To SAC Seattle re 'The Ballad of D.B. Cooper' Congressional inquiry (file copy)
This copy: Part 63 p. 74Also filed at Part 44 p. 185 (primary)
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SA to SAC Seattle re congressional inquiry about 'The Ballad of D. B. Cooper'
Document date 13 May 1980
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-63:074-074 Document: Memo SA to SAC Seattle re congressional inquiry about 'The Ballad of D. B. Cooper' Id: Cooper-Part-63:074-074 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A074-074 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 63 p. 74 (DB Cooper-26421), Memo, dated 13 May 1980, serial SE 164-81-SUBB (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A074-074
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 5/13/80
FROM : SA [REDACTED]
SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle
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Re telephone call to ASAC [REDACTED] on 4/22/80, from Representative McCluskey, California.
Referenced telephone call was made by an Aid to Congressman McCluskey of California, who requested the name, composer, and lyrics to a song referred to as "The Ballad of D. B. Cooper". This inquiry was made pursuant to a constituent's inquiry and was referred to this office, specifically ASAC [REDACTED] by the Portland Division.
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A review of Seattle files, indicate the following references: In Seattle file 164-81-SubB, Vol. 1, newspaper clipping dated 11/23/72, final edition of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, page A18, written by Eldon Barrett, reports that a Portland nightclub singer, Tom Bresh, wrote and recorded a short lived success record entitled "D. B. Cooper, Where Are You?". Additionally, in the same file, a Seattle Post Intelligencer article written by Dick Clever, appearing on 11/23/72, in the final edition, at page A19, there appears an article penned by Clever and copyrighted story, the copyright is held by the Seattle Post Intelligencer, dated 1972, entitled "A Ballad to the Man Called D. B.".
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That story and the words in their entirety are: "He was cool, he was calm, the man with the "bomb", who boarded flight 36 with ease. And pilot Bill Scott, not suspecting the plot, took off with the man called D. B. They were just in the air, when the stew caught the stare, of the man in the back of the plane. He passed her a paper, which he thought she'd read later, she thought him a flirt and quite vain. "Read the note," his wave told, and she thought him quite bold, to make such a pass in mid flight. But she did as he asked, and she read and she gasped, as the jet flew on into the night. The crew was quite shocked, to find this short hop, this all stop, short hop flight skyjacked &
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SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED.....FILED...... MAY 15 [guess: 1980] FBI - SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-26421
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-SUBB