Director to SAC Seattle re missing persons compared with NORJACK suspect description

Document date 11 April 1977

Part 74pages 319–3235 pagesDB Cooper-32257–32261

Part of: Director to SAC Seattle re missing-person index card review, NORJACK · 11 April 1977 · Part 39 pp. 300–305

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Document: Airtel Director to SAC Seattle re missing persons compared with NORJACK suspect description
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 74 pp. 319–323 (DB Cooper-32257–32261), Airtel, dated 11 Apr 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-74%3A319-323

Airtel

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4/11/77

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To: SAC, Seattle (164-81) From: Director, FBI (164-2111)

NORJACK OO: SEATTLE

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[guess: surv] [illegible] Z

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ReButelcal to Seattle 3/30/77.

Enclosed for Seattle are Xerox copies of missing person index cards which generally fit the description of captioned unsub.

In connection with captioned investigation it was suggested by the Criminal Investigative Division that a manual search of the missing persons indices be conducted here at FBIHQ Identification Division. Approximately 5200 cards containing information regarding missing persons were reviewed in an effort to identify logical suspects who were reported as missing at about the time the hijacking occurred. Identification Division personnel were furnished with a composite description of Dan Cooper and as a result the below listed white males were developed as suspects. Each of the individuals were reported as missing during latter 1971 or 1972.

This search was based upon the presumption that unsub may have perished during the jump from the aircraft and that some relative somewhere may have filed a missing person report.

Enclosures - 17

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[guess: Dist.] 2 164-81 - 7445 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......... FILED......... APR 14 1 FBI -- SEATT

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DB Cooper-32257

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b6 b7c

Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK

Sixteen of the 21 persons fitting Cooper's description have fingerprint cards on file within the Identification Division and each were compared to the latents developed in captioned matter with negative results.

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1. [REDACTED] X [REDACTED] Height: 5'8" Weight: 137 [REDACTED] or Congressman J. Herbert Burke, Washington, D. C. Florida,

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2. [REDACTED] X [REDACTED] Height: 6' Weight: 180 Presently Bureau fugitive, Miami Office of Origin

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3. [REDACTED] V [REDACTED] Height: 5'10" [REDACTED] [REDACTED] New York Reported as missing November, 1971

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4. [REDACTED] X [REDACTED] Height: 5'11" [REDACTED] Missing since November, 1971 [REDACTED] South Carolina

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DB Cooper-32258

Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK

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5. [REDACTED] X

Height: 5'11" Weight: 200 [REDACTED] Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Information received at FBIHQ as missing person on 3/16/72

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6. [REDACTED] X

[REDACTED] Height: 5'6" Weight: 121 Hair: Brown Missing since 1971, however, information not received at FBIHQ until 10/14/75 [REDACTED] Missouri

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7. [REDACTED] X

[REDACTED] Height: 5'9" Weight: 171 Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel [REDACTED] Reported as missing since November, 1971 [REDACTED] Ohio

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8. [REDACTED] X

Height: 5'11"

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DB Cooper-32259

Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK

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Weight: 190 Hair: Brown [REDACTED] Missing since 1971, however, information not received until 6/11/73 Contact Senator Strom Thurmond, Washington, D. C.

9. [REDACTED] X [REDACTED] Height: 5'8" Weight: 175 Hair: Brown [REDACTED] Missing since 1971, no specific date given [REDACTED] Maryland

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10. Richard Vincent Chatham X DOB: 2/28/20 POB: Mexico, Missouri Height: 6'1" Weight: 220 FBI# 996 344 E Missing since 12/5/71 Contact Mrs. Grace Chatham, mother, 407 East Bolivar Street, Mexico, Missouri Records reflect that Chatham left a mental institution in November, 1971

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11. Manny W. Tripp X DOB: 2/2/17 Height: 6'3" Weight: 200 Hair: Brown FBI# 960 250 J7 Date of disappearance unavailable, however, missing person information received at FBIHQ 5/22/72 Contact Congressman Charles E. Bennett, Washington, D. C., or [REDACTED] Florida Note: Although this individual fits the general description of unsub, it is felt that he may be too old to be the hijacker (age 54 in 1971)

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DB Cooper-32260

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Airtel to SAC, Seattle RE: NORJACK

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The following individuals reported as missing in 1971 or 1972 have since been arrested by law enforcement authorities:

12 - 15.

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[REDACTED] X [REDACTED] Height: 6'2" Weight: 162 [REDACTED] Missing since 1971, however, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California

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[REDACTED] X [REDACTED] Height: 6'1" Weight: 190 [REDACTED] Hair: Brown [REDACTED] California Information was not received until 11/28/72, however, identification files reflect that [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] X Height: 5'10" [REDACTED] Missing since 1971 [REDACTED] Massachusetts Identification files reflect that [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] X [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Pennsylvania Information received at FBIHQ on 7/28/72 Identification files reflect that [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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5 DB Cooper-32261

Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-81

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