Document date 6 January 1976AIDates: 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 119 p. 109 (DB Cooper-54598), Teletype, dated 6 Jan 1976, serial SE 164-81-6800 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-119/pages/109
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
PAGE FOUR (AX 164-72)
THIS INFORMATION WOULD PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF A PARACHUTE
BEING IN THE ATTACHE CASE.
ADDITIONALLY, REFERENCED RICHMOND TELETYPE INDICATES
COOPER WENT TO TEXAS WITH [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] LEFT HIM WHEN HE BECAME INTOXICATED AND STARTED TO TELL
[REDACTED] ABOUT THE HIJACKING. COOPER SUBSEQUENTLY TELEPHONICALLY
CONTACTED HIS FAMILY AND STATED HE WAS IN AN AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENT AND WAS RETURNING TO VIRGINIA. UPON HIS RETURN HIS
CONDITION APPEARED TO BE THAT OF A MAN PHYSICALLY BEATEN. IT
IS NOTED THAT JERRY, ARTHUR COOPER CONTACTED THE ALEXANDRIA
DIVISION IN DECEMBER, 1975, AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD GONE TO
HOUSTON, TEXAS, WITH [REDACTED] AFTER THE PUBLICITY REGARDING
THE FBI INVESTIGATION OF HIM (WHICH COOPER HIMSELF FURNISHED TO
THE NEWSPAPERS). COOPER ADVISED THAT AFTER ONE NIGHT IN
TEXAS, HE FOUND A NOTE ON HIS TRUCK WINDOW TELLING HIM THAT HE
HAD NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH. HE ADVISED THAT HE THEN RETURNED
TO VIRGINIA IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE
HAD NOT MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THAT HE HAD BEEN SHOT AT WHILE
DRIVING HIS VEHICLE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, HIS HOME HAD BEEN
RANSACKED, AND HE HAD RECEIVED NUMEROUS THREATENING TELEPHONE