LetterFBI Las Vegas to Bureau of Customs re smuggling information2 February 19681 page
memoLegibility: high

Part 29, page 404

DB Cooper-10500Serials SE 164-81-4365

Document date 2 February 1968

Open in FBI Vault (Part 29, page 404 of the PDF)

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 29 p. 404 (DB Cooper-10500), Letter, dated 2 Feb 1968, serial SE 164-81-4365 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-29/pages/404

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

Federal Office Building, Room 2-011 300 Las Vegas Boulevard South Las Vegas, Nevada 89101

February 2, 1968

---

Bureau of Customs U.S. Treasury Department Room 309 125 North Fourth Street Los Angeles, California 90013

---

RE: [REDACTED]

---

Dear Sir:

[REDACTED], Las Vegas Police Department, who is employed part time in a service station in Las Vegas telephonically advised this office on January 31, 1968, of the following information:

[REDACTED] who is a [REDACTED] employed by the Las Vegas Police Department, is suspected [REDACTED] the service station, identity not stated, of [REDACTED] into the United States from both Canada and Mexico.

[REDACTED] was unable to furnish any specific details as to why his employer suspected [REDACTED] other than that [REDACTED] had once been in the service station in his personal automobile which bore a sticker from some unknown hotel in Canada. [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] drove a [REDACTED] bearing Nevada license [REDACTED] He stated [REDACTED] also had access to and drove a 1965 Mercury bearing Nevada license

[REDACTED] is described as a white male American, age 40 - 48, 6', 190 pounds, brown hair. 164-81-4365

---

The above is being furnished to your office for any action deemed appropriate.

---

1-Addressee 3-Las Vegas (1 - (1 - (1 - HBP/lca (4)

---

Very truly yours,

DEAN W. ELSON Special Agent in [Charge]

---

SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ INDEXED JAN 2.6.1973

---

DB Cooper-10500