Little Rock to Director and field offices re suspect Joe Henry Johnston
Document date 26 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-90:067-068 Document: Teletype Little Rock to Director and field offices re suspect Joe Henry Johnston Id: Cooper-Part-90:067-068 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A067-068 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 90 pp. 67–68 (DB Cooper-40056, DB Cooper-40059), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-90%3A067-068
NR054 WA PLAIN 7:22AM 11-26-71 DCW AM 11-26-71 NR S01 LR PLAIN 5:55AM 11-26-71 URGENT MHR TO DIRECTOR CINCINNATI LAS VEGAS MEMPHIS PORTLAND (;3-/// VIA WASHINGTON) SEATTLE (VIA WASHINGTON) ! FROM LITTLE ROCK (164-NEW)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED TO SA EUGENE F. GLENN AT [REDACTED], ARKANSAS EARLY MORNING HOURS OF NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX, INSTANT: [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT JOE JOHNSTON, FORMER RESIDENT OF WEST MEMPHIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A SUSPECT FOR THE CAPTIONED HIJACKING. HE STATED THAT JOHNSTON, AN EX-CONVICT, WHO RESIDED IN WEST MEMPHIS FOR APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS FROM FEBRUARY TO AUGUST, SEVENTYONE, EXPRESSED INTEREST IN HIJACKINGS THAT WAS DISCUSSED ON TV NEWS, TOOK PARACHUTE JUMP LESSONS DURING HIS STAY IN WEST MEMPHIS FROM AN UNKNOWN INSTRUCTOR IN MEMPHIS, TENN., AND PURCHASED AERIAL FLIGHT FLAT MAPS OF THE FOLLOWING REGIONS IN THE WEST PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES: THE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON AREA, THE PORTLAND, OREGON AREA, AND THE RENO, END PAGE ONE
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SEARCHED SERIALIZED NOV 26 1971 FBI — PORTLAND
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DB Cooper-40056 \64- 4(-8
PAGE FOUR LR 164-NEW
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LAS VEGAS DIVISION WILL CONSIDER JOE HENRY JOHNSTON SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED MATTER.
MEMPHIS DIVISION CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION REGARDING ANY SCHOOLS OR PERSON TEACHING PARACHUTING.
PORTLAND DIVISION WILL CONSIDER JOE HENRY JOHNSTON SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED MATTER.
SEATTLE WILL PROVIDE DESCRIPTIVE DATA FOR UNSUB IN THIS MATTER.
LITTLE ROCK DIVISION AT WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS WILL CONDUCT NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTIGATION AT FORMER RESIDENCE OF SUSPECT JOHNSTON; AND WILL OBTAIN ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION RE SUSPECT FROM PAROLE OFFICER, CRITTENDEN COUNTY.
AT LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS WILL CHECK STATE PAROLE OFFICE RECORDS RE SUSPECT JOHNSTON.
LITTLE ROCK WILL PROMPTLY FURNISH ALL RECEIVING OFFICES FURTHER DATA DEVELOPED.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END DRCD OK SRC PJ CLR
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DB Cooper-40059
Serials: 164-NEW, LR 164-NEW