Director to Atlanta, Seattle and Portland re Wallace/CBS and Jack Coffelt as Cooper claimant
Document date 18 May 1978
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-96:136-139 Document: Teletype Director to Atlanta, Seattle and Portland re Wallace/CBS and Jack Coffelt as Cooper claimant Id: Cooper-Part-96:136-139 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A136-139 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 pp. 136–139 (DB Cooper-43049–43052), Teletype, dated 18 May 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A136-139
VZCZCHGO..S CO AT PD SL DE RL SU.S 139 1S.. ZNR UUUUU O 19...ISZ MAY 7. FM DIRECTOR FBI 1O FBI ATLANTA IMMEDIATE FBI SEATTLE IMMEDIATE FBI PORTLAND IMMEDIATE ST
UNCLAS
NORJAK
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RE BUILOCAL TO PORTLAND MAY 17, 197[3], AND BUILOCALE 10 SEATTLE AND ATLANTA MAY 10, 1973.
FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, [RIPLE] WALLACE, OOB [guess: WENS], ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT THE DIRECTOR ON MAY 15, 1973, REGARDING CAPTIONED MATTER. ON THE SAME DATE, WALLACE WAS CONTACTED BY INSPECTOR [ ] PUBLIC AFFAIRS b6 b7C OFFICE, AND WAS ADVISED THAT WALLACE AND ONE OF HIS ASSOCIATES, NORMAN GOREN, HAD SEE INVESTIGATION THE COOPER CASE FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS. THEY HAD TALKED TO NUMEROUS PEOPLE AND HAD -|69| FILED INTERVIEWS WITH SIGNATURES AND PASSENGERS AND WORDS [illegible]
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SAC ADV'D 7/[illegible] ASAC " 7/[illegible] Rec'd 6:05, 5/18/78 C/A Himmelsbachs ADV'D 6:[illegible] Per [ ] yellow copy being rt to SAC's secy for return of SAC. Notation's made as that copy for return to # 2 [guess: rotor].
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SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED
MAY 18 1978
FBI PORTLAND
DB Cooper-43049
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164-41
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IN A POSITION TO KNOW THE BUSINESS C. COOPER'S ACTIVITIES AND TO IDENTIFY PHOTOGRAPHS OF COOPER. COFFELT, PERHAPS 10 BY WALLACE, IS BELIEVED ILL[illegible] HOSPITAL 10 [guess: ENYA] A [guess: SMILEY], WHILE WALL, DOS FEBRUARY 25, 1918, OAKLRACE, [illegible], TOI [illegible] NO. 59 [illegible] . DURING COURSE OF TARIN INVESTIGATION THAT [guess: NAVY]-[guess: REVOLVING] SUSPECT, ONE JACK COFFELT, NOW DECEASED. ACCORDING TO WALLACE, WHEN COFFELT
THAT HE, COFFELT, WAS S. S.
COOPER. [ ] WAS TOLD COFFELT'S STORY TO A FREE-LANCE WRITER BY THE NAME OF [ ] AND [guess: CUSTOMS] TALKED TO [ ] AND PRESUMABLY [ ] WALLACE SAID THAT THEIR INTERVIEW OF ONE OF THE STEWARDESSES WAS DISCLOSED THAT SHE IDENTIFIED A PICTURE OF COFFELT AS D.B. COOPER; HOWEVER, S.H. CLAIMS THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS NEVER SHOWN TO HER BY THE FBI. CBS WAS ALSO INTERVIEWED, A PASSENGER WHO SAID THE FBI DID SHOW HIM A PICTURE OF COFFELT WHICH HE IDENTIFIED AS COOPER BUT THE FBI NEVER FOLLOWED UP WITH ANY ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION.
WALLACE CLAIMS THAT OBF HAS LEARNED THAT A TEST FLIGHT PERFORMED FOR THE BUREAU DETERMINED THAT WHEN THE REAR DOOR OF THE PLANE WAS LET DOWN THE CABIN PRESSURE IN THE PLANE DROPPED.
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DB Cooper-43050
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RE DE AQ JOBS D COOPER
THIS EVENT OCCURRED DURING THE ACTUAL FLIGHT WITH COOPER. A[illegible]T THIS WAS ONE OF THE [illegible]EARE BY WHICH THE ONLY [illegible]T KILLERS IN THE APPROXIMATE AREA THAT COOPER JUMPED FROM THE PLANE. CLE[illegible] SAY[illegible]. THEY HAVE TALKED TO OFFICIALS OF THE [guess: POLICE] AIRCRAFT CORPORATION- TION AND THEY SAY THAT A DROP OF CASH PROCEDURES, SUCH AS OCCURRED, WOULD NOT BE APPARENT TO THE CREW.
JOB HAS TALKED TO SA RALPH HIMMELSBACH WHO HAS BEEN THE CASE AGENT ON THE NORJAK CASE FOR THE PORTLAND OFFICE [illegible]1.0[illegible] 1971 AND TO SAC JOHN REED OF THE SEATTLE OFFICE. WALLACE FURTHER STATED THAT WHEN COOPER[illegible] WAS IN [guess: PRICED] IN ATLANTA THE ONLY PERSON TO VISIT HIM WAS [illegible] AND IN THE ATLANTA OFFICE. IN ADDITION THEY HAVE DEVELOPED SOME INFORMATION [illegible] I [illegible] TORP[illegible]TIO. THAT COFFELT KNEW J. EDGAR HOOVER AND [guess: ELEVATION] ROBERT HUMPHREY.
USS HAS INTERVIEWED SA [guess: RALPH] HIMMELSBACH, THE CASE AGENT IN PORTLAND, AND SAC JOHN REED IN SEATTLE. WALLACE CO[illegible]TINUE THAT HIS QUESTIONS CONCERN[illegible]ING COFFELT WERE NOT A[illegible] SEPARATELY ANSWERED BY EITHER HIMMELSBACH OR REED AND IT IS HIS [guess: FEELING] THAT THE RELUCTANCE OF THE BUREAU TO TALK ABOUT COFFELT [illegible]TAIN USS TO BELIEVE THAT HE WAS EITHER AN INFORMANT OR HER ACQUAINT- ANCESHIP WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER AND ROBERT HUMPHREY PRECLUDED
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DB Cooper-43051
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ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION OF COFFELT.
WALLACE ADVISED I [guess: ADDITION] [REDACTED] HE [guess: CALLED] PUBLISHING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A [guess: BUNCH] AND THAT IS, "WHY IS THE FBI SO CERTAIN THAT JACK COFFELT IS NOT D. B. COOPER?"
LEADS:
RECEIVING OFFICES ARE TO REVIEW APPROPRIATE FILES FOR INFORMATION REGARDING QUESTIONS RAISED BY WALLACE, AND [guess: THERE]- AFTER SUTEL RESULTS TO INCLUDE DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC COMMUNICATIONS WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO [guess: THE] CONTAINING THE ANSWERS.
IN ADDITION, ATLANTA IS TO CONTACT APPROPRIATE PERSONNEL AT THE U. S. PENITENTIARY A [guess: AS] ASCERTAIN DATES ON WHICH [guess: SATPAT] COFFELT WAS INCARCERATED, ALONG WITH OTHER PERTINENT [guess: BACKGROUND] INFORMATION.
ALL OFFICES SUTEL RESULTS.
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[guess: SUBS]
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DB Cooper-43052
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Serials: PD 164-41