Document date 9 May 1972AIDates: 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 26 p. 338 (DB Cooper-8742), Letter, dated 9 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3559 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-26/pages/338
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May 9, 1972
Mr. Richard G. Kleindienst
U. S. Attorney General
Sir:
I wrote you May 8th regarding skyjacking of
Northwest 727 on the run from Portland to Seattle the
eve of Thanksgiving last.
Today a Kansas City F.B.I. agent called me
out (to early for you to have acted) I gave the agent
the mans name, and other details, after he identified his
self. I feel I should give you the facts too after the
letter I wrote you.
I have a crime pardner named [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Whenever we registed anywhere [REDACTED] gave
the name D. B. Cooper. In 1967 he approached me with the
idea of skyjacking a 727 and him jumping out after the
200,000 was delivered to me.
When this skyjacking took place with the same name
being used I was convinced my pardner was free and had done
it. After [REDACTED] checked with the Waden and I found my
pardner was still there I looked for any close friend he
might have told the plan to.
The FBI composit drawing looked like my pardner
and I was stumped. Last week I bought a June Stag Magazine
and begining on page 18 was all I needed to figure it out. It
is my pardners [REDACTED] who is [REDACTED] No
arrest record. Has been in business for himself (that I
know of) since 1955. Married twice, nice home and in 1967
owned a [REDACTED] Washington. Always drives a
Cadilac and bowls in the money every year. Like everyone he
seemed to always be short a few thousand dollars every so
often