Nitel SAC Seattle to Director and Minneapolis re witness evaluations of suspect photographs
Document date 22 April 1972
Also filed at: Part 110 pp. 660–661
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-76:194-195 Document: Nitel SAC Seattle to Director and Minneapolis re witness evaluations of suspect photographs Id: Cooper-Part-76:194-195 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-76%3A194-195 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 76 pp. 194–195 (DB Cooper-33229–33230), Teletype, dated 22 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-28655 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-76%3A194-195
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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
NORJAK.
RE: UNSUB; [REDACTED] - SOURCE
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PHOTO OF UNIDENTIFIED MALE IN BLACK AND WHITE JOCKEY STYLE CAP, DISPLAYED AT SEATTLE TO WITNESSES [REDACTED] [REDACTED], WHO DID NOT PICK THE PHOTO AS RESEMBLING HIJACKER.
PHOTO WAS SHOWN TO [REDACTED] WHO SAID THE PART OF FACE HE COULD SEE HAD STRIKING SIMILARITY TO HIJACKER AND THAT HE WOULD NOT RULE OUT THIS INDIVIDUAL ALTHOUGH HE APPEARED OLDER THAN HIJACKER.
WITNESS [REDACTED] SEATTLE, PICKED THIS PHOTO AS VERY MUCH RESEMBLING HIJACKER, BUT STATED HE COULD NOT MAKE A POSITIVE DETERMINATION WITHOUT SEEING ADDITIONAL PHOTOS.
PHOTO FORWARDED BY BUREAU SHOWING INDIVIDUAL STANDING ON STREET, BARE HEADED, WEARING SUNGLASSES SHOWN TO SAME WITNESSES.
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PRB:klb [Sub. N.K.] 164-81-28655
Approved: _______________ Sent _____________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-33229
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PAGE TWO (SE 164-81)
[REDACTED] SAYS THE SECOND PICTURE ALSO DOES NOT RE- SEMBLE THE HIJACKER AS THE MOUTH IS "TOO BROAD" IN BOTH.
[REDACTED] SAID THAT BOTH THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PICTURES
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[REDACTED] ALTHOUGH ALL DIFFERENT POSTURES, ARE OF THE SAME INDIVIDUAL. AFTER VIEWING THE PICTURE THIS EVENING, HE DEFINITELY ELIMINATES HIM AS THE HIJACKER.
[REDACTED] SAID THAT BOTH PICTURES DO NOT LOOK LIKE THE SAME MAN, AND THE SECOND PICTURE DOES NOT RESEMBLE HIJACKER,
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AS MUCH AS THE FIRST PICTURE. [REDACTED] SAID HE FEELS THE MAN IN THE FIRST PICTURE IS LIKELY TO BE IDENTICAL WITH THE HIJACKER BUT COULD NOT MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION WITHOUT BETTER QUALITY PHOTOS. INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION TO IDENTIFY PERSON OR PERSONS IN PHOTOGRAPH CONTINUING.
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Approved: _______________ Special Agent in Charge Sent _______________M Per _______________ DB Cooper-33230 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135
Serials: 164-2111, MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-28655