AirtelSAC Portland to SAC Seattle re Eugene informant on Richard J. McCoy8 August 19751 page
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Part 119, page 58

DB Cooper-54546Serials PD 164-144, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1629

Document date 8 August 1975

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 119 p. 58 (DB Cooper-54546), Airtel, dated 8 Aug 1975, serial SE 164-81-1629 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-119/pages/58

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8/8/75

AIRTEL AIRMAIL

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-144) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

[handwritten, upper right: "Sub 774" or "Sub 776" [guess: illegible number]]

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Re Portland airtel to Seattle dated 7/21/75.

On 8/8/75, [redacted], Eugene, Oregon, telephone [redacted], appeared at the Eugene, Oregon office of the FBI where she provided the following information:

She stated that on or about 6/20/75, [redacted] MARY RIMEL, 2515 Jasmine, Eugene, Oregon, telephone number 688-8282, and [redacted] who lives in Bridger, Montana, attended [redacted] at Orangevale, California. According to MARY RIMEL, at [redacted] A. GORDON WEIR, who teaches junior high school social studies in Orangevale, stated that he knew who D. B. COOPER was.

According to WEIR, sometime during the period 1950 to 1954, while attending Washington State Teachers College at Cheney, Washington, he had a "drinking buddy", RICHARD J. MC COY. As a joke MC COY dreamed up the name D. B. COOPER or DANIEL B. COOPER, which he used from time to time. MC COY even had a friend in the Registrar's office at Washington State Teachers College make up a fictitious permanent record card for D. B. COOPER. For the next two or three years, MC COY put D. B. COOPER through college, even having him graduate.

According to [redacted] RICHARD J. MC COY, who is a white male in his mid-forties, is currently employed by the accounting firm of JOHN F. FORBES and Company,

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(2) - Seattle 2 - Portland

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[handwritten case number, partially illegible]: 164-81-1629 [guess]

[stamp]: SEARCHED ___ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ AUG 9 1975 FBI - SEATTLE [illegible signature]

DB COOPER-54546