TeletypeUrgent teletype SAC Butte to SAC Seattle and SAC Portland re former smoke jumper suspect7 August 19721 page
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Part 27, page 159

DB Cooper-9161Serials BT 164-26, PD 164-41, SE 164-81

Document date 7 August 1972

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NR 005 BT PLAIN 4:45 PM URGENT 8-7-72 LKS TO SEATTLE (164-81) PORTLAND (164-41) FROM BUTTE (164-26)(P) IP

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NORJAK

RE SUSPECT [redacted]

[redacted] KALISPELL, MONTANA, ADVISED THIS DATE HE VISITED WITH A FRIEND WHO WAS A FELLOW SMOKE JUMPER DURING THE EARLY SIXTIES IN OREGON AND ALASKA. THEY DISCUSSED SOME OF THEIR FELLOW SMOKE JUMPERS AND STATED [redacted] WAS A FELLOW SMOKE JUMPER WHO RESEMBLED THE COMPOSIT DRAWING OF D. B. COOPER. [redacted] STATED [redacted] [redacted] AND [redacted] COULD HAVE USED [redacted] RECORDS OF [redacted] SHOULD BE AT THE SMOKE JUMPERS STATION AT COVE JUNCTION, OREGON, OR AT FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. [redacted] WOULD NOW BE IN HIS LATE THIRTIES. [redacted] HAD NO FURTHER INFORMATION AS TO THE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OF [redacted] BUT DOES HAVE A CLASS PICTURE SOMEWHERE IN HIS PERSONAL BELONGINGS, WHICH BUTTE WILL OBTAIN.

PORTLAND AT COVE JUNCTION, OREGON, REVIEW RECORDS OF SMOKE JUMPER STATION FOR IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND OF [redacted] AND SET OUT LEADS TO DETERMINE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS AND WHEREABOUTS FURING PERTINENT PERIOD. ENDM JJT FBI SEATTLE

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SEARCHED___ INDEXED___ SERIALIZED__ FILED__ AUG 7 1972

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