MemoTo SAC Seattle re female caller's information on suspect Everett Tingle23 August 1973page 1 of 4
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Part 116, page 26

DB Cooper-52992Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4998

Document date 23 August 1973

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 8/23/73

SA [REDACTED] [handwritten: illegible] b6 b7C b7D NORJAK

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On March 5, 1973, [REDACTED] Lynnwood, Washington, telephonically advised the Seattle Office she had information concerning subject matter she did not care to discuss over the phone.

On March 19, 1973, an anonymous letter was re- ceived at the Seattle Office enclosing a picture of a man resembling the artist's sketch of the hijacker. The person in the photo was identified as EVERETT TINGLE, Route 1, Box 129A, Granite Falls, Washington, telephone 691-6117.

The letter writer gave various logical reasons for believing TINGLE was the hijacker and requested to be contacted through the Personal Column of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer on the 13th of the month only.

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On March 22, 1973, [REDACTED] was interviewed at her residence and it was established she had called the Seattle Office, March 5, 1973, and written the anonymous letter dated March 23, 1973.

[REDACTED] resides in a comfortable home [REDACTED]. She was very secretive at first and had no logical explanation concerning a phone call giving her name and then writing an anonymous letter. She seemed delighted with intrigue and several times declared her identity must remain anonymous.

[REDACTED] said she met EVERETT TINGLE at the Boeing Renton plant, where [REDACTED]. She claimed TINGLE was a World War II veteran and flyer, who knew how to parachute.

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164-81- 4998 [handwritten: illegible]

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DB COOPER-52992