Part 39, page 260
Serials LA 164-497
Document date 18 March 1977
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 39 p. 260, Teletype, dated 18 Mar 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-39/pages/260
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[REDACTED] HAD DISPLAYED LETTER DATED SEPTEMBER 27, 1976, TO HIM FROM [REDACTED] [REDACTED] HONOLULU. IN LETTER, [REDACTED] JACK COFFELT COULD NOT BE HIGHJACKER AS AT TIME OF HIGHJACKING, COFFELT UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. DOCTOR AND DURING ENTIRE PERIOD, IT WAS WELL KNOWN THAT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. HE WAS SEVERE ALCOHOLIC. [REDACTED] STATES HE INTERVIEWED SEVERAL ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND CONFIRMED ALCOHOLISM PROBLEM DURING LATE 1971, AND COFFELT WAS ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. [illegible] ALLUDING TO SERIOUS INJURIES TO LEG AND GROIN AREA WHICH [illegible] [REDACTED] THEORIZED WERE RECEIVED FROM JUMPING FROM AIRCRAFT, [guess: BLAIR] STATES ASSOCIATES IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, RECALLED COFFELT HAD OPERATION ON FOOT IN 1967, AND HAD TO HIRE CAB TO TRAVEL ONE BLOCK. ALSO DETERMINED [REDACTED] NORTHERN VIRGINIA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, DIAGNOSED COFFELT HAD SEVERE THROMBOPHLEBITUS OF LEGS AND WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, JULY 19, 1973. [REDACTED] STATES ALSO VERIFIED THAT DURING PERIOD OF HIGH-