TeletypeUrgent teletype SAC Seattle to Director re NORJAK: identification of Donald Sylvester Murphy and Fleming description27 April 1972page 4 of 8
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Part 109, page 314

DB Cooper-49819Serials SE 164-81

Document date 27 April 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 109 p. 314 (DB Cooper-49819), Teletype, dated 27 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3138 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-109/pages/314

People

Bill LewisSuspectDonald Sylvester MurphySuspect

Places

Bremerton, WashingtonPacific AvenueSeattle

Transcript

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SE 164-81 PAGE FOUR

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PHOTOS ARE OF SAME INDIVIDUAL. MURPHY ADVISED THAT PHOTO- GRAPH OF HIM WEARING THE WIG WAS TAKEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IN FRONT OF A WIG SHOP ON PACIFIC AVENUE, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, WHEN HE WAS IN THE COMPANY OF [REDACTED] BILL LEWIS. MURPHY STATES [REDACTED] TOOK HIS PHOTOGRAPH WITH A POLAROID CAMERA AND THAT THE WIG WAS BORROWED FROM THE WIG SHOP UNDER THE GUISE OF PURCHASING SAME. MURPHY ADVISED THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TO BE USED BY [REDACTED] BILL LEWIS TO BE SHOWN TO A FEMALE PURCHASER OF [REDACTED] AS HE UNDERSTOOD THIS FEMALE EXPECTED TO BE ROMANCED AS PART OF THE SALE. MURPHY STATES THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS NEVER SHOWN TO THIS INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE HE DECIDED AGAINST IT AND RE- QUESTED THE [REDACTED] NOT TO DO SO.

MURPHY UNDERSTOOD THIS WOMAN RECEIVED A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, EITHER FROM AN ESTATE OR A SETTLEMENT OR BOTH AND WAS INTERESTED IN INVESTING IT IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MURPHY FURTHER STATED [REDACTED] TOLD HIM THIS WOMAN [REDACTED] IN SEATTLE ON THE WATERFRONT OR [REDACTED] CLOSE BY.

[REDACTED] BILL LEWIS SPENT QUITE A WHILE DISCUSSING THIS, AND MURPHY ASKED WHO WAS GOING TO LOOK AT HIM ROMAN- TICALLY, AND THEN IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT HE COULD WEAR A WIG AND IT BECAME A SORT OF A JOKE, AND THAT IS HOW THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN.

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DB COOPER-49819