Part 120, page 249
DB Cooper-55265Serials SE 164-81-2078
Document date 26 August 1976
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 120 p. 249 (DB Cooper-55265), Letter, dated 26 Aug 1976, serial SE 164-81-2078 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-120/pages/249
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PHILIP M. CULLEN ATTORNEY AT LAW
136 EAST KING STREET P. O. BOX 1078 LANCASTER, PA [illegible]
August 26, 1976
Clarence M. Kelley, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20535
Re: Unknown Subject, aka D. B. Cooper Aircraft Piracy--Northwest Airlines November, 1971
Dear Mr. Kelley:
Reference is made to the apparently unsolved incident in November, 1971 in which an unknown male individual using the name D. B. Cooper extorted $200,000 cash from Northwest Airlines in the state of Washington and disappeared from the pirated aircraft enroute to Reno, Nevada.
[REDACTED] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, telephone [REDACTED] furnished the following information when contacted on an unrelated personal matter.
[REDACTED] stressed that he has no direct, specific information that the information he furnished concerning Robert E. Cooper, below, may or may not relate to the D. B. Cooper air piracy incident.
[REDACTED] a retired fuel oil dealer and businessman who has lived all his life in the general [REDACTED] area, advised that he had known a Robert E. Cooper, aka "Trooper", "Clarence", white, male, who would now be in his late 50s or early 60s, muscular, originally from the Lancaster County area, who possibly could be the unknown individual using the name D. B. Cooper.
In brief, according to [REDACTED] Robert E. Cooper, a member of an old family in the Leola, Lancaster County area, stole money from his father when he was younger; was a member of the Pennsylvania State Police who resigned from the force; was an aviator and parachutist; was an active hunter, fisherman, and outdoor camper; was a Justice of the Peace in the Leola area; and then about 10-15 years ago, after having been arrested by the Pennsylvania State Police on charges involving fraudulent automobile registrations, was imprisoned and disappea[red] [text cut off at page edge]
cc: SAC, Philadelphia (Information) [REDACTED], Pa.
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164-81-2078 [handwritten] SEARCHED............INDEXED............ SERIALIZED............FILED............ SEP 7 1976 FBI SEATTLE CORRESPONDENCE DB COOPER-55265