Part 39, page 234

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC SEATTLE 164-81 P DATE: 3/7/77

FROM : SA [REDACTED] b6 b7C

SUBJECT: NORJAK [REDACTED]

OO: SEATTLE

Re: Buairtel to SE dated 1/26/77

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On 2/18/77, [REDACTED] Washington advised he had been contacted by [REDACTED] of Vancouver, Washington and he displayed a colored photograph he had taken at Mount St. Helens in the fall of 1976. He said he viewed the picture and from the distorted background images it appeared that a body lay on the ground. He said based on that a search was made of the area photographed by [REDACTED] He said nothing was located in the area directed to by [REDACTED] and that [REDACTED] declared he was seeking "bigfoot" and would drive into the mountains and pan an area with a movie camera. He said after the movie was processed, [REDACTED] would look at it through a view finder, frame by frame and when he saw something that might look like "Bigfoot" he would photograph the frame which was enlarged and this was the manner in which he said he obtained the picture.

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On 3/4/77 [REDACTED] Vancouver, Washington was interviewed and he said the area he was photographing was located high in the St Helens range. He said he was not able to recall any order at the time he made his picture in the fall of 1976.

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It is of the opinion of the writer that the picture submitted to the Bureau as well as furnished to the Skamania County S.O. is not that of any body but an image distorted by light, and enlarge- ment that gave the possible appearance of a body. This area is too far for UNSUB in the NORJAK flight to have drifted from LaCenter, Washington.

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rad ELIMINATOR

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164-81-7402 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED MAR 9 1977 FBI--SEATTLE

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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan 5010-110

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