MemoTo SAC Seattle re suspect eliminated (ELIMINATE stamp)14 August 19721 page
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Part 113, page 42

DB Cooper-51508Serials SE 164-81

Document date 14 August 1972

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 8-14-72

SA MARTIN J. GODFREY

NORJAK SUSPECT [REDACTED] - SOURCE

Re Seattle memo of SPC [REDACTED] dated 7/30/72.

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Pursuant to a telephone call from [REDACTED] of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, to the Yakima Resident Agency on July 31, 1972, Special Agents GODFREY [REDACTED] located [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Yakima.

[REDACTED] advised he was talking at the bar at the [REDACTED] on the previous day concerning the hijacking of the Northwest Orient Airliner on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971. He was saying that a person he knows as [REDACTED] (LNU) closely resembles the artist's conception of the hijacker. This [REDACTED] was suppose to have flown to Vancouver, B.C. on the same day of the hijacking, but he never made the trip. [REDACTED] ad- vised he saw [REDACTED] several days later at the Chinook Hotel in Yakima. [REDACTED] stated he never meant to imply this [REDACTED] was the hijacker, but was only commenting about the resemblance that [REDACTED] has with the composite drawing with the unknown sub- ject. [REDACTED] advised that was the last time he saw [REDACTED] and feels he was in no way connected with the hijacking.

[REDACTED] advised he never knew [REDACTED] last name. He advised further [REDACTED] is a white male, age approximately [REDACTED], with all other descriptive data being just "average". [REDACTED] stated he met [REDACTED] last year at the Chinook Hotel and does not know where he is employed. [REDACTED] stated as far as he remembers, [REDACTED] did not smoke cigarettes. [REDACTED] stated apparently [REDACTED] has spent a long time in Spain working for a company there.

[REDACTED] advised his permanent address is [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Yakima, Washington, and he is employed by the National Environmental Development Industry, which is a company that [REDACTED] basically markets farm-type equipment.

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