SAC Los Angeles to Acting Director and field offices re NORJAK suspect departing for Costa Rica

Document date 30 June 1972

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TO: ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) - SVC SAC, INDIANAPOLIS 6[illegible] SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) - CAD SAC, SPRINGFIELD (164-31) - A EF SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) - DCA

FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)

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NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SPRINGFIELD TEL TO BUREAU JUNE TWENTY NINE LAST AND BUREAU TEL TO SPRINGFIELD JUNE THIRTY INSTANT.

RE SUSPECT: [REDACTED] NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, ADVISES HE KNOWS CAPTIONED SUSPECT TO HAVE BEEN IN LOS ANGELES DURING PAST FEW DAYS. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAD BEEN PERSONALLY CONTACTED BY [REDACTED] WHO WAS NOW IN SOME TYPE OF PLASTICS MANUFACTURING BUSINESS IN COSTA RICA.

THIS DATE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED [REDACTED] WAS IN LOS ANGELES PURCHASING

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Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge

Sent _WA 6 5/[illegible]_ M Per

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SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED: 1970 0 - 40[illegible]

LA 164-497 PAGE TWO SUPPLIES FOR A [REDACTED] IN COSTA RICA AND DEPARTED LOS ANGELES BY UNKNOWN AIRLINES FOR COSTA RICA ON JUNE TWENTY EIGHT LAST.

[REDACTED] KNOWS [REDACTED] QUITE WELL ON BUSINESS BASIS AND RECALLED [REDACTED] WAS QUITE DEPRESSED OVER FAILURE OF WESTWARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, WHICH COMPANY [REDACTED] HAD HEAVILY INVESTED IN. THIS COMPANY ENGAGED IN BUILDING MOBILE HOMES ON NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION IN UTAH [guess: AND] ARIZONA.

HE RECALLED ABOUT THANKSGIVING DAY OF NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE WAS THE TIME [REDACTED] HAD DEPARTED LOS ANGELES AREA FOR COSTA RICA. DURING THAT PERIOD [REDACTED] WAS RESIDING IN TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT WITH [REDACTED] OF OPINION THAT [REDACTED] WOULD HAVE BEEN WITH [REDACTED] OR WOULD KNOW HIS WHEREABOUTS ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. HE FURNISHED CURRENT ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] ALSO FURNISHED CURRENT ADDRESS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, TELEPHONE [REDACTED]

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LA 164-497 PAGE THREE

[REDACTED] OBSERVED ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF HIJACKER AND STATED IN HIS OPINION [REDACTED] NOT CLOSE RESEMBLANCE OF SKETCH.

FILES EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA PD AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA SO NEGATIVE REGARDING [REDACTED]

SANTA MONICA PD FILE NUMBER [REDACTED] INDICATES [REDACTED] AKA [REDACTED] BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ON MISDEMEANOR WARRANT. ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE, [REDACTED] WAS FINED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ON ABOVE CHARGE. HIS ADDRESS AT THAT TIME SHOWN AS [REDACTED] SANTA MONICA, AND EMPLOYMENT AS [REDACTED] TERRA HAUTE, INDIANA. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, SIX FEET, ONE SEVENTY POUNDS.

PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] OBTAINED AND BEING FORWARDED BY REGISTERED AM TO SEATTLE.

INTENSIVE EFFORTS TO LOCATE [REDACTED] RESIDENCE THIS DATE NEGATIVE. INVESTIGATION CONTINUING AT LOS ANGELES TO ESTABLISH WHEREABOUTS OF [REDACTED] ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.

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LA 164-497 PAGE FOUR

[REDACTED] SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE [REDACTED] ARMED AND DANGEROUS. PENDING.

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Serials: 164-2111, 164-31, LA 164-497, SE 164-81, SU 164-24