MemoTo SAC Seattle re letter to Seattle Post-Intelligencer Secret Witness program, with attached tipster letter29 March 1972page 2 of 4
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Part 26, page 314

DB Cooper-8715

Document date 29 March 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 26 p. 314 (DB Cooper-8715), Memo, dated 29 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-3550 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-26/pages/314

Transcript

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Pursuant to our telephone conversation this morning I am jacker furnishing information to help apprehend the sky-[redacted] who recently obtained $200 thousand from the McChord Air Force Base banking facility and escaped from a Northwest Air Lines Boeing 727 jet [redacted] airliner.

During the past week while I was in conference with [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] it came to my attention that the sky-jacker used notes to communicate with the stewardess. Although only a few lines were received, I noticed a pattern in the dialog that immediately brought to mind an acquaintance of mine with whom I have had some contact during the past four years. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] has been working here in Wenatchee during [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] Kansas.)

In addition to general appearance in the sketch, the dialog used in the notes is characteristic of that used by [REDACTED] b6 b7C I have furnished detailed information on the subject, [REDACTED] to our local F.B.I. agent, [REDACTED] and to the Seattle office of the F.B.I. regarding where he resides at times in Utah. His association [REDACTED] in Nicaragua, including: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Nicaragua.

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