SAC Portland to SAC Los Angeles re NORJAK suspect James Ray Fugate Jr.
This copy: Part 59 pp. 469–470Also filed at Part 26 pp. 400–401 (primary) · Part 95 pp. 28–29 · Part 103 pp. 106–107
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SAC Portland to SAC Los Angeles re NORJAK suspect Fugate and Buckeye Air Service crash
Document date 7 July 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 59 pp. 469–470 (DB Cooper-24639–24640), Airtel, dated 7 Jul 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A469-470
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 7/7/72
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TO: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)(P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK
Re Los Angeles nitel to Seattle, ET AL, 7/4/72.
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Chief LARRY EDLUND, Portland International Airport Police, Portland, Oregon, advises he has no recent information concerning suspect JAMES RAY FUGATE, JR., and believes him to be dead. Chief Postal Inspector ROY LOVE, Portland, Oregon, likewise, has no current information re FUGATE, but furnished following aliases reportedly used by FUGATE during 1958 check kiting violation in Littleton, Inglewood, and Golden, Colorado, for which sentenced to USP for mail fraud:
J. J. SMALLWOOD; WADE MOORE, JR.; WILLIAM T. GATTIS.
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Los Angeles note that in Portland teletype to Los Angeles and New York, 3/22/72, in TWABOM case, LA file [REDACTED] b6 Portland furnished information from [REDACTED] Salem, b7C Oregon, former [REDACTED] for Golden West Airlines, that one [REDACTED] is currently employed as [REDACTED] for Golden West. Los Angeles consider possibility [REDACTED] may be identical with suspect FUGATE.
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(2) Los Angeles 1-Cleveland (164-88)(Info) 1-Seattle (164-81)(Info) 2-Portland
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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge
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DB Cooper-24639
PD 164-41
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In view of continuing doubt as to whether FUGATE is alive or dead, Cleveland should immediately examine appropriate records which would reflect certification of death of pilot of Buckeye Air Service, Elyria, Ohio, Beechcraft airplane which crashed at Toledo Express Airport, Toledo, Ohio, 2/18/71.
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DB Cooper-24640
Serials: CV 164-88, LA 164-497, PD 164-41, SE 164-81