Salt Lake City to Director, Las Vegas, Portland and Seattle re McCoy parachute jumps and travel
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Salt Lake City to Director re McCoy clip-on ties, parachuting history and military flight checks
Document date 19 April 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 94 pp. 180–182 (DB Cooper-42239–42241), Teletype, dated 19 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-94%3A180-182
NR002 SU PLAIN 5:31 PM URGENT 4/19/72 3P
TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) LAS VEGAS (164-60) PORTLAND (164-41) SEATTLE (164-81) FROM SALT LAKE CITY (164-24)
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NORJAK. RE: RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR. - SUSPECT.
RE SALT LAKE CITY TELEPHONE CALLS TO PORTLAND AND LAS VEGAS APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST.
[REDACTED], SALT LAKE CITY, ADVISED APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST MC COY LIKED TO WEAR CONSERVATIVE SOLID COLORED CLIP-ON TIES SIMILAR TO PHOTOGRAPHS OF TIES IN NORJAK. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MC COY WORE A CLIP-ON TIE AND REMOVED HIS TIE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WAS SHOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF TIE CLASP RECOVERED IN NORJAK CASE AND STATED CLASP LOOKS FAMILIAR BUT HE CANNOT SAY FOR SURE IF MC COY HAD ONE EXACTLY LIKE IT. HE SAID IT IS TYPE OF TIE CLASP MC COY WOULD WEAR. [REDACTED] WHO WAS INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY HAD SIMILAR COMMENTS TO [REDACTED] CONCERNING TIE AND TIE CLASP. END PAGE ONE
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164-4/-968 SEARCHED ___INDEXED SERIALIZED ___FILED APR 1 9 1972 FBI—PORTLAND
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DB Cooper-42239
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[REDACTED] STATED MC COY MADE HIS FIRST FREE FALL PARACHUTE JUMP IN OCTOBER SEVENTYONE WHILE ON A FLIGHT [REDACTED]. MC COY HAS MADE NUMEROUS MILITARY TYPE JUMPS AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW- ING HIS FIRST FREE FALL JUMP HE BEGAN PRACTICING JUMPS WITH THE ALTA PARACHUTE CLUB IN SALT LAKE CITY.
[REDACTED] WAS QUESTIONED CONCERNING POSSIBILITY OF MC COY AND OTHER NATIONAL GUARD MEN OBTAINING MILITARY FLIGHTS. [REDACTED] STATED USUALLY ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN FLIGHT IS TO PRESENT NATIONAL GUARD IDENTIFICATION CARD.
FLIGHT OPERATIONS, HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UTAH, HAS NO RECORD OF MILITARY HOPS BY MC COY IN NOVEMBER SEVENTYONE OR APRIL LAST. RECORD LOCATED OF FLIGHT BE[REDACTED] [REDACTED], MC COY AND [REDACTED] TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON JANUARY TWENTYFOUR LAST.
CHECK OF SERVICE STATIONS, CEDAR CITY, UTAH, TODAY INDICATED DATES OF CHARGE TICKETS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE AND TWENTYSIX LAST BY MC COY ARE PROBABLY ACCURATE DATES, HOWEVER BOTH SERVICE STATION OPERATORS STATE THEY HAVE MADE ERRORS IN PAST ON DATES ON CHARGE TICKETS AND COULD NOT BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN AS TO DATES. END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-42240
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LAS VEGAS AND PORTLAND WILL CHECK MILITARY AIR FIELDS YOUR AREAS TO DETERMINE ANY FLIGHTS BY MC COY NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, TWENTYFOUR OR TWENTYFIVE LAST.
EFFORTS CONTINUING SALT LAKE CITY TO INTERVIEW CLOSE ASSOCIATES OF MC COY TO EXHIBIT PHOTOGRAPHS OF TIE AND TIE CLASP AND TO DEVELOP FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON MC COY.
UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END.
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LJQ FBI PORTLAND CLR TU
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DB Cooper-42241
Serials: 164-2111, LV 164-60, PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SU 164-24