TeletypeColumbia to Director and Seattle re tipster claim that E. A. Lame is D.B. Cooper5 March 1976page 1 of 6
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Part 119, page 399

DB Cooper-54969Serials 164-2111, 164-8, CO 164-48, SE 164-81-6879

Document date 5 March 1976

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 119 p. 399 (DB Cooper-54969), Teletype, dated 5 Mar 1976, serial SE 164-81-6879 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-119/pages/399

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NR 003 CO PLAIN 6:15PM NITEL MAR. 5,1976 RAA TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE (164-8) FROM COLUMBIA (164-48) (P) NORJACK.

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ON MARCH 4, 1976, AN ANONYMOUS CALL WAS RECEIVED IN THE AIKEN RA FROM AN INDIVIDUAL SOUNDING CAUCASIAN, APPROXIMATELY 60 YEARS OF AGE, WHO SAID HE HAD OVERHEARD E. A. LAME BRAG THAT HE WAS D. D. COOPER WHO HAD HIJACKED AN AIRLINER SEVERAL YEARS AGO. THE CALLER NOTED LAME WAS DRINKING AT THE TIME HE MADE THIS STATEMENT. CALLER STATED LAME LIVED AT [REDACTED] NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C., AND DROVE A 1975 CADILLAC BEARING 1976 S. C. LICENSE NBF 248. THE CALLER REFUSED TO DIVULGE HIS IDENTITY STATING HE DID NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED.

RECORDS, S. C. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT (SCHD), MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION, COLUMBIA, S. C., DISCLOSED THAT LICENSE NBF 248 IS REGISTERED TO E. A. AND [REDACTED] NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C., FOR A 1975 CADILLAC BEARING VIN [guess: 6B69S5Q166885].

RECORDS, DRIVERS LICENSE SECTION, SCHD, DISCLOSED S. C. [text continues, cut off at bottom of page]

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164-81-6879 [guess: SUB 8-4] [illegible: Kar-Kar]

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DB COOPER-54969