TeletypeNitel San Francisco to Seattle re NORJAK suspect John Whatley aka John Watley, with leads8 May 1972page 2 of 3
reportLegibility: high

Part 111, page 243

DB Cooper-50625Serials SF 164-220

Document date 8 May 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 111 p. 243 (DB Cooper-50625), Teletype, dated 8 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3373 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-111/pages/243

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SF 164-220 PAGE TWO

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TECHNICIAN, AN EXCEPTIONAL PARACHUTIST, AND A QUOTE VERY COOL INDIVIDUAL END QUOTE. [REDACTED] STATED THAT HE LATER HEARD THAT WHATLEY HAD RETURNED TO TUCSON IN NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE, WHERE HE [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] STATED THAT HE REASON HE IS GIVING THIS INFORMATION IS THAT HE READ OF D.B. COOPER'S DESCRIPTION IN QUOTE TIME AND NEWSWEEK END QUOTE MAGAZINES, AND FOUND IT TO BE CLOSE TO WHATLEY'S DESCRIPTION. HE ALSO REMEMBERED HEARING THAT WHATLEY HAD GONE FROM TUCSON TO SEATTLE TO WORK FOR BOEING AIRCRAFT. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED WHATLEY AS A DARK COMPLECTED CAUCASIAN, FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TO FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY TO ONE HUNDRED NINETY POUNDS, AND WITH BLACK HAIR. HE STATED THAT WHATLEY WOULD HAVE BEEN PROBABLY IN HIS LATE THIRTIES AT THAT TIME.

[REDACTED] WILL BE AT [REDACTED] IN PALO ALTO UNTIL THE END OF JUNE, NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO. HIS PERMANENT RESIDENCE IS [REDACTED] ARKANSAS. AT THIS TIME HE IS STAYING AT THE LOS ALTOS INN MOTEL IN LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA. [REDACTED] WISHES TO BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL.

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