Part 122, page 143
DB Cooper-56257Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-7402
Document date 7 March 1977
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 122 p. 143 (DB Cooper-56257), Memo, dated 7 Mar 1977, serial SE 164-81-7402 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-122/pages/143
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC SEATTLE 164-81 P DATE: 3/7/77
FROM : SA RICHARD AVERY DYER
SUBJECT: NORJAK
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OO: SEATTLE
Re: Buairtel to SE dated 1/26/77
On 2/18/77, [REDACTED], Washington advised he had been contacted by RUSSELL J. BUCHE of Vancouver, Washington and he displayed a colored photograph he had taken at Mount St. Helens in the fall of 1976. He said he viewed the picture and from the distorted background images it appeared that a body lay on the ground. He said based on that a search was made of the area photographed by BUCHE. He said nothing was located in the area directed to by BUCHE and that BUCHE declared he was seeking "bigfoot" and would drive into the mountains and pan an area with a movie camera. He said after the movie was processed, BUCHE would look at it through a view finder, frame by frame and when he saw something that might look like "Bigfoot" he would photograph the frame which was enlarged and this was the manner in which he said he obtained the picture.
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On 3/4/77 RUSSELL J. BUCHE, 415 Northeast 194th street, Vancouver, Washington was interviewed and he said the area he was photographing was located high in the St Helens range. He said he was not able to recall any order at the time he made his picture in the fall of 1976.
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It is of the opinion of the writer that the picture submitted to the Bureau as well as furnished to the Skamania County S.O. is not that of any body but an image distorted by light, and enlargement that gave the possible appearance of a body. This area is too far for UNSUB in the NORJAK flight to have drifted from LaCenter, Washington.
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Sub 88[illegible] 164-81-7402 SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED [illegible] SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] MAR 9 1977 FBI - SEATTLE
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[Minuteman/soldier illustration, left side] Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB COOPER-56257
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