Standard FBI FOIA header identifying this as a Deleted Page Information Sheet for case FOI/PA# 1:16-cv-01790. 53 pages deleted as duplicates. Deleted pages are: 2–4, 6–8, 11–14, 17–23, 25–52, 54–61.…

FBI FD-263 cover sheet for an investigative report filed by the San Diego field office, with Seattle as the office of origin. The case concerns the unknown hijacker aka Dan Cooper on Northwest Airlin…

FBI Seattle field office case number for NORJAK (D.B. Cooper hijacking). Continuation of an FBI investigative checklist (items 4–13) for evaluating NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) suspects. Items cover: aviati…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case, Seattle field office. Assessment that the unsub was not well prepared for the hijacking and likely always carries a pocket knife. List of behavioral a…

FBI Seattle field office case number for the NORJAK/D.B. Cooper investigation. Three observations supporting the assessment that the unidentified subject (Unsub) behaved in a gentlemanly manner duri…

FBI form number and revision date, partially redacted Standard FBI letterhead FBI FD-302 report cover page for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Documents the November 24, 1971 skyjacking of Northwes…

FBI Seattle field office case file number for the D.B. Cooper aircraft piracy case. Table of contents for an FBI summary report on the D.B. Cooper hijacking case (SE 164-81). Major sections cover th…

Seattle FBI field office case file reference number for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Summary statement that log excerpts from ground personnel on November 24, 1971, indicate the hijacker exited t…

FBI case number and page continuation number. On February 14, 1973, a representative of the Suncoast Division Office in St. Petersburg, FL confirmed that a redacted subject is currently employed wit…

Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo dated 11/20/75 from SAC San Diego to the FBI Director (Identification Division), regarding the NORJACK case with Seattle as Office of Origin. References prior airt…

An unidentified individual reported to ATF that a friend of theirs is D.B. Cooper, based on resemblance to a composite drawing, particularly the chin lines. Names redacted under b6/b7C per ATF. An S…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Seattle Division). FBI Laboratory request to compare known fingerprints of a redacted individual against prints obtained in the D.B. Cooper hi…

Standard US Government memorandum header identifying the memo as being from SA Tom D. King to SAC San Diego, case 164-91 (RUC), subject NORJACK. Date corrected from 9/26/75 to 11/21/75. An ATF Speci…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (San Diego field office, file 164-91). A female witness was shown a composite drawing and stated that a redacted individual is definitely not t…

Date of the airtel memo. Standard FBI airtel routing header from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Portland advises Seattle that a redacted individual from Oregon…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with date 7/29/76, sent via AIRTEL / AIR MAIL. AIRTEL memo from ADIC Los Angeles to FBI Director (Attn: Identification Division, Latent Fingerprint Section…

FBI case file number for this document. States that similarities exist between an artist's conception of the hijacker and recent photographs of a redacted individual, per a source. Introduction to…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office, D.B. Cooper case. A redacted individual departed in a rental car when the expected plane did not arrive. The individual was described by an SA…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. INS records review from Los Angeles dated 6/23/76 describes a Canadian-born male, 5'11", with a California driver's license and Social Security…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for this D.B. Cooper related report. Descriptive data form for an unnamed subject or person of interest. Physical description: white male, 5'9" to 5'10", dar…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Leads section directing Seattle and Portland FBI field offices regarding additional investigation of redacted subject(s).…

Teletype routing header from Las Vegas FBI field office (file 164-60) to Director FBI, Seattle, and Portland, sent urgently on November 25, 1971. Subject line identifying the case: unknown subject (…

Teletype routing header from FBI Director to multiple field offices, marked URGENT, dated November 26, 1971, referencing case number 164-2111. Handwritten routing or filing annotations indicating co…

Continuation (page two) of an FBI teletype instructing the Seattle field office to coordinate the investigation, submit daily teletype summaries, send all leads telephonically (confirmed by teletype)…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SAC J. E. Milnes to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case (Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hijacking on 11/24/71). Memo body regarding suspect Gary E. San…

Standard FBI teletype transmission header form FD-36, dated November 27, 1971, sent via facsimile nitel in plaintext. Chicago FBI field office teletype to Seattle and Portland regarding the hijackin…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with date, transmission method, and priority fields left blank. Continuation (page two) of an FBI teletype about a subject codenamed SANDAL. Describes his…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with date, encoding type, and priority fields left blank. This is a continuation page. Continuation page (page three) of an FBI teletype containing leads s…

Teletype header from Las Vegas FBI field office to Director, Seattle, and Portland, sent 11:52 PM on November 26, 1971. Handwritten routing or indexing annotations noting Las Vegas searched area, wi…

Teletype header with case number and page continuation marker. Page two of an FBI Las Vegas teletype reporting that a detailed aerial and ground search along the hijacked aircraft's entire route thr…

Continuation (page three) of an FBI teletype from the Las Vegas field office (LV 164-60). The text describes that a parachute was released from its cover prior to a certain time, and that the latter…

Handwritten filing annotations and a 'SUB FILE' stamp or notation in upper-right corner. FBI teletype from San Francisco field office to Director and Seattle, dated 11-27-71 at 12:24AM, regarding th…

Teletype routing header from San Francisco field office to FBI Director, Las Vegas, and Seattle, dated November 27, 1971, marked URGENT, 3 pages. Handwritten filing and routing annotations indicatin…

Continuation (page two) of a teletype or report describing the interception and radar tracking of Northwest Flight 305. An Air Force C-130 (call sign A50983) dispatched from Hamilton AFB intercepted…

Page three of an FBI teletype directing that original voice transmission tapes from Northwest Flight 305 are being transcribed by FAA personnel and will be made available to the FBI by approximately…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, regarding the UNSUB hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on 11/24/71. A redacted source advised…

Standard FBI memo header on Optional Form 10 from an unknown Special Agent (redacted) to SAC Seattle, regarding the UNSUB hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on 11/24/71. A redacted source ad…

Teletype routing header from FBI Honolulu office (file 164-85) sent to multiple field offices via Washington D.C. Case subject line identifying the D.B. Cooper hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight…

Page two of an FBI teletype discussing a lead in the D.B. Cooper case. A source advised that a firm entered bankruptcy several years ago and pertinent personnel records were destroyed. The source rec…

Continuation of a teletype (page three) describing investigative leads. Reports that none of the above individuals had matching birth dates for a redacted name. Honolulu Police Department and DMV rec…

Page four of a multi-page FBI teletype communication. Instructs Seattle office to consider advising the Bureau if not already done. Directs Honolulu office to review redacted material (referenced as…

Teletype header indicating an urgent message from Portland FBI field office (164-41) to Seattle FBI field office (164-81), sent at 5:31 PM on November 29, 1971. Subject line identifying the case as…

Teletype page header with case reference number and page indicator. Continuation of a teletype (page two). Western Skyways, Inc., a Cessna dealership in Portland, Oregon, advised on November 29, 197…

Teletype header indicating urgent message from Portland FBI field office (164-41) to Seattle FBI field office (164-81), sent at 5:31 PM on November 29, 1971. Case subject line identifying the D.B. C…

Teletype header indicating case number PD 164-41 and page two of the message. Western Skyways, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, a Cessna dealership, advised on November 29, 1971 that descriptive data in a…

Handwritten routing annotation indicating course of action and reference to tapes, sub I. Urgent teletype from Las Vegas FBI field office to Director and Seattle, dated 11-29-71, regarding the hijac…

Continuation (page two) of an FBI teletype describing events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. At 10:43 PM the aircraft reported being unable to contact the hijacker. Subsequent transmissions indicat…

Handwritten annotation referencing Cesana Aircraft, Lead 35, dated approximately 12/6/71 with initials. Teletype from Oklahoma City FBI office to Seattle FBI office regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacki…

Continuation header indicating this is page two of a multi-page teletype. FOIA exemption codes indicating redactions were made per FAA request under Privacy Act (b6) and law enforcement source prote…

Teletype routing header from Oklahoma City FBI field office to Seattle FBI field office, sent urgently on November 30, 1971. Subject line identifying the D.B. Cooper hijacking case: unknown subject,…

Continuation header indicating this is page two of a multi-page teletype. A redacted source advised that the letters 'KDR' resemble aircraft registration suffixes used in Kenya, Africa. A check of a…

FOIA exemption markings indicating redactions under b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforcement personal privacy) per FBI. Rectangular redacted block, likely containing a name or identifying info…

Exemption codes indicating redactions were made per FAA under b6 and b7C FOIA exemptions. Continuation of a teletype describing an individual's address at Caravel Apt. 402, Pacific Marina, Alameda,…

Page three of a multi-page FBI teletype directing field offices in Cincinnati, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles to conduct investigations related to a subject described as a look-alike to the…

FBI memorandum from SAC Seattle to file 164-81, dated 11/29/71, regarding suspect Gary Sandall in the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) hijacking case. An SA called from FBI HQ on 11/27/71 relaying information fr…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header dated November 29, 1971, sent via teletype with urgent priority. Handwritten marginal annotations referencing Cessna aircraft and 'sub. 35', likel…

Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message sent from Seattle FBI field office to Oklahoma City on 11/19/71. Subject line identifying the D.B. Cooper hijacking case: unknown subject on Nort…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum form header. Memo addressed to SAC Seattle from SA Donald J. Steele, dated 11-30-71, regarding the unknown subject who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight #305 on…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Donald J. Steele to SAC Seattle, dated 11-30-71, regarding the unknown subject of the Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hijacking on 11/24/71. The memo d…

FBI teletype form header indicating an urgent plaintext teletype dated November 30, 1971, with priority annotation 'SUB-SEARCH' handwritten. FBI Seattle field office teletype to Sacramento and San F…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header, page two continuation. Date field is blank on this continuation page. Page two of an FBI teletype (SE 164-81) directing multiple FBI divisions to conduct…

Teletype routing header from FBI Seattle to Sacramento and San Francisco field offices, sent urgently on November 30, 1971. Subject line identifying the D.B. Cooper hijacking case: unknown subject o…

Page header indicating this is page two of a teletype, with case/file number 164-81. Continuation (page two) of an FBI teletype directing field offices in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Seattle is…

Page header indicating this is page three of a multi-page teletype, with file/case reference number 164-81. Continuation of a teletype message (page 3) directing field offices to alert for aircraft…

Header of a US Government memorandum from a Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle regarding the UNSUB hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on 11/24/71. An FAA contact (name redacted) ad…

FBI memo header identifying the case as UNSUB hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305, Portland to Seattle on 11/24/71, classified under CAA - Hijacking; Extortion, with Office of Origin Seattle.…

FBI FOIA/PA deleted page information sheet for case 1:16-cv-01790, indicating 10 pages were withheld under FOIA exemptions b5 (deliberative process), b6 (personal privacy), and b7C (law enforcement p…

Standard FD-302 form header with FBI seal, form revision date, and transcription date of December 7, 1971. FOIA exemption markings b6 and b7C per FAA noted. An individual (name redacted) provided fi…

Teletype routing header showing urgent message from Houston FBI office to Director, Jackson, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and Seattle field offices with file numbers. Handwritten notation in cursive…

Form section listing family members (brothers, sisters, sons) and a friend of a suspect, with all names redacted and addresses listed as unknown. Houston arrest records reveal prior arrests for auto…

Continuation (page three) of an FBI teletype directing Seattle and Minneapolis offices to display a suspect photo to witnesses and crewmembers, directing the Houston office to investigate whether the…

FBI Seattle filing stamp dated December 7, 1971. Teletype routing header showing urgent message sent at 9:40PM on December 7, 1971 from Philadelphia field office to Seattle, Kansas City, and New Yor…

Continuation (page two) of a teletype or report describing an individual involved in a bank robbery at First Westside Bank, Omaha. The subject and an accomplice engaged the bank manager and his wife…

Mostly blank upper portion of the page with hole punches and faint markings. Page three of an FBI teletype describing a suspect with tattoos on the left forearm and left upper arm (details redacted…

FBI form identifier and revision date. FD-302 report dated 11/26/71 documenting that the ash tray from the seat reportedly occupied by the unknown subject (D.B. Cooper) was examined and found to con…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date. The reporting FBI agent presented a parachute recovered from the Northwest Orient Boeing 727 hijacking on November 24, 1971, to two Air Force ser…

Standard FD-302 form header with date December 1, 1971. Two employees at Penneys Store #44 on Maryland Parkway were interviewed and shown a black snap-on tie with a Towncraft label and #3 Penneys ma…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date December 1, 1971. An individual (name redacted) was interviewed at Reno Airport on the late evening of November 24 and early morning of November 2…

FBI case file number LV 164-60, page 2 of a multi-page document. A redacted individual states he had no direct contact with or observation of the hijacker and therefore could not provide a physical…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date December 1, 1971. FD-302 interview of a redacted individual (likely a crew member of NW Airlines Flight 305) at Reno Airport on the evening of Nov…

Case file number and page continuation number. Crew verified hijacker's intentions, contacted the airline company by radio, but did not alert passengers or activate hijacking transponder due to the…

FBI case file number and page continuation number. Continuation of hijacker's demands including flight conditions: destination Mexico City, gear and flaps down, altitude below 10,000 feet, cabin lig…

FBI file number and page continuation number for Las Vegas field office file 164-60, page 4. The hijacker stated he would take the bomb or disarm it upon departure. The aircraft followed the Victor…

FBI file number LV 164-60, page 5 of the report section. FOIA exemption stamps indicating redactions under Privacy Act (b6) and law enforcement source protection (b7C). Continuation of an FBI inter…

Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with date November 30, 1971. FD-302 interview of a Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hostess at Reno Airport on the evening of November 24 and early morning of…

Case number and page designation for this FBI report continuation page. Witness describes the appearance of what the hijacker claimed was dynamite, noting a reddish rusty color but expressing unfami…

FBI field office file number (Las Vegas 164-60) and page number 3 of the sub-document. The hijacker reiterated detailed landing instructions before arriving at Seattle-Tacoma Airport: all requested…

FBI Las Vegas field office file number for case 164-60. A flight attendant recounts events during the D.B. Cooper hijacking. After the aircraft landed and stairs were attached, she exited and receiv…

FBI file number and page number for this report continuation page. A female crew member made multiple trips to bring parachute packs (two chest packs and a back pack) to the hijacker. She observed h…

FBI file number and page reference for Las Vegas field office file 164-60, page 6. The hijacker told a crew member that once the rear stairs were lowered in flight, she could go to the pilot's compa…

Page header with Las Vegas field office file number LV 164-GO, page 7 of the document. A witness (name redacted) recalls details about the hijacker: he smoked Raleigh filter tips, knew the parachute…

Case file number and page continuation number. A female witness recounts that the hijacker secured money in something other than the white bank-type bag he had been furnished, and that she did not s…

Case number LV 164-60, page 9 of the report. A female crew member (name redacted) complied with a request by going to first class, closing the curtain, then proceeding to the cockpit and locking the…

Standard USGOV memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, dated December 9, 1971, regarding NORJAK case. Sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C FBI exemptions. Handwritten notation 'SuS1 23' appear…

Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle with case number and date, from a redacted Special Agent. Privacy Act exemption annotations indicating redactions under b6 and b7C per FBI. FBI NORJAK memo refe…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed to SAC (164-81)(P), dated 12/13/71, from an unidentified SA (redacted), regarding NORJAK case, office of origin Seattle. In response to a San Fra…

Header of a U.S. Government memorandum from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper), dated December 13, 1971. A Records Officer at U.S. Penitentiary, McNeil…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with date 12/10/71, sent via AIRTEL, AIR MAIL priority. Routing block: from SAC El Paso to Director FBI regarding NORJAK case, office of origin Seattle. H…

FBI case file number for this report page. List of known aliases for suspect Alvin Earle Cooper. FBI report describing records review at Federal Correctional Institution in La Tuna, Texas on 12/9/7…

Case file number header for FBI El Paso field office file 164-52. FOIA exemption markings indicating redactions made per Bureau of Prisons under exemptions b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforce…

FBI case file number for the El Paso division, case 164-52. Investigative leads assigned to the Albuquerque Division to locate Alvin Earle Cooper at two addresses in Albuquerque, determine his where…

Standard U.S. Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case (164-81)(P), dated 12/17/71, from an unnamed Special Agent. Handwritten sub-file number notation…

FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. States that a redacted individual is also known by a redacted alias (names withheld under b6/b7C BOP exemptions). Two prison p…

Privacy act exemption markings indicating b6 and b7C redactions per FBI. FBI Seattle field office memo dated 12/17/71 regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) investigation. Reports information obtained o…

FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. A redacted individual is identified by aliases. Two prison photographs of the individual were obtained and included in the fil…

Privacy exemption markings indicating b6 and b7C redactions per FBI and Bureau of Prisons. FBI airtel header dated 12/16/71 from SAC San Francisco to SAC Sacramento regarding the NORJAK case and a r…

Bureau of Prisons Classification Study form from United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas. The subject (name redacted) was sentenced on 3-23-62 to 30 years for Bank Robbery & Assault in the Di…

Bureau of Prisons Classification Form I-A listing relatives and interested persons for a committed individual. Names, addresses, and registration number are redacted under b6/b7C FOIA exemptions. Lis…

Header of Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form. Committed name and register number are redacted per b6/b7C BOP exemptions. Criminal history table listing 12 entries from 1944 to…

Header of Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form, page 2. Subject name and register number are redacted. Official version of the present offense describing a violent bank robbery o…

Header of a Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form (page 3). Committed name and register number are redacted. Continuation of a Bureau of Prisons Classification Study describing th…

Header of a continued Bureau of Prisons Classification Study form, page 4. Committed name and register number are redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Background on the subject's 1958 robbery in Sacram…

Header of a Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form dated 5-2-62, for an individual serving 30 years for Bank Robbery & Assault with a tentative release date of 5-14-82. Medical his…

Header of a Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form, with committed name and register number redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Recommendations section stating no formal psychiatric…

Header of a Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form, revised January 1955. The committed name and register number are redacted per b6 and b7C BOP exemptions. Educational evaluation…

Standard Bureau of Prisons Classification Study continuation form header with committed name and register number redacted under FOIA exemptions b6 and b7C. Notes on the inmate's religion (Catholic)…

Date of the document. Document header/title. Subject was evaluated psychiatrically. He had two prior hospitalizations: one in 1950 at Valhalla State Hospital in New York for pre-sentencing observat…

Dated April 16, 1962, a recommendations section states that based on a psychiatric examination, no formal psychiatric therapy is indicated. It is recommended that the subject participate in the overa…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated December 13, 1971, sent via AIRTEL. Airtel from SAC Philadelphia to SAC Seattle regarding the UNSUB in the Northwest Airlines Flight 305 hijac…

Continuation of a physical description form (page 2) for an individual in the D.B. Cooper investigation. Describes brown hair, blue eyes, multiple scars including a large burn scar on right inner for…

Header identifying this as an FBI FOIA/PA deleted page information sheet associated with case number 1:16-cv-01790. FBI FOIA/PA deleted page information sheet indicating 134 total pages were deleted…

Continuation of a duplicate-page listing from Page 68 through Page 134, each marked as 'Duplicate'. This is part of an FBI FOIA processing sheet cataloging pages that are duplicates of material found…

Header identifying this as an FBI FOI/PA Deleted Page Information Sheet for case 1:16-cv-01790-03. List of 20 pages deleted from the release, all marked as duplicates. Pages: 5, 6, 10, 11, 16, 29, 3…

Teletype routing header from Minneapolis FBI field office to Seattle, dated April 23, 1972. Minneapolis teletype to Seattle regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). References four photographs of an uni…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header dated April 23, 1972, sent via teletype. Teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC Los Angeles regarding NORJAK case. Seattle is sending photographs by cou…

FBI NITEL (night teletype) from Los Angeles field office to Seattle, dated April 22, 1972, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. References a Seattle teletype to Los Angeles and Phoenix from the s…

FBI memo from SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Describes two photographs of a male suspect wearing a black and white woolen cap with tassel and neck microphon…

Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to SAC Seattle regarding a phone call on 4/21/72 to the Bureau about a photo forwarded by the NY office. The photo was a Polaroid street shot showing licens…

Header block of internal FBI memo, file number 164-81, dated April 22, 1972, addressed to SAC J.E. Milnes, regarding NORJAK case. Author (likely SAC Milnes) called SAs in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, a…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, case 164-81, NORJAK subject, regarding an unsub informant interview. A redacted individual residing in Seabeck, WA was interviewed by an SA. He knew Karl Fl…

Teletype routing header from FBI Los Angeles field office to Director and Seattle, dated April 22, 1972. Los Angeles field office reports that photos of an unidentified male wearing a black and whit…

Internal FBI memo from ASAC Paul R. Bibler to the SAC of the Seattle field office regarding a phone call received from a Newsweek journalist on 4/22/72. The journalist's name is redacted. The caller…

Teletype routing header from FBI Phoenix office to Seattle office, sent 8:21 PM on April 22, 1972, marked IMMEDIATE priority. Two redacted rectangular blocks on the upper right side of the page, wit…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header from an SA (Special Agent) in the Seattle field office regarding the NORJAK case, dated April 21, 1972. A female source described an individual a…

Header block of an FBI internal memo in the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, file 164-81, dated 4/21/72, addressed to SAC J. E. Milnes, Office of Origin Seattle. ASAC from Atlanta reports two telephone ca…

FBI facsimile cover sheet from the Director, FBI to SACs in Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, and Los Angeles regarding subject NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Dated 4/21/72. The Photograph checkbox is mark…

FBI evidence photograph showing two dark rectangular panels or surfaces side by side, possibly fabric, material samples, or evidence items. A smaller inset photograph is overlaid on the lower-left po…

Standard US Government memorandum header. Addressed to file 164-81, dated April 21, 1972, from SAC J. E. Milnes regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking), Seattle field office origin. Subject…

Header block of FBI internal memo identifying file number 164-81, dated April 21, 1972, addressed to SAC J. E. Milnes regarding the NORJAK case, subject line referencing an unknown subject and a reda…

Standard header of a US Government interoffice memorandum from SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle, dated 5/17/72, regarding NORJAK (the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case). SA Farrell…

Header block of an FBI inter-office memo from SAC New Orleans to SAC Seattle, dated April 19, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. A female caller in New Orleans contacted the FBI on 4/11/72 after readi…

FBI case number and dictation initials for this page of the report. Redacted information about an individual living with a person of last name unknown (LNU), contactable through a Louisville connect…

Header of a US Government interoffice memo from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, dated January 30, 1973, regarding NORJAK subject Douglas Archibald Willows, Sub 402. Memo body describing sus…

Header of a US Government memorandum from an unnamed Special Agent (redacted under b6/b7C/b7D) to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJAK case, specifically demonstration of photographs to witnesses. List of…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. Sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. A redacted witness in Seattle,…

Standard header for a United States Government interoffice memorandum addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sending Special Agent's name is redacted. Intr…

Header line with SAC file reference, sub-file number, date 6/20/72, and redacted Special Agent name. FBI memo dated 6/20/72 regarding NORJAK suspect Douglas Archibald Willows. Boeing Company provide…

FBI case file number for the Seattle division D.B. Cooper investigation. A source (name redacted) provided information about a subject who worked at Boeing as a service engineer from June 1968, was…

FBI Complaint Form header with form number FD-71, revision date 7-21-67, and indices marked as Negative. Form fields identifying subject Doug Willows in NORJAK case 164-81, complaint received teleph…

Urgent teletype from FBI Portland (164-41) to FBI Seattle (164-81) regarding NORJAK case. A redacted individual from Washington state telephonically requested to be contacted by an FBI agent, claimin…

Date of the airtel memo. Airtel from SAC Baltimore to SAC San Francisco regarding NORJAK case. On 6/16/72, an individual at the National Ocean Survey in Rockville, Maryland advised she could not loc…

Date of the airtel. Standard FBI airtel header routing the communication from SAC San Francisco to SAC Baltimore regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. FBI San Francisco reports to Baltimore on a…

Airtel header showing communication from SAC San Diego to SAC San Francisco, dated 5/26/72, with file numbers. San Diego office reports that a female source in La Jolla, CA advised that the Coastal…

Standard FBI FD-16 airtel transmission form header dated April 25, 1972. Routing block showing an airtel from SAC San Francisco to SAC San Diego regarding the NORJAK case (file 164-220). A tipster…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The originating agent's name is redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. On Septem…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Dated September 12, 1972. A witness in…

Standard U.S. Government interoffice memorandum header. Addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81(P), dated 9/12/72. Sender Special Agent name redacted under b6/b7C. Subject is NORJAK, office…

Standard FBI FD-36 AIRTEL transmittal form header dated June 2, 1972. Routing block: AIRTEL from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Handwritten signature and a redacted block (b6/…

Case file number for the Milwaukee field office. List of suspect names furnished by various FBI field divisions (Seattle, Los Angeles, Alexandria). Most names are redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. G…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. FD-302 interview report regarding FAA employee RICHARD GILBERT at JFK International Airport. The subject had prior employment w…

Date of the airtel memo. FBI AIRTEL routing header from SAC New York to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, with subject name redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. New York office is forwarding…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmission form header dated April 28, 1972. Airtel from SAC New York to FBI Director regarding a NORJAK suspect. On 4/28/72, a contact at JFK Airport provided three phot…

Document type header indicating this is an FBI Airtel communication. Routing header of FBI Airtel memo from Director FBI to SACs in Seattle, New York, Alexandria, and Minneapolis regarding NORJAK ca…

Header identifying the document as an FBI FOI/PA deleted page information sheet with case number 1:16-cv-01790-03. List of 39 deleted pages from Part 111 of the Cooper file. 37 pages were deleted as…

Header block of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, dated February 16, 1973. SA name is redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. Case code NORJAK, Office of Origin: Seattle. Report…

Typist initials for the letter: SP (Stan Pitkin) and lf (secretary/typist). Handwritten sub-file reference number. Letter from U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin responding to a request from someone at the…

Newspaper or publication letterhead logo with decorative globe emblems on either side. Handwritten annotation indicating a sub-file reference number 406. Letter from the editor/writer at the Seattl…

Standard FBI teletype form header FD-36, dated May 11, 1972, transmitted via teletype with NITEL priority. Routing block showing the teletype is from SAC Seattle to Acting Director FBI and SAC Minne…

SA Waddington reports that Bob Matheson from SOG called to advise that an FBI Lab Report was en route to Seattle. The Lab determined that the photo of an alleged ransom bill printed on Page 2 of the…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header dated May 4, 1972, marked URGENT priority in plaintext. Teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC Alexandria regarding the NORJAK case. Seattle is forwardi…

Form identifier and revision date printed in top-left corner. FBI Laboratory Transmittal Form addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, signed by Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III. Reque…

Header of FBI Laboratory report dated May 5, 1972, addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. FBI Laboratory examination comparing a twenty-dollar bill photographed in the Seattle Flag newspape…

Faint routing or date stamp in upper left corner. Date of the airtel memo. Header block of an FBI airtel memo from SAC Seattle to the Director of the FBI, attention FBI Laboratory, regarding the NO…

Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message sent May 3, 1972 from Washington Field Office to the Acting Director (with attention to FBI Laboratory) and Seattle field office. Washington Fiel…

Brief FBI memo dated 5/3/72 from file 164-81 directed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. BA Robert Matheson called from the Bureau requesting that the microfilm showing photographs of the hija…

Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message sent at 4:19 PM on May 2, 1972 from Washington Field Office to the Director and Seattle field office. Washington Field Office teletype regarding…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header indicating urgent priority, dated May 2, 1972. Urgent FBI teletype from SAC Seattle to SAC Alexandria and SAC WFO regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Coope…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header dated May 1, 1972, sent via TELETYPE with NITEL priority. FBI Seattle teletype to Director and Washington Field Office regarding the NORJAK (D.B.…

Header block of an FBI internal memo dated May 1, 1972, addressed to SAC J. E. Milnes regarding the NORJAK case and the Seattle Flag underground newspaper publication. The author reports calling SA…

FBI memo from SA John S. Detlor to SAC Seattle dated 5/1/72, reviewing a May 10 Seattle Flag newspaper article about D.B. Cooper. The memo identifies four discrepancies between claims made by an inte…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated May 26, 1972. Sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Follow-up memo regarding a witness…

Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81 and date 4/28/72. Identifies the Special Agent (redacted) and case code name NORJAK. A Longview WA police officer reported that a local…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. Sender (Special Agent) name is redacted. A witness (name and telephone number red…

Standard FBI memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, dated 9/12/72, regarding case NORJAK. Sender (Special Agent) name is redacted under FOIA exemptions b6/b7C. An FBI witness was shown photogra…

Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, dated September 12, 1972. Sender (Special Agent) name is redacted. Subject is NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), office…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmission form header, dated July 7, 1972. Airtel from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Northwest Airlines stewardesses in Minneapolis were show…

Minneapolis field office case number for this investigation. The Minneapolis FBI Division is continuing to investigate LEONARD VERNON CARLSON of St. Paul, Minnesota, to determine his whereabouts on…

Date of the airtel. Document type and transmission method header. Routing information showing the memo is from the Milwaukee SAC to the Seattle SAC regarding the NORJAK case. Milwaukee FBI office…

FBI case file number for the Milwaukee field office. An individual at Railroad Salvage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin confirmed that RICHARD DRUMMOND DUKET was employed there as a driver's helper, working…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmission form header dated June 2, 1972, sent via AIRTEL. Airtel addressed from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Minneapolis reports on Richar…

FBI field office case number for Milwaukee field office, case 164-73. List of names furnished by various FBI field divisions as suspects or persons of interest. Most names are redacted under b6/b7C…

Handwritten date and suspect name notation added to the document. FBI AIRTEL from SAC Detroit to SAC Minneapolis regarding NORJAK case. An informant at a halfway house for drug addicts in Detroit re…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Memo is from an unidentified Special Agent to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper), dated October 21, 1975. A female source was…

File number and addressee header for FBI Seattle office memo. An informant reported through a Kitsap County Sheriff's detective that a source knows someone in Port Orchard whose uncle lives on a sma…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, case 164-81, dated 6/2/72, from a redacted Special Agent. Case name NORJAK, office of origin Seattle. Subtitle marked as 'CHANGED' with redacted source desig…

FBI Complaint Form FD-71 recording a telephonic complaint received on April 28, 1972 at 1:00 PM regarding an unknown subject (unsub) in the NORJAK case. Complainant information is redacted but reside…

FBI memorandum dated 9/12/72 from a Special Agent (redacted) to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Documents that on 9/5/72 a witness (redacted) was shown photographs of twelve name…

Standard US Government memorandum header from an FBI Special Agent (name redacted under b6/b7C) to SAC Seattle, dated September 12, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. A redacted witness in Seattle was…

Standard FBI memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. The sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Memo documents that on 9/1/72 witness Cord Harms Zum Spreck…

FBI Seattle field office memo from SA Robert H. Wick regarding NORJAK suspect Wendell Warren Wissler. On May 12, 1972, the Washington Department of Motor Vehicles in Olympia provided a driver's licen…

Internal FBI reference or routing numbers at top of document. FBI Seattle driver check for Wendell Warren Wissler of Bellevue, WN. DOB 1-21-21. Physical description: brown eyes, 150 lbs, 6-0, wears…

Teletype routing header indicating message sent to Olympia, Washington. FBI teletype requesting a driver's license check with description and a vehicle registration check for Wendell W. Wissler at a…

Standard FBI memorandum header on Optional Form No. 10. Addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81, dated April 26, 1972. Sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Subject is NORJAK (…

Two black circular redaction marks at the top of the page, likely covering hole-punch areas or classification stamps. An investigative lead directing the Seattle FBI office to contact Olympia, Washi…

Standard header for U.S. Government interoffice memorandum form (Optional Form No. 10, May 1962 edition). Memo routing information. Addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81, from a redacted…

Header of a US Government memorandum from a Special Agent (name redacted under b6/b7C exemptions) to the SAC Seattle office, regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. Body of the memo doc…

Standard US Government Memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), office of origin Seattle, dated September 12, 1972. Introductio…

Header block of an FBI internal memo from the Seattle field office, dated 5/16/72, regarding NORJAK subject #412, Richard W. Schultz. References a prior memo from 5/2/72. On 5/15/72, the Washington…

FBI memo header indicating case NORJAK (D.B. Cooper), filed under Seattle office case 164-81, dated May 2, 1972. The Special Agent name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. A Thurston County Sheriff…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Sender's name redacted under FOIA exemptions b6, b7C, b7D. On September 5, 1972, a redacted witness was shown…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. Sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemption. Introduction paragraph stating…

Standard FBI interoffice memo header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated 9/12/72. Sender's name is redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. Memo documents that on 9/1/72, witness…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81, dated June 28, 1972. The reporting Special Agent name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Subject line is NORJAK, the FBI code name…

Standard 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 redacted witness was show…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated June 2, 1972. Routing block indicating the airtel is from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Handwritten…

Case file MP 164-73 continuation listing names furnished by various FBI field divisions (Seattle, Los Angeles, Alexandria). Most names are redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. GEORGE AMES is listed as f…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated May 25, 1972, sent via Airtel with Air Mail priority. Airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Reports that photos of tw…

Date of the airtel communication. FBI airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Minneapolis regarding the NORJAK case, requesting Minneapolis advise on results of showing a photograph of the suspect to three s…

Date of the airtel memo. Header block of an FBI AIRTEL (air mail teletype) from SAC Seattle to SAC Minneapolis regarding the NORJAK case, with Seattle as the Office of Origin. Body of the memo stat…

Teletype routing header from Portland FBI office to Seattle FBI office, sent at 8:51 PM on May 26, 1972. Portland FBI office reports to Seattle that a witness from Eugene, Oregon who witnessed the N…

FBI inter-office memo from SAC San Francisco to SAC Seattle regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. The memo encloses a photograph for Seattle and relays information from the Chicago Office about i…

FBI memo header addressed to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Seattle field office, referencing case file 164-811 (NORJAK). Dated 8/31/72. The reporting SA's name and RE line are redacted und…

Header of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case 164-81, dated August 24, 1972. The sending SA's name and Re: line are redacted. A Special Agent provided a physical description o…

Header block of an FBI internal memo addressed to the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) of the Seattle field office, case file 164-81, dated August 15, 1972. The originating office is Seattle. The subjec…

Handwritten routing instruction at top right of form FBI Record Request form (FD-125) for Virginia Hill, a white female born 1/31/1924 in Wisconsin, 5'6" 114 lbs, brown hair, hazel eyes. Credit and…

Upper booking section of a Seattle Police Department Identification Report for Virginia Hill. Records an arrest at 3001 W Raymond, lists her as a 30-year-old white female, occupation housewife. Suspi…

Seattle Police Department booking form for Virginia Hill, arrested on November 5, 1950 at 2:23 PM at 5013 - 1st N.E. She is listed as a U.S. white female, age 26, occupation stenographer. The remarks…

FBI internal memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, dated 7/12/72, regarding NORJAK case (164-81), referencing a suspect and a prior Seattle memo dated June 13, 1972. SA name and suspect name are reda…

FBI Seattle field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Leads section directing the Seattle field office to attempt to locate suspect VIRGINIA HILL through her past residences. Notes…

Header block of FBI memo showing case number 164-81-3299, dated 6/19/72, assigned to NORJAK case, office of origin Seattle. A female informant advised on 5/31/72 that the subject had skydived extens…

Memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, file number 164-81, dated June 13, 1972, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK case and a redacted suspect. Credit and criminal background checks…

Internal FBI memo from file 164-81 dated 5/4/72 addressed to SAC J.E. Milnes regarding the NORJAK case. References an attached memo received from a redacted individual at the Seattle Post Intelligenc…

Anonymous tip letter identifying an unnamed man who closely resembles the composite drawing of hijacker D.B. Cooper. The subject quit his job at Puget Sound Navy Yard around the time of the hijacking…

Header block of an FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case file 164-81, dated January 30, 1973. The originating SA name is redacted. Case is NORJAK, office of origin Seattle. Handwritten an…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, dated September 12, 1972, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. The sender (Special Agent) name is redacted under b6/b7C/b7D exem…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking). The sending Special Agent's name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Record of a…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Sender's name redacted under privacy exemptions b6/b7C. On September 1, 1972, witness Cord Harms Zum Spreckel…

Header block of an FBI internal memo from the Seattle field office, dated 6/20/72, regarding NORJAK case number 164-81, concerning suspect John Stevens Whatley. Boeing Company personnel file review…

Date of the airtel document. FBI Airtel from SAC Phoenix to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Encloses an investigative insert about investigation in Tucson, Arizona, and four photographs of suspec…

File reference number and dictation initials for the FBI report page. SC agent conducted investigation in Tucson on May 15, 1972. Pima County Sheriff's Office had no records on John Whatley/Watley.…

Report header showing Phoenix field office file number PX 164-100, dictated by JDD/drc, page 2 of the document. Continuation of an FBI report detailing derogatory credit information found in JOHN ST…

Teletype header identifying this as a San Francisco to Seattle NITEL (night teletype) message dated 5/8/72 regarding NORJAK suspect John Whatley, also known as John Watley. A source in Palo Alto, Ca…

Case file number and page indicator for this continuation page. Continuation of an FBI report about a tipster who identified a person named Whatley as a possible D.B. Cooper suspect. Whatley is desc…

File number SF 164-228, page three of a multi-page teletype communication. Investigative leads assigned to two FBI field offices. Phoenix office tasked with running credit, criminal, and divorce rec…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header from an SA (Special Agent) in the Seattle field office to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. A witness was shown photographs of…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The Special Agent author's name is redacted. A witness in Seattle was shown photogr…

Standard FBI memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, dated September 12, 1972, regarding NORJAK case. Sender SA name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Record of photograph demonstration to wi…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, case 164-81, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Dated June 28, 1972. Witness CORD HARMS SPECKEL wa…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Charles R. St. John to SAC Seattle, dated June 5, 1972, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Handwritten annotation 'Sub 4/6' appears near the FRO…

Header of a US Government interoffice memorandum from SAC Miami to SAC Seattle, dated 5/9/72, regarding subject NORJACK (the D.B. Cooper hijacking case). Miami FBI office reports that on 4/18/72, a…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI interview of Stewart Kime at his Hollywood, Florida residence. Kime was employed as a sales trainer by H.D. Associates in W…

Header block of FBI inter-office communication (airtel) from Seattle to Sacramento field offices, dated June 8, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. Reference to a prior airtel dated 5/10/72. On 5/12/72…

FBI Airtel header from SAC San Francisco to SAC Sacramento dated 5/10/72 regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, file number 164-220. Handwritten annotations in upper-right corner, partially illegi…

Date of the document. Airtel memo from SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK investigation of subject Tom Harlan. Investigation conducted at Fresno, CA on 5/30/72 found no arrest record for…

FBI case file number for the Seattle (SC) field office D.B. Cooper investigation. DMV check on Harlan and FBI interview on 6/2/72. Harlan stated he had about two months of flight training at the Nav…

FBI case file number for this investigative report. Physical description fields for suspect HARLAN, listing hair, eyes, occupation, sex, race, and complexion. HARLAN is described as a white male wit…

Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Baltimore to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK investigation. References a Butte airtel dated 5/9/72 about Tom Harlan. On 5/19/72, a redacted source at th…

FBI field office file number BA (164-103), dictator/typist initials GTC;pep, page 2 of the document. Identifies the father and mother of a subject as Donald Rex Harlan and Helen Dean Harlan, residin…

Date of the document. Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Butte to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, referencing subject TOM HARLAN. A female informant from Montana (identity protected…

Bureau teletype reference number for this document. A female source describes a suspect named HARLAN: allegedly from Denver, attended U.S. Naval Academy in the 1960s, described as impulsive, anti-so…

Header block of FBI memo from Seattle field office regarding NORJAK case, subject line references 3 web-type straps. Sheriff Bill Closner of Skamania County provided two partially burned web-type st…

FBI memo from SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle regarding parachute harness remnants found in Skamania County. Earl J. Cossey inspected the remnants on 5-31-72 and positively determined they are N…

Teletype header identifying the message as a NITEL (night telegram) from the Seattle FBI field office to the Acting Director of the FBI, sent at 11:42 PM on May 31, 1979. The Seattle field office re…

Teletype header showing an urgent message sent at 8:15 PM on May 31, 1972 from the Acting FBI Director to the Seattle field office regarding the NORJAK case. Acting Director instructs Seattle office…

Memo header identifying the SAC Seattle office, case number 164-81, dated 5/31/72, from ASAC Paul R. Bibler regarding the NORJAK case and a parachute found in Skamania County. A Bureau supervisor (n…

Teletype routing header from FBI Seattle field office to the Acting Director, dated May 30, 1972, regarding the NORJAK case. Sheriff William Closner of Stevenson, WA reported that a person (name red…

Header block of FBI memo identifying file number 164-81, dated 5/30/72, addressed to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJAK case. An SA called from Stevenson, WA on 5/30/72 reporting that someone found what…

Header identifying this as an FBI FOI/PA deleted page information sheet with case number 1:16-cv-01790-03. List of 23 deleted pages, all marked as duplicates. Pages listed: 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 21, 41,…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding case NORJAK (D.B. Cooper), dated September 12, 1972. The sending Special Agent's name is redacted. Introduction stating th…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Sender (Special Agent) name is redacted. A witness in Seattle was shown photographs of 14 individuals as part…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, RE demonstration of photographs to witnesses, dated 9/12/72. Sender SA name redacted under b6/b7C. Witness Co…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header from SA John Lee Reep, Jr. to SAC Seattle, regarding NORJACK case, dated April 20, 1972. SA Reep reports that a photograph of Stanley Arthur Newnham was ob…

Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header identifying the memo as being sent from Special Agent Richard Avery Dyer to the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) of the Seattle field office, case file 164-81…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, file number 164-81, dated June 12, 1973, regarding NORJAK case. The reporting SA name and RE subject line are redacted. Memo body references a Portland airt…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Addressed from Special Agent Robert H. Wick to the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) in Seattle, file number 164-81, dated 5/16/73. Subject is NORJAK…

Memo header showing case number 164-81 addressed to SAC Seattle, dated September 21, 1972. An FBI memo under the NORJAK case. On September 7, 1972, a contact at the Vancouver, Washington Police Depa…

FBI internal memo from the Seattle field office regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. An SA references a prior memo dated 7/6/72 and notes that a review of Seattle file 164-81 failed to show that…

Header of FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated July 6, 1972. The Special Agent name and a line under NORJAK are redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. Memo refere…

Date of document. FBI airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle dated April 17, 1972 regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. A confidential source telephonically advised SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach about…

FBI memo header identifying Seattle field office case 164-81, dated 10/4/72, regarding NORJAK investigation. Special Agent name redacted. Interview report from the wife of WILLIAM (BILL) CRANE of Re…

FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Physical description of suspect WILLIAM FRANKLIN CRANE: born 1/28/25 in Newark, NJ, 6'1", 175-180 lbs, dark brown curly h…

Header block of an FBI internal memo addressed to SAC Seattle, file 164-81, dated 8/4/72, regarding NORJAK subject Bill Crane #422. The SA name is redacted. Handwritten annotation reads 'Sub 422'. R…

Date of the AIRTEL memo. Oklahoma City SAC reports to Seattle SAC regarding NORJAK suspect WAYNE MORRIS ZARICOR, a USAF Major. Vance AFB records show he transferred to 8th Tactical Fighter Wing (Ubo…

Oklahoma City FBI field office case number reference. FBI Oklahoma City office reviewed a subject's flight log book showing he was in Enid, OK on 11/24/71, no entry for 11/25/71 (date of Cooper hija…

FBI NITEL teletype from Oklahoma City field office to Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Wayne Morris Zaricor. Reports that FAA Oklahoma City provided information about an aircraft with a redacted seri…

Page two of a teletype (OC 164-56) regarding Wayne Morris Zaricor, a commercial pilot and instructor located via the FAA Center in Oklahoma. A confidential source provided his physical description (6…

Dark redacted stamp or classification marking in upper left corner. FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Oklahoma City regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. A female informant from Renton, Was…

FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Describes events around November 27, 1971: an individual left a dark attache case in a car trunk, stayed overnight, and C…

Continuation of a subject description from a prior page, listing physical characteristics (5'10", 180 lbs, age 40, brown hair) and occupation as a flying instructor at a club in Oklahoma City. Case f…

Header of an FBI internal memo from the Seattle field office, dated 7/12/72, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case) suspect 422, William F. Crane. The Special Agent name is redacted under b6/b7C FOIA ex…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated 5/11/72, with NORJACK case title. b6/b7C exemption codes noted in right margin. A representative from Seattle Investigative Agency…

Memo header identifying the SAC Seattle office, case number 164-81, date 9/15/72, addressed from a redacted Special Agent, with NORJACK case designation and handwritten Sub 423 notation. Reference l…

Internal FBI memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. An anonymous male caller on 5/8/72 reported that a caretaker at a girls' camp near Lake Merwin, Washington,…

Standard FD-302 interview report form header with date of transcription. Handwritten filing or sub-file annotations, likely indicating sub-file routing designations. A witness in Eugene, Oregon was…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated October 4, 1972. Routing block showing the airtel is from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Handwritten an…

Standard USG memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sending Special Agent's name is redacted. On September 5, 1972, a witness (name redac…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Seattle FBI office, case file 164-81, dated September 12, 1972. The subject is NORJAK (FBI code name for…

Header of a US Government memorandum from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, dated 9/12/72, regarding NORJAK case. A witness, Cord Harms Zum Spreckel of Color Control Inc., was shown photograp…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header dated July 7, 1972, sent via AIRTEL. Airtel from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Notations 'SWB', '408', and '427' appear in the…

FBI Airtel header block dated 6/19/72, from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. References prior communications between LA, Seattle, and Minneapolis field offices. A suspect name i…

FBI field office case number for the Los Angeles office. FBI investigation at Long Beach and Redondo Beach, CA revealed details about suspect HARVELL (DOB 7/25/41, white male, 5'7"-5'8", 155 lbs, br…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. A redacted block appears to the right of the FROM/SUBJECT lines, likely containing a…

FBI case file number for the Milwaukee field office portion of the D.B. Cooper investigation. List of suspect names furnished by various FBI field divisions. Most names are redacted under b6/b7C FOI…

Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo dated 5/25/72, from SAC Portland (164-41) to SAC Seattle (164-81), regarding the NORJAK case. Portland FBI office reports that photos of two suspects were shown in…

FBI airtel from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Encloses two photographs of a redacted suspect taken by the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Santa Ana, California in 1964, for…

Document date. FBI AIRTEL routing header from Sacramento field office to Seattle field office, referencing NORJAK case. Circled number 272 and handwritten routing notation /A. Sacramento FBI offic…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated May 16, 1972, sent via AIRTEL with REGISTERED MAIL priority. FBI airtel from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. References…

Teletype routing header from Los Angeles FBI field office to Seattle and Sacramento offices, sent the evening of May 15, 1972. Case designation NORJAK (FBI code name for the D.B. Cooper hijacking) w…

FBI Seattle memo dated 3/18/74 regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case 164-81). A Las Vegas letter dated 3/8/74 suggested an individual as a suspect because he resembled the artist's conception of the UNS…

FBI inter-office memo header addressed from Las Vegas to Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated 3/8/74. Las Vegas office reports that there is no street named Fairlane or Faircross in Reno, Nevada, an…

Header of FBI inter-office communication (airtel) from SAC Seattle to SAC Las Vegas, dated February 4, 1974, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. The subject line after 'Re:' is redacted under b6…

Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo dated January 16, 1974, from SAC Seattle to SAC Las Vegas, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Office of Origin is Seattle. Seattle office forwards a copy of…

Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo dated January 7, 1974, from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, referencing earlier Seattle airtels to Las Vegas dated 12/27/73 ab…

Airtel header from SAC Seattle to SAC Las Vegas dated 12/27/73, regarding NORJAK case. RE line is redacted. Seattle office is reviewing the NORJAK file and has determined that a redacted suspect has…

Date of the airtel document. Standard FBI airtel header from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Las Vegas field office reports unsuccessful search of Reno public utilities for…

FBI inter-office memo header from SAC Indianapolis to SAC Las Vegas regarding the UNSUB (D.B. Cooper) hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305. File number 164-62. A brief physical description frag…

FBI case file number IP 164-62, dated September 13, 1972. An informant describes an unidentified subject as a white male, 5'11", 190 lbs, intelligent, with a midwestern accent who possessed a pilot'…

Standard FBI memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle (case 164-81), dated 6/6/72, from a Special Agent (name redacted), subject NORJACK. A person at Boeing Co, Everett, WA reported that a machini…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle from a redacted Special Agent, dated 5/19/72, subject NORJACK. A Boeing Security investigator in Everett reported that a…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated July 10, 1972. Special Agent name redacted. Case name NORJAK, office of origin Seattle. An Enumclaw police detective reported no r…

Date of the airtel memo. Standard FBI airtel routing header from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Anonymous male caller reported to the Portland Office on 5/19/72 that an unid…

FOIA exemption codes indicating redactions for personal privacy (b6) and law enforcement personal privacy (b7C). Handwritten investigative notes, likely interview questions or follow-up action items…

Header block of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81-3463, dated 9/21/72. The Special Agent name is redacted. Case name NORJAK with sub-case reference 428. FOIA exemption code…

Header of FBI Record Request form FD-125, dated revision 3-30-71. Credit Bureau check initiated 5/2/72. Birth, Credit, and Criminal checkboxes are marked. File number is 164-81. Standard and Federal…

Standard FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle, file 164-81, dated 5/31/72, with Special Agent name redacted. Subject line is NORJAK, the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. At 11:10…

Handwritten annotations indicating sub-file number 429 and the word FLIMINATE or ELIMINATE. FBI airtel from SAC Minneapolis to Acting Director FBI regarding NORJAK investigation. SA Wesley A. Anders…

Case file reference number for the Minneapolis FBI field office. St. Paul Police Department source advises that Leonard Vernon Carlson, a retired Army member, was arrested 11 times for drunkenness a…

Continuation page (page 3) of an FBI report under case number MP 164-73. States that the only address on record for CARLSON is P.O. Box 3551, St. Paul. No further inquiry is being conducted concernin…

Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Northwest Airlines stewardesses in Minneapolis were shown photographs of suspects…

Minneapolis field office case number designation. Handwritten annotation, possibly a routing or page number. The Minneapolis FBI Division is continuing its investigation of Leonard Vernon Carlson,…

Document type header indicating an airtel communication. Date of the airtel. FBI airtel dated 5/30/72 from the Acting Director, FBI to SAC Minneapolis regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Leonard V…

Handwritten suspect sub-number annotation. FBI inter-office memo from Portland to Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Robert W. Harsha (Sub. No. 430). Portland investigation established that Harsha wor…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated September 18, 1973, sent via AIRTEL/AIRMAIL in plaintext. Airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK suspect #430, Robert W. Har…

Date of the document. FBI airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK investigation. Reports on suspect Robert W. Harsha, providing his address, physical description (DOB 1/25/25,…

Date and teletype header indicating plaintext nitel communication dated June 5, 1972. Handwritten annotation near the header, likely a lead number and subject surname. FBI teletype from Oklahoma Ci…

Continuation (page two) of a teletype referencing case OC 164-56 and 164-01, stating that it was determined no aircraft was registered to a person named Harsha. Sent via AMCC Seattle. Second teletyp…

Date of the teletype. Handwritten annotations referencing sub-file number 4/30 and suspect Harsha filed under PP/4. FBI Portland teletype to Oklahoma City regarding NORJAK suspect Robert W. Harsha.…

Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message sent June 1, 1979 from Seattle FBI field office to Portland FBI field office. FBI NORJAK teletype reporting that a Clark County Sheriff's deputy…

Continuation header indicating this is page two of a teletype, referencing case file 164-81 (D.B. Cooper case). Continuation of a teletype message directing the Portland field office to contact a re…

Header of an FBI AIRTEL memo dated June 12, 1972, from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) investigation. A redacted individual was contacted and advised they have little…

Portland FBI teletype to Seattle regarding a NORJAK suspect who was eliminated from the investigation. A source in Portland confirmed the suspect played pool all evening on November 24, 1971 and spen…

Header block of an FBI internal memo addressed to the SAC (Special Agent in Charge), case file 164-81, dated 6/12/72, regarding the NORJAK case with the originating office as Seattle. A protected so…

Continuation of an FBI investigative report (SE 164-81) describing a person of interest in the D.B. Cooper case. The subject has parachuting experience through U.S. Army paratrooper service, attended…

Header of FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, with suspect name redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Portland field office reports that inquiry at a Portland, Oregon…

Teletype routing header from FBI Seattle office (file 164-81) to Portland, sent at 10:44 PM on June 6, 1972. FBI Seattle teletype to Portland regarding NORJAK case. A confidential source advised tha…

Continuation header indicating this is page two of a teletype, with case number fragment 164-81. Continuation of a teletype message. A redacted individual is employed at a redacted location in Portl…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Seattle with case number 164-81-3472, dated 9/21/72, NORJAK case designation with signature. On 8/16/72, Kitsap County Sheriff's Office in Port Orchard, WA reported…

Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Encloses two copies of an FD-302 documenting a telephone call from an individual (n…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date June 2, 1972. A former Kitsap County deputy sheriff called the FBI from Las Vegas to report information about the D.B. Cooper case. He described a…

FBI case file numbers and continuation page number for Seattle and Las Vegas field offices. A redacted witness further states that HUGHES used to recount his experiences serving as a paratrooper in…

Standard USG memo header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sending Special Agent's name is redacted under b6/b7C/b7D exemptions. An FBI witness was sh…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. A redacted witness in Seattle, WA (phone MA 4-…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sender (Special Agent) name is redacted. Introduction paragraph describing that…

Header of FBI inter-office memo from SAC Sacramento to SAC Seattle, dated 6/22/72, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) air piracy case. References a prior San Francisco letter dated 6/2/72 and notes…

FBI case file number for this document. An unidentified person provided a photograph of a redacted individual. On June 20, 1972, a duplicate California driver's license for a redacted person was obt…

Standard FBI inter-office memo header routing from SAC San Francisco to SAC Sacramento, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, CAA - AIR PIRACY, Office of Origin Seattle. A San Jose, California inform…

Memo header identifying the sending and receiving SAC offices, case name NORJAK, and subject line referencing an unknown subject and a redacted source. A source in Portland was contacted on 8/23/72…

Date of the document. Standard FBI AIRTEL routing header from Seattle SAC to Portland SAC regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper hijacking) case. A Western Airlines employee at Sea-Tac reported on 6/7/7…

FBI memo dated 4/27/72 directed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. A redacted individual from the Bureau of Customs called on 4/26/72 and reported that one of their personnel at SEA-TAC had sp…

Header identifying the document as an FBI FOIA/PA Deleted Page Information Sheet with case number 1:16-cv-01790-03. List of 27 deleted pages with reasons. Pages 5, 6, 8, 10, 85, 88, 105, 107, 113, 1…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper), dated September 12, 1972. On September 5, 1972, a redacted…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated September 12, 1972. The sender (Special Agent) name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. An FBI agent s…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated 9/12/72. The sender's name is redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Memo documents that on 9/1/72, witn…

Header of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated 5/3/72. SC line is redacted. Exemption codes b6 and b7c noted in margin. An unidentified person telephonically contacted the Se…

Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, from a redacted Special Agent, dated December 5, 1972. Subject is demonstration of photographs to witnesses,…

Header of FBI memo addressed to SAC Seattle, case number 164-81, dated 12/27/72. Special Agent name redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Case codename NORJAK, sub-file 436. Office of Origin: Seattle. F…

Header block of an FBI memo from SA Thomas J. Manning to SAC Seattle, dated 12/6/72, regarding NORJAK subject Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr., Sub 436. Investigation at Longview, WA found limited informa…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Addressed from a Special Agent (name redacted) to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking), dated December 5, 1972. Introd…

Standard header for a US Government interoffice memorandum from a Special Agent to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, specifically demonstration of photographs to witnesses, Sub HH. A witness (n…

Date of the airtel. FBI airtel from SAC Butte to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK subject Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr. (SUB 436). States that the only verification of the subject's whereabouts on the day…

Date stamp at top of document. Airtel memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Butte regarding NORJAK suspect Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr. (Sub 436). Seattle confirms the subject's location on Thanksgiving Day wa…

Date of the airtel. Airtel from SAC Butte to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. References a previous airtel dated 9/1/72 and a nitel dated 6/7/72. Reports that Mrs. Sarmonia Johnson of Big Fork…

FBI memo header showing case number 164-81, dated 9/5/72, from Seattle field office, NORJAK case. Memo references prior communications from Butte and Los Angeles offices. Notes that the suspect's fa…

Date of the airtel document. Handwritten annotation indicating sub-file number 436. FBI airtel header from SAC Seattle to SAC Butte regarding NORJAK case, specifically suspect Ben Franklin Stephens…

FBI AIRTEL from SAC Butte to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr. Reports that Stephens was photographed on 8/25/72 at Kalispell, Montana. Stephens stated he was at the res…

Date of the airtel document. Standard FBI AIRTEL header routing the communication from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Butte regarding the NORJAK case with Seattle as the Office of Origin. Body of the airtel…

Memo header identifying the SAC Seattle office, case number 164-81, dated 6/8/72, from SA Charles E. Farrell, regarding NORJAK case subject Ben Franklin Stephens. A redacted individual appeared at t…

Teletype from Las Vegas FBI field office to Butte and Seattle regarding NORJACK case. Artley C. Stephens reports that suspect Ben Franklin Stephens is currently at Flat Head Lake, Kalispell, Montana…

Page three of a multi-page FBI teletype regarding a D.B. Cooper suspect. The suspect's father was interviewed; he did not know the suspect's current employment but heard he had been in business in Mi…

Final page (page three) of an FBI teletype message. Seattle office is attempting to ascertain the whereabouts of Albert Stephens at Long View (Longview, Washington). Message ends with sign-off codes…

Teletype routing header from Butte FBI field office to Seattle, Las Vegas, and Portland offices, dated June 7, 1972. Butte FBI office reports on suspect Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr. in the NORJAK (D.B…

Teletype routing identifier and page number indicating this is the second page of message BT 164-26. Continuation of an FBI teletype (page two) regarding a D.B. Cooper suspect. Mrs. Johnson states t…

FBI NITEL (night teletype) from Butte field office to Seattle, Las Vegas, and Portland regarding NORJAK suspect Ben Franklin Stephens, Sr. Reports that Great Falls Police Department records show thre…

Teletype header indicating case number 164-26, page two of a multi-page teletype. A source claims no knowledge of suspect's current whereabouts. The suspect's daughter in Seattle allegedly contacted…

Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message sent from Seattle FBI field office to Butte, Las Vegas, and Portland offices on June 5, 1972, at 1:55 PM. Case file numbers 164-series are listed…

Page header with page number and case file reference number. A source reports that a redacted individual living in Las Vegas, Nevada resembles the artist's conception of the hijacker, fits the physi…

Page header indicating this is page three of a teletype under FBI case number 164-31. Instructions from Butte field office to Las Vegas and Portland. Butte will determine the first name of a redacte…

Standard US Government Memorandum form header addressed from an SPC (redacted name) to SAC Seattle, file 164-81, dated 6/4/72, subject NORJAK. An unidentified caller (name redacted) phoned the Seatt…

Handwritten investigative notes listing a person's mother as Edna M Spike, located in Tucson, Arizona, associated with St Marys Hospital. 'REL' likely abbreviates 'Relatives' or 'Religion'. The word…

FBI inter-office memo from SAC Denver to SAC Seattle dated 10/12/73 regarding the NORJAK case. Denver is forwarding nine copies of interviews of a redacted stewardess and Harvey Walter Gray, plus nin…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. A redacted witness in Aurora, Colorado was shown photographs of two subjects—ALVIN CURTIS HARTLEY (subject 437) and HARVEY W. G…

FBI form identifier and revision date. Document header with transcription date. FD-302 interview of Harvey Walter Gray at his Lamar, Colorado residence by SA Ladislaus Scroggins regarding an airpla…

FBI case number and page number header for continuation page. Continuation of a prior paragraph stating the subject never attempted to hijack an airplane. Subject reported living in Pottstown, PA as…

File designation and agent initials for the report page. Handwritten notation, possibly a sub-file or routing mark. FBI investigation report by SA Ben C. Brower documenting inquiries in Grand Junct…

File number and page indicator for this FBI investigative report, page 2 of the document. A redacted individual is identified as being associated with First National Bank of Grand Junction, Colorado…

Header of a US Government interoffice memorandum from SAC Denver to SAC Salt Lake City regarding NORJAK case, specifically suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley (SUB 437). Body of the memo states that finger…

Header block of FBI inter-office memo addressed from Chicago to Seattle regarding NORJAK case 164-81, dated September 13, 1973. Handwritten sub-file notation 'Sub 437' written in pen. The memo refe…

Header block of an FBI airtel memo dated 8/22/73 from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Denver regarding NORJAK case, subject ALVIN CURTIS HARTLEY, Sub #37. Handwritten notation indicating sub-file number 4…

A witness positively identified a photograph of ALVIN CURTIS HARTLEY as someone who visited his bar on the afternoon of 8/18/73. HARTLEY had stated a name was given to him by a redacted individual (p…

Header of FBI Identification Division Latent Fingerprint Section report form 1-336 (Rev. 7-16-73), addressed to SAC Denver regarding the NORJAK case, dated August 1, 1973. FBI fingerprint comparison…

Header block of FBI Latent Fingerprint Section report form 1-336, dated August 1, 1973, addressed to SAC Denver, with file numbers 164-S8, 164-2111, and latent case number L-45410. Handwritten sub-f…

Teletype routing header from Minneapolis field office to Seattle, sent at 5:45 PM on July 31, 1973. A former Northwest Orient Airlines stewardess (name redacted) reviewed a photograph of suspect Alv…

Case number and page indicator for Minneapolis field office file 164-73, page two of a multi-page teletype. A redacted individual at Northwest Airlines (NWAL) advised on 7/30/73 that she contacted s…

FBI airtel memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Denver regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case) suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley, Sub #437. Seattle is forwarding two photographs of the suspect and instructing Denver…

Date of the airtel. FBI airtel from SAC Denver to Director FBI (Identification Division) regarding NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley (Sub. 437). Encloses major case elimination fingerprints and ni…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header. Page numbering and transcription date. FBI interview of Alvin Curtis Hartley at Glenwood Springs Resident Agency on July 11, 1973. Hartley was given a Wai…

FBI Airtel from SAC Denver to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley (Sub. 437). Denver reports having no photograph of Hartley on file. Seattle division is directed to forward a p…

Header block identifying the addressees (SAC Denver, SAC Salt Lake City), the case name NORJAK with office of origin Seattle, and the subject Alvin Curtis Hartley, Sub #437. Date of the communicatio…

Case file number for the document. Continuation from previous page describing a phone conversation where the caller discussed investing money in land purchases, which the person recalled declining.…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated July 5, 1973. Airtel from Minneapolis SAC to Seattle SAC regarding NORJAK case, referencing four prior communications between Minneapolis, Sea…

Case file number for the Minneapolis FBI field office report. An FBI Special Agent conducted an investigation in Howard, South Dakota. A Miner County Deputy Sheriff was interviewed and stated he doe…

FBI case file number for Minneapolis field office. A redacted passage indicating that an individual's photograph was compared with suspect LEIF E. HANSEN as similar in appearance, and that someone s…

FBI Seattle airtel to Denver and Minneapolis divisions regarding NORJACK (D.B. Cooper) suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley (Sub. 437). References a Las Vegas airtel dated 6/4/73. States that logical investi…

FBI airtel (internal routing memo) dated 6/4/73 from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Las Vegas is forwarding copies of two investigative inserts reflecting inves…

FBI file number, author initials, and page number. Handwritten sub-file reference number. A medical professional in Las Vegas reported on May 31, 1973, that he treated Alvin C. Hartley for a broken…

FBI case file number and agent/dictation initials. Handwritten sub-file number annotation. Nye County Sheriff Don A. Tomany, Undersheriff Del Bailey, and a redacted lieutenant from the Nye County S…

Page header showing this is page 2 of FBI Las Vegas field office report LV 164-60, dictated by agent with initials HEH/den. A female source describes a secretive male subject who was in Grand Juncti…

Header of an FBI airtel memo dated 5/29/73 from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC New Orleans regarding NORJAK case, subject Alvin Curtis Hartley, sub number 437. Handwritten notation indicating subject num…

Memo header from New Orleans FBI office to Seattle SAC, dated 5/22/73, regarding NORJAK case file 164-81 and 164-136, with Seattle as Office of Origin. Handwritten sub-file annotation indicating sub…

Date of the airtel memo. Handwritten annotation, possibly a date or routing note. FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Denver to SAC Las Vegas (cc Seattle) regarding NORJAK case. Encloses FD-302 copies reflect…

FBI field office file number for this report page. Continuation of interview with HARTLEY, who states he had back surgery in 1960 removing two vertebrae and one disc, claims he could not jump off a…

Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. FBI FD-302 interview report of Alvin Curtis Hartley in Rangely, Colorado on April 24, 1973. Hartley was contac…

Page header showing FBI case file number DN 164-98 and page number 2. Continuation of FBI interview with Alvin Curtis Hartley. He showed a 12-inch surgical scar on his back from 1960 surgery, claime…

Case file number and page/section indicator, likely a continuation page. Continuation of a biographical profile for an individual (likely surname HARTLEY). Describes physical characteristics, educat…

Header block of FBI inter-office memo from Butte field office to Seattle SAC, dated 4/26/73, regarding NORJAK case and subject ALVIN CURTIS HARTLEY, classified as Interstate Transportation of Stolen…

FBI case reference numbers and page designation. Introduction line identifying the investigating Special Agent (redacted) and location of investigation. Telephone directory check on March 14, 1973…

Case file number, initials of the reporting agent, and page number. Handwritten sub-file notation. FBI investigative report documenting a pretext phone call to the L.B. Binion Ranch near Jordan, Mo…

FBI FD-36 airtel transmission form header dated May 1, 1973, sent via AIRTEL with AIRMAIL priority. Routing block: airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Salt Lake City regarding NORJAK case, specifically a…

Date of the document. Airtel header from SAC Denver to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, sub-file 437. Denver Division forwards FD-302 interview reports to Seattle and Las Vegas offices regarding…

FBI case file number for the Denver field office, file 164-98. Leads assigned to the Las Vegas Division at Tonopah, Nevada: (1) Interview a redacted individual at the Historic Tonopah Club to ascert…

Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. A redacted female witness in Grand Junction, CO was shown a photograph and identified A. C. HARTLEY, known as 'AC…

File number and sub-designation for the FBI report page. Continuation of an FBI interview. An unidentified female witness describes accompanying a subject named HARTLEY to investigate mining claims…

Case file number DN 164-98, page 3 of the report. A redacted witness states that a motor home belonged to HARTLEY and was likely repossessed by a bank in Phoenix, Arizona where HARTLEY banked. The w…

Standard FD-302 interview form header with form revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-file or subject number notation. Interview of a redacted witness in Grand Junction, CO. Witness…

Case file number and agent initials header. Sub-file number notation written in handwriting. SA Clifton Browning Jr. reports on investigation in Rangely, CO. On March 2, 1973, a Rio Blanco County D…

FBI inter-office memo from SAC Seattle to SAC New Orleans regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. References a Salt Lake City airtel dated 4/24/73. Reports that repeated contacts with Doyle Berry in…

FBI airtel dated 4/24/73 from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC New Orleans regarding Alvin Curtis Hartley, subject of an ITSP (Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property) and possible FBW (Fugitive) inves…

Sub-file designation handwritten at top right. Case file numbers and dictation/typist codes. SA Loninack checked the 1973 Midland Telephone Directory for La Sal, Utah. A phone number and subscriber…

Routing header of an FBI memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Phoenix regarding NORJAK case, with file numbers. Handwritten sub-file notation. FBI memo regarding NORJAK subject Alvin Curtis Hartley (Sub #4…

FBI inter-office memo from Las Vegas field office to SAC New Orleans and SAC Las Vegas regarding subject Alvin Curtis Hartley, classified under ITSP (Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property) and…

Standard FD-302 interview form header with revision date 11-27-70, page 1, transcription date April 17, 1973. An unnamed interviewee in Boulder City, Nevada, reported he has not seen Alvin Curtis Ha…

Date of the airtel memo. FBI airtel memo from SAC Denver (164-98) to SAC Salt Lake City (164-24) dated 4/12/73, referencing a Salt Lake City airtel from 4/10/73. Encloses copies of two Denver airtel…

FBI airtel from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Denver regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Salt Lake City reports it has not received the referenced communication dated 2/22/73 and requests Denver fur…

Date of the airtel document. FBI Airtel from SAC Albuquerque to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley (Sub #437). Albuquerque reports no leads on Hartley in their division after…

FBI airtel from SAC St. Louis to SAC Seattle dated 4/12/73 regarding NORJAK subject Alvin Curtis Hartley (SUB #437). States that Hartley's military record was furnished to Seattle on 1/24/73 and sinc…

FBI inter-office memo from SAC New Orleans to SAC Seattle and SAC New Orleans regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Encloses FD-302 interview reports of Doyle Berry, Everett Berry, and a redacted…

Handwritten sub-file reference numbers. Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. Interview with Doyle Berry, President of Berry Brother Contractors and C…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-file reference numbers. Everett Berry, Vice President of Berry Brother Contractors in Berwick, Louisiana, was…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date 2/7/72. Doyle Berry, President of Berry Brothers Contractors in Berwick, Louisiana, telephonically contacted the Lafayette FBI Resident Agency. Be…

Standard FBI FD-302 form header with date 1/18/73. Handwritten sub-file reference numbers. FBI FD-302 interview of Doyle Berry, President of Berry Brothers Contractors in Berwick, Louisiana. Berry…

Case number and continuation page number header for FBI report page 2. BERRY told HARTLEY he would try to comply with his request. HARTLEY appeared very concerned about being a suspect in the hijack…

Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-file reference numbers annotated on the form. Everett Berry reports receiving a call from Alv…

Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-file notations in upper right corner of the document. FBI interview of Doyle Berry regarding his…

Standard FBI FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-file reference numbers written in pen. Interview of Everett Berry regarding meeting with Alvin Curtis Hart…

Standard FBI FD-302 form header with date of transcription. Handwritten sub-file reference number in top-right margin. An employee or representative of the Plantation Inn (name redacted) advised th…

FD-302 form revision date stamp. Handwritten sub-file reference annotations. FD-302 interview summary describing A. C. HARTLEY registered at the Plantation Inn, U.S. Highway 90 West, Room 123, from…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Handwritten sub-file number 'Sub 437', 'Sub Q' notation, and FOIA exemption codes b6 and b7C marked in margin. FD-302 intervie…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated April 3, 1973, sent via AIRTEL/AIRMAIL. Airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Albuquerque regarding NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley (SUB #437). U…

Header block of an FBI inter-office memo dated 3/20/73, addressed to SAC New Orleans and SAC Las Vegas, regarding subject Alvin Curtis Hartley, classified under ITSP (Interstate Transportation of Sto…

FD-302 header with date of transcription 3/12/73 and sub-file reference Sub-437. An unidentified interviewee (name redacted) in Yerington, Nevada, states he has known Alvin Curtis Hartley for approx…

FBI FD-302 header with date of transcription and sub-file number. Interview of a redacted witness in Yerington, Nevada, who has known Alvin Curtis Hartley since early summer 1972. The witness met Ha…

FBI case number and page number for this document page. Continuation of an interview in which the interviewee describes a person named HARTLEY. The interviewee states he did not do something at a mo…

Standard FBI FD-302 header with page number 1 and transcription date of March 20, 1973. An unidentified Las Vegas source (name redacted) provided a listing of long distance calls made by Alvin Curti…

Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. An unnamed female witness at the CalNeva Lodge, Crystal Bay, Nevada, describes her acquaintance with Alvin Cur…

Statement about HARTLEY owing money, with amounts and source redacted. Interviewee states HARTLEY never used the name COOPER; she called him AL but he corrected her to A. C. Interviewee recalls HAR…

FBI Las Vegas field office case number header. Continuation of an FBI interview with an unnamed female source regarding a subject named HARTLEY. She recalls HARTLEY had an arm in a cast when they fi…

Standard FD-302 header with page number 1, transcription date 3/15/73, and handwritten sub-file number 437. Interview of a redacted witness in Las Vegas who knew Alvin Curtis Hartley. Hartley arrive…

Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC New Orleans to Director FBI regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case and subject Alvin Curtis Hartley. U.S. Attorney WDLA declines prosecution of Hartley…

FBI file numbers and office/dictation codes for the New Orleans Division. Brief introductory text stating that FD-302 interview reports from the New Orleans Division follow. Includes a warning that…

FBI Identification Division Latent Fingerprint Section report header, Form 1-336, addressed to SAC Denver, dated March 5, 1973. Handwritten annotation, likely a sub-file or sub-reference number. Par…

FBI memo to SAC Denver reporting that latent fingerprints from the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case were compared against fingerprints of Alvin Curtis Hartley (FBI #796324B). No identification was effected.…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated 2/22/73, sent via AIRTEL with AIRMAIL priority. Airtel from SAC Denver to Acting Director FBI regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case and suspect…

Handwritten sub-file annotation indicating sub-file number 437. FBI airtel from SAC Denver to Acting Director FBI, dated 2/22/73, regarding subject Alvin Curtis Hartley, a possible FBW (Fugitive Ban…

Case file number header for the Denver field office file 87-15972. Continuation of an evidence list including Bar-X Motel Restaurant charge slips and Ramada Inn registration card and restaurant char…

FBI case number header for the document. Request to the Latent Fingerprint Division to compare latent fingerprints from submitted specimens with known prints of HARTLEY to determine if a redacted in…

FBI case file number for this document page. Continuation of a lead describing telephone calls placed from the Bar-X Motel in Grand Junction, Colorado on various dates in October 1972, and a request…

FBI case file number for this document. Investigative leads assigned to the Tucson, Arizona office: ascertain registrant of a redacted telephone number and conduct arrest checks; contact rental agen…

FBI case file number for the document. Investigative leads at Grand Junction, Colorado directing agents to locate and interview redacted individuals at the Bar-X Motel regarding a subject, with a vi…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Denver field office). Lead item (4): Agents will locate and interview a redacted individual who was reportedly approached in the summer of 197…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmission form header, dated February 13, 1973, sent via AIRTEL/AIRMAIL. Airtel from SAC Denver to Acting Director FBI regarding NORJAK case, specifically suspect Alvin…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. FBI report continuation describing investigation of HARTLEY in Grand Junction, Colorado. HARTLEY was tentatively identified by a redacted pers…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated February 6, 1973, sent via AIRTEL with AIR MAIL priority. Routing information for an FBI AIRTEL from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. Continuation of an FBI investigation report regarding a subject named HARTLEY. An unnamed source last saw HARTLEY in the mid-1950s when he left…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header indicating an AIRTEL sent via AIR MAIL dated January 24, 1973. AIRTEL from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley. En…

Date of the airtel memo. FBI airtel memo from SAC Phoenix to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK suspect Alvin Curtis Hartley. Phoenix encloses copies of a nitel to Los Angeles and two photographs of the s…

Handwritten annotation above the form header, mostly illegible. Los Angeles Police Department Combined Crime and Arrest Report for the arrest of Alvin Curtis Hartley on January 3, 1969 at Franklin A…

LAPD Continuation Sheet header with booking number 940437 and DR number 69-402497. Continuation of narrative from a previous page describing that officers were aware of a vehicle matching the genera…

Header of LAPD Continuation Sheet form, page 3, for an arrest report with booking number 940437 and DR number 69-402497. Handwritten notes referencing the Norwalk area and indicating that all above…

Header and identification section of an LAPD Investigator's Final Report for an arrestee named HARTLEY, ALAN CURTIS (reading uncertain). Subject listed as unemployed, single/divorced, with a vehicle…

California DOJ Bureau of Criminal Identification record header for Alvin Curtis Hartley. CII record number 899,906. Physical descriptors: brown hair, blue eyes, 6-0 height, 196 lbs, born in Wisconsin…

Teletype routing header from Phoenix FBI office to Los Angeles and New Orleans offices, dated January 10, 1973. Handwritten sub-file notation 'Sub 437' in upper right area. Phoenix FBI office repor…

Page 2 of a teletype (PX 87-13257) referencing a New Orleans telcall dated 1/10/72. The US Marshal in Phoenix has a record of the arrest of Alvin Curtis Hartley in Tucson, Arizona, for road construct…

Date of the airtel document. FBI AIRTEL from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Encloses five documents concerning Alvin Curtis Hartley: a photo, copies of letters between Las Vegas…

Letterhead and date for FBI Las Vegas field office correspondence. Handwritten sub-file number annotation. Addressee block directed to the Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics…

An individual (name redacted) was taken into Hartley's confidence. Hartley disclosed plans to travel to Ecuador to pick up a load of 'gold' and narcotics, return them illegally to the US using a plan…

Continuation (page 3) of an FBI letter describing an individual who served in the U.S. Army in 1955 and received an undesirable discharge for being AWOL. He held a Clark County Sheriff's Office work…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and investigation date. Handwritten routing or filing notation, partially illegible, appears to include a case reference. An FD-302 interview summary…

FBI case file number header, partially illegible. An individual associated with an insurance company repeatedly called to describe a gold transaction. A Central American company reportedly had 17,00…

Page number and field office case reference at top of page. A redacted source or agent later learned from London brokers that individuals in the Southwest United States had been attempting for the p…

Letterhead and date of the FBI correspondence from the Las Vegas field office. Handwritten sub-file annotation, likely a case sub-number reference. Addressee block directed to the Bureau of Customs…

Routing header showing the memo is from SAC Phoenix to SAC Las Vegas, dated approximately 6/9/65. Subject classification line with alias notation and office of origin as Phoenix. FBI memo from SAC…

Biographical data form for subject HARTLEY listing residences from 1945 to present (Las Vegas, NV), education (high school graduate from Proctor High School, Proctor, MN), military service (U.S. Army…

FBI Las Vegas field office case reference number. Review of HARTLEY's file reveals numerous public complaints, three complaints from female Las Vegas citizens about unpaid debts, and a report on 8/1…

Teletype routing header from Seattle field office to Acting Director FBI and multiple field offices, sent as a NITEL (night teletype) on January 19, 1973. FBI NORJAK teletype referencing New Orleans…

Page header indicating this is page two of a teletype, with Seattle field office case number 164-81. Continuation of a NORJAK teletype regarding suspect Hartley, described as a white male born 7/27/…

Page header indicating this is page three of a teletype with Seattle case file number 164-81. Informant Berry reports that suspect Hartley carries a .38 caliber snub-nose revolver and a .22 caliber…

Page header indicating this is page four of an FBI teletype, case file SE 164-81. Continuation of an FBI teletype assigning leads to multiple field offices (Phoenix, New Orleans, St. Louis, Seattle)…

Teletype from the Acting FBI Director to New Orleans and Seattle field offices regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Reports that comparison of latent fingerprints from the case with available fin…

Teletype routing header from New Orleans field office to Acting Director and Seattle, marked URGENT, dated January 19, 1973. NORJAK teletype from New Orleans reporting that Alvin Curtis Hartley, a p…

Teletype header with case number 164-136 and page designation. Continuation of report describing Hartley's knowledge of the hijacking over Washington/Oregon involving $200,000 in $20 bills obtained…

Case number header and page indicator for page three of a multi-page teletype. Page three of a teletype regarding subject Hartley. Investigation into ITSP matter reveals Hartley served as patrolman…

Continuation header indicating this is page four of a teletype with file number 164-136. Notes the possibility that Hartley, given his prior gold smuggling connections, could have fenced hijacking m…

Handwritten sub-file number annotation. FBI AIRTEL from SAC Phoenix to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK subject Al Hartley. Phoenix encloses investigative inserts from an investigation conducted at Tomb…

File and dictation references for the FBI report. Handwritten sub-file notation. An interview conducted on August 1, 1972, in Tombstone, Arizona. A witness (name redacted) was questioned about AL H…

Date of the airtel memo. FBI airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Phoenix regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Seattle advises Phoenix that they have no information listing AL HARTLEY as a suspect, an…

Date of the document. Routing header for an FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Salt Lake City to SAC Phoenix regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper). An informant in Utah reported on 6/6/72 that someone in T…

FBI case file number for the Seattle field office, NORJAK/D.B. Cooper case. Continuation of a memo discussing a subject named HARTLEY who frequently changed addresses. An informant believed the FBI…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case (164-81). Sender is a Special Agent whose name is redacted under b6/b7C/b7D privacy exemptions. Dated Septemb…