Handwritten noteHandwritten citizen tip letter naming a suspect as Dan Cooper, with mailing envelope26 September 1976page 1 of 3
handwritten_noteLegibility: medium

Part 10, page 89

DB Cooper-1309

Document date 26 September 1976

Open in FBI Vault (Part 10, page 89 of the PDF)

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 10 p. 89 (DB Cooper-1309), Handwritten note, dated 26 Sep 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-10/pages/89

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

[top right, printed] DB Cooper-1309

[top right, handwritten] September 26, 1976

Dear Sir, I believe that I know who Dan Cooper is.

[I am] enclosing a picture of [REDACTED] him. Compare it if the [REDACTED] [guess: resemblances] you [guess: have], as you can see they [the] look alike. Compared to the [guess: FBI] [guess: similarities], the man [REDACTED] the name but shortly after [REDACTED] found out [the/this] real name was [REDACTED]. This [guess: name] may have been false [guess: alias] but [REDACTED] also the men [REDACTED] were [REDACTED] and [guess: stories] [guess: how] he [REDACTED] during the [REDACTED] sunglasses and wore [guess: thick] dark [guess: framed] [guess: prescriptions] as the kind that fit over regular glasses. He was about 6 ft. 1 in and was a little heavy [REDACTED] but he could of [guess: lost] a little [guess: weight]. [guess: He] was [guess: always] trying to [guess: think] of ways to get a [guess: large] amount of money without [guess: working]. When [text continues off page or is cut off]