Part 110
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FBI FOI/PA deleted page information sheet indicating 2 pages (88 and 89) were withheld under FOIA exemptions b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforcement personal privacy) in case FOI/PA# 1:16-cv-0…
Page 2FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case. Section header indicating administrative portion of the report. Administrative explanation of how the alias "D.B. Cooper" came into public use. The FB…
Page 3FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation, Seattle division. Status update as of February 4, 1972: 325 suspects under investigation, 220 eliminated. Ransom money lists widely…
Page 4FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. The Seattle Division states it will prepare a comprehensive ground search plan for the newly defined D.B. Cooper drop area in southwestern Was…
Page 5FD-204 cover page header for FBI report by SA Charles E. Farrell, Seattle office, dated February 16, 1972, regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking case (file 164-81 / 164-2111). Synopsis of the D.B. Coo…
Page 6FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Continuation of a report describing the hijacking investigation. No usable fingerprints found upon arrival at Reno. A black t…
Page 7FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case, Seattle field office. Table of contents for FBI report on the D.B. Cooper hijacking (case SE 164-81). Lists sections covering the hijack (pp.…
Page 8FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Table of contents for an FBI case file on D.B. Cooper (SE 164-81), listing sections covering FAA tapes and recordings from Seattle/Oakland/Re…
Page 9FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Section title/divider heading for the 'The Hijack' section of the FBI report. Internal report page number (5) and FBI Vault…
Page 10FBI Seattle Division case number header. Initial report of the hijacking of NWA Flight #305. An NWA employee at Sea-Tac telephonically advised the FBI Seattle ASAC that a man on board the flight dem…
Page 11FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Seattle field office file 164-81). A stewardess's account of serving the hijacker in seat 18-E on a Boeing 727. The hijacker ordered Bourbon a…
Page 12FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. FD-302 witness interview describing the D.B. Cooper hijacking sequence: a female flight attendant received an envelope from the ma…
Page 13FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Continuation of FBI interview summary describing events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking aboard a Northwest Airlines flight. A flight attendan…
Page 14FBI case file number header for the D.B. Cooper case. Describes events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking: the pilot and NWA officials wanted no interference upon landing at Sea-Tac; the crew requeste…
Page 15FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Describes the delivery of two chest parachutes from Issaquah, WA; the landing of the hijacked NWA plane at Sea-Tac at 5:46 PM on an…
Page 16FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation, Seattle field office. Continuation of witness interview describing events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking at the airport. A female crew membe…
Page 17FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Continuation of an FBI interview or report describing the hijacker's flight instructions relayed through a stewardess. The hijacker…
Page 18FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation (Seattle field office). The hijacker dismisses a concern, saying it can be handled over the radio once airborne, and urges departure.…
Page 19FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Continuation of an FBI interview account describing events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. A female crew member pleaded with the hijacker to…
Page 20FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Personnel conducted a search of the aft section of the hijacked aircraft for the bomb after landing, checking lavatories, oxygen bus…
Page 21Standard FD-302 header with form revision date and transcription date. FD-302 interview of a redacted witness (Northwest Airlines employee at Sea-Tac) by SA Louis M. Harris, Jr. on November 24, 1971…
Page 22Continuation page header showing page 2 of an FBI report under Seattle case number 164-81, typist initials LMH:jlb. Continuation of an interview or FD-302 report. After fueling was completed, the ai…
Page 23Standard FD-302 interview form header with date November 26, 1971. FD-302 interview of a redacted Northwest Airlines employee conducted on November 24, 1971 at Seattle-Tacoma Airport by SA Louis M.…
Page 24FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case (Seattle field office). Table of contents or index listing witness interviews organized by category: crew members (stewardesses, second office…
Page 25Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with date November 26, 1971. An NWA stewardess who worked Flight 305 on November 24, 1971 provided information to the FBI. Her name, address, and phone numb…
Page 26Page header showing page 2 of FBI report under case number SE 164-81. A stewardess recounts the initial moments of the hijacking on the aircraft. After seatbelts were fastened, she sat in the rear s…
Page 27Page continuation header showing page 3 of the FD-302 sub-document, with Seattle field office case number SE 164-81. A witness (name redacted) describes the hijacker showing her the contents of a br…
Page 28Page number and FBI Seattle field office case file number. Continuation of an FBI interview with a stewardess (name redacted) aboard the hijacked aircraft. She recounts: the hijacker saying they wou…
Page 29FBI case file header indicating section 5 of case SE 164-81. A stewardess describes the hijacker's childish behavior, his offer of tip money (change from a $20 bill used for a drink), and her refusa…
Page 30Case file number header for FBI Seattle field office file 164-81. Physical description of the hijacking subject: black straight hair parted on left, olive complexion, wearing a black business suit,…
Page 31Handwritten personal account of the D.B. Cooper hijacking on Nov. 24, 1971 (Flight #305, Portland to Seattle). Describes a man with a bomb demanding $200,000. References sitting at an altitude or sea…
Page 32Handwritten copy of the hijack note passed by D.B. Cooper to a flight attendant (likely Florence Schaffner, addressed as 'Miss S'). States he has a bomb in his briefcase and wants her to sit by him.…
Page 33Suspect physical description notes: black hair, dark raincoat, in his 50s, black suit, approximately 175 lbs, 6 feet tall. Seated in row 18, middle seat, very back of the aircraft. Chronological eve…
Page 34Chronological handwritten log entries from approximately 2325–2345 hours documenting communications during the hijacking. Notes include Cooper's desire to keep passengers unaware, instructions for pa…
Page 35Note indicating someone (name redacted) was talking, telling her (likely the stewardess) that the money was secured and available for the hijacker by 5 (possibly 5 o'clock). Notes describing Cooper'…
Page 36Handwritten notes apparently taken in real time during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Left panel describes the hijacker calling the stewardess, a device with a large battery and wires, the hijacker getti…
Page 37Real-time handwritten notes from the D.B. Cooper hijacking on 11/24/71. The hijacker is demanding the parachutes be delivered quickly, expressing impatience. Notes reference 2 back packs, the money,…
Page 38Handwritten notes apparently related to the D.B. Cooper hijacking negotiation or operational plan. Instructions reference: no one in the aisle, money at a control point, going out in the field with m…
Page 39FOIA exemption codes indicating redactions for personal privacy (b6) and law enforcement personal privacy (b7C). Handwritten operational notes apparently taken during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incid…
Page 40Handwritten note apparently related to instructions about a parachute (chute). The writer appears to have crossed out a first line and corrected 'chest' to 'chute'. The note reads as instructions to…
Page 41Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with date of report 11/30/71. FD-302 interview of a female flight attendant (hostess) on Northwest Airlines Flight 305. She describes events of November 24,…
Page 42FBI case file number for the Las Vegas field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Witness describes the appearance of what was claimed to be dynamite, noting a reddish rusty color but expressing unfami…
Page 43FBI case file number for the Las Vegas field office file on the D.B. Cooper hijacking. The hijacker reiterated instructions before landing at Seattle-Tacoma Airport: all requested items (money, para…
Page 44Case or file reference number, likely an FBI Las Vegas field office file number. A flight attendant (name redacted) describes events after the aircraft landed for refueling during the hijacking. She…
Page 45FBI case file number for this report page. Continuation of an FBI interview report describing events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. A female crew member (name redacted) brought parachutes to the…
Page 46FBI case file number for the Las Vegas field office, file 164-60. A witness (name redacted) describes the hijacker's behavior during refueling. He was annoyed at the time required and displayed exte…
Page 47FBI case file number for Las Vegas field office, file 164-60. A witness recalls the hijacker smoking Raleigh filter tips, discussing parachutes coming from McChord Air Force Base, noting it was abou…
Page 48FBI case file number for Las Vegas field office, file 164-60. A female witness recalls that the hijacker secured the money in something other than the white bank-type bag he had been furnished. She…
Page 49Case or file reference number for this FBI report page. A female crew member complied with a request by going to first class, closing the curtain, proceeding to the cockpit, and locking the cockpit…
Page 50FBI FD-302 interview of a redacted Northwest Airlines stewardess who was on Flight 305 on November 24, 1971. She describes the flight route from Washington D.C. to Minneapolis, then to Great Falls, M…
Page 51Case file number and page indicator for the FBI document. Continuation of a witness (likely a flight attendant) FD-302 interview describing the hijacking event. She describes the hijacker's bomb dev…
Page 52Case file number and page continuation marker. Continuation of a witness (stewardess) interview describing interactions with the D.B. Cooper hijacker aboard the Northwest Airlines flight. Topics inc…
Page 53Case file number and page designation. The hijacker discusses proximity of Mc Cord to Tacoma. Cockpit requests permission to begin descent before chutes arrive; hijacker agrees provided there is no…
Page 54FBI case file number header for this page. Continuation of a witness statement (likely a flight attendant) describing D.B. Cooper's actions on the hijacked aircraft. He cut open a parachute and used…
Page 55Document identifier and page number for this FBI report section. The hijacker tells a crew member to skip the flight plan filing and get airborne, saying it can be done over the radio. Detailed acc…
Page 56FBI case file number PH 164-133, page 7 of a witness statement or interview report. A female crew member describes events after the aircraft landed. The pilot and she entered the cabin, found no one…
Page 57FBI case file number header and page designation for Portland (PH) field office file 164-133, with a page or section marker '8'. Description of clothing worn by the subject: a dark brown suit possib…
Page 58Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with revision date and transcription date. A stewardess aboard Northwest Airlines Flight #305 describes the hijacking on November 24, 1971. The hijacker boa…
Page 59Page header with page continuation number and FBI case file number. Continuation of an FD-302 interview describing the hijacker's demands in order: money first, passengers off, parachutes and crew m…
Page 60Page number and FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper case. A redacted witness (likely a flight attendant, given the pronoun 'she') observed during the hijacking that one of…
Page 61Standard FD-302 form header with date December 1, 1971. FD-302 interview of a redacted individual at Reno Airport on the late evening of November 24 and early morning of November 25, 1971. The inter…
Page 62FBI Las Vegas field office case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. A redacted individual stated they never had direct contact with or observation of the hijacker and therefore could not…
Page 63Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date 12/1/71. FD-302 interview of a redacted individual (likely a crew member) at Reno Airport on the late evening of November 24 and early morning of…
Page 64Case file number for the Las Vegas FBI field office, file 164-60. Continuation of an FBI interview (likely FD-302) describing crew actions during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. The crew contacted the co…
Page 65FBI case file number header for the Las Vegas field office file 164-60. Numbered list of the hijacker's demands/conditions for the flight, including destination Mexico, low altitude, cabin lights of…
Page 66FBI case file number for Las Vegas field office, file 164-60. The hijacker stated he would take the bomb or disarm it upon departure. The flight followed the 'Victor 23' low-altitude route from Seat…
Page 67FBI field office file number for the Las Vegas division, case 164-60. A redacted witness describes that the stipulations for the aircraft reception at Reno, Nevada were based on the hijacker's earli…
Page 68FBI form revision identifier at top of page. FD-302 interview of Captain William A. Scott, captain of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (the hijacked D.B. Cooper flight). Interviewed at Reno Airport on…
Page 69FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Section divider title indicating the following pages cover interviews or information from Northwest Airlines employees based a…
Page 70Standard FD-302 header with form revision date and document date of December 3, 1971. An employee at Northwest Orient Airlines ticket counter describes selling a one-way coach ticket to Seattle to a…
Page 71Standard FBI FD-302 interview report form header. FD-302 interview of a redacted Northwest Orient Airlines employee at Portland International Airport. The witness was on duty for Flight 305 on Novem…
Page 72FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Section divider heading indicating the beginning of a 'Passengers' section of the report. Original page number (68) and Bate…
Page 73Standard FD-302 interview form header with date of November 29, 1971. FD-302 interview of a redacted male passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971. He boarded at Portland, Ore…
Page 74Page 2 of an FBI interview report, Seattle field office file 164-81, typed by CNG:kdl. Continuation of a witness interview describing events aboard the hijacked aircraft. The witness describes a del…
Page 75Page number and FBI case file identifiers for the Seattle field office case SE 164-81, typist initials CNG:kdl. Physical description form fields for an unknown male subject (D.B. Cooper). Subject wo…
Page 76FBI FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date of November 27, 1971. Redacted witness identification block showing a Seattle resident with office telephone number MA 4-5224. Person…
Page 77Continuation of an FBI interview (likely FD-302) describing a 'cowboy' passenger who hassled the hijacker during the flight. The hijacker initially enjoyed the situation but became irritated and told…
Page 78FBI form number and revision date header. Document header identifying this as an FBI FD-302 interview transcription dated November 26, 1971. FD-302 interview of passenger Cord Harms Zrim Spreckel,…
Page 79FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (Seattle field office). Continuation of witness SPRECKEL's statement describing a package approximately 2 ft x 1 ft x 1.5 ft in dimensions. The stewarde…
Page 80Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and document date. An FBI FD-302 interview of a redacted witness who was aboard the hijacked aircraft. The witness boarded in Portland, O…
Page 81Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date of transcription. A female passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 305 describes boarding in Portland, Oregon and sitting on the right side of the…
Page 82Continuation page header showing this is page 2 of an FBI report with Seattle field office case number SE 164-81 and dictation/typist initials RLF:jlb. A redacted female witness stated she was quite…
Page 83Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. A female passenger on Northwest flight 305 on November 24, 1971, observed the hijacker leave his seat after landi…
Page 84FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Section divider heading indicating the following pages contain interviews conducted with passengers from the hijacke…
Page 85FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. FBI report describing NWA Flight #305 details on 11/24/71. The flight originated in Washington, D.C. with multiple s…
Page 86Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with form revision date and transcription date. An employee of Northwest Airlines in Portland, Oregon provided by telephone the passenger list for Northwest…
Page 87Standard FD-302 header with form revision date and transcription date. FBI Special Agents boarded a Western Tours bus carrying deplaned passengers from Flight 305 at Concourse B2 of Seattle-Tacoma T…
Page 88FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Introductory paragraph noting that certain passengers observed the hijacker and their interview results appear in th…
Page 89Title header for a section listing logs maintained by Northwest Orient Airlines at two locations. List of four categories of logs (A–D) maintained by Northwest Orient Airlines at Seattle-Tacoma Inte…
Page 90Standard FBI FD-302 form header with form revision date and transcription date. FBI FD-302 documenting how a portion of the Northwest Airlines Ground Radio Teletype Log from the night of the hijacki…
Page 91Teletype at 3:07 PM PST reporting Flight 305 departed PDX at 2253/2258, estimated arrival SEA at 2336. Teletype at 3:13 PM PST relaying that a passenger on Flight 305 is hijacking en route. Stewarde…
Page 92Flight 305 approaching LOFALL intersection on 307 degree heading from SEA. Aircraft will hold until money and parachutes are available. Requests fuel truck on standby and ground vehicle to deplane pa…
Page 93Message at 3:58 PM PST on 11/24. Flight 305 reports it did not advise ATC of the hijacking problem and requests Seattle ARTCC (SEADD) advise ATC. Reports they are being treated OK. Sent from Minneapo…
Page 94Radio/teletype communications log during D.B. Cooper hijacking. Messages relay the hijacker's written demands: money to be brought to the aircraft, the stewardess will come down to meet the individua…
Page 95Communication at 4:39 PM PST on 11/25 relaying instruction to begin fueling Flight 305 as soon as the aircraft has come to a stop. Communication at 4:40 PM PST on 11/25. MSP Flight Operations instru…
Page 96Communication log entry at 4:53 PM PST on 11/25 reporting that someone is waiting for parachutes from McChord AFB, that money is available, and as soon as chutes arrive they will be ready to go to th…
Page 97Communication relaying that state patrol is bringing parachutes to airport. Flight 305 acknowledges. As soon as they stop, hijacker wants fuel started and stewardess to go out to pick up the money, t…
Page 98Teletype exchange at 5:16 PM PST on 11/25. Flight 305 requests maps and charts be available at the aircraft after landing. Seattle (SEADD) confirms A and B international charts will be available. Min…
Page 99Seattle dispatch reports having 2 back packs and the money; requests landing to come back for two chutes when they arrive and let passengers off. Flight 305 acknowledges, signed WILCHK. Flight 305 n…
Page 100Flight 305 is about 5 minutes out on final approach. SEADD confirms everything is ready for arrival. MSP Flight Operations asks for status update. SEADD responds that the flight is on the ground, fu…
Page 101Communication regarding range limitations. Subject advised he will accept their word. Discussion about whether aircraft can make Phoenix under those conditions. MSP flight operations rechecking but q…
Page 102Radio/teletype exchange between MSP (Minneapolis ground) and Flight 305. MSP flight ops reports no control problem when extended (flaps down), only slight pitchup but controllable. Aircraft has carri…
Page 103Flight 305 reports difficulty with fuel trucks; second truck pulling away with only 26,000 lbs loaded, 24,000 lbs fuel on board so far. Uncertain whether the fueling problem is with the aircraft valv…
Page 104Radio/teletype communication regarding flight 305 fuel stop planning at Reno. Discussion of range limitations, fuel levels (~500 lbs remaining to be pumped), second stop at Yuma Arizona. Fuel truck h…
Page 105Flight 305 reports being 14 miles out of SEA on V23. The hijacker is trying to get the rear door open with a stewardess present. He cannot get the stairs down. An aft stair light is now on. Flight 3…
Page 106Flight 305 reports going to 15 degrees and beginning climb. MSP acknowledges. Timestamp for preceding communication block. MSP Flight Ops instructs Flight 305 to land as soon as possible once the h…
Page 107Flight 305 reports total air temperature minus 7 degrees and no Mach meter indication. MSP Flight Operations responds that the Mach meter won't indicate until they get higher altitude. Flight 305 ack…
Page 108Seattle ARTCC confirms plates (likely license plates or nameplates) were provided; Flight 305 acknowledges receipt. MSP Flight Operations relays that Reno weather looks better over time: 2500 ft ove…
Page 109FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Introduction to a communications log prepared by a redacted individual at Northwest Airlines, documenting transmissions from a red…
Page 110Standard FD-302 form header with form revision date and transcription date. An FD-302 interview summary describing how Northwest Orient Airlines employees at Seattle-Tacoma Airport provided handwrit…
Page 111Contemporaneous handwritten notes taken during the D.B. Cooper hijacking of Northwest Orient Flight 305. Notes record real-time communications and demands: altitude 6000 feet, suspect described as no…
Page 112Chronological handwritten log of real-time communications during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Entries span from 0024Z (4:24 PM PST) to 0101Z (5:01 PM PST). Covers negotiations about honoring hijacker r…
Page 113Handwritten chronological log of radio communications and operational notes during the D.B. Cooper hijacking event on NWA Flight 305. Timestamps are in Zulu/UTC (with PST annotations at 0107=5:07 PM…
Page 114Handwritten chronological communication log recording events from 0137 (5:37 PM PST) to 0150 (5:50 PM PST). Documents the landing sequence of Flight 305, including clearance to land, instructions to…
Page 115Chronological handwritten log of events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking, covering approximately 0155–0207 hours. Entries document passenger deplaning, parachute retrieval by the stewardess, fueling…
Page 116Handwritten chronological log of events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking, timestamped in UTC with PST conversions. Entries from 0211–0249 UTC (6:11–6:49 PM PST) document: a question about the hijacke…
Page 117Handwritten chronological log of communications and events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking on the evening of November 24, 1971. Covers the period from 0250Z (6:50 PM PST) to 0338Z (7:38 PM PST). Doc…
Page 118Chronological handwritten flight log entries from 0340Z to 0356Z (approximately 7:40–7:56 PM PST) documenting real-time observations during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Entries record aircraft paramete…
Page 119Handwritten flight log covering timestamps 0358Z (7:58 PM PST) through 0430Z (8:30 PM PST) on the night of the D.B. Cooper hijacking, November 24, 1971. Entries record observations about the hijacker…
Page 120Handwritten chronological communications log documenting radio exchanges (via ARINC) between MSP ground, SFO ARINC, and the hijacked Northwest Orient aircraft during the D.B. Cooper incident. Entries…
Page 121Notation about icing conditions on the aircraft windows and wings, with fuel on board (FOB) at 27,500 lbs and fuel flow (FF) at 4000 pounds per hour. Chronological handwritten flight log entries fro…
Page 122Handwritten chronological log of radio communications during the D.B. Cooper hijacking flight, covering 0602–0631 UTC (10:02–10:31 PM PST). Entries document negotiations regarding safe delivery of th…
Page 123Chronological handwritten communication log from 0635 to 0707 PST documenting attempts to make contact with Flight 305 (Northwest Orient) during descent and landing approach. Entries note repeated fa…
Page 124Continuation of a prior entry noting they are waiting for fuel trucks and awaiting further instructions from headquarters/base. At 0710 Zulu (11:10 PM PST), source 'Bos' reports clearing the aircraf…
Page 125FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation, Seattle field office. Introduction to a seven-page log prepared in Seattle documenting the times at which individuals and agencies w…
Page 126Handwritten chronological event log documenting communications, notifications and movements during the D.B. Cooper hijacking response. Times run from approximately 2310 through 0110 (likely the night…
Page 127At 0130Z (5:30 PM PST), Tower advises that Washington D.C. requests that if the hijacker jumps, they want the pilot to turn landing lights on and squawk emergency for 30 seconds. Message delivered by…
Page 128Handwritten chronological communications log from the evening of the D.B. Cooper hijacking (Nov 24, 1971). Timestamps run from 0307 (7:07 PM PST) to 0356 (7:56 PM PST). Entries track FAA coordination…
Page 129Chronological flight operations log with timestamps in Zulu (UTC) and PST conversions. Entries record stewardess reports, aircraft configuration (airspeed, fuel flow, flaps), communications attempts…
Page 130Log entry at 0445Z (8:45 PM PST) noting a call on frequency 130.6 to a redacted party. At 0450Z, aircraft is over Eugene (EUG) at 4000ft, airspeed TAS 170, clear conditions down to 15 degrees, with 3…
Page 131FOIA exemption codes indicating redactions for personal privacy (b6) and law enforcement personal privacy (b7C). Handwritten operational flight log documenting the D.B. Cooper hijacking flight (Nort…
Page 132FBI case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation (Seattle field office file 164-81). Introduction to a two-page log prepared at Seattle by a redacted individual from Northwest Airlines. T…
Page 133FOIA exemption codes indicating redacted personal privacy information under exemptions b6 and b7C. Handwritten chronological flight log for the D.B. Cooper hijacking flight (Northwest Orient Flight…
Page 134Dark photographic or smudged strip across top of page, partially obscuring what may be continuation text from a prior page. Continuation of a chronological handwritten log of events related to the D…
Page 135FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper case. Introduction to the Northwest Airlines log of events for Flight #305 on November 24, 1971. The log was maintained by a redacted NW…
Page 136FBI form number and revision date printed in upper left. FD-302 interview report dated December 3, 1971. A redacted individual from Northwest Airlines, Inc. furnished information, but the entire sub…
Page 137Introductory cover page for a communications log related to the hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on November 24/25, 1971. States that the information was taken from manually recorded notes…
Page 138Header/title bar at top of document identifying this as a report on the hijacking of MSA Flight 305. Introduction and first log entry at 1658 CST (2:58 PM PST). Flight departed PDX. Hijacker made de…
Page 139Chronological log beginning at 1930 hours documenting the hijacker (HJ) and crew interactions at SEA airport. Covers money/parachute confirmation, vehicle positioning, fuel truck delays, HJ's demands…
Page 140Page number indicator at top right corner of the page. NWA Chief Performance Engineer called to help calculate range. Boeing Company contacted regarding flight characteristics with air-stairs extend…
Page 141Status of cabin lighting and curtain; crew unable to confirm if hijacker still aboard. At 2222Z, NWA lost comm on 131.9; phone-patch via SEA ARINC established. Flight 23 DME south of PDX at 10,000 f…
Page 142Chronological log of events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking flight, covering the period from 2342 (9:42 PM PST) through 0128. Documents flight communications, fuel status, descent, landing at RNO (R…
Page 143A partially redacted passage noting that during a conference call, someone learned information about an individual from Oregon whose identity and background are redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptio…
Page 144FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Header identifying the section as covering FAA tapes and recordings from three locations: Seattle, Oakland (Fremont), and Reno. Describes how…
Page 145Standard FD-302 form header with date of transcription and FOIA privacy exemption markings indicating information redacted per FAA (b6 and b7C). An unnamed individual provided five reels of magnetic…
Page 146Reel identifier label for the recording transcript. Header identifying the communication transcript as Seattle Approach Control with NWA Flight 305 on November 24, 1971. Transcribed radio communica…
Page 147Radio communication transcript between pilot (P.) of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 and Seattle Approach controller (C.). The pilot requests holding instructions to avoid other traffic, citing a probl…
Page 148Continued radio transcript between the pilot (P) of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 and air traffic control (C). The pilot reports holding at 6,000 feet and discusses low-altitude interception causing…
Page 149Continuation of a radio communication transcript between the pilot (P.) of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 and a controller/approach (C.). The pilot reports rain, requests to hold altitude at about 6,0…
Page 150Continuation of a transcript (likely cockpit voice recorder or in-flight communications re-recording). The speaker notes minor turbulence ('little bumps once in awhile'), then states that Reel #1 of…
Page 151Page or section number marker at top left of document. Introduction to the transcription of communications with Northwest Airlines Flight 305, covering approximately 0011 to 0105 Greenwich time on N…
Page 152Header indicating the time period covered by this transcript page. Certification preamble for the transcribed ATC communications with NWA Flight 305, covering 0105Z to 0159Z on November 24, 1971. Na…
Page 153Continuation (page 2) of a radio communication transcript between a pilot (P:) of Northwest 305 and an air traffic controller (C:). The controller provides ILS approach instructions to land on runway…
Page 154Page 3 of a transcript of radio communications between a pilot (P) and controller (C) regarding Northwest 305. The controller provides traffic advisories, heading instructions (130), and approach cle…
Page 155Page number 4 of the original sub-document. Transcript of recorded radio communications between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (the D.B. Cooper hijacked aircraft) and Seattle-Tacoma Tower on frequenc…
Page 156Section or page numbering marker at top-left of page. Transcript of recorded radio communications between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (the D.B. Cooper hijacking flight) and Seattle-Tacoma Tower gr…
Page 157Page number within the transcript section, indicating this is page 6 of the communication transcript. Transcript of radio communications between the pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B.…
Page 158Page number 7 of the transcript document Continuation of a radio communication transcript between ground control (GC), pilot (P), captain (C), and possibly other parties during the D.B. Cooper hijac…
Page 159Continuation of a transcribed conversation between ground control (GC) and an unidentified party (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. They discuss deplaning passengers behind an automobile, deliveri…
Page 160Transcript of radio communications during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. The pilot (P:) communicates with ground control (GC:) and a person named Al about securing the bottom of the aircraft sta…
Page 161Page number 10 of the transcript section Transcript of ground-to-air and ground control communications during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. Speakers labeled P (Pilot), GC (Ground Control), and…
Page 162Continuation of a radio communications transcript. Speaker 11 instructs that passengers be directed to move back about 200 yards onto the common taxiway due to apprehension concerns. An unidentified…
Page 163Header indicating the time period covered by this transcript section. Introductory certification statement for re-recording Reel #4, a transcribed copy of communications with Northwest Airlines Flig…
Page 164Radio communication transcript between ground control (GC) and pilot (P) of Flight 305 during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Ground control instructs the pilot to squawk emergency code 7700 for 30 second…
Page 165Continued radio transcript between ground control (GC) and pilot (P) of the hijacked aircraft (callsign 305). Discussion covers taxiway positioning, runway clearance for jets, identification of vehic…
Page 166Appears to be a continuation page number or section marker at top left. Transcript of radio communications between Ground Control (GC) and the Pilot (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. GC asks for…
Page 167Transcript of radio communications between (P), likely the pilot or cockpit crew, and (GC), likely ground control, during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. They discuss the stewardess confirming she saw red…
Page 168Page 6 of a radio communication transcript between pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking at Seattle-Tacoma airport. Discussions cover fuel truck logistics near the Northw…
Page 169Page 7 of a radio communication transcript between ground control (GC) and a pilot or other party (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident at an airport. Communications coordinate the evacuation…
Page 170Transcript of radio communications between pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking event at the airport. Discussion covers: directing the fuel truck/gas tank to the aircraf…
Page 171Continuation of radio communications transcript between ground control (GC) and pilot/other parties (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident at the airport. Ground control coordinates passenger…
Page 172Continuation of ground control radio transcript (page 10 of the transcript). Communications involve coordinating bus transport of passengers off the runway, confirming the runway is clear and can be…
Page 173Transcript of radio communications between ground control (GC) and pilot (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident involving Northwest flight 305. Ground control discusses truck positioning, runw…
Page 174Radio communication transcript between pilot (P) of Northwest Flight 305 and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. Ground control reports the airport is closed with planes ho…
Page 175Radio communication transcript between ground control (GC) and an unidentified party (P), likely a pilot or FBI coordinator, discussing vehicle and fuel truck movements on airport taxiways during the…
Page 176Page 14 of a radio communications transcript between ground control (GC) and a pilot (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident at Seattle-Tacoma airport. The exchange covers fuel truck logistics,…
Page 177Internal transcript page number Radio communication transcript between ground control (GC) and pilot (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Discusses 23,000 gallons of fuel on board, confirming that…
Page 178Page 16 of a transcript of radio communications between the pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. The pilot reports two of three stewardesses have left the aircraft but…
Page 179Page 17 of a transcript of ground control (GC) radio communications during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. Discusses TINA bringing items on board in cardboard boxes with first class, and extensiv…
Page 180Transcript of radio communications between ground control (GC) and the pilot (P) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. They discuss fueling the aircraft, whether a flight attendant ('stew') can be releas…
Page 181Original document page number Radio transcript between pilot (P) and ground control (GC) personnel during aircraft refueling operations. Discusses fuel truck logistics: 26,000 pounds loaded so far (…
Page 182Page or sequence number at top of transcript page. Continued radio communications transcript between ground control (GC) and the pilot (P) of aircraft 305 regarding fueling operations. The first fue…
Page 183Page or section number marker. End-of-reel notation indicating that re-recording reel #4 concludes at approximately 0259 Greenwich Mean Time. Original document page number. FBI Vault Bates-style d…
Page 184Header indicating the time period covered by this transcript page. Certification statement for re-recording Reel #5, a transcribed copy of communications with Northwest Airlines Flight 305 at Seattl…
Page 185FOIA exemption markings indicating information redacted per FAA under exemptions b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforcement personal privacy). Transcript of radio communications between ground c…
Page 186Transcript of radio communication between a pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. They discuss the hijacker's demands: he only negotiates via the stewardess, wants the a…
Page 187Page number of the internal transcript section. Continued transcript of radio communications between the pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. Discussion cover…
Page 188Transcript of radio communications between the pilot (P) of Northwest Flight 305 and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Discussions cover: requesting removal of airstairs from the…
Page 189Page number of the original source document. Continuation of a radio communication transcript between a pilot (P) and ground control (GC) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. They discuss picking a fli…
Page 190FOIA exemption markings indicating information redacted per FAA under b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforcement privacy) exemptions. Transcript of radio communications between Ground Control (G…
Page 191Continuation of radio communication transcript between ground control (GC) and the pilot (P) of Northwest Flight 305 during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. GC clears the flight to Sacramento at 10,000 fee…
Page 192Continued radio transcript between the pilot (P) of Northwest 305 and ground control (GC). GC advises on altimeter settings and notes that other aircraft will be trailing behind flight 305. GC clears…
Page 193Transcript of radio communications between pilot (P) and ground control (GC) regarding Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (the D.B. Cooper hijacking flight). The communications cover clearance from config…
Page 194Final portion of a transcript of ground control (GC) radio communications. The exchange references aircraft touching down and directs 'Alpha 3' to proceed to runway one six right after vehicles cross…
Page 195Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date of January 5, 1972. An FAA official in Auburn, Washington provided tape recording transcriptions of transmissions between the Au…
Page 196Document header identifying the originating facility. Cover page of a transcription of air-ground communications from Seattle ARTCC pertaining to the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident on Northwest Airl…
Page 197Radio communications transcript between Seattle Radar (SEA R2) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW 305) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Timestamps run from 0337:11 to 0344:34 (7:37 PM to 7:44 PM…
Page 198Page header indicating this is page 2 of a multi-page radio communications transcript. Radio communication transcript between Seattle Center (SEA R2) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW 305). Comm…
Page 199Page 3 of an air traffic control radio communication transcript between Northwest 305 (the hijacked D.B. Cooper flight) and Seattle Center / SEA approach controllers. Timestamps run from 0413:14 to 0…
Page 200Page header indicating this is page 4 of a multi-page radio communications transcript. Radio communications transcript between Seattle Radio (SEA R6, SEA R10) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW 3…
Page 201Page header indicating this is page 5 of a multi-page radio communication transcript. Radio communication transcript between Seattle Radio (SEA R10) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW 305). At 05…
Page 202Page header indicating this is page 6 of a multi-page radio transcript document. Transcript of radio communications between Seattle Approach/Radar (SEA R10) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from ap…
Page 203FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper case. Title page for an FAA log from the Oakland, California center. Notes that times in the log have been converted from GMT to PST. Origin…
Page 204Cover page of FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center report dated 30 November 1971, documenting the hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) on 25 November 1971 between 0544 and 0635 GMT. Lis…
Page 205Column header for Greenwich Mean Time timestamps on air traffic control radio transcript. Air traffic control radio transcript between Oakland ARTCC (sectors RBL/Red Bluff and EO4), Seattle ARTCC, a…
Page 206Column header for Greenwich Mean Time entries in the ATC communication transcript. Page number indicator showing this is page 2 of the original document. Air traffic control exchange between Oaklan…
Page 207Page indicator showing this is page 3 of the source document. Air traffic control radio transcript between Oakland ARTCC sector positions (WSE, EO4, RBL) and Northwest flight 305 (NW305). Communicat…
Page 208Page header indicating this is page 4 of a sub-document, with GMT TIME column header. Air traffic control transcript between Oakland ARTCC (sectors WSE, RBL, EO4) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 f…
Page 209Page number indicator for the original transcript document (page 5). Continuation of air-to-ground radio transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 and Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center…
Page 210Page number indicator for the original transcript document, page 6. Air traffic control radio transcript between Oakland ARTCC (OAK ARTCC), Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305), and Reno Tower (RNO…
Page 211Page number header indicating this is page 7 of a multi-page document. Air traffic control transcript of radio communications between Oakland ARTCC (OAK ARTCC), Reno Tower (RNO Twr), and Northwest A…
Page 212FBI Seattle field office case number stamp. Title page for the Federal Aviation Administration log from the Reno (Nevada) Center. Notes that parenthetical insertions convert GMT times to PST. Origi…
Page 213Letterhead of the FAA Department of Transportation, Airport Traffic Control Tower at Reno International Airport, dated 29 November 1971. Cover page for the transcription of air traffic control commu…
Page 214Radio communication transcript between Reno Tower Director (RNO TWR DR) and Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center (OAK ARTCC) from 0632-0634 GMT (10:32-10:34 PM PST). Oakland attempts to hand off…
Page 215Radio communication transcript between Reno Tower (RNO TWR DR), Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center (OAK ARTCC), and Northwest Flight 305 (NW305) during approach to Reno. OAK ARTCC advises on Re…
Page 216Transcript of radio communications between Reno Tower (RNO TWR DR) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) during approach to Reno. The tower provides descent and heading instructions as the aircra…
Page 217Radio transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower (RNO TWR DR) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. The aircraft reports altitude of 8,200 feet. The tower asks about…
Page 218Radio communication transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower (RNO TWR DR) at 0646-0648 GMT (10:47-10:48 PM PST). The aircraft is on approach to Reno. NW305 requests win…
Page 219Radio transcript between Reno Tower (RNO TWR DR) and Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) from 0649–0652 GMT. The crew discusses where to park the aircraft upon landing at Reno. NW305 requests posit…
Page 220Radio communication transcript between Reno Tower (RNO TWR DR) and Northwest Flight 305 (NW305) during approach to Reno. The flight is cleared for an ILS Alpha approach from Sparks radio beacon. NW30…
Page 221Radio communication transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower Local Control (RNO TWR LC) documenting the aircraft's landing clearance at Reno airport and subsequent taxi…
Page 222Radio communication transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower Local Control (RNO TWR LC) during taxi-in at Reno airport. The crew asks about the isolated parking area an…
Page 223Radio communication transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower Local Control (RNO TWR LC/LO) during the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident. The aircraft is being directed to…
Page 224Radio communication transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower Local Control (RNO TWR LC) at approximately 11:07-11:08 PM PST. Reno Tower asks if NW305 is ready to begin…
Page 225Radio transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower (RNO TWR LC) from 0709-0713 GMT (11:09-11:13 PM PST). The crew asks Reno to stand by while they check something aboard th…
Page 226Continued radio transmission from NW305 crew requesting to secure and leave the aircraft, requesting ground transportation, declining fuelers, and thanking support personnel. Radio exchange at 0714…
Page 227Radio communication transcript between Northwest Airlines Flight 305 (NW305) and Reno Tower (RNO TWR LC) after the aircraft landed at Reno. The crew thanks tower for transportation arrangements, then…
Page 228FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper case. Section divider title indicating the beginning of the parachutes section of the FBI report. Original report page number (226) and…
Page 229Case file number SE 164-81, dictated by JSD, typed by klb, page 1 of this sub-document. A redacted individual at NWA/Sea-Tac describes how four parachutes were procured for the hijacker: two back pa…
Page 230Case file number, author initials, and continuation page number for an FBI Seattle field office report. Continuation of a prior page's narrative identifying Earl Cossey of Seattle Sky Sports in Issa…
Page 231Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date of transcription. FBI interview (FD-302) of Earl J. Cossey, a master parachute rigger and jump instructor at Seattle Sky Sports in Issaquah, WA. C…
Page 232Page 2 continuation header with FBI case file number SE 164-81. Continuation of interview with Mr. Cossey regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Cossey states it would be possible to parachute from a…
Page 233Standard FD-302 FBI interview report form header with revision date and transcription date. Earl J. Cossey states that the pilot chutes on both back pack parachutes furnished to the hijacker on 11/2…
Page 234Case number, typist initials, and page number header for this FBI report section. An interviewee (name redacted, female) stated that after parachutes were brought onto the aircraft, she noticed one…
Page 235Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and document date of November 29, 1971. Two Air Force sergeants at Nellis AFB examined the parachute abandoned on the hijacked Boeing 727. They determi…
Page 236Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date November 26, 1971. A Nevada State Air National Guard Sergeant at Reno Airport examined a parachute found on the hijacked Northwest Airlines airpla…
Page 237FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Section divider title page indicating the beginning of the 'Ransom Money' section of the FBI report. Page number an…
Page 238FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (Seattle field office file 164-81). Describes how the $200,000 ransom (in used $20 bills) was assembled from a $250,000 emergency ransom package at Seat…
Page 239FD-302 form header identifying the interviewee as a redacted Detective from the Homicide Section, Seattle Police Department. A Seattle Police detective describes his role on November 24, 1971 in tra…
Page 240Standard FD-302 interview report header with date of report 11/26/71. First-person account by an individual present at the Northwest Airlines Operations Office at Seattle-Tacoma International Airpor…
Page 241Standard FBI FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Introduction identifying a redacted individual at Seattle-First National Bank who provided information on November 25, 1971…
Page 242Continuation page header showing page 2 of a document filed under FBI Seattle case number SE 164-81. A list of eight serial number ranges (likely currency serial numbers) relevant to the D.B. Cooper…
Page 243Standard FD-302 interview report header with FBI seal and form revision date. FD-302 report documenting the transfer of a film canister containing microfilm of serial numbers of ransom bills given t…
Page 244FBI Seattle field office case file number for the D.B. Cooper case. Section divider heading for a 'WEATHER' section of the FBI report. The word is underlined and centered, indicating the start of a…
Page 245Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI interview of meteorologist Robert Berkovitz documenting hourly weather conditions at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport o…
Page 246Standard FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI interview of meteorologist Chris Hill at Portland International Airport. He provided aviation weather observation…
Page 247Page header showing page 2 of a document with Seattle file number SE 164-81. Weather observations at 9:00 p.m. for Eugene, Salem, Portland (Oregon) and Toledo (Washington) on November 24, 1971, repo…
Page 248FBI case number and dictator/typist initials for the Seattle field office file on the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Weather report obtained from the FAA Flight Service at Portland International Airport ind…
Page 249FBI case file number and dictation/typist codes for the Seattle field office file 164-81. Ralph Hatley, a known parachutist and sky diver from Vancouver, WA, reported weather conditions obtained fro…
Page 250FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation, Seattle field office. Report describes air traffic control log entries noting cabin oscillations at 8:12 PM PST, indicating the hijacker was m…
Page 251Road map of western Washington State and northwestern Oregon showing the probable flight path of the hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines aircraft from Seattle-Tacoma southward. A hand-drawn or overlai…
Page 252A full-page black-and-white photocopy of a 1971 road map of the State of Oregon showing major and minor highways, cities and towns, county boundaries, national forests, state parks, coastal features,…
Page 253Road and topographic map of Northern California and the Oregon border region, showing cities, highways, national forests, and elevation markers. Hand-drawn annotations include a circle around a coast…
Page 254FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case, Seattle field office. FBI report narrative of the D.B. Cooper hijacking of NWA Flight #305 on 11/24/71. Describes the departure from Sea-Tac…
Page 255Standard FD-302 interview form header with date of December 15, 1971. A redacted individual from Northwest Airlines, Inc. reviewed notes and technical records about the operation of NWA Flight 305 o…
Page 256Numbered analysis (points 1–8) describing the probable landing zone of the hijacker (HJ) based on the cabin pressure bump recorded at 0410 GMT by the NWA Flight Operations Office in Minneapolis. The…
Page 257Map title and scale bar indicating both nautical and statute miles. Date annotation and partial header reading 'PORTLAND', likely the sectional chart name, with right edge cropped. Full aeronautica…
Page 258FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Description of the aerial search area established on 11/24-25/71 based on NWA flight information, covering southwest…
Page 259Case file number and dictation/typist initials header for FBI report. FBI report describing the initial ground search operation for D.B. Cooper on November 25-26, 1971. Details how the Seattle Divis…
Page 260Page number, FBI case file number SE 164-81, and typist initials TJM:kdl. On November 26, 1971, Lake Merwin was patrolled by two Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office boats. A white object sighting on the…
Page 261Page 3 of an FBI report under Seattle file number SE 164-81, typed by TJM:kdl. List of airports and flight services in the Vancouver/Southwest Washington area that were canvassed during the D.B. Coo…
Page 262FBI case file number and typist initials for the Seattle field office report on NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case SE 164-81. The location of interest during late evening of November 24, 1971 was established…
Page 263File number and agent/typist initials for the FBI report. FOIA exemption markings indicating information withheld under b6 and b7C per FBI and FAA. An individual in Washington was contacted on Nov…
Page 264Page number and FBI file reference with dictator/typist initials. On November 30, 1971, medical facilities and agencies in several Washington counties were contacted and given a composite photograph…
Page 265FBI case file number SE 164-81 and typist/dictator initials TJM:kdl; numeral 7 likely a section or page continuation number. Continuation from a prior page describing a door-to-door canvass of the s…
Page 266FBI file number and typist initials for Seattle field office case 164-81. A redacted individual at Brush Prairie, WA provided information about the disbanded Century SkyDivers parachute club at Ever…
Page 267Two circular stamps or seals at top of page, both redacted/obscured. FBI analytical report describing the methodology for determining the envelope of possible landing points for the hijacker (HJ/D.B…
Page 268Continuation of an analytical report on probable landing zones for the hijacker (HJ). Discusses parachute deployment scenarios, free-fall altitudes, and prioritized search areas defined by labeled po…
Page 269USGS topographic map of the La Center Quadrangle, Washington, in the vicinity of Pigeon Springs. The map shows terrain contours, roads, schools, and named geographic features including Schumaker Moun…
Page 270FBI Seattle field office case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Title/cover page heading for a section of Boeing 727 technical data, likely related to the hijacked aircraft in the D.B.…
Page 271Standard FD-302 form header with FBI seal and date of transcription. Interview with S. Lewis Wallick, Chief Test Pilot at Boeing for the 727 project. He describes his experience lowering the rear ai…
Page 272FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (Seattle field office file 164-81). A redacted individual in Seattle, WA, involved in testing of the Boeing 727 aircraft, explained on 12/2/71 that it i…
Page 273FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. A redacted individual describes multiple occasions of extending a Boeing 727 rear airstair in flight at approximately 150 knot…
Page 274FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Section divider title page introducing a new section of the report dealing with the search of the hijacked aircraft at Reno,…
Page 275Standard FBI FD-302 form header with date 11/26/71 and page number 1. A redacted individual at Reno International Airport advised that Northwest Airlines 727 Flight 305 would park on the ramp approx…
Page 276FD-302 interview report in which a stewardess (name redacted) pointed out to SAs Ricks and Stousland the two seats occupied by the unknown subject (D.B. Cooper). The agents processed seats, telephone…
Page 277FBI letterhead and date stamp for this FD-302 report. FBI agents examined Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 (Flight 305) at Reno Municipal Airport at 11:25 PM on 11/24/71. The hijacker had been s…
Page 278FBI form identifier and revision date. Header of the FD-302 form with the date of the document. An FBI Special Agent examined the ash tray from the seat reportedly occupied by the unknown subject (…
Page 279FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper case. FBI Laboratory analysis of physical evidence from the D.B. Cooper hijacking: an ash tray containing eight cigarette butts (seven c…
Page 280Standard FD-302 form header with date. The final digit of the year is ambiguous; contextual dates on the form (12/3/71, 12/9/71, DEC 18 1971 stamp) strongly suggest 1971 rather than 1973. A Northwes…
Page 281Case file reference numbers and initials, with one line crossed out. FOIA exemption markings indicating b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforcement privacy) redactions applied per FBI and FAA. S…
Page 282FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Seattle field office file 164-81). FBI agents conducted an aerial search of the hijacked aircraft's flight route over California on 12/13/71 u…
Page 283FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (Seattle field office file 164-81). Section divider title indicating the following pages concern investigation activities conducted at Portland Internat…
Page 284FBI file reference numbers and dictation/typist initials for the report. SE 164-81 is the Seattle field office file number; PD 164-41 is the Portland field office file number. RPH:csm are agent/typis…
Page 285FBI Seattle field office case number for the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) investigation. Tab or sub-section designator, likely indicating the first sub-section under the upcoming category. Section divider…
Page 286Case file number and dictator/typist initials for the FBI Seattle field office file SE 164-81. Section heading identifying the investigative topic area: airports, flying clubs, flight schools, parac…
Page 287Page number and FBI case file header for Seattle file 164-81, dictated by CRS:md. Continuation of an FBI report describing outreach to parachuting and aviation associations. Includes the full physic…
Page 288Page header showing page 3 of FBI report SE 164-81, dictated by agent with initials CRS, typed by md. Continuation of FBI report describing investigation of parachutist registration cards at Elsinor…
Page 289FBI file reference number SE 164-81 with dictation/typing initials TJM:kdl. An unnamed source familiar with parachute clubs in southwestern Washington and northern Oregon explains that an experience…
Page 290Page number and FBI case file reference with typist initials. Continuation of a report discussing how the hijacker could have used aviation navigation equipment such as a VOR receiver or ground beac…
Page 291FBI Seattle field office case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (NORJAK). Roman numeral section marker, likely indicating Part II or Section II of the report. Underlined section divider title in…
Page 292FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Report details how Dan Cooper purchased a one-way coach ticket from Portland to Seattle on NWA Flight #305 on 11/24/71, p…
Page 293Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. An interview with a redacted Northwest Airlines employee in Minneapolis who provided the original flight coupo…
Page 294FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Section divider page introducing a sub-section of the report dealing with the black snap-on tie and tie tack evidence, with in…
Page 295Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and report date. Two redacted individuals at Penneys Store Number 44 on Maryland Parkway were interviewed and shown a black snap-on ti…
Page 296FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Section divider indicating the start of Part II of the report, titled 'PHYSICAL EVIDENCE'. The heading is underlined and cent…
Page 297FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Introduction to a list of physical evidence collected in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. The ash tray from the hijacker's seat co…
Page 298FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. The hijacker's airline ticket from Northwest Airlines was examined by the FBI Lab but yielded no usable fingerprints. Descri…
Page 299Evidence disposition summary for case SE 164-81. Items A, B, and C are held by the Las Vegas Division; Item D by the Minneapolis Division; and Items E and F have been forwarded to and are held by the…
Page 300FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Underlined centered heading indicating the following page(s) will contain an artist's sketch, likely a composite drawing of D.…
Page 301FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation (Seattle field office file 164-81). Describes how an FBI artist prepared a composite sketch of the D.B. Cooper hijacker using descrip…
Page 302Composite sketch of D.B. Cooper suspect wearing dark-tinted sunglasses. Front-facing portrait of a middle-aged Caucasian male with short, dark, neatly combed hair parted on the left, thin lips, a nar…
Page 303FBI FD-302 interview of a Northwest Orient Air Lines stewardess (name redacted) on December 2, 1971. She viewed a facsimile of the artist's conception of the hijacker from NW Flight 305 (Nov 24, 1971…
Page 304Standard FD-302 interview form header with date December 2, 1971. A Northwest Orient Air Lines stewardess (name redacted) reviewed a facsimile of the artist's composite sketch of the hijacker, which…
Page 305Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and interview date. FD-302 witness interview of a female (name redacted) who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hijacked on Nove…
Page 306Four dark circular stamps or punch-hole artifacts at the top of the page, likely from filing or microfilm processing. FBI case file number and page indicator for page 2 of this sub-document. A reda…
Page 307Standard FD-302 header with form revision date and transcription date of November 29, 1971. An interview conducted on November 25, 1971, where a witness (name redacted) in Washington was shown the F…
Page 308FBI case file number and page designation for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. A witness (name redacted) reviewed FBI facial identification catalog photographs and a composite ske…
Page 309FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper (NORJAK) investigation. Underlined section divider heading indicating the beginning of a 'Descriptive Data' section of the FBI report. Inter…
Page 310FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Introductory text explaining that a detailed list of physical descriptive data provided by each witness regarding th…
Page 311FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Physical description of the D.B. Cooper hijacker as provided by a Northwest Airlines stewardess. Describes a white male, age 44-46…
Page 312FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Physical description of the D.B. Cooper hijacker as furnished by an NWA stewardess. Subject described as a white male, age 43-47,…
Page 313FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Physical description of the hijacker (D.B. Cooper) as furnished by a Northwest Airlines stewardess whose name is redacted. De…
Page 314FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Physical description of the D.B. Cooper hijacking suspect furnished by a redacted NWA (Northwest Airlines) employee in Portland, O…
Page 315FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Physical description of a suspect furnished by a redacted NWA (Northwest Airlines) employee in Portland, Oregon. The subject is de…
Page 316FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation, Seattle field office. Physical description of the D.B. Cooper hijacking suspect as furnished by witnesses aboard NWA Flight #305. De…
Page 317FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Physical description of the hijacking suspect (D.B. Cooper) as furnished by personnel aboard NWA Flight #305. Describes a white ma…
Page 318FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Physical description of the hijacker (D.B. Cooper) as provided by passenger Cord Harms Zrim Spreckel of NWA Flight #…
Page 319FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Physical description of the hijacker furnished by a redacted witness aboard NWA Flight #305. The subject is described as a 40-year…
Page 320FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Witness Mrs. House provides observations of the hijacker from NWA Flight #305. She described the hijacker as having dark hair, weari…
Page 321FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Section divider/title page introducing the 'Composite Description' section of the FBI report. The underlined heading indicate…
Page 322FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Composite physical description of the hijacker (D.B. Cooper) compiled primarily from three stewardesses who had closest conta…
Page 323FOIA exemption markings for b6 and b7C per FAA. FAA Air Transportation Security Intelligence Summary No. 14-71, dated 10 December 1971, from FAA SAN-ATSFO, distributed to multiple airlines and law e…
Page 324Page 2 of an FAA teletype describing the D.B. Cooper hijacking of NW flight 305. Details the crew's communication attempts with the hijacker, the rear exit steps being lowered and locked, the aircraf…
Page 325FBI FOIA/PA Deleted Page Information Sheet for case FOI/PA# 1:16-cv-01790-03. Lists 99 total deleted pages with reasons: pages 3–4 redacted under exemptions b6 and b7C (personal privacy); the majorit…
Page 326FOIA/Privacy Act deleted-page inventory listing pages withheld from Part 110 of the D.B. Cooper file. Pages 240-246 were withheld under FOIA exemptions b6, b7C, and/or b7D (personal privacy / confide…
Page 327Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle from a Special Agent, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), dated April 18, 1972. A diagonal routing or processing stamp…
Page 328Header block of FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case 164-81, dated 3/28/72, prepared by SA John L Ketcham, NORJAK case. On 3/28/72 a Seattle PD contact advised that someone in Seattle ha…
Page 329Standard government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding NORJAK case, dated 5/11/72. Background information on suspect FERNAND MICHAEL RICHARD ARNDT d…
Page 330Header of a United States Government memorandum from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, dated 3/29/72, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper). The memo states that a copy of a letter received…
Page 331An anonymous tipster writes that the D.B. Cooper hijacker resembles a man named F. M. Arndt who was around Bellingham and styled himself a 'Big Time operator.' Arndt was Vice President of the Northwe…
Page 332Header block of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, dated 5/5/72, from a redacted Special Agent, re NORJAK case. Subject line identifying the suspect as Al Anderson, suspect number…
Page 333Header of an FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, dated 4/17/72, regarding NORJAK suspect number 377, L. Anderson. The reporting SA's name is redacted. A source (name redacted) in Seattle pro…
Page 334Standard US Government memorandum header addressed from a Special Agent (name redacted under b6/b7C) to SAC Seattle, regarding case NORJAK (164-81), dated March 29, 1972. The memo states that a copy…
Page 335An anonymous tip identifying Al Anderson as a highjack suspect. Anderson quit his job as apartment manager at 120 Broadway E. on Thanksgiving night. He worked as a custodian for the Kirkland School D…
Page 336Header block of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, dated 12/5/74, referencing case NORJAK, office of origin Seattle, BUfile 164-2111. SA name redacted under b6/b7C. Subject line identifying Rober…
Page 337FBI Record Request form (FD-125) for Robert Comstock, with the Criminal checkbox marked. A photo was requested using record number M61910. The results note that Comstock's last arrest was 11/1/57 and…
Page 338FBI Record Request form (FD-125) for a criminal records check on Robert Comstock, a 45-year-old white male, 6 feet tall, 120 lbs, brown hair, blue eyes, born 1/28/28 in Se. Wn (likely Seattle, Washin…
Page 339Exemption codes b6 and b7c indicating redacted personal information under FOIA. FBI internal memo from SAC Seattle dated July 3, 1972, regarding NORJAK suspect Robert Comstock (Suspect Number 378).…
Page 340Header block of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, dated 5/17/72. SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Case name NORJAK, office of origin Seattle. Credit and criminal ch…
Page 341Criminal records database query result (likely NCIC or state system) for Robert Edward Comstock, DOB 01-28-28, male, blue eyes, 6 feet tall, 195 lbs, residing at 5255 19th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105.…
Page 342Internal FBI memorandum from a Special Agent (name redacted under b6/b7C) to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. The memo transmits a copy of a letter received by the Seattle Post Intelligencer th…
Page 343Subject line identifying this document as related to the November 24, 1971 skyjacking. A tip identifying Robert Comstock, a meatcutter who worked at Beacon Super Foods at 4864 Beacon Ave. from 1963…
Page 344Standard header for a U.S. Government interoffice memorandum form. Memo routing block addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Sender (Special Agent) name is redacted with b6/b7C/b7D exemptio…
Page 345Standard U.S. Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. A wit…
Page 346Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sender SA name is redacted. An FBI agent showed photographs of 14 individua…
Page 347Header of FBI internal memo from Special Agent Jon C. Knehans to SAC Seattle, regarding case NORJACK (164-81), dated April 21, 1972. A circled number 268 and notation 1A appear near the subject line.…
Page 348Standard header of a US Government memorandum from an FBI Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle, regarding case NORJAK (164-81), dated March 29, 1972. The memo states that a copy of a letter…
Page 349Header block identifying the SAC Seattle office, case number 164-81, date 3/31/72, and a redacted Special Agent name. FBI memo regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Mr. Cord Spreckle of Vashon Is…
Page 350Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Memo from Special Agent Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle, filed under case 164-81, subject NORJAK, regarding John Frederick Littlefield. Handwritte…
Page 351Standard U.S. Government memorandum header from SA Louis M. Harris, Jr. to SAC Seattle regarding the unknown subject (D.B. Cooper) hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight #305, Portland to Seattle on…
Page 352Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect John Frederick Littlefield. SA Grimes called from Oklahoma City on 3/28/72 reporting that FAA Airman Section records…
Page 353Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Bibler called SA Wick at 4:00 PM instructing him to obtain a photograph of John Frederick Littlefield as soon as p…
Page 354Teletype routing header from Oklahoma City field office to Seattle, dated March 28, 1972. Oklahoma City FBI office relays FAA Aeronautical Center records for John Frederick Littlefield. Private pilo…
Page 355Date of teletype. Urgent teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC Oklahoma City regarding NORJAK case. During a terrain search of the suspected hijacker drop area, a pilot license was found issued to John F…
Page 356FBI internal memorandum dated 9/12/72 from an unidentified Special Agent to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Documents that on 9/5/72 an unidentified witness was shown photographs…
Page 357Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle, dated 5/17/72, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper). An unidentified witness (name redacted) viewed photographs…
Page 358FBI memo from SA Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK sub-file 381 on subject George Edward Cathey. On April 28, 1972, a redacted source in Olympia, Washington provided two photos of Cathey…
Page 359Header block of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated 4/25/72. NORJAK case, sub-file 381 regarding FNU Cathey. SA name redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. A source at Woodland,…
Page 360Continuation of a subject profile for GEORGE EDWARD CATHEY, listing physical description (6'1", 190 lbs, black crewcut hair, dark complexion), SSAN, teaching credential, address in Woodland, WA, phon…
Page 361Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. A confidential informant in Portland, Oregon reported on 3/24/72 that on 3/22/72 he…
Page 362Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed from a redacted Special Agent to the SAC, dated April 11, 1972, regarding the NORJACK case. Handwritten serial number 382 appears at right. Follo…
Page 363Standard header of a US Government interoffice memorandum addressed from a Special Agent (name redacted under b6/b7C) to the SAC, regarding NORJAK case, office of origin Seattle, dated March 30, 1972…
Page 364FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Continuation of an FBI memo describing a subject who spoke to a writer (likely an FBI agent) about Mr. COE and insisted o…
Page 365Standard U.S. Government memorandum header from SA Louis M. Harris, Jr. (St. Louis field office) to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK/D.B. Cooper hijacking case. A witness (name redacted under b6/b7C…
Page 366Header of a U.S. Government memorandum from a Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle, dated May 4, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. A witness was shown photographs of listed individuals on Apr…
Page 367Date of the airtel document. Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Salt Lake City office reports that a source in Ogden, Utah, identif…
Page 368Header of FBI memo from Special Agent Byron M. Eden to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, referencing a Portland airtel dated 6/6/72 and sub 384. On June 16, 1972, a redacted individual was cont…
Page 369Date of the airtel. FBI airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. A source in Prescott, Oregon was contacted on 6/6/72 who advised that a subject worked approximately seven…
Page 370Date of the airtel. Standard FBI airtel header routing the communication from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Report on attempts to locate and eliminate a suspe…
Page 371FBI Airtel header from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, dated March 30, 1972. A female source in Oregon reported by telephone that she recognized the composite sk…
Page 372Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle (case 164-81) from SPC (name redacted), dated 4/8/72, subject NORJAK. SA John Sullivan of Las Vegas FBI reported by phone that a Dep…
Page 373FBI FD-36 AIRTEL transmission form header dated 8/26/92. Transmission method is AIRTEL; precedence and classification boxes unchecked. Routing block showing airtel from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Sea…
Page 374FBI memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case 164A-SE-81, dated June 10, 1992. Sender SA name is redacted. Warning designation for the subject of the memorandum. Summary of i…
Page 375FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is AIRTEL. Date is June 10, 1992. No precedence or classification boxes are checked. Airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Salt Lake City dated June 1…
Page 376FBI transmittal form header (FD-36) indicating AIRTEL transmission method, dated February 13, 1990. 1989 annual NORJAK status report from SAC Seattle to the FBI Director. Reports 1,003 suspects at s…
Page 377Handwritten sub-file reference number at top of page. Photocopied portrait photograph of McCoy in U.S. Army uniform. The subject is a man wearing glasses in what appears to be a military identificat…
Page 378Handwritten sub-file reference number labeling this exhibit as SUB 386, B. A pencil sketch or retouched newspaper photograph of a male face wearing large dark sunglasses. The subject has a somewhat…
Page 379FBI form FD-350 used for mounting newspaper clippings. Indicates this is page 4 from the Richmond News Leader, Richmond, VA, evening edition dated November 11, 1974. Author is Dave Riley, editor John…
Page 380Location and date header for the document. Handwritten sub-file number designation. Subject heading identifying the individual and charges. Synopsis of the hijacking of UAL Flight 855 on April 7,…
Page 381Teletype routing header from Buffalo field office to FBI Director and Seattle field office, dated July 1980, routine priority. Buffalo office relays that ASAC James L. Theisen, formerly assigned to…
Page 382Standard FD-302 header with form revision date and transcription date of April 14, 1972. An employee at Chuck Peterson Motors in Provo, Utah reported that Richard McCoy had his 1969 green Volkswagen…
Page 383Standard FD-302 form header with date of transcription April 14, 1972. Handwritten page number 386 appears in upper right corner. Interview of Mrs. Bessie Meiling, Director of Utah County Welfare De…
Page 384FBI case file numbers printed at the top of the page. Background information on Mrs. MC COY from Welfare Department records, noting her birth date and place, upbringing in Ohio, graduation from BYU…
Page 385Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-page reference number. Professor Charles T. Fletcher of BYU's Law Enforcement Department reported on Richard F…
Page 386Standard FD-302 interview form header with date of transcription. Handwritten sub-file page stamp marking this as sub-page 386. Interview of an unidentified female witness in Provo, Utah, regarding…
Page 387FBI form identifier and revision date. Standard FD-302 header with transcription date. An unidentified female witness discusses activities related to the MC COY family around Thanksgiving 1971. Man…
Page 388FBI FD-302 interview form revision identifier. An unnamed witness (redacted for privacy, b6/b7C) was interviewed about Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. The witness was a graduate student at Brigham Young Uni…
Page 389FBI FD-302 form identifier and revision date. Standard FBI header with handwritten sub-file number and transcription date. FD-302 interview summary of Mildred T. Burns, mother-in-law of Richard Flo…
Page 390FBI form identifier and revision date. Standard FD-302 header with transcription date. Interview of a redacted female witness from Northwest Canton, Ohio, conducted in the presence of her attorney…
Page 391FBI case file numbers for the document. Continuation of an FBI interview with a redacted female witness regarding MC COY. She cannot definitively recall whether a Thanksgiving dinner was on Thanksgi…
Page 392Standard FBI FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. FBI interview of a redacted female witness (McCoy's sister-in-law) from Northwest Canton, Ohio, conducted…
Page 393Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. From SAC Charlotte to SAC Seattle, dated 12/13/74, regarding NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper). Charlotte file 164-101, Seattle file 164-81 Sub 386. Mark…
Page 394Date of the airtel document. Handwritten sub-file annotation. FBI airtel from SAC Norfolk to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. A redacted individual was interviewed twice by Norfolk agents but…
Page 395Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated November 13, 1974, sent via AIRTEL with AIRMAIL priority. Airtel from SAC Seattle to FBI Director regarding NORJAK subject Richard Floyd McCoy…
Page 396Standard FBI teletype transmission header dated August 19, 1974, sent via TELETYPE with NITEL priority. FBI teletype from SAC Seattle to Director FBI and SACs in Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Salt La…
Page 397Header block of an FBI memo from SAC Salt Lake City to Acting Director FBI, dated 11/30/72, regarding the NORJAK case with Seattle as office of origin. Handwritten annotation indicating sub-file num…
Page 398Handwritten sub-file reference number 386. Date of the airtel memo. FBI airtel from SAC Charlotte to SAC Seattle regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. References a Salt Lake City report by SA R…
Page 399Standard FBI FD-302 interview report form header with revision date. Title block of the FD-302 form showing the agency name, transcription date, and a sub-number reference. Karen McCoy, wife of Ric…
Page 400FBI case file number header for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Continuation of an interview with Mrs. McCOY. She states that she and her husband RICHARD placed a collect call to a redacted number/pe…
Page 401FBI FD-263 cover page header for a report on the D.B. Cooper hijacking case, filed by SA Richard W. Head from the Salt Lake City office, origin Seattle, dated 8/24/72, covering the investigative peri…
Page 402Case file numbers and dictation/typist codes for the document. SU 164-24 and CE 164-101 are the field office file numbers. RM:dlt indicates the dictating agent initials and typist. FBI investigative…
Page 403Case number header and partially redacted form field for the FBI report. SA James L. Theisen reviewed bank records of Richard Floyd Mc Coy, Jr. at Walker Bank and Trust Company in Salt Lake City on…
Page 404FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Agent notes intent to await the results of an interview with the suspect's wife, Karen Mc Coy, and to conduct further inv…
Page 405Standard FBI FD-204 form header with DOJ and FBI identification. FD-204 report metadata identifying the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Report prepared by SA Richard W. Head out of Salt Lake City, dated…
Page 406FBI case file number header for the document. Gas station attendant at Power Thrust Service Station in Las Vegas could not recall the transaction or describe the vehicle/individual. FBI Laboratory c…
Page 407FBI case file number for this report. Table of contents for an FBI NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) investigative report under case number SU 164-24, listing 13 sections covering predication, airline checks, su…
Page 408FBI case file number for this document. Report dated April 11, 1972, from a Lieutenant at Brigham Young University detailing MC COY's class attendance during the fall 1971 semester. COY had classes…
Page 409Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI interview with Charles T. Fletcher, head of the Law Enforcement Department at BYU, regarding Richard F. McCoy…
Page 410Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. Redacted interview content referencing Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. and his wife Karen Burns McCoy, noting they res…
Page 411Standard FD-302 interview form header with revision date 11-27-70 and transcription date of 4/18/72. Page marked as page 1. The main body of the FD-302 interview report has been entirely redacted. E…
Page 412Standard FD-302 form header with form revision date and transcription date. The entire body of the FD-302 interview narrative has been redacted under FOIA exemptions b6 (personal privacy), b7C (law…
Page 413Standard FBI FD-302 form header with date of transcription. An individual (name redacted) was contacted and informed about the current status of Richard F. McCoy, Sr. Details redacted. A redacted i…
Page 414FBI document header with date. FBI FD-302 interview report describing the investigation of a gasoline purchase invoice (#764637) for 5.6 gallons ($2.57) charged to Richard F. McCoy, Jr. via Bank Ame…
Page 415Standard FBI FD-302 header with date. An unidentified gas station attendant in Las Vegas was interviewed about Bank Americard invoice 764637 for a 5.6-gallon gasoline purchase ($2.57). He recognized…
Page 416FBI agent visited the Tropicana Hotel - Casino in Las Vegas on April 13, 1972 and had hotel registration and arrival records checked for November 1971 (specifically November 25, 1971) under the names…
Page 417Standard FD-302 form header with date of 4/13/72. SA Michael G. Simon observed on April 13, 1972 that the open public pay telephone number 736-9820 at the Tropicana Hotel-Casino Guest Registration a…
Page 418Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date of 4/13/72. FBI interview report documenting contact with the Westward Ho Motel in Las Vegas, NV on April 13, 1972. The motel confirmed that telep…
Page 419FBI case file number for the Seattle (SU) field office, file 164-24. Section divider page listing interviews conducted: a redacted individual described as being 'of suspect', Mildred R. Burns identi…
Page 420FBI case file number for this document. A redacted female individual related to Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. informed SA James A. Stewart on April 12, 1972, in Provo, Utah, that McCoy's attorneys had con…
Page 421Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. A redacted female witness from Canton, Ohio was interviewed with her attorney George J. Tzangas present. She came to Salt Lake…
Page 422FBI case file numbers for the document. Continuation of an FBI interview (likely FD-302) with a female witness (name redacted) discussing MC COY. She cannot pinpoint whether a dinner was on Thanksgi…
Page 423Standard FBI FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Interview of Mildred R. Burns, mother-in-law of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., at the U.S. Attorney's office in Salt Lake City. B…
Page 424Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Attorney George J. Tzangas provided three photographs of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. to the FBI. He noted that in one photograph Mc…
Page 425FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Seattle field office file 164-24). Section divider title page indicating the following pages concern the employment history of Karen Burns McC…
Page 426Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date of transcription April 14, 1972, page 1. FBI interview of Mrs. Bessie Meiling, Director of Utah County Welfare Department, regarding Karen Burns M…
Page 427File reference numbers and page indicator for this document continuation. Background information on Mrs. McCoy from Welfare Department records, noting her birth date, birthplace, upbringing in Ohio,…
Page 428Standard FBI FD-302 form header with date of transcription April 14, 1972. An employee at Chuck Peterson Motors in Provo, Utah reported the vehicle repair history of Richard McCoy's 1969 green Volks…
Page 429FBI case file number for the Salt Lake City field office D.B. Cooper investigation. SA Theisen interviewed Robert Van Ieperen, who stated that Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. habitually wore conservative so…
Page 430FBI file numbers and agent initials/dictation codes for the document. Special Agent Lominack interviewed a female staff member in the Charles Fletcher Law Enforcement Department at Brigham Young Uni…
Page 431FBI form identifier and revision date. Standard FD-302 header with page number and transcription date. An unidentified witness (name redacted) who was a student at Brigham Young University recalls…
Page 432Standard FD-302 form header with FBI seal and form revision date, page number 1, and transcription date of August 15, 1972. An interview with a redacted witness who performed some service for the MC…
Page 433Standard FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. Interview of an unidentified female witness in Provo, Utah, regarding the Richard McCoy family on Thanksgiving Day 19…
Page 434Handwritten routing and subject annotations identifying the suspect and a sub-file number. FBI airtel from Salt Lake City to Charlotte field office regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. E…
Page 435FBI case file number for the document. Lead assigned to Charlotte Division to locate and interview Karen MC COY in Cove City, NC, to establish the whereabouts of suspect MC COY on 11/24/71, noting a…
Page 436FBI airtel memo from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Cleveland regarding the NORJAK case and suspect Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. Encloses FD-302 interview reports of a redacted individual and Mildred R. Burns…
Page 437Standard FD-302 form header with revision date, page number, and transcription date. Mildred R. Burns, mother-in-law of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., was interviewed in Salt Lake City. She was shown phot…
Page 438Standard FBI FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. Interview of a redacted female witness in the presence of her attorney George J. Tzangas in connection wit…
Page 439Case file numbers and page indicator for this FBI document, page 2. Continuation of an FBI interview (likely FD-302) with a redacted female witness discussing MC COY. She cannot definitively recall…
Page 440FBI Seattle field office return address and date line. Handwritten sub-file number notation. FOIA exemption codes indicating redaction of personal information (b6 – personal privacy; b7C – law enfo…
Page 441Newspaper clipping from The Daily News (Longview, Washington), page 29, with AP Wirephoto of Richard F. McCoy Jr. leaving U.S. District Court during his skyjacking trial on approximately October 4, 1…
Page 442Standard United States Government memorandum header addressed from SA Richard Avery Dyer to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, referencing a prior memo from SA C.E. Farrell dated 5-31-72. An ind…
Page 443Date of the airtel document. FBI Airtel routing header from Salt Lake City field office to Seattle field office regarding the NORJAK case. Investigation review of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. as a NORJA…
Page 444FBI case file number header for Salt Lake City field office. Numbered investigative findings (10-13) regarding MC COY: Master Charge account audit at Wachovia Bank showed nothing significant during…
Page 445FBI inter-office memo from Salt Lake City to Seattle field offices dated 5/18/72 regarding Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., subject of a CAA hijacking and interference with flight crew members case. The memo…
Page 446Header block identifying the memo as addressed to SAC Seattle (case 164-81), dated 5/31/72, from SA Charles E. Farrell, regarding case NORJAK. Notes that a copy of a memo prepared by SAC Seattle on…
Page 447Date of the airtel memo. FBI airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Salt Lake City regarding NORJAK case. Seattle requests Salt Lake City advise whether they have established the whereabouts of Richard Floy…
Page 448Date of the document. FBI AIRTEL from SAC Las Vegas to FBI Director (attention FBI Laboratory) regarding NORJAK / Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. Encloses BankAmericard invoice carbon copies for gasoline p…
Page 449Internal FBI memo from SAC Charlotte to SAC Seattle regarding suspect Richard F. McCoy, Jr. in the NORJAK case. References prior teletypes from Charlotte to the Director and Salt Lake City in April 1…
Page 450Standard FD-302 form header with FBI letterhead and transcription date of April 18, 1972. The entire body of the FD-302 interview report has been redacted. Exemption markings b6 (personal privacy),…
Page 451Standard FD-302 form header with revision date 11-27-70, page number 1, and transcription date of April 17, 1972. Heavily redacted FD-302 interview report regarding RICHARD FLOYD McCOY, JR. and his…
Page 452Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. The main body of the FD-302 interview report is almost entirely redacted. Only the final sentence is visible,…
Page 453Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date of 4/20/72. Opening line of interview notes; the contacted person's name is redacted. A large redacted or intentionally blank s…
Page 454Case file number, dictator/typist initials, and page number. Header stating the investigating agent and date of the investigation. A confidential source advised that a telephone number (redacted) w…
Page 455Form identifier and revision date printed in top-left corner. FBI Laboratory letterhead with Washington D.C. address. FBI Laboratory transmittal form from Director J. Edgar Hoover to SAC Las Vegas…
Page 456Header of an FBI Laboratory report addressed to SAC Las Vegas regarding the NORJAK case, dated April 27, 1972. FBI Laboratory examination of a BankAmericard invoice (specimen Q42) associated with Ri…
Page 457Date of the airtel memo. Airtel memo from SAC Indianapolis to SAC Seattle noting that a photograph of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., published in the Indianapolis News, bears a strong resemblance to the a…
Page 458Date of the airtel. FBI airtel from SAC Charlotte to Director FBI regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. Charlotte office encloses a newspaper advertisement from the 4/13/72 edition of The…
Page 459Newspaper masthead identifying the source publication and date. A newspaper advertisement soliciting funds for the legal defense of Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr., a Craven County native, Vietnam veteran,…
Page 460File reference number and initials of the agent who prepared the report. Credit Bureau in Raleigh reports on Richard Floyd Mc Coy's credit file, including his employment at NC State University as a…
Page 461Document header showing case number CE 164-101, dictator/typist initials MEH:gs, and page number 2. Table of criminal charges and dispositions for an individual, listing three incidents: careless/re…
Page 462Case file reference numbers. SC Marion E. Hilliard reports results of investigation at Raleigh, N.C. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles advised on 4-13-72 about operator's license recor…
Page 463Date of the airtel. Airtel memo from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Encloses FD-302 interview forms of redacted deputies/sergeants dated April 10, 1972 from Reno, Nevada, an…
Page 464FBI form number and revision date. Header and date of the FD-302 report. A deputy from the Washoe County Sheriff's Office provided SA Dennis J. Barry, Jr. with a parachute found on the ground in di…
Page 465FBI letterhead and document date. An Air National Guard Sargeant in Reno, Nevada examined a disarrayed parachute found near Lemmon Valley on April 8, 1972, and turned over to the Washoe County Sheri…
Page 466Standard FD-302 form header with date of April 13, 1972. An FBI agent contacted a representative at the Tropicana Hotel - Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 13, 1972, and had hotel registration an…
Page 467Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and document date. SA Michael G. Simon observed the Tropicana Hotel-Casino guest registration area on April 13, 1972, noting that open public pay telep…
Page 468Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and investigation date. FBI agent contacted a representative at the Westward Ho Motel in Las Vegas on April 13, 1972. Records for room 378 show Richard…
Page 469Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and document date. FBI FD-302 interview report regarding a gasoline invoice charged to Richard F. McCoy Jr. using a Bank Americard. The i…
Page 470Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and document date. An interview with a redacted gas station attendant in Las Vegas, Nevada, who recognized his handwriting on a Bank Amer…
Page 471Date of the airtel memo. Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Chicago to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case and subject Richard Floyd Mc Coy, Jr., with aliases Dan Cooper, D. Cooper, and J…
Page 472Document type header indicating an Airtel communication. Date of the Airtel. FBI Director sends Airtel to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Relays information from SA Robert H. Matheson Jr. of the…
Page 473FBI Director's Airtel dated 4-27-72 to SACs in Las Vegas and Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case and subject Richard Floyd Mc Coy, Jr. References a previous airtel from April 21, 1972 tha…
Page 474FBI Laboratory Transmittal Form dated April 21, 1972, from the FBI Laboratory in Washington, D.C. to SAC Salt Lake City regarding Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., charged with CAA hijacking and interference…
Page 475FBI Laboratory report dated April 21, 1972, addressed to SAC Salt Lake City regarding Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., examining typewriter impressions from three Smith-Corona typewriters (specimens K3, K4,…
Page 476A small hand-drawn sketch or doodle, possibly depicting a geometric or angular object. The drawing appears to show overlapping lines forming a rough rectangular or trapezoidal shape with internal cro…
Page 477FBI NITEL (night teletype) from Charlotte field office to Salt Lake City and Seattle, dated April 24, 1972, regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. A knowledgeable source furnished informat…
Page 478FBI Las Vegas field office teletype to Director and multiple offices regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. Reports on investigation into McCoy's possible travel from Salt Lake City to Las…
Page 479FBI Las Vegas teletype to Director, Seattle, and Salt Lake City offices regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. Reports that Lt. Col. at Nellis Air Force Base found no records of outgoing ai…
Page 480Header block identifying the file number 164-81, date 4/20/72, addressed to SAC Seattle, subject NORJAK. SAC Calame reported from Salt Lake City that they could not establish Richard Floyd McCoy's w…
Page 481Teletype routing header from FBI Portland office to Salt Lake City and Seattle offices, marked URGENT, dated April 21, 1972. NORJAK case identifier (FBI code name for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case)…
Page 482Header block of an FBI memo filed under 164-81, dated 4/21/72, addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. SAC Calame from Salt Lake City called regarding the McCoy suspect. McCoy had brown…
Page 483Urgent FBI teletype from Las Vegas field office (164-60) to Director, Salt Lake City, and Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. References a Salt Lake City teletype from April 17. The substantive body i…
Page 484Date of the airtel memo. FBI airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Minneapolis regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy. References a Minneapolis airtel dated 4/12/72 and requests Minneapolis obtain id…
Page 485Date of the document. FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Agents contacted a redacted individual at Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis who provided lift tic…
Page 486Standard FBI FD-36 Airtel transmission form header dated April 14, 1972. Airtel from SAC Charlotte to SAC Salt Lake City regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), office of origin Seattle. Concerns suspe…
Page 487Standard FBI teletype transmission form header, dated April 19, 1972, classified as NITEL priority. Handwritten annotation in upper right area of the page, likely a routing or filing notation. FBI…
Page 488Standard FBI teletype transmission header dated April 19, 1972, sent in plaintext via NITEL priority. Routing information showing the teletype was sent from SAC Los Angeles to the FBI Director and S…
Page 489Standard FBI teletype header showing date April 19, 1972, sent in plaintext with urgent priority. FBI Las Vegas field office reports on investigation of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. as NORJAK (D.B. Coope…
Page 490Teletype routing header showing urgent message sent from San Francisco FBI field office to Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Seattle offices on April 19, 1972. FBI teletype from San Francisco office requ…
Page 491Almost entirely redacted or blank page. A rectangular redaction box appears in the center-right of the page with a diagonal line extending from its lower-left corner. The FOIA exemption codes b6 (per…
Page 492Teletype transmission header indicating urgent message sent at 5:38 PM on April 19, 1972. Routing block showing the teletype was sent from Salt Lake City FBI office to the Director, Las Vegas, Portl…
Page 493Page two of a teletype regarding the investigation of Richard McCoy. Van Ieperen states McCoy made his first free fall parachute jump in October 1971 and subsequently practiced with the Alta Parachut…
Page 494Teletype routing header showing a night teletype sent at 10:11 PM on April 18, 1972 from Charlotte field office to Salt Lake City and Seattle field offices. NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) teletype referencing…
Page 495FBI Chicago field office teletype to Director, Salt Lake City, and Seattle offices regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Chicago is searching United Air Lines headquarters in Elk Grove, Illinois f…
Page 496Teletype transmission header indicating message number, time, date, and operator initials. Routing information showing the teletype is from Charlotte field office to the Director, Salt Lake City, an…
Page 497Teletype routing header from Charlotte FBI field office to Director, Salt Lake City, and Seattle offices, sent at 10:38 PM on April 14, 1972. FBI NORJACK teletype reporting that Richard Floyd McCoy…
Page 498Page header indicating this is page two of a multi-page document. Continuation of a financial review of a suspect's bank account. Reports balances on January 18 ($63.77), February 16 ($97.65), and M…
Page 499Teletype header from SAC Salt Lake City to FBI Director and SAC Seattle, sent 6:22 PM on April 13, 1972, regarding NORJAK case with office of origin Seattle. Review of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr.'s bank…
Page 500Page header with page number and FBI case file number SU 164-24. Continuation of an FBI report documenting mileage on a Volkswagen associated with Mc Coy, recorded from repair tickets over seven occ…
Page 501Page header indicating page three of a teletype with case number SU 164-24. Employment records of Mc Coy's wife show she applied for a position with Utah County Welfare Department on November 19, 19…
Page 502Standard FBI teletype header showing date April 27, 1972, plaintext format, NITEL priority. FBI Charlotte office teletype to Salt Lake City and Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Floyd McCoy J…
Page 503Standard FBI teletype form header with revision date 5-3-59, blank date and priority fields. Page two of an FBI teletype from the Charlotte field office (CE) regarding checks executed by Richard F.…
Page 504Teletype routing header from Salt Lake City FBI office to Director, Las Vegas, Portland, and Seattle offices, dated April 17, 1972 at 10:45 PM. FBI teletype under NORJAK case regarding suspect Richa…
Page 505Teletype routing header and page indicator, indicating this is page two of a message under file number 164-24. Request to check airline records for Mc Coy traveling under aliases D. Cooper, Dan Coop…
Page 506Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Salt Lake City regarding NORJAK case. Encloses three colored Polaroid photographs of a tie clasp and necktie found during search of th…
Page 507Teletype header indicating an urgent message sent from the Las Vegas FBI field office (file 164-60) to the Director, Seattle, and Salt Lake City offices, regarding the NORJAK case. Las Vegas field o…
Page 508FBI form header for newspaper clipping mount sheet, form D-350. Associated Press article about the FBI considering whether a hijacker who bailed from a United Airlines 727 with $500,000 near Provo,…
Page 509Left column of newspaper article discusses FBI agent Russell Calame's statements about the Provo lake search for hijacker T. Johnson, comparing the United hijacker (described as in his 20s) with Coop…
Page 510Teletype routing header from Charlotte field office to Director, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, marked URGENT, dated April 13, 1972, regarding NORJAK case with Seattle as office of origin. Charlotte F…
Page 511Page three of an FBI teletype (case CE 164-101) reporting on banking records at the Bank of North Carolina in Kinston. Myrtle Helen McCoy opened a savings account in her name and the name of Richard…
Page 512Teletype from Portland FBI office to Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas regarding the NORJAK case. References a tie and tie clasp found during a search of the plane in Reno, Nevada, believed worn…
Page 513Teletype routing header from Seattle field office to FBI Director, sent evening of April 12, 1972. Seattle reports that Richard Floyd McCoy's photograph was shown to nine witnesses across Portland,…
Page 514Teletype routing header from San Francisco field office to FBI Director, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, and Chicago offices, sent urgently on April 12, 1972. San Francisco field office reports t…
Page 515FBI teletype from Salt Lake City field office reporting results of investigation into suspect Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. in the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Acquaintances and records indicate McCoy was in…
Page 516Teletype routing header from SAC Portland to FBI Director and SACs in Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis, sent urgently on April 12, 1972. Portland field office reports results of showing phot…
Page 517FBI teletype from Salt Lake City field office to Director, Seattle, and Charlotte offices regarding NORJAK case. Reports that Walker Bank and Trust Company records show Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., subje…
Page 518Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle from SA Louis M. Harris Jr., regarding the unknown subject (D.B. Cooper) hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight #305 on 11/24/71, classified as hijacking and exto…
Page 519Header of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated 4/12/72, regarding the NORJAK case. The Special Agent name is redacted with b6/b7C exemption codes. A witness (name redacted…
Page 520Teletype routing header showing urgent message sent April 12, 1972 from FBI Director to Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, and Minneapolis offices under case number 164-2111. FBI Director teletype d…
Page 521File number and date header for the memo. Memo to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. On 4/12/72, the author spoke with SA Charles Shepherd in Salt Lake City about a Bureau teletype. Three stewardess…
Page 522Header block identifying the file number 164-81, addressed to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case, dated 4/12/72. Memo documenting a phone call on 4/12/72 to SA Henry Schutz at FBI HQ regarding w…
Page 523Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle, reporting that ASAC Bob Kent confirmed all three witnesses (annotated as stewardesses) viewed a photograph of MC COY and determined he was n…
Page 524Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. SA Ralph Himmalsbach in Portland reports that three witnesses (names redacted) stated that Richard M…
Page 525FBI teletype from Minneapolis field office dated April 12, 1972, reporting that three Northwest Airlines stewardesses were shown photographs of Richard Floyd McCoy and each stated with certainty that…
Page 526Priority or routing marker at top of teletype. Teletype routing header showing message sent from Salt Lake City FBI field office to Director, Portland, Minneapolis, and Seattle offices on April 11-1…
Page 527Case number and page header for a multi-page teletype or report. Continuation of a comparative analysis between the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case subject and a UAL case subject. Discusses parachute land…
Page 528Case reference number and page indicator for a multi-page teletype or report. Comparison of behavioral and physical evidence between the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case and a UAL hijacking case. Covers: s…
Page 529Internal FBI memo from a night clerk to SAC Seattle reporting that SA Bob Koehler of the Minneapolis Division interviewed two stewardesses from the NORJAK subject flight about similarities between Ro…
Page 530FBI San Francisco teletype to Director and multiple field offices regarding NORJAK investigation. Reports that Hughes Air West in San Mateo, CA made airline tickets available for review as requested.…
Page 531Header block of an internal FBI memo filed under 164-81, dated April 11, 1972, addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. SAC CALAME reported from Salt Lake City that ASAC KENT in Minneapol…
Page 532Teletype routing header from FBI Seattle office (file 164-81) to the Director, San Francisco, Chicago, and Salt Lake City offices, sent the night of April 11, 1972. FBI Seattle advises San Francisco…
Page 533Urgent FBI teletype from Salt Lake City field office to Director, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Reports that Richard Floyd Mc Coy, Jr. was arrested by Burea…
Page 534Header block identifying the file number 164-81, date 4/11/72, addressed to SAC Seattle, case name NORJAK. SA Dick Head from Salt Lake City called to advise that colored and Polaroid photos of Richa…
Page 535Teletype routing header from Salt Lake City FBI field office to Director, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle offices, marked URGENT, dated April 10, 1972. FBI teletype regarding Richard Floyd McCoy…
Page 536Header block identifying the file number, date, addressee, and case name. Author spoke with SAC Calame and SA Dick Head in Salt Lake City on 4/10/72. Calame confirmed black-and-white and Polaroid ph…
Page 537Internal FBI memo dated 4/11/72 from agent JEM to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. The author reports speaking with Mr. Schutz at the Bureau about the resemblance of Richard Floyd…
Page 538Header block identifying the file number 164-81, dated 4/10/72, addressed to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case. Memo documenting calls made on 4/10/72 to SAC HELD in Minneapolis and SA SHERK in…
Page 539File header indicating case number 164-81, dated April 10, 1972, addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Author called SAC Calame in Salt Lake City to report that the SALJAK case subject pho…
Page 540FBI FOI/PA deleted page information sheet for case 1:16-cv-01790-03 listing 42 deleted pages. Most pages were removed as duplicates. Six pages (124, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153) were withheld under FOIA…
Page 541Standard US Government memorandum form header. Memo routing information: from Special Agent John A. Drake to SAC Seattle, dated May 30, 1972, subject NORJACK. Handwritten annotation indicating sub-…
Page 542Header block of an FBI internal memo regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, addressed to SAC J. E. Milnes, filed under 164-81, dated April 5, 1972. Sheriff Richard Nichol of Chelan County reported…
Page 543Header block of an FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated May 4, 1972, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case and a redacted suspect name, referencing a prior SAC memo…
Page 544Header block of an FBI memo addressed to SAC J. E. Milnes, filed under 164-81, dated April 5, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case and a redacted suspect name. Body of the memo states that a memorandum f…
Page 545Black-and-white headshot photograph of an unidentified male subject. The image is grainy and degraded. The subject appears to be a white male with dark hair. Brief descriptive note about an unidenti…
Page 546Header of a US Government memorandum from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, dated 6/28/72, regarding NORJAK case, subject D. B. (LNU) number 389. A person at Edwards House Apartments, 2619 Fi…
Page 547FBI memo dated 5/18/72 from an SA (Special Agent, name redacted) to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Reports that on April 20 and 25, 1972, attempts were made to contact someone at the Edwards Hous…
Page 548Header of an FBI memo addressed to SAC J. E. Milnes regarding the NORJAK case, file number 164-81, dated April 5, 1972. The suspect's full name is redacted. Body of memo states that a memorandum fro…
Page 549Anonymous typed letter to the FBI reporting a tip about a man matching the D.B. Cooper composite drawing. The writer describes a man named Richard (going by Dick) with unknown last name, who frequent…
Page 550Standard US Government memorandum header addressed from a Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper), dated September 12, 1972. A witness (name and phone r…
Page 551Standard header of a U.S. Government interoffice memorandum from an FBI Special Agent (name redacted) to the SAC in Seattle, dated 9/12/72, regarding the NORJAK case. An FBI witness was shown photog…
Page 552Standard US Government memorandum header for case NORJAK (D.B. Cooper), from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, dated September 12, 1972. Memo documents that on 9/1/72, witness Cord Harms Zum…
Page 553Routing header of FBI airtel memo from Butte field office to Seattle SAC, dated April 5, 1972, regarding NORJAK case. Body of memo describing a lead regarding Raymond D. Berryhill, DOB 12/29/37, a s…
Page 554Header block of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, dated 4/19/72, with redacted SA name, case name NORJAK, and source designation. Handwritten initials or routing signature in upper right of memo.…
Page 555Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated 4/9/72, regarding SA Thomas J. Manning, subject NORJAK. A woman from Washington state telephonically contacted the Portland FBI office…
Page 556FBI form number and revision date printed in top-left corner. Header of the FD-302 form with sub-file number 392 and transcription date. FBI agents interviewed Billie Lee Mc Gill at the Sands Hotel…
Page 557FBI case file numbers for the investigation. Continuation of FBI interview with MC GILL regarding his noticeable limp, which he attributed to a parachuting injury in Des Moines approximately five to…
Page 558FBI case file numbers for the Seattle and Salt Lake City field offices. Mc Gill denies involvement in the Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hijacking and denies ever visiting Portland, Seattle, Oregon,…
Page 559Two large circular redactions obscure content at the top of the page, likely redacting identifying information such as a photograph or name. FBI case file numbers for the Seattle and Successor offic…
Page 560Header of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, dated 6/28/72, with redacted Special Agent name and FOIA exemption codes b6 and b7C. FBI NORJAK memo documenting that witness CORD HARMS SPECKEL viewed p…
Page 561Standard U.S. Government interoffice memorandum header. Memo from Special Agent Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle, dated 5/17/72, regarding NORJAK case file 164-81. An unidentified witness (name red…
Page 562Teletype routing header from Salt Lake City field office to Los Angeles, Seattle, and Omaha, marked urgent, dated April 18, 1972. Subject line identifying the NORJAK case and suspect Billie Lee Me G…
Page 563Case number and page indicator for this teletype continuation. Continuation of FBI teletype regarding subject Mc Gill. He claimed injuries from a parachute jump at Mason City, Iowa municipal airport…
Page 564Case number and page designation for this teletype page. Page three of a teletype communication regarding Mc Gill, a person of interest. Mc Gill possesses approximately $2,000 cash and plans to depa…
Page 565Case number and page indicator for this teletype continuation page. Directive to Seattle field office to set forth additional leads and investigation needed to eliminate MC GILL as a suspect. Standa…
Page 566Standard header of a United States Government interoffice memorandum from Special Agent Charles R. St. John to SAC Seattle, dated June 5, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. A witness was shown photogr…
Page 567Date of the airtel document. Airtel from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Encloses five copies of FD-302 interview with suspect Billie Lee Mc Gill for Seattle, and two copies…
Page 568Standard FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI FD-302 interview of Billie Lee McGill at the Sands Hotel in St. George, Utah regarding the Northwest Airlines hij…
Page 569Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel (air mail communication) from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Encloses two sets of photographs of suspect Billie Lee Mc Gill and requ…
Page 570Date of the Airtel document. Header block of an FBI Airtel from SAC Omaha to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on 11/24/71. Omaha field offic…
Page 571Case/file reference number for this report page. Continuation of interview regarding MC GILL. The interviewee states MC GILL has a serious alcoholic problem and history of leg difficulties. MC GILL…
Page 572Standard FD-302 interview form header with date April 24, 1972. An attorney at 510 Insurance Exchange Building in Des Moines, Iowa was interviewed. Billie Lee Mc Gill contacted the attorney on April…
Page 573FBI form identifier and revision date. Document header with page number and date. An unnamed member of the Iowa Board of Pharmacy in Des Moines was interviewed. He stated MC GILL visited his office…
Page 574Standard FD-302 form header. Page number and date of the FD-302 document. An unidentified source at the Iowa Des Moines National Bank advised that on March 28, 1972, an individual named BILLIE LEE…
Page 575FBI form identifier and revision date. Header of the FD-302 form. An employee at Des Moines National Bank, Des Moines, Iowa, reported that on March 38 (likely March 28), 1972, an individual identif…
Page 576Standard FD-302 interview report header. An employee of Iowa Des Moines National Bank recalls that on April 3, 1972, an individual identifying himself as BILLIE LEE MC GILL purchased a $3,000.00 cas…
Page 577Standard FD-302 form header with revision date. An official at the Iowa Bureau of Narcotics, located in the Lucas State Office Building in Des Moines, Iowa, vaguely recalls the name BILLIE MC GILL a…
Page 578Standard FD-302 form header with revision date. An FBI FD-302 interview summary documenting a Special Agent from the Iowa Bureau of Narcotics recalling BILLIE LEE MC GILL, a former assistant directo…
Page 579Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and interview date. FD-302 report documenting a review of VA Hospital records for Billie L. Mc Gill (SSN 371-24-4292), a white male Protestant born Sep…
Page 580Case file number OM 149-179, page 2 of a multi-page document. VA file C19-339-194 shows BILLIE LEE MC GILL called the VA Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa on April 3, 1972 at approximately 7:45 a.m. but…
Page 581Header block identifying this as a memo to SAC Seattle, case 164-81, dated 4/28/72, prepared by SA Ernest C. Smith regarding NORJAK. An individual in Washington (name redacted) was interviewed by SA…
Page 582Date of the memo. FBI airtel from SAC Sacramento to SAC Los Angeles regarding NORJAK case. Encloses a copy of California driver's license E889999 belonging to Billie Lee Mc Gill of 800 North Hidalgo…
Page 583FBI teletype from Omaha to Seattle and Los Angeles regarding NORJAK investigation of Billie Lee Mc Gill. Mc Gill was employed at the Iowa Board of Pharmacy in Des Moines for several years until 1970…
Page 584Continuation (page two) of a teletype or report about a subject named Mc Gill. Describes his hospital visit for pain in middle calf and excessive alcohol use; records did not reflect broken ankles. H…
Page 585Page three of a teletype regarding investigation of subject Mc Gill. A bank received a check for $251.68, difference paid in cash. No bank accounts or safety deposit boxes in Mc Gill's name. An attor…
Page 586Page four (continuation) of an FBI teletype regarding the D.B. Cooper investigation. Describes plans to contact a representative of Los Angeles at LAX airport to ascertain Mc Gill's form of payment f…
Page 587Teletype routing header from Las Vegas FBI field office to Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha, and Sacramento, dated April 11, 1972. Case caption NORJAK and subject line identifying Billie Lee Mc Gill. A…
Page 588Page header indicating this is the second page of a multi-page document. Subject displayed a last will and testament he claimed to always carry when flying, prepared by a law firm in Des Moines. Cla…
Page 589Page three of a multi-page FBI teletype regarding a subject named MC GILL who resembles the D.B. Cooper artist's conception. MC GILL departed for Des Moines for ankle treatment at a VA hospital, clai…
Page 590Page four of a multi-page FBI teletype directing field offices to investigate a person named MC GILL. Instructions include: determining if NORJAK ransom money was used in purchases; contacting a reda…
Page 591Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header. Addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, from a redacted Special Agent. Subject is NORJAK, office of origin Seattle. A redacted witness was shown photo…
Page 592Standard FBI memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sending Special Agent's name is redacted. On September 1, 1972, a witness in Seattle…
Page 593Standard US Government memo header addressed from a Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJAK case 164-81, dated September 12, 1972. Memo documents that on September 1, 1972, wi…
Page 594Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, dated June 28, 1972, regarding NORJAK. The sending Special Agent's name is redacted. Witness Cord Har…
Page 595Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Charles R. St. John to SAC Seattle, dated June 5, 1972, regarding NORJAK case. A witness (name redacted) was shown photographs of eight individuals o…
Page 596FBI memo from SA Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. On April 18, 1972, a DMV contact in Olympia, Washington provided a driver's license photo for Rex Allen Alexand…
Page 597Header block of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, with file number 164-81, dated April 12, 1972. Subject is NORJAK, sub-subject Rex Alexander. The SA field is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. A…
Page 598FBI case file number for the document. An individual reported that a subject was in the Washington area sometime during November. On April 6, 1972, a woman in Washington advised that after searching…
Page 599FBI case file number for the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) investigation. An interview on April 7, 1972 where a witness reported seeing a small white parachute in a pine tree near County Road 39 and Flaeger…
Page 600FBI case file number header for the Seattle field office NORJAK case. FBI report documenting a Clark County Sheriff's Office indices check on April 7, 1972. REX ALEXANDER and JOSEPH FERNAND A. AUGER…
Page 601FBI file number for this document. Physical description and biographical data for Rex Alexander obtained through observation and interview. Remarks section noting Joseph Fernand A. Auger (relations…
Page 602Date of the airtel memo. Airtel header block from SAC Jacksonville to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. FBI Jacksonville encloses two photographs of NORJAK suspect SYDNEY A. MARSH (FBI #150949…
Page 603FBI case file number header for continued page. Physical description and military service record for a suspect or person of interest. Subject was 5'11", 138-155 lbs, brown hair, hazel eyes, ruddy co…
Page 604Date of the AIRTEL memo. FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Miami to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. References prior teletypes and encloses three copies of an FD-302 interview report of…
Page 605Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI interview of Mrs. Geneva Brewer at a campsite in Clewiston, Florida. She and her husband Clayton Brewer reside in Erie, PA.…
Page 606Teletype routing header from FBI Miami field office to Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Milwaukee, with case file numbers for each office. Case name NORJACK, office of origin Seattle. Handwrit…
Page 607Page two of a teletype (MM 164-552) regarding D.B. Cooper / NORJACK case. The Brewers advised they have no information and have heard nothing from anyone concerning the unknown subject. Recipient off…
Page 608FBI teletype from Jacksonville to Milwaukee and Seattle offices regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). A person in Florida reported that during a discussion about NORJAK, someone jokingly referred to a…
Page 609Page two of an FBI teletype concerning Sidney Arthur Marsh, a white male in his early forties. Marsh was last known in Portland, Oregon eight years prior. Jacksonville files show a closed UFAP-worthl…
Page 610Teletype routing header from Miami field office to Seattle, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh, dated April 14, 1972. NORJAK case designation with Office of Origin Seattle. Miami field office…
Page 611Page two of a teletype (MM 164-552) from the FBI Miami field office. Reports that the Brewers have absolutely no knowledge of the hijacking or any subject using the alias D.B. Cooper. The Brewers are…
Page 612FBI teletype routing indicator Teletype transmission header showing message sent from Pittsburgh field office to Jacksonville, Miami, Milwaukee, and Seattle offices on April 13, 1972 at 6:28 PM. Pi…
Page 613Teletype routing header from Milwaukee field office to Jacksonville, Miami, Pittsburgh, and Seattle, sent urgent on April 12, 1972. A source in Wisconsin reported that on April 9, during a discussio…
Page 614Case number and page continuation header for FBI Milwaukee field office file 164-37, page two. Continuation of a prior page: a source described subjects as very intelligent and unlikely to fabricate…
Page 615Case number and page indicator for FBI teletype or report. Page three of an FBI teletype or report regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. A redacted individual stated that the only relat…
Page 616Case number and page indicator for this teletype page. Continuation (page four) of an FBI teletype regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Pittsburgh office is directed to interview a red…
Page 617FBI internal routing form dated 07/29/2004 from Seattle Squad 5/PSVCTF to Criminal Investigative, Laboratory, Seattle, Newark, and Salt Lake offices regarding the UNSUB aka Dan Cooper NORJAK hijackin…
Page 618Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Addressed to SAC Seattle, file 164-81, from a Special Agent whose name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Subject is NORJAK (FBI codename for t…
Page 619Standard US Government memorandum header addressed from SA Charles R. St. John to SAC Seattle, dated June 5, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking). Handwritten notation 'Sub 395' ap…
Page 620Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated April 24, 1972, sent via AIRTEL at Priority. Airtel from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, referencing prior correspondenc…
Page 621Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated April 7, 1972, sent via Airtel/Air Mail. Airtel from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Identifies Fred Angelo Catalano as…
Page 622Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. FD-302 interview report detailing the personnel file of TWA Purser Fred Angelo Catalano. He was hired in May 1962 as a cabin cl…
Page 623Page number and FBI case file number header. Continuation of an FBI report on Fred Angelo Catalano. Records show he returned to Los Angeles from Bangkok on TWA Flight 742 on November 22, 1971, and l…
Page 624Header block of an FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case 164-81, dated 8/1/72, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK case. The memo references SA Robert H. Wick's earlier me…
Page 625Header of an FBI memo from SA Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle, file 164-81, dated 7/5/72, regarding NORJAK case. References a prior rememo from a redacted SA dated 6/27/72. SA Wick reports that on Jul…
Page 626Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, file 164-81, dated June 27, 1972. An anonymous letter sent to the Seattle Post-Intellige…
Page 627FBI memo from SA Robert H. Wick, Seattle field office, case NORJAK (164-81), dated 6/15/72. References a prior memo by SA Jacobs dated 5/17/72. Reports that on June 14, 1972, a redacted DMV official…
Page 628Header block of an FBI memo from the Seattle field office dated 5/17/72, directed to SAC Seattle, regarding case NORJAK (164-81). The SA name and RE subject line are redacted. Agent reviewed the Sea…
Page 629Internal FBI memo from an unidentified agent (initials FPM) to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. States that a letter is attached which was provided by a redacted individual at the…
Page 630An anonymous tip letter to the FBI claiming to identify D.B. Cooper as living in Seattle, alleging he jumped from the plane near Ephrata, WA around 8 p.m., had two accomplices who hid him until Decem…
Page 631Standard FBI Identification Division Latent Fingerprint Section report header with form number and revision date. File reference numbers and addressee field for the report, directed to the Special A…
Page 632FBI airtel header dated September 19, 1973, from SAC Seattle to Director FBI, Attention Identification Division, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking). Subject line references a suspect w…
Page 633Standard US Government memorandum header from an FBI Special Agent to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. A redacted witness was shown photographs of 12 named individuals (…
Page 634Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Memo from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, dated April 17, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case (164-81). A King County Police Department det…
Page 635Header of a Washington State Bureau of Criminal Identification criminal record transcript form. The subject's name, bureau number, and FBI number are redacted under b6/b7C FOIA exemptions. Criminal…
Page 636Standard USG memo header addressed to SAC Seattle from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK case. A witness reported seeing a well-dressed man at the St. Helens Bar in Chehalis, Washington…
Page 637Brief internal FBI memorandum from a Special Agent (name redacted) to the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) regarding the NORJAK case. An unnamed individual (Wn.) advised on 4/15/72 that he wished to hav…
Page 638FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81 (P), dated 5/2/72, subject NORJAK, from an unidentified SA. RE line references a redacted source. A source in Washington state was shown…
Page 639FBI memo from SA Thomas J. Manning to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. A redacted source from Washington state reported that on or about the day after the hijacking, he observed a white male of…
Page 640Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, file 164-81, dated 5/20/87, subject NORJAK. Sender name is redacted. Indices/Manual/FOIMS/Confidential stamps appear at right. An…
Page 641Header of an FBI Airtel communication from New York office dated 12/8/72 addressed to SAC Seattle and SAC New York regarding NORJAK case, referencing subject Donald Sylvester Murphy. New York office…
Page 642File number and dictation/typist initials for Seattle field office file 164-81. An individual leasing premises in Bremerton, WA was contacted on May 2, 1972 and reported that the office space now oc…
Page 643Header of a US Government memorandum from a Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle, dated 5/1/72, regarding the NORJAK case. An FBI investigation memo describing an attempt to identify an indi…
Page 644FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (Seattle field office file 164-81). A list of golf courses and associated personnel in the Seattle and Snohomish, Washington area, apparently contacted…
Page 645FBI memo dated 4/27/72 from an unidentified SA to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. On April 22, 1972, SAs showed a photograph of an unknown male subject to individuals at the Edge…
Page 646FBI Seattle field office file number for the D.B. Cooper case. A redacted individual advised that the person in a photograph looked similar to someone who sometimes registers at the hotel. Checks of…
Page 647Header of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, file number 164-81, dated 4/24/72, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding case NORJAK and a 159-page manuscript sent to Seattle from the Bureau. Odomet…
Page 648Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. On 4/24/72, Bibler called the San Francisco FBI office and informed a redacted supervisor that a pac…
Page 649Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, from SA Charles E. Farrell, regarding NORJAK case (164-81), dated 4/24/72. Subject line references UNSUB and a redacted source. On 4/24/72, a redacted SA at a N…
Page 650Teletype routing header indicating a night teletype message from FBI Director to Seattle office dated April 24, 1972. FBI case codename for the D.B. Cooper hijacking investigation. Director instruc…
Page 651Standard FBI teletype transmission form header, FD-36, dated April 23, 1972, sent via teletype. Teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC San Francisco regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. A redacted ope…
Page 652Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with date of transcription April 23, 1972. FBI reinterview of a redacted subject at his residence in Seabeck, Washington. The subject is confronted with inc…
Page 653Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header with date 4/24/72, sent via teletype with URGENT priority. Teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC San Francisco regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Ref…
Page 654Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message from Los Angeles FBI field office to Director, Seattle, and New York offices, dated April 23, 1972. Reference to prior teletypes sent between Los…
Page 655Teletype routing header from Portland FBI office to Seattle FBI office, dated April 23, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. A Portland witness (name redacted) who was a Northwest Airlines employee view…
Page 656Urgent teletype from FBI Portland to FBI Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Reports that a second suspect photo was shown today among a group of seven photographs to a Portland witness who is a North…
Page 657Header of a United States Government memorandum from SAC J. E. Milnes to File 164-81, dated 4/23/72, regarding the NORJAK case. The RE line references a redacted source name. SAC Milnes reports call…
Page 658Header block of FBI memo showing file number 164-81, dated 4/22/72, addressed to SAC J.E. Milnes, subject NORJAK. Author called Asst. Director Bates in Washington on 4/22/72 to discuss Karl Fleming'…
Page 659Header block identifying the file number 164-81, date 4/22/72, addressee ASAC Paul R. Bibler, and case name NORJAK. SA Bob Stranger reported from Los Angeles that they had been trying to locate Karl…
Page 660Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header dated April 22, 1972, sent via NITEL teletype. Routing information: from SAC Seattle to FBI Director and SAC Minneapolis, regarding NORJAK case.…
Page 661Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header, with date, type, and priority fields left blank. This is page two of the communication. Typed portion of an FBI teletype regarding witness photo…
Page 662Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header, dated April 22, 1972, sent via TELETYPE with NITEL priority. Teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC Los Angeles regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case…
Page 663Standard FBI teletype transmission form header dated April 22, 1972, sent via teletype with immediate priority. FBI teletype from SAC Seattle to SACs in Los Angeles and Phoenix regarding NORJAK (D.B…
Page 664Header of an FBI internal memo from SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle, dated 4/22/72, regarding the NORJAK case. The RE line references a redacted source. On 4/22/72, an SA showed a spread of pho…
Page 665Memo header showing recipient (SAC Seattle), case number 164-81, date 4/22/72, routing to ASAC Paul R. Bibler, subject NORJAK. SA Ralph Himmelsbach reported from Portland on 4/22/72 that he showed a…
Page 666Header block of internal FBI memo showing file number 164-81, dated 4/21/72, addressed to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJAK case. The author reports that a facsimile photograph of the NORJAK UNSUB refer…
Page 667Header block identifying the FBI file number 164-81, date 4/21/72, addressed to SAC Seattle, regarding case NORJAK. Assistant Director Bates and a redacted SA called from the Bureau regarding a manu…
Page 668Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message sent from FBI Portland to FBI Seattle on April 22, 1972, regarding case files 164-81 and 164-41. Case code name NORJAK (FBI designation for the D…
Page 669Teletype routing header showing urgent message sent 4-22-72 from Washington Field Office to FBI Director and field offices in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle. Handwritten annotation…
Page 670ASAC Bibler memo to SAC Seattle reporting that 12 photographs were shown to a witness in Eugene, Oregon. The witness selected the photo of the UNSUB wearing a knitted cap as the most similar to the h…
Page 671Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle from ASAC Paul R. Bibler regarding the NORJAK case, dated 4/22/72. SA St. John reports that when a redacted individual was shown the UNSUB photo wearing a black…
Page 672Header block of an FBI internal memo from SAC Seattle (case 164-81) to SAC J.E. Milnes regarding the NORJAK case, dated April 22, 1972. A Special Agent at WFO reported that a stewardess (name redact…
Page 673File header showing case file number 164-81, dated 4/22/72, addressed to SAC J.E. Milnes, re: NORJAK case. Author called SA Ralph Himmelsbach in Portland on 4/22/72. The photo of an individual in a…
Page 674Internal FBI memo dated 4/22/72 addressed to SAC J.E. Milnes regarding NORJAK. A Special Agent called from Washington Field Office (WFO) and advised that an unnamed female witness looked at a second…
Page 675Standard government memorandum header from SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, sub-file H-14, concerning the showing of photos to witnesses related to an informant lead. SA R…
Page 676Header block of an FBI internal memo from file 164-81, dated 4/21/72, addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case (UNSUB). The RE line references a redacted source. ASAC from Atlanta advises…
Page 677Standard US Government memorandum header addressed from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle, dated April 23, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case (FBI code name for D.B. Cooper hijacking). The RE line refe…
Page 678Teletype routing header from FBI Seattle field office (case 164-81) to Director, New York, and Los Angeles offices, sent urgent on April 23, 1972. Seattle office provides background for a potential…
Page 679Page header showing this is page two of a Seattle field office document, file number SE 164-81. Records from the Edgewater Inn show a telephone call was made from a room registered to Fleming to a p…
Page 680Page header showing this is page three of an FBI serial document with Seattle file number 164-81. An unidentified individual and Fleming had dinner at the Windjammer Restaurant in Seattle. That same…
Page 681Page header with page number and FBI case file number. A redacted individual was shown two photographs — one of a man in a black and white knit cap with sunglasses, and another of a man at a curb in…
Page 682Page header with page number and Seattle field office case number. An individual from Seabeck, Washington placed a D.B. Cooper-related newspaper ad and claimed to have spoken with a man he believed…
Page 683Page header indicating this is page six of a multi-page teletype, Seattle file number 164-81. Instructions to forward photographs of a redacted individual and an unknown subject wearing a black and…
Page 684Urgent FBI teletype from Seattle to Los Angeles field office regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Seattle is sending photographs of a redacted individual via Western Airlines Flight 639, departin…
Page 685Standard FBI teletype header form FD-36 indicating a plaintext, urgent teletype dated April 23, 1972. Urgent teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC New York regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Photograph…
Page 686Teletype header indicating message sent from Seattle FBI field office to the Director, dated April 23, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. Minneapolis and Portland FBI offices report that NWA stewardes…