Part 120, page 376
DB Cooper-55408Serials LA 164-497
Document date 24 January 1977
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 120 p. 376 (DB Cooper-55408), Airtel, dated 24 Jan 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-120/pages/376
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LA 164-497
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While making references to notes which SUMMERS explained were taken during interviews of BROWN and infor- mation related to him by "researchers," SUMMERS related as follows:
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During the 1940's, JIM BROWN, a former military pilot, was incarcerated in Atlanta Penitentiary as a result of a general court martial, and while in prison, his cell mate was a man named BRYANT COFFELT. Following their release from prison, BROWN and COFFELT maintained periodic contact with each other, and in 1974, COFFELT related to BROWN that he was D. B. COOPER. On one occasion in 1974, BROWN and his son, named BRYAN, traveled with COFFELT to a remote mountain area near Mount Hood where they searched for the ransom money which COFFELT alleged he had lost upon jumping from the victim aircraft. BROWN had indicated that COFFELT had received serious leg and groin injuries during the jump which made it very difficult for him to search for the money.
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SUMMERS related the following information, which allegedly was furnished to BROWN by COFFELT in 1974:
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Upon boarding the airplane at Portland, COFFELT had taken a seat and ordered a whiskey with which he had paid for with a twenty dollar bill. A Philippino stewardess had made the change for him. He had asked the stewardess to sit with him and told her what he wanted. He then gave the stewardess a handwritten note with instructions to be taken to the captian. He had received the note back. COFFELT smoked Raleigh cigarettes and had an altimeter and a device to receive beep signals strapped to his right wrist. He had placed one beeper in the money bag and one beeper was in a jeep on the ground near his landing spot. He had received the money in some type of laundry bag and had dropped this bag inside of a plastic "Hefty" disposal bag, then bound it with cordage cut from one of the para- chutes. COFFELT allegedly had some type of trouble when he went to leave the airplane and had remarked that the hand- rails on the door of the plane were very large, making it difficult to grip with his hands. He had thrown a brief-
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