From Bellflower, California citizen to FBI re Owen Reynolds as possible D.B. Cooper
Document date 27 June 1973
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Id: Cooper-Part-60:349-351
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-60:349-351 Document: Letter from Bellflower, California citizen to FBI re Owen Reynolds as possible D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-60:349-351 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-60%3A349-351 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 60 pp. 349–351 (DB Cooper-25034–25036), Letter, dated 27 Jun 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-60%3A349-351
June 27, 1973
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[REDACTED] Bellflower, Calif. [REDACTED]
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To Whom It May Concern:
A few months ago I saw a composite drawing in the Press Telegram of a suspect in the ransoming and highjacking of an airliner from the Washington state area. He subsequently bailed out with the money and was never found.
The striking resemblance of your drawing to a fellow that I worked with in the 1950-52 years has been bothering me because of his age, size and background. My suspicions are merely that and are not based on any facts at my disposal at this time. I feel his character, background, mode of living, make him a likely suspect.
His name is Owen Reynolds and is a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] by trade. He has been married several times, during his first marriage he lived in the Seattle area of the state of Washington,
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DB Cooper-25034
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he served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II as a tail gunner on a B-25 bomber in the New Guinea campaign.
He survived three seperate air crashes and after the war was called back to the active reserve where he was in charge of the butcher shop at the Long Beach Ferrying Command Base.
Now as for his civilian background; He was employed by [REDACTED] in the retail liquor and delicatesson business as a clerk. While working as a clerk he took the weeks receipts and gambled them away in Mexico City. Feeling remorse at what he had done, called his boss and told him what he had done. [REDACTED] did not press charges and permitted him to pay the money back over a period of time.
While [REDACTED] for Max Fine and Company there were irregularities
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DB Cooper-25035
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in the handling of cash, but nothing we could put our finger on.
At this time he was borrowing money from everyone in the store, driving an expensive car, gambling, wearing expensive clothes, dating several women, and generally living beyond his means. I am just giving you the facts on his mode of living. If you would like any information as to the where- abouts of Owen Reynolds contact the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] of which he was a member.
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Sincerely Yours,
[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Bellflower, Calif. [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-25036