Denver to Seattle and Salt Lake City re suspect resembling hijacker sketch

Document date 27 January 1972

Part 93pages 173–1753 pagesDB Cooper-41554–41556

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 93 pp. 173–175 (DB Cooper-41554–41556), Teletype, dated 27 Jan 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-93%3A173-175

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Date: January 27, 1972

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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO: SEATTLE (164-81) SALT LAKE CITY

FROM: DENVER (164-98)(3P) [handwritten: N > I'D L [illegible]]

NORJAK SERIAL 7748 RE PORTLAND TELETYPE TO DENVER DATED JANUARY TWENTY FIVE LAST.

ON JANUARY TWENTY SIX INSTANT DATE, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], WYOMING, ADVISED HE SAW ARTIST SKETCH OF HIJACKER IN SALT LAKE CITY "TRIBUNE". SKETCH GOOD LIKENESS OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED] / SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, IN FIFTY FOUR. HE STATED [REDACTED] UNTIL FIFTY FOUR AND THEN JOINED U. S. NAVY WHERE HE WAS AN [REDACTED]. HE ALSO RECEIVED PARACHUTE JUMP TRAINING IN THE NAVY. IN APPROXIMATELY FIFTY SEVEN, [REDACTED] WENT TO WORK FOR [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, (END PAGE ONE)

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(1) - Portland (RM)(164-41)(AM) (2) - Denver JEB/sg (1)

Approved: _______________ Sent __________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1969 O - 346-090 (11)

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DB Cooper-41554

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DN 164-98 PAGE TWO

WHERE HE WORKED AS [REDACTED]. AFTER THAT, [REDACTED] LOST CONTACT WITH [REDACTED] UNTIL APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO WHEN HE SAW [REDACTED] IN A BAR IN SALT LAKE CITY. AT THAT TIME, [REDACTED] SAID HE HAD CHANGED HIS NAME TO [REDACTED] AND WAS ENGAGED IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] GAVE THE IMPRESSION HE HAD PILOT'S LICENSE. [REDACTED] HAS HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH [REDACTED]. HE DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE, [REDACTED], FIVE FEET NINE INCHES, ONE SIX FIVE POUNDS, SANDY BROWN HAIR, HIGH FOREHEAD, SHARP NOSE, SQUEAKY VOICE, POSSIBLY HAZEL EYES. HE STATED [REDACTED] IN SALT LAKE CITY, [REDACTED] (LNU.) HE COULD FURNISH NO ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND. FD THREE ZERO TWOS FOLLOW. PORTLAND FURNISHED COPY OF INSTANT COMMUNICATION BY AIRMAIL. (END PAGE TWO)

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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1969 O - 346-090 (11) DB Cooper-41555

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THIS INDIVIDUAL IS BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXTORTION OF $200,000 ON NORTHEAST AIRLINES BY THREATENING THE CREW OF THE AIRLINES WITH A PACKAGE WHICH HE STATED CONTAINED A BOMB. HE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. SALT LAKE CITY AT [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] ATTEMPT TO GAIN ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND RE [REDACTED] (END TELE) P

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Approved: _______________ Sent ___________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1969 O - 346-090 (11)

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DB Cooper-41556

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Serials: DN 164-98, PD 164-41, SE 164-81