MemoSPC to SAC Seattle re 5:08 AM call from informant naming hijacker9 April 1972page 1 of 2
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Part 24, page 273

DB Cooper-7671Serials SE 164-81

Document date 9 April 1972

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

TO : SAC SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 4/9/72

FROM : SPC [redacted] [signature]

SUBJECT: NORJAK

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At 5:08 AM I received a telephone call from [redacted] Washington. [redacted] stated that he knew who the Hijacker was. He stated that he lives in [redacted] which is a [redacted] which is [redacted] He stated he was [redacted] which he does quite often about 2½ months ago and that [redacted] TO confide in someone told him how he, [redacted] was the NORJAK hijaker. [redacted] said he was an X-army paratrooper and that he figured a little over 27 minutes out of Seattle would be enough time to get near [redacted] He said he landed between [redacted] He barried the two shuts in front of a chicken farm (deserted) just outside of [redacted] he had the money in a suitcase. [redacted] stated [redacted] showed him the money and it was a suitcase full of stacks of $20 bills. He said the reason he hadn't spent the money was because he knew the bills were marked and they wouldn't be able to be passed. He stated that [redacted] had left the suitcase with [redacted] (no last name given) for safe keeping while [redacted] was away. [redacted] stated he would not have turned [redacted] in except that [redacted] He gave [redacted] age as about 39.

[illegible character] I than put him in touch with SA FARRELL of SE office. While SA FARRELL was talking [redacted] stated he was here in Seattle at the present time because he was being treated [redacted] but was traveling back to his home in [redacted] and would arrive about 4:30 or 5:00 this PM. He gave his phone # in Seattle at which I called him when he talked to SA FARRELL as [redacted] which he stated as unlisted which it was. He said the address where he was staying [redacted] [redacted] states that address belongs [redacted] with a phone # [redacted] He told SA FARRELL he was under the care of a doctor [redacted] at Harbor View [guess: Knox] Hospital for about 3 days.

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SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED........ SERIALIZED.........FILED............ APR 9 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-7671

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