Document date 26 September 1976AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 38 p. 419 (DB Cooper-15118), Handwritten note, dated 26 Sep 1976, serial SE 164-81-1258 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-38/pages/419
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
[September] 26, 1976
Dear Sir,
I believe that I know who
Dan Cooper is [REDACTED].
[REDACTED]. I am enclosing a
picture of him. Compare it to the
[guess: printed] [guess: drawing] you have, or you
can see they do look alike. Compared
to the the similarities,
[REDACTED] went by the name
[REDACTED] but [guess: shortly]
after [REDACTED] I [guess: found] out [guess: that] [REDACTED].
[REDACTED]. This
name may have been false also but
[guess: Cooper's] [REDACTED]. Also the
[REDACTED] was a pilot and
knows how to plot courses, during
the war he was a parachutist. He
was [guess: fond] of sunglasses and
wore thick dark [guess: framed] [guess: ones] or the
kind that fit over regular glasses.
He was about 6 ft [guess: tall] and was
a little heavy when [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] but he could of lost a little
weight. He was always trying to
think of ways to get a large
amount of money without [guess: risking].
When we lived [REDACTED]