Portland to Director and SACs re suspect Cronk
Document date 7 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-91:233-234 Document: Teletype Portland to Director and SACs re suspect Cronk Id: Cooper-Part-91:233-234 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A233-234 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 91 pp. 233–234 (DB Cooper-40620–40621), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A233-234
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, BALTIMORE SAC, MINNEAPOLIS SAC, SEATTLE (164-181)
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-44) (P)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA-HIJACKING. OO: SEATTLE
ON DECEMBER SEVEN SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED] ALBANY, OREGON, ADVISED ON DECEMBER THREE SEVENTYONE [REDACTED] INDIVIDUAL XX BY NAME OF HARRY E. CRONK WAS BROUGHT TO THE ALBANY GENERAL HOSPITAL BY UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL. CRONK WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH THREE BROKEN RIBS AND COMPRESSED FRACTURE OF THE SPINE. HE ALSO HAD A HEALING WOUND ON HIS FOREHEAD. ACCORDING TO [REDACTED], INJURIES TO CRONK WERE SEVERAL DAYS OLD AND WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A SEVERE FALL. UPON ADMITTANCE TO HOSPITAL CRONK WAS IN PAIN AND STATED HE HAD NO MEDICATION. HOSPITAL PERSONNEL LATER FOUND MED- ICATION IN BELONGINGS OF CRONK. INDIVIDUAL THAT ACCOMPANIED CRONK TO HOSPITAL LEFT AND RETURNED NEXT DAY BUT HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE DECEMBER FOUR SEVENTYONE.
[REDACTED] QUERIED CRONK HAS TO HOW HE RECEIVED INJURIES BUT CRONK WOULD NOT TELL HIM. [REDACTED] SAID CRONK TOLD HIM HE WAS A TRUCK DRIVER FOR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT, SOUTH EZ HIGHWAY FIFTY TWO, ROCHESTER,
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RL[?]3, 1/6 Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge DIR-[to?] 2c/p BA-1055/p Sent MP-10 30/p M Per [illegible] [illegible] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-419-135 SE-1155/p DB Cooper-40620
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PAGE TWO PD 164-181 DOB: OCTOBER ONE TWENTYSIX MINNESOTA. CRONK DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, FIVE ELEVEN, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, LIGHT HAIR DASH GREYING AND CUT SHORT; LOW HOARSE VOICE, MEDIUM COMPLEXION; ADDRESS POST OFFICE BOX SEVENTY FOUR, KYKOFF, [handwritten: Discharged from US Marine Corp in 1946] MINNESOTA; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FIVE ZERO THREE DASH TWO FOUR DASH THREE FIVE SIX NINE. [REDACTED] ADVISED HE HAS SEEN COMPOSITE OF HI- JACKER, BUT IT WAS NOT VERY SIMILAR TO CRONK. WHEN CRONK LEFT HOSPITAL ON DECEMBER SEVEN SEVENTYONE HE MADE COMMENT HE WAS GOING TO VISIT HIS PARENTS IN BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON.
BUREAU REQUESTED TO AUTHORIZED BALTIMORE DIVISION TO CHECK APPROPRIATE SOURCES CONCERNING CRONK'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
BALTIMORE WILL UPON RECEIPT OF BUREAU AUTHORITY CONDUCTEX APPROPRIATE CHECK REGARDING SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FIVE ZERO THREE DASH TWO FOUR DASH [XXXX] THREE FIVE SIX NINE.
MINNEAPOLIS WILL VERIFY ADDRESS AND EMPLOYMENT OF CRONK AND CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF CRONK POSSIBLE SUSPECT THIS MATTER.
[handwritten: Identifying] SEATTLE CONSIDER [strikethrough: ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY] PARENTS OF CRONK IN BELLINGHAM IN EFFORT TO LOCATE HIM.
PORTLAND WILL REINTERVIEW [REDACTED] AND OBTAIN COMPLETE MEDICAL RECORDS FOR ANY ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON CRONK.
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Approved: _______________ Sent ___________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-40621
Serials: 164-181, 164-44, PD 164-181