Director to SAC Seattle re anonymous United Airlines employee information
This copy: Part 75 p. 143Also filed at Part 74 p. 216 (primary)
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Director to SAC Seattle re anonymous United Airlines employee tip on Denver suspect
Document date 19 May 1976
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Part of: Director FBI to SAC Seattle re anonymous United Airlines employee's rumor of Denver suspect
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 75 p. 143 (DB Cooper-32309), Airtel, dated 19 May 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-75%3A143-143
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From: Director, FBI (164-2111) [REDACTED] b6 NORJACK b7C OO: SE [REDACTED]
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The following information was provided to an SA of the San Francisco Division by an United Airlines em- ployee who desired to remain anonymous. This information is being furnished Seattle for analysis and possible lead potential.
The United Airlines (UA) employee advised that an individual whose true name is [REDACTED], according, to rumor, [REDACTED] in Denver, Colorado, for a period of time shortly before the skyjacking. [REDACTED] b6 allegedly was a military trained paratrooper and a sky- b7C diver by hobby. This individual is supposed to be an b7D [REDACTED] who supposedly bragged in [REDACTED] [REDACTED] that he could accomplish a feat such as bailing out of an airline plane. Further, [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] Finally, this individual has not been seen since shortly before the date of the skyjack. The invididual providing this information insists that this information was a [REDACTED] b7D of UA, especially those associated with the UA Denver base; but that [REDACTED] airline officials squelched the rumore, fearing that it might result in bad publicity for the airline.
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164-81- Sub 2. 6452 SEARCHED SERIALIZED
MAY 21 1976
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DB Cooper-32309