TeletypeNew York to Director re suspect Douglas Cooper background and leads3 December 1971page 2 of 5
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Part 101, page 13

DB Cooper-45435

Document date 3 December 1971

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 101 p. 13 (DB Cooper-45435), Teletype, dated 3 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-496 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-101/pages/13

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ASCERTAINED DOUGLAS COOPER IS A WHITE MALE, BORN APRIL TWENTYFOURTH, TWENTYFIVE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, AND AS OF JANUARY SEVEN, FIFTYNINE, HAD RENEWED HIS BRITISH PASSPORT NUMBER ONE ONE SEVEN ONE NINE TWO. HE HAD DESCRIBED HIMSELF ON EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION IN SIXTYEIGHT AS FIVE FEET, ELEVEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, BROWN EYES. COOPER INDICATED HE HAD ATTENDED AUCHTERARDER HIGH SCHOOL, SCOTLAND, GRADUATING IN NINETEEN FORTY, AND WAS IN THE ROYAL NAVY, FROM FORTYTHREE TO FORTYSEVEN AS A RADAR OPERATOR. COOPER WAS EMPLOYED BY BROOKS BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE THREE FOUR SIX MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, FROM AUGUST SIXTYEIGHT TO JANUARY, SIXTYNINE, WHEN HE TERMINATED HIS EMPLOYMENT. THREE INDIVIDUALS AT BROOKS BROTHERS FELT THAT ARTIST [guess: SKETCH] [illegible: SKETXP] OF [guess: UNSUB] [illegible: UNFIB] CLOSELY RESEMBLED DOUGLAS COOPER. COOPER WAS INJURED IN AN AUTOMOBI[guess: LE]VE ACCIDENT AND RECEIVED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ON AN OUT OF STATE CLAIM FROM DOVEHOER[illegible: 1/..'1;96 59 )8-12 523,561815] , SEVENTYONE, WITH PAYMENTS BEING SENT TO

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