SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re NORJAK subject, name spelling changed, with Hillstrom Shipbuilding inquiry and leads

This copy: Part 96 pp. 50–51Also filed at Part 117 pp. 119–120 (primary)

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SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect, subtitle spelling correction

Document date 21 January 1974

Part 96pages 50–512 pagesDB Cooper-42959, DB Cooper-42961

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Part of: SAC Portland to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect at Port Orford, Oregon · 21 January 1974 · Part 33 pp. 339–342

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 pp. 50–51 (DB Cooper-42959, DB Cooper-42961), Airtel, dated 21 Jan 1974, serial PD 164-41-1354 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A050-051

1/21/74

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AIRTEL AIRMAIL

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK (OO:SEATTLE)

Re: "CHANGED" b6 [REDACTED] b7C

Subtitle changed to show correct spelling of suspect's name. Subtitle formerly carried as [REDACTED].

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Re Seattle airtel to Portland, 12/14/73.

The following investigation was conducted by SA LeROY R. ELLIOTT:

AT PORT ORFORD, OREGON

[REDACTED] on 1/16/74 b6 advised that [REDACTED] b7C in Port Orford in September, 1972, driving an old pickup with Nevada license plates. They immediately purchased a house [REDACTED] and paid the entire sum in cash, [REDACTED] advised [REDACTED] that they had been traveling throughout the United States for the previous year just looking for a place to settle down. This was the first house they had ever purchased.

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Searched ______ S[erial]i[zed] _ [illegible] Indexed _ [illegible] Filed _ [illegible]

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3 - Seattle 2 - Portland LRE:deb (5)

DB Cooper-42959

164-41-1354

PD 164-41

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AT [REDACTED] OREGON

[REDACTED] on 1/18/74 advised that he has no personnel file for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] without references or any background information. He was an [REDACTED] and worker but suddenly disappeared without notice in late July, 1973. His Social Security number was [REDACTED], but he never furnished a date of birth or a middle name or initial.

At the time he disappeared he had about [REDACTED] in wages coming to him, but owed the company about [REDACTED] in charges made against the company for his personal benefit.

Subsequently, in [REDACTED] received a long-distance call from [REDACTED] believed to be in New York, who explained that [REDACTED] in New York had passed away and they had to rush to New York to handle the estate. [REDACTED] to apply the wages due him to the [REDACTED] and that he would put a check in the mail for the remaining [REDACTED] failed to get [REDACTED] address, and the check was never received. They have heard nothing further from him.

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On 1/18/74, there was no record of [REDACTED] at the Port Orford Police Department, the Curry County Sheriff's Office, the Coos Bay Police Department, or the Coos County Sheriff's Office.

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LEADS

PORTLAND

AT PORTLAND, OREGON. Through records of [REDACTED] [REDACTED], ascertain address of [REDACTED] and conduct appropriate investigation to process him as a suspect in NORJAK.

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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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b6 b7C

Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-1354, SE 164-81