Part 112, page 3
DB Cooper-168Serials PX 164-571
Document date 5 December 1979
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 112 p. 3 (DB Cooper-168), Memo, dated 5 Dec 1979 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-112/pages/3
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO : SAC, PHOENIX (164-571) (P) DATE: 12/5/79
FROM : SA JOSEPH C. KELLY
SUBJECT: NORJAK AIRCRAFT HIJACKING (A) OO: SEATTLE
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On 11/21/79, [REDACTED] U. S. Probation and Parole Office, Phoenix, Arizona, furnished the following information:
[REDACTED] has been supervising an ex-convict by the name of WARREN DAVID SMITH, a white male, DOB 12/2/16, FBI No. 977 883. According to BOYLE, SMITH has spent approximately 40 years of his adult life in various prisons and penitentiaries and many of the convictions were for bank robbery.
SMITH was last serving time at the Federal Detention Center, Florence, Arizona, and was placed on parole from that institution on 5/10/78 and put under supervision of the U. S. Probation and Parole Office, Phoenix, Arizona.
WARREN DAVID SMITH, while residing in Tempe-Mesa, Arizona, area, absconded from parole supervision on or about September 15, 1979, and a warrant was issued.
After SMITH violated his parole, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] read several of [REDACTED] letter which [REDACTED] while he was still at the Federal Detention Center in Florence which were mailed to him in 1978. Two of the letters were sent to him and signed by the name "JACK."
[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] advised him that JACK was JACK HUBBELL (phonetic), true name HOWARD HUBBELL (phonetic), no other identifying data available at this time.
The two letters to SMITH from HUBBELL indicate possible intimate knowledge of the skyjacking of the Northwest Airline[s] between Portland/and Seattle on 11/24/71 and that the identity or identities of the persons responsible may possibly be C[LAIR] [REDACTED] whom he [REDACTED] Washington.
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(2) Phoenix JCK:bgb (2) [initials]
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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SEARCHED ___INDEXED SERIALIZED ___FILED [stamp date] DEC 5 1979 FBI -- PHOENIX
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DB Cooper 168