Acting Director to SAC Seattle summarizing Bureau review of NORJAK hijacking
Document date 27 June 1972
Report a problem
Email this to [email protected]
Id: Cooper-Part-75:199-199
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-75:199-199 Document: Memo Acting Director to SAC Seattle summarizing Bureau review of NORJAK hijacking Id: Cooper-Part-75:199-199 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-75%3A199-199 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 75 p. 199 (DB Cooper-32385), Memo, dated 27 Jun 1972, serial SE 164-81-3634 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-75%3A199-199
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO: SAC, Seattle (164-81) DATE: June 27, 1972 FROM: Acting Director, FBI (164-2111)
SUBJECT: NORJAK
---
This case has been reviewed at the Bureau and the following observations are being made in an effort to assist your office in your investigative endeavors.
The unsub, as Dan Cooper, at 2 p.m., PST, 11/24/71, purchased a one-way coach ticket at the Portland National Airport, Portland, Oregon, for travel from Portland to Seattle, Washington, on Northwest Orient Airlines Flight number 305, which was a Boeing 727 aircraft. Unsub paid for this flight with a twenty dollar bill and had no luggage. He occupied seat number 18E on the aircraft and prior to the time the aircraft taxied on the runway, he purchased a bourbon and 7-up with a twenty dollar bill from Stewardess [REDACTED]. The aircraft left Portland at 2:53 p.m., PST, however, after it taxied toward the runway for takeoff, unsub turned and handed Stewardess [REDACTED] an envelope containing a note written in black felt-tip pen and which was on plain white unlined paper and written in neat, legible handwriting. This note informed Stewardess [REDACTED] that he had a bomb and instructed her to sit next to him.
Unsub then dictated to her his demands at the conclusion of which he remarked, "No fuss." Stewardess [REDACTED] showed Stewardess [REDACTED] the demand notes and then went to the cockpit where she displayed them to the captain of the aircraft. The unsub retrieved these notes prior to the time the aircraft landed at Seattle, Washington. She thereafter remained in the cockpit where she prepared thirteen pages of notes concerning the hijacking and in which she described unsub as in his fifties. She later said he appeared to be of Latin descent. It will be noted that one
---
2 - Portland (164-51)
SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] JUN 20 1972 FBI -- SEATTLE
---
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
---
Sub X [guess: Route] Copy to SAC [guess: 5] ASAC R/N 7/31/72 Sub X SCdB [illegible]
---
DB Cooper-32385
---
164-81-3634
Serials: 164-2111, SE 164-51, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3634