Chicago to Director and Seattle re interview of suspect Gary Samdal
Document date 2 December 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-98:131-135 Document: Teletype Chicago to Director and Seattle re interview of suspect Gary Samdal Id: Cooper-Part-98:131-135 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A131-135 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 98 pp. 131–135 (DB Cooper-44187–44191), Teletype, dated 2 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-98%3A131-135
NR016 CG PLAIN 901PM URGENT 12-2-71 RWR TO DIRECTOR SEATTLE (164-81) FROM CHICAGO (164-297)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWO FOUR, LAST, CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION, OO: SEATTLE.
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RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO CHICAGO DECEMBER ONE, LAST, AND CHICAGO TELEPHONE CALL TO SEATTLE DECEMBER TWO, INSTANT. GARY E.J. SAMDAL, APARTMENT SIXTEEN, FOUR EIGHT FIVE ZERO CREEKVIEW, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, EMPLOYEE OF FAA INTERVIEWED THIS DATE. SAMDAL ADVISED HE LEFT O'HARE AIRPORT, CHICAGO, ON NOVEMBER TWO THREE, LAST, ON A FAMILIARIZATION FLIGHT, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT SEVEN THREE FIVE, AT TWO FIFTEEN P.M. AND ARRIVED PORTLAND APPROXIMATELY FOUR P.M. SAME DATE.
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[REDACTED], WASHINGTON, MET THEM AT THE AIRPORT AND THEY DROVE TO [REDACTED]. END PAGE ONE
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DEC / 2 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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DB COOPER-44187
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[guess: sub] 10 164-81-[illegible]
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SAMDAL ADVISED THAT HE [REDACTED] [REDACTED] THAT EVENING AND ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING, NOVEMBER TWO FOUR, HE, [REDACTED] WENT SHOPPING AT TEN A.M. WHERE THEY PURCHASED [REDACTED] AT BOB'S SURPLUS STORE. HE ADVISED THAT THEY RETURNED HOME FOR LUNCH WHERE THEY REMAINED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HE [REDACTED] WERE UP MOST OF THE NIGHT. SAMDAL SAID HE CONTACTED A FRIEND, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], BUT DOES NOT RECALL IF IT WAS THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER TWO THREE OR NOVEMBER TWO FOUR. HE SAID THE FOLLOWING MORNING HE STAYED [REDACTED] AT HOME WATCHING SOME OF THE PRO FOOTBALL GAME AND THAT HIS FRIEND [REDACTED] ARRIVED AT [REDACTED] FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER AROUND NOON.
SAMDAL ADVISED THAT DURING HIS TRIP FROM O'HARE TO PORTLAND HE SPENT THE ENTIRE TIME [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND THAT HE DOES NOT RECALL HAVING DISCUSSED WITH [REDACTED] THE EFFECT OF LOWERING THE WHEELS ON THE PLANE; WHETHER THE REAR LADDER COULD BE OPENED IN FLIGHT, OR
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THE POSSIBILITY OF PARACHUTING FROM THE PLANE. HE SAID THAT HE VAGUELY RECALLED HAVING DISCUSSED [REDACTED] THE MINIMUM SPEED OF THE COMMERCIAL JET AIRCRAFT. AS AN AIRCRAFT CONTROLLER AT ROCKFORD, HE HANDLES MOSTLY LIGHT AIRCRAFT AND OCCASIONALLY HAS LARGE JETS ON TRAINING MISSIONS OR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS LANDING AT ROCKFORD. HE SAID HE HAS OFTEN BEEN APPREHENSIVE ABOUT THE JET AIRCRAFT OVERTAKING A SMALLER PLANE WHEN BOTH ARE IN A LANDING PATTERN AND WOULD HAVE BEEN INTERESTED FROM THIS STANDPOINT ONLY. HE SAID THAT HE RECALLED DISCUSSING [REDACTED] HIS BEING A SKYDIVER AND THAT HE HAD MENTIONED THAT HE HAD AT ONE TIME PARA- CHUTED FROM A MILITARY JET. HE SAID [REDACTED] ENTHUSIAST AND HE HAD DISCUSSED [REDACTED]
SAMDAL ADVISED THAT HE COMPLETED JUMP SCHOOL IN THE AIR FORCE, BUT THAT HE HAS NOT JUMPED SINCE JULY OR AUGUST, SIXTY NINE, AND THAT HE COULD FURNISH NO INFORMATION OF POSSIBLE VALUE TO THIS INVESTIGATION.
SAMDAL DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MALE AMERICAN, DATE OF BIRTH JUNE TWO SIX, THIRTY NINE, AT JAMESTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, HEIGHT FIVE FEET ELEVEN AND THREE FOURTHS INCHES, WEIGHT ONE EIGHT-FIVE POUNDS.
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HAIR MEDIUM BROWN, RECEDING WITH HEAVY SIDEBURNS TO BOTTOM OF EAR, EYES GREENE, COMPLEXION RUDDY, SCARS - ONE HALF INCH NOTICEABLE SCAR ON LEFT SIDE OF NOSE, MUSCULAR BUILD. MILITARY SERVICE U.S. AIR FORCE, SN ONE NINE SEVEN ONE SEVEN FIVE TWO THREE, SSAN FIVE FIVE THREE-THREE EIGHT-ZERO ONE ONE FIVE, [REDACTED] EMPLOYMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION SINCE MAY, SEVENTY. PRIOR EMPLOYMENT SECURITY GUARD LANG TEMPCO VAUGHT, GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS. ADMITTED ARREST RECORD NONE.
SAMDAL SMOKES MARLBORO CIGARETTES AND AS OF FOUR TWENTY FIVE PM (CST) INSTANT SAMDAL ON DUTY AT ROCKFORD AIRPORT.
SEATTLE AT [REDACTED] WASHINGTON. WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED] AND VERIFY SAMDAL'S ALIBI.
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DB COOPER-44190
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WILL INTERVIEW [REDACTED], OBTAIN DESCRIPTION, AND BACKGROUND INFO AND DETERMINE HIS WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST.
SEATTLE WILL REINTERVIEW SOURCE OF INFORMATION RELATIVE TO CONVERSATION WITH SAMDAL [REDACTED].
FD THREE ZERO TWO FOLLOWS.
UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.
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DCA.....FBI SE CLR
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DB COOPER-44191
Serials: CG 164-297, SE 164-81