MemoTo SAC Seattle comparing Detroit-Indiana parachute hijacking with NORJAK (file copy)13 December 19721 page
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Part 29, page 87

DB Cooper-10146Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4195

Document date 13 December 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 29 p. 87 (DB Cooper-10146), Memo, dated 13 Dec 1972, serial SE 164-81-4195 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-29/pages/87

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)(P) 12/13/72

SA [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

NORJAK

RE: [REDACTED]

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Re memo of SA [REDACTED] dated 12/5/72.

Investigation has determined that [REDACTED] may possibly be identical with the being part of the COOPER ransom money. [REDACTED] confided to [REDACTED] University of Washington [REDACTED] on November 28, 1972, that [REDACTED] who hijacked a plane out of Detroit and subsequently parachuted into a field in Indiana.

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A review of Seattle file [REDACTED] revealed that [REDACTED] born [REDACTED] was the [REDACTED] of a hijacking in which the hijacker parachuted out of the plane over Indiana. [REDACTED] who is described as white male, blue eyes, 6' 1", 180 pounds, born [REDACTED]

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The file further revealed that [REDACTED] parachuted from a jet airplane that was traveling at 320 miles per hour at 10,000 feet and as a result of this jump received bruises on his left thigh, under his arms, his wrist and parts of his face. In addition, the money, his gun and his trousers were ripped away by the tremendous shock of the jet blast. /64-8l- 4/95

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It is noted that [REDACTED] was born [REDACTED] and would have been [REDACTED] at the time of this hi- jacking. Unsub in the NORJAK case was described as white male, approximately 45 years old. Unsub parachuted from a jet airplane traveling at approximately 190 miles per hour

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DB Cooper-10146