Los Angeles to Director and field offices re Bryant Coffelt as possible hijacker and Universal Studios inquiry
Document date 18 March 1977
Part of: SAC Los Angeles to Director and offices re Jack Coffelt as Cooper suspect
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-61:325-327 Document: Teletype Los Angeles to Director and field offices re Bryant Coffelt as possible hijacker and Universal Studios inquiry Id: Cooper-Part-61:325-327 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-61%3A325-327 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 61 pp. 325–327 (DB Cooper-25547, DB Cooper-25548, DB Cooper-25550), Teletype, dated 18 Mar 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-61%3A325-327
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FM LOS ANGELES (164-497) (13) (P) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE ALEXANDRIA (164-72) ROUTINE HONOLULU (164-85) ROUTINE KANSAS CITY ROUTINE LAS VEGAS (164-60) ROUTINE PORTLAND (164-41) ROUTINE SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169) ROUTINE
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NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.
RE LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU, JANUARY 24, 1977, WASHINGTON FIELD AIRTEL TO BUREAU, MARCH 2, 1977, AND HONOLULU AIRTEL TO BUFFALO, MARCH 10, 1977.
RE: UNSUB; [REDACTED]
FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA, HAS VOLUNTEERED INFORMATION CONCERNING SUSPECT JACK BRYANT COFFELT DURING EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW AT LOS ANGELES.
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SEARCHED IN [illegible] SER [illegible] Per [illegible] FILED DB Cooper-25547
PAGE TWO (LA 164-497) CLEAR
[REDACTED] RELATED THAT ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO, HE WAS ENGAGED BY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TO INVESTIGATE VERACITY OF INFORMATION BEING FURNISHED UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BY [REDACTED] INDICATING THAT COFFELT WAS POSSIBLY HIGHJACKER KNOWN AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] STATES TRAVELED WIDELY IN U.S. FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS INTERVIEWING PAST ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND SPENT 12 HOURS INTERVIEWING [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] STATES, DURING INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT NEITHER [REDACTED] HAD EVER ACTUALLY [REDACTED] ALLEGEDLY FROM PARACHUTE USED BY HIGHJACKER. [REDACTED] STATED COFFELT HAD MADE CASUAL REFERENCE [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] COVERED MANY FACETS OF HIS EFFORTS TO DETERMINE IF COFFELT HIGHJACKER, IN FACTUAL AND ORGANIZED MANNER. STATED HE REACHED CONCLUSION COFFELT WAS PROBABLY NOT HIGHJACKER BASED ON FOLLOWING FACTS:
DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING, BRYANT COFFELT WAS SUFFERING FROM SEVERE ALCOHOLISM AND ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
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DB Cooper-25548
PAGE FOUR (LA 164-497) CLEAR JACKING AND ON DAY OF HIGHJACKING, [REDACTED] EMPLOYED FOR POTOMAC TEMPORARIES, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA. [REDACTED] STATES HAD NOT INTERVIEWED [REDACTED] IN HONOLULU NOR HAD HE ASCERTAINED NAME OF PSYCHIATRIST REPORTEDLY TREATING COFFELT AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING.
BASED ON ABOVE INFORMATION AND IN ORDER TO BRING MATTER TO LOGICAL CONCLUSION WITH MINIMUM INVESTIGATION, FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE CONDUCTED:
HONOLULU, CONTACT [REDACTED] [REDACTED], HONOLULU, AND OBTAIN NAME OF PSYCHIATRIST TREATING COFFELT DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING.
SET OUT LEAD FOR WASHINGTON FIELD TO VERIFY COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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DB Cooper-25550
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Serials: 164-2111, AX 164-72, HN 164-85, LA 164-497, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, WF 164-169