LetterFrom Royal-Globe Insurance Companies to FBI Seattle re Cooper tips and ransom recovery9 September 1976page 1 of 2
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Part 108, page 15

DB Cooper-48968Serials SE 164-81-4136

Document date 9 September 1976

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Royal-Globe Insurance COMPANIES ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY • LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY • ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY • GLOBE INDEMNITY COMPANY • ROYAL GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY LONDON AND LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SAFEGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY • STANDARD MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY • THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY NEWARK INSURANCE COMPANY • BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY • THAMES & MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY AMERICAN AND FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANY

150 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10038

TEL: (212) 732-8400 September 9, 1976

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[REDACTED] Federal Bureau of Investigation 915 Second Ave. Seattle, Washington 98174

Dear Sir:

Re: Hijacking Northwest Airlines Date of Loss: 11/24/71 Claim#: [REDACTED]

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Following our September 1, 1976 telephone conversation re above I would like to bring you up-to-date on all the recent tips we received due to the courtesy and cooperation of the Northwest Orient Airlines:

1. As you have been previously informed we have been negotiating with [REDACTED] of Kirkland, Washington a salvaging operation on Lake Merwin, State of Washington. - We are preparing a contract with this indenendent entrepreneur. We will advise you when [REDACTED] will be ready to start and keep you posted on the developments.

2. We called attorney [REDACTED] of Naples, Florida on 8/23/76 in connection with his letter of 8/11/76 addressed to [REDACTED] of the Northwest Orient Airlines, copy attached. This is what attorney [REDACTED] told me: He knows a waitress, presently employed in Naples, formerly living in Miami, Florida. The woman alleges that she knew Cooper under his real name, not disclosed during our telephone conversation with attorney [REDACTED] Cooper had a detective agency in Miami and was using an alias Cooper on occasion. He was a paratrooper(?) and bragged that he would undertake some sort of a stunt or hijacking to g[et hold of]

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164-81-4136 SE[ARCHED]......FILED...... [illegible] 14 1976 FBI-SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-48968

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