Document date 13 September 1972AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 113 p. 275 (DB Cooper-51845), Teletype, dated 13 Sep 1972, serial SE 164-81-3896 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-113/pages/275
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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED RUSSELL AS APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET
EIGHT INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD,
BLACK HAIR, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, ABOUT FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD.
HE SAID RUSSELL IS ADVENTURESOME, WELL EDUCATED, AND EXTREMELY
COOL. FROM DETAILS HE HAS HEARD OF HIJACKING, IS EVEN MORE
CONVINCED RUSSELL COULD HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME.
ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, DENVER, HAS REQUESTED
THAT EVERY EFFORT BE MADE TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] AS
SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION.
ON SEPTEMBER ELEVEN LAST, HOWARD BAYNE, NINE THREE
NINE CAPUCHINO, BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, WHO HAS KNOWN RUSSELL
FOR TWENTY YEARS, WAS INTERVIEWED. BAYNE RECALLS RUSSELL WAS
A FORMER AIR FORCE OFFICER, A COLLEGE GRADUATE, AND A TOP SKIER,
HAVING INSTRUCTED AT SUN VALLEY, IDAHO. BAYNE STATED RUSSELL
IS A PERSON WHO BECOMES VERY PROFICIENT IN ANYTHING HE UNDERTAKES.
HE IS AT HOME IS THE WOODS, AND WOULD BE HAPPY WITH A DOG AND
A GUN. HE IS A NOMAD TYPE, WHO WOULD TAKE OFF AT A MOMENTS
NOTICE TO GO ANYWHERE. HE HAS PROSPECTED FOR URANIUM AND IS
VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT MINERALOGY. RUSSELL HAS INVENTIVE IDEAS