Part 120, page 399

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BROWN HAD DISPLAYED LETTER DATED SEPTEMBER 27, 1976, TO HIM FROM COFFELT'S WIFE, "TAVE" COFFELT, AKA LORRAINE THOMPSON, 2463 KUHIO AVENUE [guess: #]2, APARTMENT 1105, HONOLULU. IN LETTER, "TAVE" TOLD BROWN, JACK COFFELT COULD NOT BE HIGHJACKER AS AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING, COFFELT UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. DOCTOR AND DURING ENTIRE PERIOD, IT WAS WELL KNOWN FACT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. HE WAS SEVERE ALCOHOLIC.

BLAIR STATES HE INTERVIEWED SEVERAL ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND CONFIRMED ALCOHOLISM PROBLEM DURING LATE 1971, AND COFFELT WAS ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

ALLUDING TO SERIOUS INJURIES TO LEG AND GROIN AREA WHICH SUMMERS THEORIZED WERE RECEIVED FROM JUMPING FROM AIRCRAFT, BLAIR STATES ASSOCIATES IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, RECALLED COFFELT HAD OPERATION ON FOOT IN 1967, AND HAD TO HIRE CAB TO TRAVEL ONE BLOCK. ALSO DETERMINED [REDACTED] NORTHERN VIRGINIA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, DIAGNOSED COFFELT HAD SEVERE THROMBOPLEBITUS OF LEGS AND WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, JULY 19, 1973.

BLAIR STATES ALSO VERIFIED THAT DURING PERIOD OF HIGH-

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DB COOPER-55435

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[illegible handwritten/annotation marks, circle around redacted text, 'b6' and 'b7c' exemption codes]