AirtelSAC Seattle to SAC Portland re Spokane informant and Tom Collins murder, NORJAK20 April 1973page 1 of 2
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Part 31, page 24

DB Cooper-11114Serials PD 164-41, SE 164-81

Document date 20 April 1973

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 4/20/73

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Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL (Priority) --------------------------------------------------- TO: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE NBW SUB [handwritten] RE: [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] (PROTECT), Spokane County Resident, advised [REDACTED] TOM COLLINS, was murdered in Portland in late March, 1973. [REDACTED] (LNU). [REDACTED] according to [REDACTED] (LNU) in Corvallis, Oregon, and [REDACTED] in Salem, Oregon. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] (part of COOPER's ransom money) was taken [REDACTED] (LNU). [REDACTED] is afraid she will be killed too for what she knows.

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[REDACTED] Spokane County Sheriff's Office, Spokane, Washington, sent a teletype to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office for more information and was contacted on April 13, 1973, by [REDACTED] of that Department who advised TOM COLLINS was found dead, but there was no evidence of a homicide.

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164-81- 4/63/ [handwritten]

Approved: _____________ Special Agent in Charge Sent __________ M Per _______ DB Cooper-11114 ☆U.S. Government Printing Office: 1972 — 455-574