Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Director, Los Angeles and New York - NORJAK daily summary re Bremerton suspect
Document date 27 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-71:159-166 Document: Urgent teletype SAC Seattle to Director, Los Angeles and New York - NORJAK daily summary re Bremerton suspect Id: Cooper-Part-71:159-166 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-71%3A159-166 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 71 pp. 159–166 (DB Cooper-30429–30436), Teletype, dated 27 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3138 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-71%3A159-166
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Date: 4/27/72
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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC Los ANGELES AND NEW YORK FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DAILY SUMMARY NORJAK.
ON APRIL TWENTYSEVEN INSTANT, INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED AT BREMERTON AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TO IDENTIFY THE BALD HEADED MAN WEARING SUNGLASSES AS PROVIDED BY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT NEW YORK CITY, [REDACTED] RESULTED IN ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS AND INDEPENDENT IDENTIFICATIONS; ONE AT THE [REDACTED], SEATTLE, AND AT BREMERTON THROUGH INTERVIEWS WITH FOUR PEOPLE WHO RECOGNIZED AND KNOW THE PERSON PHOTOGRAPHED AS [REDACTED]
INQUIRIES AT THE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS BASED ON A TELEPHONE CALL TO THAT OFFICE MADE FROM THE HOME PHONE OF [REDACTED] ON JANUARY SIX, SEVENTYTWO. IN SHOWING THE PHOTO OF THE BALD HEADED MAN AND THAT OF [REDACTED] SEATTLE, A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THE PHOTO OF [REDACTED] WHOM SHE KNEW AS [REDACTED]. UPON SEEING THE PHOTO OF THE BALD MAN SHE CEF:klb (3)
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[guess: Sub. O] 164-81-3138
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DB Cooper-30429
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Approved: _______________ Sent __________ M Per ______________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
SE 164-31 PAGE TWO
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IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED IT AS THAT OF [REDACTED], PRESENTLY RESIDING AT [REDACTED], A HOTEL ON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN BREMERTON. SHE FURTHER DESCRIBED HIM AS A[REDACTED] WHO FREQUENTLY DEALS IN [REDACTED] WHO REQUESTED HER IDENTITY BE PROTECTED, SAID SHE WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT [REDACTED] HAD RECENTLY COME INTO A LOT OF MONEY AS HE APPARENTLY WAS SPENDING QUITE A BIT AND HAD RECENTLY LEASED A NEW [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] MELODY LANE BREMERTON,/IDENTIFIED PHOTO OF BALD HEADED MAN AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHO DRINKS IN THE MELODY LANE AND IS EMPLOYED AT THE LAKE FURNITURE COMPANY.
[REDACTED] MELODY LANE, IDENTIFIED THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PHOTO AS THAT OF [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] EMPLOYED AT LAKE FURNITURE COMPANY, IDENTIFIED PHOTO AS THAT OF [REDACTED] WHO WORKS IN THE [REDACTED], NEXT TO OFFICES OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND HIS FATHER.
[REDACTED] BREMERTON, ALSO IDENTIFIED THE ABOVE PHOTO AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHO RESIDES IN ROOM [REDACTED] AT [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
ON APRIL TWENTY, SEVENTYTWO, IN FURNISHING CREDIT INFORMATION TO HAZELWOOD BUICK-PONTIAC DEALER,
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b6 b7C b7D
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DB Cooper-30430
SE 164-81 PAGE THREE
BREMERTON, [REDACTED] FURNISHED ADDRESS AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON. DMV INFORMATION REVEALS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON, BORN [REDACTED] FIVE FEET TEN INCHES, ONE SIX ZERO LBS., BLUE EYES, PLACE OF BIRTH NOT SHOWN. THE ABOVE APPLICATION WAS MADE IN CONNECTION WITH PURCHASE ON APRIL TWENTY LAST, OF A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FOUR DOOR SEDAN, WHICH ALLEGEDLY WAS FOR THE USE OF HIS WIFE, [REDACTED], ALSO OF THE SAME ADDRESS IN SILVERDALE. [REDACTED] LOCATED BY BUREAU AGENTS AS HE DEBARKED FROM FERRY AT BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, PM THIS DATE AND TAKEN TO BREMERTON RESIDENT AGENCY OFFICE, WHERE INTERVIEWED BY SAS. [REDACTED] ADMITTED IN A THREE-PAGE SIGNED STATEMENT THAT HE IS THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN THE WIG ON PACIFIC AVENUE IN BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, AND ALSO IS IDENTICAL TO THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH WITHOUT THE WIG MADE AVAILABLE BY [REDACTED] TO NEW YORK OFFICE. [REDACTED] DENIES BEING INDIVIDUAL IN PHOTOGRAPH WITH BLACK AND WHITE KNIT CAP, ALTHOUGH [REDACTED] ADVISES ALL
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DB Cooper-30431
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b6 b7C
SE 164-81 PAGE FOUR
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PHOTOS ARE OF SAME INDIVIDUAL. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT PHOTO- GRAPH OF HIM WEARING THE WIG WAS TAKEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IN FRONT OF A WIG SHOP ON PACIFIC AVENUE, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, WHEN HE WAS IN THE COMPANY OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATES [REDACTED] TOOK HIS PHOTOGRAPH WITH A POLAROID CAMERA AND THAT THE WIG WAS BORROWED FROM THE WIG SHOP UNDER THE GUISE OF PURCHASING SAME. [REDACTED] ADVISED THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TO BE USED BY [REDACTED] TO BE SHOWN TO A FEMALE PURCHASER OF [REDACTED] AS HE UNDERSTOOD THIS FEMALE EXPECTED TO BE ROMANCED AS PART OF THE SALE. [REDACTED] STATES THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS NEVER SHOWN TO THIS INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE HE DECIDED AGAINST IT AND RE- QUESTED THE [REDACTED] NOT TO DO SO.
[REDACTED] UNDERSTOOD THIS WOMAN RECEIVED A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, EITHER FROM AN ESTATE OR A SETTLEMENT OR BOTH AND WAS INTERESTED IN INVESTING IT IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FURTHER STATED [REDACTED] TOLD HIM THIS WOMAN [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON THE WATERFRONT OR [REDACTED] CLOSE BY.
[REDACTED] SPENT QUITE A WHILE DISCUSSING THIS, AND [REDACTED] ASKED WHO WAS GOING TO LOOK AT HIM ROMAN- TICALLY, AND THEN IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT HE COULD WEAR A WIG AND IT BECAME A SORT OF A JOKE, AND THAT IS HOW THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN.
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DB Cooper-30432
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SE 164-81 PAGE FIVE
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[REDACTED] STATES HE DOES NOT RECALL WHEN THE PHOTO- GRAPH WITHOUT THE WIG WAS TAKEN, BUT STATES IT IS OF HIM, AND THAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE ONE WITH HIM WEARING THE WIG, AS HE IS WEARING THE SAME CLOTHES. [REDACTED] STATES THE SUNGLASSES HE IS WEARING IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, AS HE RECALLED, WERE RECEIVED FROM [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] DENIES HE EVER MET [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AT THE SWEPT WING MOTEL AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT OR AT THE EDGEWATER INN IN SEATTLE OR ANY WHERE ELSE. [REDACTED] FURTHER DENIES THAT HE KNOWS A [REDACTED] OR A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AND NEVER MET THEM TO HIS KNOWLEDGE.
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[REDACTED] FURTHER STATES HE NEVER RECEIVED ANY MONEY FROM [REDACTED] OR ANY OF THESE MEN IN CONNECTION WITH THE PHOTOS, WHICH HE IDENTIFIES AS BEING OF HIMSELF.
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FOLLOWING PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] WAS OBTAINED BY OBSERVATION AND INTERVIEW: DOB [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WHITE MALE, FIVE FT TEN INCHES TALL, ONE-HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE TO ONE SIXTY-FIVE LBS, BLUE EYES, MEDIUM BUILD, PALE COMPLEXION, EDUCATION - HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, ATTENDED LONG BEACH JUNIOR COLLEGE, LOS ANGELES, AND NYU, NEW YORK CITY. BROTHER: [REDACTED] NEW JERSEY. EM- PLOYED AS A [REDACTED] FORMER OCCUPATION: [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-30433
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SE 164-81 PAGE SIX
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[REDACTED] HAS TATTOO OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IS MARRIED TO [REDACTED] HAS THREE CHILDREN - [REDACTED] HE FORMERLY MARRIED TO [REDACTED], NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, BY WHOM HE HAS TWO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND ANOTHER PREVIOUS MARRIAGE TO [REDACTED] RIVERDALE, NEW JERSEY, BY WHOM HE HAS A [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE ADMITS BEING AR- RESTED IN SEVENTYONE IN BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] REMARKS: WRITES LEFT HANDED, LIGHTS HIS CIGARETTES WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. FORMER RESIDENCE: [REDACTED] ALASKA, TWELVE YEARS FROM [REDACTED]
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DESCRIPTION OF [REDACTED] COINCIDES PRECISELY WITH DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY [REDACTED] AS D, B. COOPER.
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[REDACTED] AGREEABLE TO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION, IF AUTHORIZED BY HIS ATTORNEY AND HAS CONSENTED TO ADDITIONAL INTERVIEW, TEN AM, TWENTY-EIGHTH, INSTANT, IF AUTHORIZED BY HIS ATTORNEY.
ON APRIL TWENTYSEVEN, INSTANT, HIJACKING WITNESS
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DB Cooper-30434
SE 164-81 PAGE SEVEN
[REDACTED] SEATTLE, OBSERVED ABOVE MENTIONED PHOTO OF BALD-HEADED MAN AND STATED ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME SIMILARI- TIES WITH THE HIJACKER, HE COULD NOT MAKE AN IDENTIFICATION.
WITNESS [REDACTED] SEATTLE, STATED THIS INDI- VIDUAL IS DEFINITELY NOT HIJACKER.
WITNESS [REDACTED] SEATTLE, STATED THIS INDI- VIDUAL IS DEFINITELY NOT HIJACKER.
ABOVE PHOTO FORWARDED BY PILOT COURIER TODAY TO BE SHOWN TO WITNESSES AT MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND AND EUGENE, OREGON.
INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED TO LOCATE BANK ACCOUNTS OF [REDACTED] SO RECORDS MAY BE EXAMINED.
[REDACTED] INTERVIEWED AND ADVISED HE WAS UNABLE TO REACH HIS ATTORNEY UNTIL THIR- TIETH INSTANT, AT WHICH TIME HE WILL SEEK CONSENT TO TAKE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.
INVESTIGATION TO DATE HAS LOCATED [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] WHERE OFFICIAL AS DECLINED TO PRO- DUCE RECORDS WITHOUT SUBPOENA. [REDACTED] BEING CONTACTED TWENTY-EIGHTH, INSTANT, TO SEE IF RECORDS MAY BE OBTAINED.
[REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-30435
SE 164-81 PAGE EIGHT
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[REDACTED] MAJOR CASE PRINTS OF [REDACTED] OBTAINED AS HAS CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH OF HIM AND LATTER WILL BE FURNISHED TO BUREAU.
IN VIEW OF LABORATORY EXAMINATION REVEALING THAT BILLS ON XEROX COPY ARE [spurious - handwritten above struck-through SUPERFLUOUS], INVESTIGATION BEING DIRECTED TOWARD ESTABLISHING ITSP AND FRAUD BY WIRE VIOLATION AGAINST [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] TOGETHER WITH OTHER IDENTIFIABLE CONSPIRATORS.
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IT WOULD APPEAR ESSENTIAL THAT [REDACTED] GIVEN BY [REDACTED] TO [REDACTED] FOR [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TOGETHER WITH [REDACTED] BE OBTAINED EVEN IF NECESSARY TO DO SO BY SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM.
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U. S. ATTORNEY, SEATTLE, WILL BE CONSULTED AM TWENTY-EIGHTH INSTANT RE THIS MATTER.
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CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] BEING FURNISHED TO LOS ANGELES FOR DISPLAY TO [REDACTED] [REDACTED] TO ESTABLISH POSITIVELY THAT HE IS INDI- VIDUAL [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON FEBRUARY TWENTY- THREE, SEVENTYTWO.
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DB Cooper-30436
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-31, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3138
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