TeletypeUrgent teletype Salt Lake City to Director, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle re McCoy parachuting history19 April 1972page 2 of 2
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Part 110, page 493

DB Cooper-5019

Document date 19 April 1972

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VAN IEPEREN STATED MC COY MADE HIS FIRST FREE FALL PARACHUTE JUMP IN OCTOBER SEVENTYONE WHILE ON A FLIGHT WITH VAN IEPEREN. MC COY HAS MADE NUMEROUS MILITARY TYPE JUMPS AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW- ING HIS FIRST FREE FALL JUMP HE BEGAN PRACTICING JUMPS WITH THE ALTA PARACHUTE CLUB IN SALT LAKE CITY.

VAN IEPEREN WAS QUESTIONED CONCERNING POSSIBILITY OF MC COY AND OTHER NATIONAL GUARD MEN OBTAINING MILITARY FLIGHTS. VAN IEPEREN STATED USUALLY ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN FLIGHT IS TO PRESENT NATIONAL GUARD IDENTIFICATION CARD.

FLIGHT OPERATIONS, HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UTAH, HAS NO RECORD OF MILITARY HOPS BY MC COY IN NOVEMBER SEVENTYONE OR APRIL LAST. RECORD LOCATED OF FLIGHT BE ROBERT LARRY PATTERSON (CLOSE FRIEND OF MC COY), MC COY AND TWO BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON JANUARY TWENTYFOUR LAST.

CHECK OF SERVICE STATIONS, CEDAR CITY, UTAH, TODAY INDICATED DATES OF CHARGE TICKETS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFIVE AND TWENTYSIX LAST BY MC COY ARE PROBABLY ACCURATE DATES, HOWEVER BOTH SERVICE STATION OPERATORS STATE THEY HAVE MADE ERRORS IN PAST ON DATES ON CHARGE TICKETS AND COULD NOT BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN AS TO DATES.

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DB COOPER-5019[7]