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DB Cooper-1231Serials 164-31-6061, MP 164-73, SE 164-81

Document date 4 January 1974

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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: 1/4/74

FROM SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE

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Re San Francisco airtel to Minneapolis 11/21/73 and Minneapolis letter to Seattle 12/5/73.

Enclosed for Chicago is one copy each of two photographs of suspect [REDACTED] as supplied by the Bureau on b6 11/15/73. Glasses and additional hair have been added and beard b7C deleted from original Albuquerque photograph.

For the information of Seattle photograph of suspect [REDACTED] shown to [REDACTED] on 11/27/73 was photograph of b6 [REDACTED] taken at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on approximately b7C 5/8/73.

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[REDACTED] Inver Grove Heights, b6 Minnesota, was contacted on 12/17/73 by SA [REDACTED] b7C [REDACTED] and was displayed photograph provided by the Bureau on 11/15/73. This photograph was the altered photograph of suspect [REDACTED] as provided by Albuquerque Police Department.

RE: [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] advised that the Albuquerque Police Department photograph, [REDACTED] is the closest photograph she has viewed to that as she remembers unknown subject D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] advised that in spite of the closeness in resemblance she could not positively identify the individual in the photograph as being identical to unknown subject. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] made the following observations concerning the photograph:

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(2) - Seattle 2 - Chicago (Enc. 2) 2 - Minneapolis RLB:jrp (6)

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164-31-6061 [stamp partially illegible] [guess: SEARCHED] [guess: INDEXED] [guess: SERIALIZED] [guess: FILED] JAN 1 0 1974

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DB Cooper-1231

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Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, dated January 4, 1974. Minneapolis office forwards two altered photographs of a NORJAK suspect to Chicago. The photos, originally from Albuquerque, were modified by adding glasses and additional hair and deleting the beard. A photograph shown to a redacted person on 11/27/73 was taken at Wounded Knee, South Dakota around May 8, 1973. A female witness in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota was contacted on 12/17/73 by a Special Agent and shown the altered Albuquerque Police Department photograph of the suspect. She stated it was the closest photograph she had seen to her memory of unknown subject D.B. Cooper, but she could not positively identify the individual. She offered further observations about the photograph (continued on next page). Distribution list indicating copies sent to Seattle (2), Chicago (2 with 2 enclosures), and Minneapolis (2). Dictated by agent with initials RLB, typed by jrp. Total of 6 copies. FBI filing stamps and case cross-reference number with date stamp of January 10, 1974. Bates-style page stamp identifying this as page 1231 in the DB Cooper file. Standard pre-printed footer text on government memorandum form.

Multiple redaction blocks (b6/b7C privacy exemptions) obscure names and identifying details
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Bottom of page has stamps and handwritten notations that are partially legible

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