MemoTo file re five discrepancies in source's account of the NORJAK hijacking24 April 19721 page
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Part 108, page 384

DB Cooper-49436Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8970

Document date 24 April 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 108 p. 384 (DB Cooper-49436), Memo, dated 24 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-8970 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-108/pages/384

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FILE (164-81) 4/24/72

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

RE: [REDACTED] - SOURCE

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On 4/24/72 I talked to SA [REDACTED] at the Bureau. I told him that I had [REDACTED] in this matter very thoroughly. There were a number of obvious discrepancies.

First, [REDACTED] reflected the first move of the hijacker was made after they were aloft 10 minutes. I told him this was not accurate since it was made while the plane was still on the ground.

Second, the flight was Northwest Flight 405, not 305, as [REDACTED] indicated.

Third, the passengers were allowed to alight from the front steps, not as [REDACTED] says, the back.

Fourth, the money was taken in a sedan, not a small bus, as [REDACTED] says.

Fifth, the wind was a west wind blowing east, not an east wind as [REDACTED] says.

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I told him that the photograph of the man in the street was positively taken in Bremerton. Further, we had located a witness who said about 4 or 5 weeks ago 3 men came into a wig shop, got a wig, put it on a bald-headed man, took a photo- graph, and she identifies the picture as being of that man.

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Further, [REDACTED] had told us on viewing this picture of the man in the street that she believed he was identical with the man at her residence on 4/21/72, and [REDACTED] had seen him at the residence on 4/22/72 and he w[as] there again this morning, to be bitten by her Weimaraner dog.

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/64-8/-[guess: 8970] I told him that we had been unable to locate [REDACTED] but that we were still continuing our efforts to do so and we were expanding our efforts to identify the man in the wig in the street.

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JEM:eon (3)

SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED APR 24 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB COOPER-49436

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