MemoSA Wick to SAC Seattle re Washington State parole file on Hardesty4 March 1974page 2 of 2
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Part 34, page 73

DB Cooper-12679Serials SE 164-81

Document date 4 March 1974

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SE 164-81

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supervision on October 21, 1955. In 1958 a background investigation was conducted concerning HARDESTY to determine if he was eligible for the restoration of his civil rights. At that time he was a member of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific Merchant Marines. He said since he had been released from supervision, he had been in Tallahassee, Florida for about six months, returning to Portland and working as a free lance photographer. He then joined the Sailors' Union of the Pacific as an ordinary seaman. He married a LORETTA AILEEN PAWSEY, age 23 on April 30, 1958, having met her in his own parent's home in Portland. The most recent photograph was taken prior to his last parole, but shows him as virtually bald, having a round face, wearing glasses, 5'8", 180 pounds, hazel eyes and brown hair. He has a scar on his left wrist outter and his race is white. He was born April 4, 1918, Freewater, Oregon. He is a graduate of Roosevelt High School, Seattle, Washington and at one time

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