Part 119, page 361

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

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Date: 6/25/76

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Via AIRTEL AIR MAIL (Priority)

TO: SAC, NEW ORLEANS

FROM: ADIC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)

SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: Seattle

[handwritten: Sub 11]

RE: JOHN RICHARD MERIT SUB NUMBER 811

Re Seattle letter to Los Angeles, 6/10/76.

For information of New Orleans and Jacksonville, referenced Seattle letter advised that MERIT was being considered a suspect in captioned matter because [REDACTED]

Kansas, [REDACTED] (protect), advised that MERIT had approached him with a plan to hijack an airplane and ransom 70 to 80 passengers for substantial amount of money.

[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] and at the time [REDACTED] MERIT [REDACTED] stated MERIT was [REDACTED] sometime in 1971, at least [REDACTED]

The Seattle Division requested that the Los Angeles Division contact MERIT's mother, AGNES CAUSEY MERIT, 1536 or 1533 West Wardlow Road, Apartment 5, Long Beach, California, in an effort to determine MERIT's present whereabouts, as well as his location on 11/24/71, the date of the hijacking.

2 - New Orleans 2 - Jacksonville (3) - Seattle (164-81) 2 - Los Angeles

crs/meh (9)

Approved: [signature, illegible] Sent: ___ Special Agent in Charge

DB COOPER-54917

[stamp: RECORDED __ INDEXED __] [stamp: SERIALIZED __ FILED __] [stamp: JUL 1 1976] [stamp, partially illegible: FBI SEATTLE]

[handwritten, right margin: b6, b7C, b7D] [handwritten, lower right: 164-81 / Sub 811] [handwritten circle: IN, with initials M / Per]