Chicago to Director re informant naming James Clifford as suspect
This copy: Part 92 pp. 3–5Also filed at Part 102 pp. 258–260 (primary)
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Chicago to Director and field offices re Cooper suspect James Clifford
Document date 14 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-92:003-005
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-92:003-005 Document: Teletype Chicago to Director and field offices re Cooper suspect James Clifford Id: Cooper-Part-92:003-005 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-92%3A003-005 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 92 pp. 3–5 (DB Cooper-40868–40869), Teletype, dated 14 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-92%3A003-005
NR008 CG PLAIN 933PM NITEL 12-14-71 RWR TO DIRECTOR PITTSBURGH MINNEAPOLIS DENVER PORTLAND SEATTLE FROM CHICAGO (164-297)
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JAMES CLIFFORD No PO [guess: LEADS]
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NORJAK.
JAMES CLIFFORD - SUSPECT. INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED] ADVISED INDIVIDUAL GIVING NAME [REDACTED] APPEARED [REDACTED], DECEMBER THIRTEEN, LAST, ADVISING ONE JAMES CLIFFORD, FORTYFIVE TO FIFTY YEARS OLD, RESPONSIBLE FOR TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR RANSOM AND HIJACKING NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES PLANE LAST MONTH OVER OREGON. [REDACTED] INDICATED [REDACTED]
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CLIFFORD REPORTEDLY PAROLED ON THEFT CHARGES FROM [REDACTED] END PAGE ONE
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v-4/1-446 INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] 1971
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DB Cooper-40868
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PENNSYLVANIA STATE PRISON, PITTSBURGH, ABOUT NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT. [REDACTED] CLAIMS IF CLIFFORD'S PAROLE OR PRISON MUG SHOT SHOWN TO NORHWEST AIRLINES STEWARDESS IDENTIFICATION COULD BE MADE. CLIFFORD ALLEGEDLY HAS [REDACTED] [REDACTED], CLIFFORD IS CLAIMED BY [REDACTED] PRESENTLY UNDERGOING PLASTIC SURGERY.
[REDACTED] RELATED CLIFFORD REPORTEDLY RECEIVED MILITARY TRAINING IN EXPLOSIVES AND JUMP TRAINING. ALSO, CLIFFORD [REDACTED] PLAN TO HIJACK A PLANE FOR RANSOM AND INDICATED ELECTRICAL BEEPER WOULD BE UTILIZED FOR LOCATING HIM BY FELLOW COMRADE WHO WOULD BE DRIVING AMBULANCE ONCE SKYJUMP WAS COMPLEED. CLIFFORD ALSO DESCRIBED PLAN IN INDUCING GROUP PROMINENT BANKERS TO MOTEL ON PRETEXT OF FINANCING CONSTRUCTION OF SHOPPING CENTER THEN THREATENING TO BOMB MOTEL IF NOT PAID LARGE SUM OF MONEY. FURTHER, TO PROVE SINCERITY OF THREAT AN ABANDONED BUILDING IN WHATEVER CITY PLAN TO BE EXECUTED WOULD THEN BE BLOWN UP.
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DB Cooper-40869
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[REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] STATED TELEPHONIC CONTACT NORTHWEST AIRLINES SECURITY OFFICE, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, CONFIRMED
[REDACTED] [REDACTED] STATED SHOULD [REDACTED] CONTACT AGAIN, HE WILL [REDACTED] AND IMMEDIATELY ADVISE CHICAGO FBI.
PITTSBURGH, THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA STATE PRISON AUTHORITIES, DETERMINE IF JAMES CLIFFORD EVER INCARCERATED, IF SO, SECURE ALL BACKGROUND AND PHOTOGRAPH TO BE EXHIBITED TO APPROPRIATE AIRLINE PERSONNEL FOR POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION.
MINNEAPOLIS AT MINNEAPOLIS. WILL CONTACT SECURITY OFFICIALS, NORTHWEST AIRLINES, DETERMINE ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION RE CONTACT BY [REDACTED] END
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Serials: CG 164-297