Part 27, page 184

Document date 5 August 1972

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[redacted b6/b7C] UNSUB WITH [redacted] /5 August 1972

To: Agent, Seattle FBI Office Seattle Fm: [redacted b6/b7C] Puyallup, Washington

Subjt: D. B. Cooper

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Dear Sir:

I called the FBI office in Seattle on the morning of 4 August 1972 at about 1:00 A.M. and gave the person who answered the phone the following information:

I am [redacted b6/b7C] with the Federal Aviation Agency. I work at the Enroute Air Traffic Control Center located at 3101 Auburn Way South in Auburn, Washington. After getting off work at 11:30 P.M. on the evening of 3 August 1972, another [redacted b6/b7C] and I drove to the Red Rooster Tavern located at 3244 Auburn Way South, to have a beer. While there we decided to order some chicken to go and play a game of pool.

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There were two couples (indian) sitting at a table and they noticed our FAA badges and asked us to sit down with them and buy us a beer. We sat with them and they started asking us questions about [redacted b6/b7C] [redacted] In the course of the conversation one of the persons we were sit- ting with, [redacted b6/b7C] he said his name was, asked me about hi-jacking and specifically about D. B. Cooper.

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[redacted b6/b7C] told me he said he thought he knows who D. B. Cooper is and went on to explain that he knows a guy who's initials are D. B. and that he was shacked up with a girl named Cooper for a long time. [redacted] said he was the o[ne] [who] introduced them. In the course of the conversation [redacted] mentioned the name [redacted b6/b7C] I'm not sure the correct spelling of the name. D.B. He also said this guy was just crazy enough to do something like that, (Hi- Jack an airplane.) He said this guy had done *some flying* and that he was a para-trooper in the service for three years. He also said *this guy fits the description of D. B. Cooper and [redacted b6/b7C] said he hadn't seen the guy in a long time but that he thought he was in Alaska.

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When I got home that night (or morning) I called the FBI office in Seattle, number MA2-0460 and gave the person who answered the phone the fore- going information.

/[signature redacted b6/b7C]

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[case number] 164-8/-3782 INDEXED [checkmark] FILED [checkmark] AUG 9 - 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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Copy to Northwest Orient Airlines

Sentences bracketed with * is information I forgot to give the FBI on the phone.

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[guess: INDIAN] [guess: SOURCE] b7C [guess: THINKS] b6 [guess: D.B.] [guess: COOPER] [illegible annotations]

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Header of a memo addressed to an FBI Agent at the Seattle FBI Office from someone in Puyallup, Washington, regarding the subject D. B. Cooper, dated August 5, 1972. The author, an FAA employee at the Enroute Air Traffic Control Center in Auburn, Washington, describes calling the Seattle FBI office at 1:00 A.M. on August 4, 1972. After getting off work at 11:30 P.M. on August 3, 1972, the author and a colleague drove to the Red Rooster Tavern at 3244 Auburn Way South for a beer, chicken, and pool. Two Native American couples at the tavern noticed the author's FAA badges and invited them to sit down. During conversation, one of the individuals asked the author about hijacking and specifically about D. B. Cooper. The tavern patron claimed to know who D. B. Cooper is, stating he knows a man with the initials D.B. who was in a relationship with a woman named Cooper. The patron said this man was crazy enough to hijack an airplane, had done some flying, was a paratrooper for three years, fits the description of D. B. Cooper, and was believed to be in Alaska. The author called the FBI Seattle office at phone number MA2-0460 upon arriving home and relayed the information. FBI Seattle filing stamp indicating the document was indexed and filed on August 9, 1972. Note indicating a copy was sent to Northwest Orient Airlines and that asterisk-bracketed sentences were information the author forgot to relay during the original phone call. Handwritten margin annotations by an FBI agent or analyst summarizing key points of each paragraph, including notes about the Indian couples, the source, and the D.B. Cooper claim.

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