Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle and Sacramento re suspect Don Brennan

Document date 11 August 1972

Part 99pages 81–822 pagesDB Cooper-44506–44507

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Document: Urgent teletype Portland to Seattle and Sacramento re suspect Don Brennan
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 99 pp. 81–82 (DB Cooper-44506–44507), Teletype, dated 11 Aug 1972, serial SE 164-81-3769 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-99%3A081-082

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NR001 PD PLAIN 3:55 PM URGENT 8-11-72 GEO TO: SEATTLE (164-81) SACRAMENTO FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 2P

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 DON BRENNER WAS A FELLOW SMOKE JUMPER WHO RESEMBLED THE COMPOSITE DRAWING OF D.B. COOPER. [REDACTED] STATED [REDACTED] BRENNER COULD HAVE USED D.B. (DON BRENNER) [REDACTED]. RECORDS OF BRENNER SHOULD BE AT THE SMOKE JUMPERS STATION AT CAVE JUNCTION, OREGON, OR AT FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. BRENNER WOULD NOW BE IN HIS LATE THIRTIES. [REDACTED] HAD NO FURTHER INFO AS TO THE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OF BRENNER, BUT DOES HAVE A CLASS PICTURE SOMEWHERE IN HIS PERSONAL Sub 31 BELONGINGS WHICH BUTTE WILL OBTAIN. END PAGE ONE

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SEARCHED......INDEXED SERIALIZED...FILED... 164-81-3769 AUG 1 1 1972 FBI-SEATTLE DB COOPER-44506

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PD 164-41 PAGE TWO

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ON AUGUST ELEVEN, SEVENTYTWO, [REDACTED], SISKIYOU SMOKE JUMPERS BASE, CAVE JUNCTION, OREGON, ADVISED THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF DON BRENNER BEING STATIONED AT THEIR BASE. [REDACTED], SISKIYOU SMOKE JUMPERS, ADVISED DON BRENNAN JUMPED OCCASIONALLY IN OREGON, BUT WAS STATIONED AT THE SMOKE JUMPERS BASE IN READING, CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED BRENNAN AS WHITE MALE AMERICAN, SIX FEET TWO TO SIX FEET THREE INCHES, SLENDER BUILD. BRENNAN STATIONED IN ALASKA AFTER HE LEFT READING, CALIFORNIA.

SACRAMENTO AT READING CALIFORNIA. REVIEW RECORDS OF SMOKE JUMPER BASE FOR IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND OF BRENNAN AND SET OUT LEADS TO DETERMINE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS AND WHEREABOUTS DURING PERTINENT PERIOD OF NORJAK. END

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DB COOPER-44507

Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-3769