SAC Atlanta to Director re NORJAK information from airline passenger
This copy: Part 62 pp. 115–116Also filed at Part 40 pp. 239–240 (primary)
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SAC Atlanta to Director re NORJAK information from Las Vegas source (AT 164-254)
Document date 24 August 1977
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-62:115-116 Document: Airtel SAC Atlanta to Director re NORJAK information from Las Vegas source (AT 164-254) Id: Cooper-Part-62:115-116 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-62%3A115-116 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 62 pp. 115–116 (DB Cooper-25679–25680), Airtel, dated 24 Aug 1977, serial 164-4-956 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-62%3A115-116
FD-36 (Rev. 7-27-76) FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: [ ] Teletype [ ] Immediate [ ] TOP SECRET [ ] Facsimile [ ] Priority [ ] SECRET [X] Airtel [ ] Routine [ ] CONFIDENTIAL [ ] EFTO [ ] CLEAR Date 8/24/77
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, ATLANTA (164-254)(RUC)
SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) (OO: SEATTLE)
Re Atlanta airtel to the Director dated 5/13/77, Little Rock teletype to the Director dated 7/20/77, and Seattle airtel to the Director dated 8/17/77.
For information of the New York Division, enclosed references relate information developed concerning efforts made by [REDACTED] of Las Vegas, Nevada, [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] relating to b7C instant matter in which one DAVID BRYANT COFFELT (allegedly b7D deceased) is identified as D.B. COOPER, hijacker in instant matter.
On 8/16/77, [REDACTED] Atlanta, Georgia, telephonically contacted the Atlanta b6 Office and furnished the following information: b7C
She is employed by HEW, Peachtree and 7th Street, Atlanta, and on [REDACTED] she was on a Delta b6 Airlines flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., when b7C she overheard the following story:
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3 - Bureau (164-2111) 1 - Los Angeles (164-497)(Info) 2 - Seattle (164-81) 2 - New York (Enc.3) 1 - Atlanta JRMW:psm (9)
SEATTLE CONTACTED AC ENT CASE CLOSED 11/1/77
164-4-956
SERIALIZED [FILED] AUG [illegible] FBI—LOS ANGE[LES] A/STEN (INFO)
Approved: ___________ Transmitted ___________ Per ___________ (Number) (Time)
DB Cooper-25679
AT 164-254
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Sitting next to her on this flight was one [REDACTED] who identified himself [REDACTED] for Newsday, a prominent newspaper on Long Island, New York. She stated that she had verified through library sources his identity and veracity and that he told her [REDACTED] [REDACTED] the subject's escapade and had just met with the subject [REDACTED] [REDACTED] under another name. She stated that [REDACTED] showed her a penciled drawing on a handkerchief that the subject had done portraying a "snoopy" parachute dropping from an aircraft holding a sack of money. She stated that [REDACTED] told her and two fellow passengers that the subject is a former Boeing employee and he removed a panel from the ceiling of the jet (in the lavatory) and hid there and later got off the aircraft after it had landed and things had cooled down.
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LEADS:
NEW YORK DIVISION
Will locate [REDACTED] through Newsday newspaper on Long Island, New York and interview him concerning any information he would care to furnish regarding the identity of the individual identified as D. B. COOPER the suspect in this matter.
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OFFICE OF ORIGIN HAS POINTED OUT THAT THE [REDACTED] AND POSSIBLY OTHERS ARE ANXIOUS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION WHICH WOULD UPDATE THE SCRIPT BEING PROPOSED AND WRITTEN AND MAKE IT MORE VALUABLE OR WOULD VERIFY THE INFORMATION AND, THEREFORE, MAKE IT MORE PLAUSIBLE. ALL OFFICES COVERING LEADS ARE REMINDED THAT INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS HIJACKING IS NOT TO BE CONFIRMED OR DENIED DURING INTERVIEWS. INTERVIEWS SHOULD BE CONDUCTED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ONLY.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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2*
DB Cooper-25680
Serials: 164-2111, 164-4-956, AT 164-254, LA 164-497, SE 164-81