SAC Portland to Seattle and Sacramento re smoke jumper suspect Don Brennan

Document date 11 August 1972

Part 95pages 50–512 pagesDB Cooper-42448–42449

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Document: Teletype SAC Portland to Seattle and Sacramento re smoke jumper suspect Don Brennan
Id: Cooper-Part-95:050-051
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 95 pp. 50–51 (DB Cooper-42448–42449), Teletype, dated 11 Aug 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-95%3A050-051

FD-36 (Rev. 3-22-64)

FBI Date: 8/11/72

Transmit the following in ___PLAINTEXT___ (Type in plaintext or code) Via __TELETYPE__ ___URGENT___ (Priority)

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TO: SEATTLE (164-81) CAB SACRAMENTO WCH 2P

FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) NORJAK. RE: SUSPECT DON BRENNAN.

RE BUTTE TELETYPE TO SEATTLE, AUGUST SEVEN, SEVENTYTWO. REFERENCED COMMUNICATION FURNISHED FOLLOWING INFO:

[REDACTED], KALISPELL, MONTANA, AD- VISED AUGUST SEVEN, SEVENTYTWO, HE VISITED WITH A FRIEND WHO WAS A FELLOW SMOKE JUMPER DURING THE EARLY SIXTIES IN OREGON AND ALASKA. THEY DISCUSSED SOME OF THEIR FELLOW SMOKE JUMPERS AND STATED [REDACTED] WAS A FELLOW SMOKE JUMPER WHO RESEMBLED THE COMPOSITE DRAWING OF D.B. COOPER. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] COULD HAVE USED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RECORDS OF [REDACTED] SHOULD BE AT THE SMOKE JUMPERS STATION AT CAVE JUNCTION, OREGON, OR AT FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. [REDACTED] WOULD NOW BE IN [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] HAD NO FURTHER INFO AS TO THE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OF [REDACTED] BUT DOES HAVE A CLASS PICTURE SOMEWHERE IN HIS PERSONAL BELONGINGS WHICH BUTTE WILL OBTAIN.

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(1) - Portland J.JM:nlm (1)(U [guess: illegible initials] Approved: __________ Special Agent in Charge Sent __SE 3:58PM__ __4/12 PM__ M Per __[initials]__ DB Cooper-42448 *U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972 — 455-574

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PD 164-41 PAGE TWO

ON AUGUST ELEVEN, SEVENTYTWO, [REDACTED] SISKIYOU SMOKE JUMPERS BASE, CAVE JUNCTION, OREGON, ADVISED THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF [REDACTED] BEING STATIONED AT THEIR BASE. [REDACTED], SISKIYOU SMOKE JUMPERS, ADVISED [REDACTED] JUMPED OCCASIONALLY IN OREGON, BUT WAS STATIONED AT THE SMOKE JUMPERS BASE IN READING, CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS WHITE MALE AMERICAN, SIX FEET TWO TO SIX FEET THREE INCHES, SLENDER BUILD. [REDACTED] STATIONED IN ALASKA AFTER HE LEFT READING, CALIFORNIA. SACRAMENTO AT READING CALIFORNIA. REVIEW RECORDS OF SMOKE JUMPER BASE FOR IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND OF [REDACTED] AND SET OUT LEADS TO DETERMINE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS AND WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD OF NORJAK.

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Approved: ________ Special Agent in Charge Sent ________ M Per ________ ★U.S.Government Printing Office: 1972 — 455-574 DB Cooper-42449

Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81