SAC San Francisco to Boston, Seattle and Denver re NORJAK suspect description

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Date: 9/13/72

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TO: BOSTON SEATTLE (164-81) DENVER (164-98)

FROM: SAN FRANCISCO (164-220)(P)

NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE, SUSPECT DASH [REDACTED]

RE DENVER TELETYPE TO SEATTLE, SEPTEMBER EIGHT LAST AND LOS ANGELES TELETYPE TO SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER TWELVE LAST.

RE DENVER TELETYPE STATED THAT A [REDACTED] HAD COMMENTED THAT HE HAD A STRONG SUSPICION RE IDENTITY D.B. COOPER.WHEN SHOWN COOPER COMPOSITE [REDACTED] STATED PICTURE IS EXACT LIKENESS OF [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] HAD SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AIRCRAFT TRAINING AND IS FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT WITH PARACHUTE TRAINING. HE BELIEVES [REDACTED] ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF HIJACKING. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] WAS IN SEATTLE ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACKING AND STAYED IN THE HOME OF [REDACTED] ALSO A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HEARD FROM [REDACTED] THAT [REDACTED] LEFT SEATTLE SUDDENLY ABOUT THE TIME OF HIJACK.

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(1) - Los Angeles (164-497)(Info)(AM) 1 - Salt Lake City (164-24)(Info)(AM) 1 - San Francisco LCP/sjs (C-3) Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge

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SEARCHED __ INDEXED __ SERIALIZED __ FILED __ 13 SEP 15 1972 [initials]

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-24678

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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, BLACK HAIR, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, ABOUT FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. HE SAID [REDACTED] IS ADVENTURESOME, WELL EDUCATED, AND EXTREMELY COOL. FROM DETAILS HE HAS HEARD OF HIJACKING, IS EVEN MORE CONVINCED [REDACTED] COULD HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME.

ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, DENVER, HAS REQUESTED THAT EVERY EFFORT BE MADE TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] AS SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION.

ON SEPTEMBER ELEVEN LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, WHO HAS KNOWN [REDACTED] FOR TWENTY YEARS, WAS INTERVIEWED. [REDACTED] RECALLS [REDACTED] WAS A FORMER AIR FORCE OFFICER, A COLLEGE GRADUATE, AND A TOP SKIER, [REDACTED] STATED IS A PERSON WHO BECOMES VERY PROFICIENT IN ANYTHING HE UNDERTAKES. HE IS AT HOME IN THE WOODS, AND WOULD BE HAPPY WITH A DOG AND A GUN. HE IS A NOMAD TYPE, WHO WOULD TAKE OFF AT A MOMENTS NOTICE TO GO ANYWHERE. HE HAS PROSPECTED FOR URANIUM AND IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT MINERALOGY. [REDACTED] HAS INVENTIVE IDEAS

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AND A FASCINATING PERSONALITY. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS A WHITE MALE AMERICAN, FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, SLIM BUILD, BLACK HAIR, DARK COMPLEXION, ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OF AGE. UPON VIEWING COOPER COMPOSITE, HE WAS UNDECISIVE IF COMPOSITE RESEMBLED [REDACTED] HE DOUBTS [REDACTED] WOULD BE INVOLVED IN SUCH AN INCIDENT, AS HE IS VERY LAW ABIDING.

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ON SEPTEMBER TWELVE LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, A FLYING TIGER [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] WORKED FOR HIM IN NINETEEN SEVENTY AND NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE IN THE LAKE TAHOE AREA OF CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] STOPPED WORKING FOR HIM IN APRIL, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. IN MAY, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, [REDACTED] RECEIVED A POSTCARD FROM [REDACTED] GAVE HIS ADDRESS AS BEING IN OXFORD, MAINE. THEN IN APPROXIMATELY JANUARY, LAST, HE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM [REDACTED] IN WHICH [REDACTED] GAVE HIS ADDRESS AS [REDACTED] NORWAY, MAINE. TELEPHONE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN THIS LETTER [REDACTED] STATED HE WAS [REDACTED] ON WEEKENDS AT [REDACTED] MAINE. [REDACTED]

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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-24680

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HAS BEEN SENDING A MONTHLY COMMISSION CHECK TO THAT ADDRESS, THE LAST CHECK BEING IN AUGUST, LAST. [REDACTED] BELIEVES IT IS POSSIBLE THAT [REDACTED] MIGHT HAVE COMMITTED THE HIJACKING, AS HE HAS THE PERSONALITY TO DO IT. [REDACTED] IS A LIKEABLE, CHARMING PERSON, WHO IS VERY IMAGINATIVE AND INVENTIVE. HE HAS NEVER HEARD [REDACTED] MENTION PARACHUTING, BUT HE WOULD BE QUICK TO TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT UP. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] MIGHT COME UP WITH THE IDEA OF HIJACKING A SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN AND PARACHUTING OUT; HOWEVER, HE CANNOT IMAGINE HIM ACTUALLY DOING IT, AND CANNOT IMAGINE [REDACTED] PULLING A GUN OR THREATENING ANYONE. HE STATED THE COOPER COMPOSITE FITS [REDACTED] FAIRLY WELL.

HE SUGGESTED THAT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SOUTH HAMILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, TELEPHONE NUMBER [REDACTED] IS IN CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] AND SAW HIM IN MASSACHUSETTS DURING THE WINTER OF NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.

BOSTON, AT NORWAY, MAINE: INTERVIEW SUSPECT AND DETERMINE HIS WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY-FIVE, NINE- TEEN SEVENTY ONE. CONDUCT LOGICAL INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF [REDACTED] SHOULD BE CONSIDERED LOGICAL SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER.

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Approved: _______________ Special Agent in Charge Sent _______________ M Per _______________ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-24681

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