AirtelADIC Los Angeles to Director re NORJACK and 'Still at Large' documentary24 January 1977page 2 of 2
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Part 121, page 292

DB Cooper-55933Serials LA 164-497

Document date 24 January 1977

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 121 p. 292 (DB Cooper-55933), Airtel, dated 24 Jan 1977, serial SE 164-81-7327 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-121/pages/292

People

Jack Bryant CoffeltSuspectC. Robert StrangerFBI agentD.B. CooperSuspectDirk Wayne SummersOtherJ. C. RossJames Henry Brown JrAssociateJohn Hardy JrJoseph C. AlstonFBI agentRobert Prisnell

Places

Bend, OregonCarthadge, MissouriFederal Penitentiary, Atlanta, GeorgiaHonoluluLas VegasLos AngelesMinneapolisPicher, OklahomaSeattle

Dates mentioned

1/17/7719742/20/162/20/25

Transcript

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

LA 164-497

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For the information of the Bureau and receiving offices, information has recently come to the attention of the Seattle, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles Divisions concerning a television documentary, "Still at Large" by Alan Landsburg Productions, Los Angeles, concerning the skyjacker as D. B. COOPER. It has recently been ascertained through investigation at Las Vegas and Los Angeles that this production is based on a manuscript written by JAMES H. BROWN, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada.

BROWN has been interviewed in Las Vegas and advised he was in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1940's, where he had a cell mate whom he refused to identify. This cell mate and BROWN had maintained periodic contact with each other over the years. During 1974, while this cell mate was residing in Bend, Oregon, BROWN and [REDACTED] had visited him. During conversation, this former cell mate had pointed to himself and said, "I am D. B. COOPER." Subsequent investigation by Las Vegas revealed that BROWN had made inquiry through a private detective agency in Las Vegas to confirm the death of one BRYANT COFFELT in Honolulu.

Subsequent investigation at Los Angeles reveals the man BROWN believes to be D. B. COOPER is one BRYANT COFFELT, also known as Bryant Jack Coffelt, J. C. Ross, John Hardy, Jr., a white male, born 2/20/16, at Carthadge, Missouri, or 2/20/25, at Picher, Oklahoma.

On 1/17/77, screenwriters DIRK WAYNE SUMMERS and ROBERT PRISNELL were interviewed by SAs C. ROBERT STRANGER and JOSEPH C. ALSTON in the presence of their attorney, [REDACTED].

SUMMERS advised he has purchased exclusive rights to the manuscript of a story based on the activities of "D. B. COOPER," from JIM BROWN, a writer residing in Las Vegas. SUMMERS stated he is convinced that BROWN genuinely believes a former cell mate of his named BRYANT COFFELT is the skyjacker known as COOPER.

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