SAC Los Angeles to Director and Seattle re James Bryant Coffelt investigation

FD-36 (Rev. 3-24-77)

FBI

TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☐ ________ ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ E F T O ☐ CLEAR Date 5/25/78

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FM LOS ANGELES (164-497) (3) (RUC) TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) ROUTINE 10 P SEATTLE (164-81) ROUTINE 10 P ✓ BT U N C L A S NORJAK, OO: SEATTLE.

RE JAMES BRYANT COFFELT, AKA JACK BRYANT COFFELT, BRYANT ARTHUR JAMES COFFELT (TN), [REDACTED] RE SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALL TO LOS ANGELES MAY 23, 1978 AND LOS ANGELES TELEPHONE CALL TO SEATTLE MAY 25, 1978.

[REDACTED]

ALSO KNOWN AS [REDACTED] CALI- FORNIA, TELEPHONE [REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AT HIS RESI- DENCE DURING EVENING OF MAY 24, 1978, IN PRESENCE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT WHICH TIME THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED:

[REDACTED] HAS NOT SEEN [REDACTED] SINCE APPROXIMATELY

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JCA/nc [initials](1) Approved: ______T6/[initials]______ Transmitted ______(Number)______(Time)______

[stamp] 164-497-980 SEARCHED ___ IN ___ S[illegible] FILED ___ DB Cooper-25860 UFO1/DOJ

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MARCH 1957, AND NEVER PERSONALLY MET JACK COFFELT, ALTHOUGH HE TALKED WITH HIM ON THE TELEPHONE ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. HE WAS UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION REGARDING COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING THE PERTINENT PERIOD. HE RECALLED THAT IN 1969, HE PURCHASED SOME PROPERTY IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, FROM [REDACTED] AND AT THAT TIME, SHE WAS RESIDING AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.

[REDACTED] RECALLED THAT COFFELT ALLEGEDLY WORKED AT ONE TIME AT A HOSPITAL IN THE ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, AREA BUT COULD NOT REMEMBER THE NAME OR LOCATION. SHE ALSO RECALLED THAT, WHILE THE COFFELTS WERE LIVING IN THE VIRGINIA AREA, THEY WERE FRIENDLY WITH A "HEAVY SET ATTORNEY" WHO LIVED [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY INTERVIEWED). SHE STATED ON AT LEAST ONE OCCASION, JACK COFFELT CALLED HER, ATTEMPTING TO BORROW MONEY.

[REDACTED] ALSO MENTIONED THAT [REDACTED] HAS NUMEROUS BOXES CONTAINING PERSONAL PROPERTY STORED IN HER GARAGE, BUT WAS RELUCTANT TO GO THROUGH THIS MATERIAL WITHOUT [REDACTED] PERMISSION.

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DB Cooper-25861

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SHE ALSO HAD IN HER POSSESSION THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF COFFELT WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO HER BY [REDACTED] HOWEVER, SHE WAS NOT AWARE DATE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN.

WHILE AT [REDACTED] RESIDENCE, INTERVIEWING AGENT TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED [REDACTED] IN HONOLULU, HAWAII, AT TELE- PHONE NUMBER [REDACTED] REGARDING HER PROPERTY STORED IN THE [REDACTED] GARAGE. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT THE BOXES DO NOT CONTAIN ANY DOCUMENTS, CANCELLED CHECKS, ETCETERA, WHICH WOULD ESTABLISH COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD. SHE STATED THE BOXES ONLY CONTAINED CLOTHING AND PERSONAL ITEMS. AFTER DESCRIBING PHOTOGRAPHS IN POSSESSION OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED SHE BELIEVED THEY WERE TAKEN IN ABOUT 1962.

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DURING ABOVE CONVERSATION, [REDACTED] WAS UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION REGARDING COFFELT'S WHEREABOUTS DURING THANKSGIVING 1971 OTHER THAN THEY WERE LIVING IN THE ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, AREA.

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BOTH [REDACTED] STATED THAT DURING NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH COFFELT, HE NEVER INDICATED

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DB Cooper-25862

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THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN ANY TYPE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.

PHOTOGRAPHS FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] BEING FORWARDED TO SEATTLE BY AIRTEL.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

BT

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DB Cooper-25863