Part 120, page 314
DB Cooper-55336Serials SE 164-81-7436
Document date 9 September 1976
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Royal-Globe Insurance COMPANIES ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY • LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY • ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY • GLOBE INDEMNITY COMPANY • ROYAL GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY LONDON AND LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY • SAFEGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY • STANDARD MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY • INSURANCE COMPANY • THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY NEWARK INSURANCE COMPANY • AMERICAN AND FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANY • BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY • THAMES & MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
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150 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10038 TEL: (212) 732-8400
September 9, 1976
[redacted box] Federal Bureau of Investigation 915 Second Ave. Seattle, Washington 98174
Dear Sir:
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[illegible cursive, possibly "Lab 847"] [illegible cursive] [illegible cursive, possibly "Sub FF"]
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Re: Hijacking Northwest Airlines Date of Loss: 11/24/71 Claim#: [redacted box]
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Following our September 1, 1976 telephone conversation re above I would like to bring you up-to-date on all the recent tips we received due to the courtesy and cooperation of the Northwest Orient Airlines:
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1. As you have been previously informed we have been negotiating with Mr. John Banks of Kirkland, Washington a salvaging operation on Lake Merwin, State of Washington. - We are preparing a contract with this independent entrepreneur. We will advise you when Mr. Banks will be ready to start and keep you posted on the developments.
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2. We called attorney [redacted] of Naples, Florida on 8/23/76 in connection with his letter of 8/11/76 addressed to Mr. James Houdek of the Northwest Orient Airlines, copy attached. This is what attorney [redacted] told me: He knows a waitress, presently employed in Naples, formerly living in Miami, Florida. The woman alleges that she knew Cooper under his real name, not disclosed during our telephone conversation with attorney [redacted]. Cooper had a detective agency in Miami and was using an alias Cooper on occasion. He was a paratrooper(?) and bragged that he would undertake some sort of a stunt or hijacking to get hold of
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DB COOPER-55336 [redacted box] 164-81-7436