Part 120, page 96

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, NEW YORK DATE: 2/6/76

FROM : SAC, DETROIT (164-115) (P)

SUBJECT: UNSUB, aka, Dan Cooper; Northwest Airlines, Flight 350, Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION OO: SEATTLE

---

2/np 5US 828 [guess: illegible, could be "SUB 828" or "SUS 828"] OPEN (REOPEN) ORIGIN: Seattle [handwritten, partially illegible] SUPV: [illegible signature/initials] CASE: 164-627 DATE: 1-31-76 [guess, handwritten] SECT: 26 (11) [circled] wr/64-627-2D4 [handwritten]

---

For the information of New York and Seattle Divisions Mr. WILLIAM C. TREMBLAY is the Assistant Managing Editor and Director of the "Secret Witness Program" of a local Detroit newspaper. The "Secret Witness Program" offers rewards in varying amounts to individuals who anonymously furnish infor- mation to the newspaper in current local investigations and cases of national prominence.

By letter dated 1/26/76 Mr. TREMBLAY advised the Detroit of the following information which he had anonymously been furnished by a "tipster":

---

"Regarding the 'D.B. Cooper' who hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight over Washington four years ago, I knew a D.K. Cooper (who some- times wrote his name so that the K looked like a B) and who hurriedly left the country for Uganda, South Africa on the day of the hijacking. Mr. Cooper became quite interested in flying a few months before leaving the country and left the organization he was managing, with large financial problems. About two years ago he,

---

2 - New York 1 - Seattle (164-81) (Info) 2 - Detroit EJJ:psn (5)

---

2/28 28 [handwritten, illegible] SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ FEB [illegible] 1976 [guess] 26 DB COOPER-55099

---

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan