(FD-36 file copy) Portland to Los Angeles and Seattle re suspect Lee Joseph Gilpatrick

Document date 15 December 1971

Part 93pages 3–42 pagesDB Cooper-40913–40914

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Document: Teletype (FD-36 file copy) Portland to Los Angeles and Seattle re suspect Lee Joseph Gilpatrick
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 93 pp. 3–4 (DB Cooper-40913–40914), Teletype, dated 15 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-4664 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-93%3A003-004

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FBI Date: 12/15/71

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TO: LOS ANGELES SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) 2 PAGES

NORJAK

RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO SAN DIEGO, DECEMBER ONE, SEVENTYONE.

RE: LEE JOSEPH GILPATRICK, POSSIBLE SUSPECT.

ON NOVEMBER TWENTYEIGHT, SEVENTYONE, DETECTIVE SERGEANT [REDACTED], MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, PORTLAND, OREGON, ADVISED HE RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT LEE JOSEPH GILPATRICK RESEM- BLED ARTIST'S SKETCH OF UNSUB. GILPATRICK SERVED TIME AT WASHINGTON STATE PENITENTIARY FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN NINETEEN FIFTY- EIGHT OR FIFTYNINE, AND HE WAS A SKYDIVER.

ON DECEMBER THIRTEEN, SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED], AIR TRANS- PORTATION OFFICER, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA), AIRPORT

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164-41-4664

LA 6:12pm Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Sent SE6:55 M P [illegible]

DB Cooper-40913

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PD 164-41

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TERMINAL, SEVEN THOUSAND N.E. AIRPORT WAY, PORTLAND, ADVISED

[REDACTED] WAS ISSUED A COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENSE, CERTIFICATE b6 per FAA NUMBER [REDACTED] ON JULY SIXTEEN, SIXTYFOUR, b7C per FAA AND HIS LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS [REDACTED] CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, BORN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, AND BLUE EYES.

LOS ANGELES, AT BLYTHE, CALIFORNIA. ATTEMPT TO CONTACT AND INTERVIEW GILPATRICK AT ONE ONE TWO ZERO E. BERNARD, AND DEVELOP INFORMATION CONCERNING GILPATRICK TO EITHER ELIMINATE HIM OR IDENTIFY HIM WITH UNSUB.

PENDING.

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Approved: _______________ Sent _______________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-40914

Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-4664, SE 164-81