Part 30, page 281

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 3/26/73 FROM [redacted] SAC, KANSAS CITY (164-80) RUC SUBJECT NORJAK 00 SE

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Re Minneapolis airtel to Kansas City, 2/28/73.

Attempts to contact [redacted] on 2/26/73 and 3/2/73 negative.

On 3/5/73, [redacted] Mission, Kansas, personally appeared at the FBI Office at which time he advised that from his research and reading [redacted] he considers it a great possibility that [redacted] is in fact the D. B. COOPER who hijacked the aircraft from Northwest Airlines.

[redacted] there was a great parallel between [redacted] and D. B. COOPER in facial characteristics and [redacted] [redacted] points out [redacted] he is a proponent and strongly believes in facial disguises. [redacted] pointed out the nu[merous] innuendos in the book about parachuting and in fac[t] [redacted] the California, West Coast area during the two days during which the hijacking occurred. Additionally, [redacted] made a trip to Mexico with a friend as he points out [redacted] and [redacted] feels this possibly was a dry run in order to similate the terrain which D. B. COOPER would have to bail out of the aircraft.

[redacted] is described as a white male, DOB [redacted] single, employed at [redacted] Shawnee, Kansas, also employed at [redacted] Lenexa, Kansas, home telephone [redacted]

SEATTLE should be aware [redacted] appeared at the Kansas City Office 4/14/70, and advised that he was of the opinion at that time that numerous Russians were residing in [redacted] Lawrence, Kansas. [redacted]

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(2) Seattle 1 - Minneapolis (164-73) 1 - Kansas City HHH:mh (4)

E [handwritten initials]

164-81- [illegible]

SEARCHED ... INDEXED ... [illegible] SERIALIZED ... FILED ... [illegible] MAR 2 9 1973

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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-10942