Part 117, page 58
DB Cooper-53493Serials SE 164-81
Document date 9 November 1973
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 117 p. 58 (DB Cooper-53493), Memo, dated 9 Nov 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-117/pages/58
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FILE (164-81) 11/9/73
SAC, SEATTLE
NORJAK
On 11/9/73, SAC MATTSON called from Portland. He advised that on 12/10/71 the Wilsonville, Oregon Branch of the National Bank of Oregon was held up by a lone robber. At the time the robber entered the bank, a customer was being served by a teller and on the customer leaving the robber approached the teller, held herup and departed. The teller advised that while waiting for the customer to depart the robber had gone to a desk at the side of the lobby where he did some scribbling. In conducting the investigation the Agent recovered from this area a note with the name "D. B. Cooper" printed on it. Suspecting that ARVIDIS KIPERTS was the individuals who perpetrated this robbery in preparing the affidavit for a search warrant at KIPERTS' home in Vancouver, Washington, on 11/3/73 allusion was made to this incident. Subsequent to the search of the home and recovery of KIPERTS' diary and a substantial number of guns there has been a lot of notoriety attached to his arrest and one of the newspaper reporters has noted this reference in the affidavit. The newspapers are now running stories linking KIPERTS with the captioned case. KIPERTS' diary recovered from his home shows that on 11/24/71 he attended an auto show at the Collesium in portland, Oregon. From 11/25-29/71, he visited his brother ED in Bellevue. His diary also reflects that during this time, specific date not shown, he purchased a gun at the Bazaar (probably Gov-Mart Bazaar) in Renton. It is a 30-30 Marlin lever action carbine and they believed he paid $105 for it.
The description of KIPERTS does not resemble that of the Unsub in this case. However, I suggested to SAC MATTSON that if they have a photograph of KIPERTS that it be shown to the witnesses in Portland. [illegible handwritten notation]
I telephonically contacted ASAC [redacted] in b6 San Diego and advised him to furnish a photograph of b7C KIPERTS taken after he was arrested by San Diego put in the hands of a pilot courier at once and get it to us as quick as possible.
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SEARCHED______ INDEXED______ SERIALIZED______ FILED______ NOV 9 1973 FBI—SEATTLE
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b6 b7C [illegible handwritten notation near 'in Portland' line] DB COOPER-53493