To SAC Seattle re anonymous caller claiming to know hijacker's identity
Document date 10 April 1972
Part of: SA to SAC Seattle re repeated anonymous calls claiming knowledge of hijacker
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 67 p. 261 (DB Cooper-28566), Memo, dated 10 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-67%3A261-261
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 4/10/72
FROM : SA [REDACTED] (A)
SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE
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On 4/8/72, several telephone calls were received between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] (PH), who identified himself as being [REDACTED] and a resident of [REDACTED], Washington. He advised that he was phoning from Seattle but would not give his telephone number or address to this office.
[REDACTED] stated that he knew who the hijacker of the Northwest Airliner was. He stated the hijacker was [REDACTED] (PH), who is a [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Washington. He described [REDACTED] as between 35 and 40 years of age, 5' 9", 155 pounds, with light-colored hair.
He stated that he [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] and that during the past few weeks, [REDACTED] has told him how he hijacked the plane. He stated that [REDACTED] advised him that he wore dark clothes the day of the hijacking and that he carried on the plane with him parachute jump shoes under his overcoat and put these shoes on in the men's rest- room. He advised that [REDACTED] bailed out of the airplane from the side door over Chehalis, Washington. He advised that [REDACTED] took three parachutes with him and that he buried two of the parachutes. He stated that [REDACTED] told him that he had $300,000. [REDACTED] stated he has not seen the money nor the parachutes nor anything else associated with the hijacking. [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] told him that he bailed out of the airplane at exactly 17 minutes 3 1/2 seconds out of Sea-Tac.
[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] was a parachutist in Japan during the Second World War and that he is a very knowledgable woodsman. [REDACTED] stated that he was "blowing the whistle on [REDACTED] because [REDACTED] and that he, [REDACTED], was very upset of this occurrence.
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[Handwritten] 164-81 [illegible] Sub. J
SEARCHED...........INDEXED........... SERIALIZED.../M...FILED.../M... APR 0 [illegible] FBI — SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-28566
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
Serials: SE 164-81