Teletype · Los Angeles to Director and field offices re Summers, Blair and Coffelt · 19 March 1977 · page 2 of 3AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 19 March 1977AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 121 p. 316 (DB Cooper-55965), Teletype, dated 19 Mar 1977, serial SE 164-81-7420 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-121/pages/316
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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BLAIR RELATED THAT ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO, HE WAS ENGAGED
BY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TO INVESTIGATE VERACITY OF INFORMATION
BEING FURNISHED UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BY SCREENWRITER DIRK SUMMERS
INDICATING THAT COFFELT WAS POSSIBLY HIGHJACKER KNOWN AS D. B.
COOPER. BLAIR STATES TRAVELED WIDELY IN U.S. FOR UNIVERSAL
STUDIOS INTERVIEWING PAST ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND SPENT 12
HOURS INTERVIEWING JAMES H. BROWN AND [REDACTED] WHO
WAS SOURCE OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SUMMERS.
BLAIR STATES, DURING INTERVIEW OF BROWN, IT WAS
ASCERTAINED THAT NEITHER BROWN NOR [REDACTED] HAD EVER
ACTUALLY SEEN A BUCKLE OR FASTENER ALLEGEDLY FROM PARACHUTE
USED BY HIGHJACKER. BROWN STATED COFFELT HAD MADE CASUAL
REFERENCE TO SOME BUCKLES BURIED SOMEWHERE.
BLAIR COVERED MANY FACETS OF HIS EFFORTS TO DETERMINE IF
COFFELT HIGHJACKER, IN FACTUAL AND ORGANIZED MANNER. STATED
HE REACHED CONCLUSION COFFELT WAS PROBABLY NOT HIGHJACKER
BASED ON FOLLOWING FACTS:
DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING, BRYANT COFFELT WAS SUFFERING
FROM SEVERE ALCOHOLISM AND ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.