From Royal-Globe Insurance Companies to FBI Seattle re Cooper tips and ransom recovery
This copy: Part 65 pp. 200–201Also filed at Part 38 pp. 245–247 (primary) · Part 108 pp. 15–16 · Part 119 pp. 185–186 · Part 120 pp. 314–315
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Royal Globe Insurance Companies to FBI re Northwest Airlines hijacking tips
Document date 9 September 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-65:200-201 Document: Letter Royal Globe Insurance Companies to FBI re Northwest Airlines hijacking tips Id: Cooper-Part-65:200-201 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-65%3A200-201 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 65 pp. 200–201 (DB Cooper-27491–27492), Letter, dated 9 Sep 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-65%3A200-201
Royal Globe Insurance COMPANIES.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY • LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY • ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY • GLOBE INDEMNITY COMPANY • ROYAL GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY
LONDON AND LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SAFEGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY • STANDARD MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY • THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
NEWARK INSURANCE COMPANY • AMERICAN AND FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANY • BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY • THAMES & MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
150 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10038 TEL: (212) 732-8400 September 9, 1976
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Federal Bureau of Investigation 915 Second Ave. Seattle, Washington 98174
Dear Sir:
Re: Hijacking Northwest Airlines Date of Loss: 11/24/71 Claim#: [REDACTED]
Following our September 1, 1976 telephone conversation re above I would like to bring you up-to-date on all the recent tips we received due to the courtesy and cooperation of the Northwest Orient Airlines: [REDACTED]
1. As you have been previously informed we have been negotiating with [REDACTED] of Kirkland, Washington [REDACTED] on Lake Merwin, State of Washington. - We are preparing a contract with this independent entrepreneur. We will advise you when [REDACTED] will be ready to start and keep you posted on the developments.
2. We called attorney [REDACTED] of Naples, Florida on 8/23/76 in connection with his letter of 8/7/[illegible]/76 addressed to [REDACTED] of the Northwest Orient Airlines, copy attached. This is what attorney [REDACTED] told me: He knows a waitress, presently employed in Naples, formerly living in Miami, Florida. The woman alleges that she knew Cooper under his real name, not disclosed during our telephone conversation with attorney [REDACTED]. Cooper had a detective agency in Miami and was using an alias Cooper on occasion. He was a paratrooper(?) and bragged that he would undertake some sort of a stunt or hijacking to get hold of [guess: LE]
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DB Cooper-27491
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[REDACTED] Federal Bureau of Investigation
September 9, 1976
Re: Hijacking Northwest Airlines 11/24/71
money. The woman allegedly knows Cooper's friends and could help to trace him.
Attorney [REDACTED] told me that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was informed of those details about 2½ years ago, but apparently the information did not warrant the Bureau's attention. The attorney suggested a meeting in his office between the woman and a representative of our company.
For the time being this tip was laid to rest.
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3. Following [REDACTED] of Oakland, California, dated 8/10/76, copy attached, [REDACTED] I called [REDACTED] on September 1, 1976. He told me that he knows somebody who knows Cooper. Cooper is allegedly in the sheet metal business operations. [REDACTED] was told to get in touch with us if he has anything concrete to report. He wanted to know how much we were willing to pay for this information. I indicated to him that we would consider sharing the redeemable money on a reasonable basis. We were not told who [REDACTED] informer was. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was referring to this individual as his [REDACTED]. We are not attaching too much hope to [REDACTED] submitted "clue".
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4. As I told you I had called [REDACTED] Napa, California. Please refer to the attached copy of his 8/15/76 letter to Northwest Airlines, Inc. Please confirm your statement that the parts of a parachute allegedly found by [REDACTED] did not match the material of the parachute used by D. B. Cooper. We will obviously abandon this lead based on the information supplied by you.
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Hopefully something more concrete will eventually develop, which
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DB Cooper-27492
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