SA Wick to SAC Seattle re Washington State parole file on Hardesty
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SA Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle re Subject No. 39 Harold Ray Hardesty
Document date 4 March 1974
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-99:205-206 Document: Memo SA Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle re Subject No. 39 Harold Ray Hardesty Id: Cooper-Part-99:205-206 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-99%3A205-206 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 99 pp. 205–206 (DB Cooper-44699–44700), Memo, dated 4 Mar 1974 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-99%3A205-206
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.8 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 3/4/74
FROM : SA ROBERT H. WICK
SUBJECT: NORJAK Sub 39
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Reference memo of SA[REDACTED], 1/31/74.
SUBJECT NO. 39
At Olympia, Washington
On February 14, 1974, [REDACTED], Washington State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, made available the file, number 6737 concerning HAROLD RAY HARDESTY, FBI Number 109 477. Also made available was a photograph of HARDESTY taken on July 2, 1954, which is the most recent photograph available in this file.
According to the file, HARDESTY committed 19 armed robberies during the year of 1941; was the ring leader of three robbers; used a pistol in the execution of these robberies and offered as an explanation after being caught that he was obtaining money for which to buy an airplane. He was sentenced out of King County for a 9-year minimum sentence on January 30, 1942. On July 4, 1944, HARDESTY escaped from the Walla Walla Penitentiary by fire bombing a guard tower and using grappling hooks and lines to scale the walls. Subsequently he was apprehended by Federal authorities in the Detroit, Michigan area and was convicted for interstate transportation of stolen property. For this he was committed to the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth. At the expiration of this term he was returned to the Walla Walla Penitentiary on March 3, 1950. He was then tried and found guilty of escape and sentenced to 10 years. He was paroled on September 28, 1954 to the custody of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. HARDESTY, 14301 East Burnside, Portland, Oregon. He was handled by the Portland Office of the Probation and Parole Division in the State of Oregon. He was still interested in flying at that time; he found a job in a cheap hotel and was still living with his parents at the time of his conditional discharge from
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supervision on October 21, 1955. In 1958 a background investigation was conducted concerning HARDESTY to determine if he was eligible for the restoration of his civil rights. At that time he was a member of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific Merchant Marines. He said since he had been released from supervision, he had been in Tallahassee, Florida for about six months, returning to Portland and working as a free lance photographer. He then joined the Sailors' Union of the Pacific as an ordinary seaman. He married a LORETTA AILEEN PAWSEY, age 23 on April 30, 1958, having met her in his own parent's home in Portland. The most recent photograph was taken prior to his last parole, but shows him as virtually bald, having a round face, wearing glasses, 5'8", 180 pounds, hazel eyes and brown hair. He has a scar on his left wrist outter and his race is white. He was born April 4, 1918, Freewater, Oregon. He is a graduate of Roosevelt High School, Seattle, Washington and at one time [redacted]
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Serials: SE 164-81