RE [REDACTED] SUSPECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FBI NUMBER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AZUSA, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THAT DURING RECENT CONVERSATION WITH [REDACTED] IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, [REDACTED] MENTIONED HAVING FORMER ROOMMATE WHO HAD SPOKEN OF PLAN SIMILAR TO HIJACKING OF PLANE IN SEATTLE.
THIS DATE, [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AT PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT, [REDACTED] LONG BEACH. HE ADVISED FORMER ROOMMATE REFERRED TO IN HIS CONVERSATION WITH [REDACTED] WHO ALSO USED NAME OF [REDACTED] STATED REMARKS MADE TO [REDACTED] WERE BASED ON COMMENTS BY [REDACTED] WHILE DRINKING HEAVILY IN
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1 - MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) (AM) 1 - PORTLAND (164-41) (AM) 164-497 crs/kah (3)
Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge
161. 497-493 SEARCHED ___ INDEXED [checked] SERIALIZED [checked] FILED 93 90 SE 8 38 Sent _SE 8^38_ PM Per [initials]
GPO: 1970 0 - 402-735 DB Cooper-24515
LA 164-497 PAGE TWO
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LONG BEACH BAR A MONTH OR TWO BEFORE THANKSGIVING, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.
[REDACTED] CANNOT RECALL SPECIFICS OF CONVERSATION OTHER THAN FACT [REDACTED] MADE STATEMENT TO EFFECT IT WAS TOO LATE TO START OVER, DEFINITELY SPOKE OF PARACHUTING FROM PLANE, AND MENTIONED A MILLION DOLLARS. [REDACTED] STATED CONVERSATION DEFINITELY TOOK PLACE PRIOR TO THANKSGIVING DAY, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, AS [REDACTED] A TRANSIENT TYPE INDIVIDUAL, MOVED INTO [REDACTED] APARTMENT ONE MONTH OR SO PRIOR TO LEAVING FOR OREGON. HE RECALLS [REDACTED] LEAVING ABOUT THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.
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[REDACTED] ADDED [REDACTED] EMPLOYED [REDACTED] AND KNEW HIM TO HAVE RECENT DRUNK ARREST BY LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT (LBPD).
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[REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAS [REDACTED] IN OREGON, SPECIFIC CITY OR ANY DETAILS NOT RECALLED. HE STATED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF HIJACKER NOT GOOD LIKENESS OF [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] LONG BEACH, [guess: INTERVIEWED] AND STATED [REDACTED] BETTER KNOWN AS [REDACTED] FIRST EMPLOYED
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DB Cooper-24516
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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE
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[REDACTED] ON FEBRUARY TWO, NINETEEN SIXTY SIX AND QUIT ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY EIGHT, NINETEEN SIXTY SIX. [REDACTED] REHIRED NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE, NINETEEN SEVENTY AND QUIT JUNE TEN, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. ONLY OTHER INFORMATION IN RECORDS WAS ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] LONG BEACH, AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER [REDACTED]
HE RECALLS [REDACTED] AS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL WITH [REDACTED] LIVING IN OREGON. [REDACTED]
RECALLS HAVING SENT MONEY TO [REDACTED] IN OREGON. BELIEVES MONEY SENT DURING PERIOD OF LAST EMPLOYMENT OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER, TO AN ADDRESS IN PORTLAND, BUT NOT CERTAIN. [REDACTED] STATED ARTIST'S CONCEPTION APPEARS SIMILAR TO [REDACTED] BUT NOTES MOUTH APPEARS DIFFERENT. HE DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED] OF AGE, FIVE FEET TEN, ONE SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS, LIGHT BROWN RECEDING AND THINNING HAIR, FAIR COMPLEXION, EXCELLENT PHYSICAL CONDITION. STATED [REDACTED] CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN OVER THIRTY DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS, WAS ARTICULATE, BUT NEVER MENTIONED BEING PILOT OR PARACHUTIST.
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RECORDS, LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA POLICE DEPARTMENT REVEALED [REDACTED] FBI NUMBER [REDACTED] ARRESTED FEBRUARY TWENTY FIVE, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, BY [guess: INSTANT] POLICE
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DB Cooper-24517
LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR
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[REDACTED] FOR DRUNK DRIVING. DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FIVE FEET ELEVEN, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, HAZEL EYES. AT TIME OF ARREST, [REDACTED] RIDING MOTORCYCLE BEARING OREGON LICENSE [REDACTED] FBI IDENTIFICATION RECORD IN FILE INDICATES [REDACTED] FINGERPRINTED BY AIR FORCE, JULY TWENTY FIVE, NINETEEN FIFTY TWO WITH AIR FORCE SERIAL NUMBER [REDACTED] AND HAS PRIOR ARRESTS SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, AND BOISE, IDAHO, IN NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR.
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PORTLAND CONDUCT LOGICAL INVESTIGATION TO LOCATE AND ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF [REDACTED] DURING PERTINENT PERIOD, NOTING ON FEBRUARY TWENTY FIVE, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, HAD MOTOR- CYCLE BEARING OREGON LICENSE [REDACTED]
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SACRAMENTO, THROUGH CALIFORNIA DRIVER'S LICENSE DIVISION, OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER [REDACTED] AND FURNISH TO PORTLAND, MINNEAPOLIS AND SEATTLE FOR DISPLAY TO WITNESSES.
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LOS ANGELES, WILL FORWARD TO APPROPRIATE OFFICES PHOTOGRAPHS OF [REDACTED] WEARING WIG, MUSTACHE AND GOATEE FOLLOWING DRUNK ARREST BY LBPD FEBRUARY NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.
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DB Cooper-24518
LA 164-497
PAGE FIVE
MINNEAPOLIS AND PORTLAND ADVISED AIR MAIL.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS. PENDING.
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DB Cooper-24519
Serials: LA 164-497, LA 164-497-493, MP 164-73, PD 164-41, SC 164-50, SE 164-81
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