Teletype · WFO to Director re NORJAK: interviews concerning James Bryant Coffelt · 2 August 1977 · page 2 of 4AIType, title and date: 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.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 40 p. 207 (DB Cooper-15902), Teletype, dated 2 Aug 1977, serial SE 164-81-7634 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-40/pages/207
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[REDACTED] ADVISED HE WAS AN ATTORNEY WITH OFFICES AT 325 PENNSYL-
VANIA AVENUE, S.E., WASHINGTON, D. C. (WDC). [REDACTED] MET
JAMES BRYANT COFFELT IN 1972 WHEN BOTH WERE ATTENDING ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS. [REDACTED] DESCRIBES COFFELT AS A COUNTRY BOY WHO
WAS "A REAL CON MAN."
ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] COFFELT WAS A VERY LIKEABLE PERSON
WHO WAS A GOOD STORY TELLER AND SALESMAN. COFFELT TOLD [REDACTED]
HE, COFFELT, WAS FROM THE COLSON HILLS AREA, HAD DONE TIME
FOR BANK ROBBERY, AND HAD BEEN PAROLED IN 1955. ACCORDING
TO COFFELT, WHEN TRUMAN WAS UNDER SIEGE AT THE BLAIR HOUSE,
A GUARD-RELATIVE HAD SAVED TRUMAN'S LIFE AND THE FAMILY WAS
REWARDED WITH COFFELT'S PAROLE. [REDACTED] LAST SAW COFFELT ON
DECEMBER 27 OF 1974 OR 1975, WHEN COFFELT WAS MOVING TO
LAS VEGAS.
ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO A [REDACTED] CAME TO WASHINGTON
AND [REDACTED] WENT TO BREAKFAST WITH HIM. [REDACTED] TALKED ABOUT A
[REDACTED] COFFELT HAD WRITTEN [REDACTED] AND THAT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
WAS INTERESTED IN PUBLISHING THE BOOK. [REDACTED] WAS TRYING TO
LOCATE COFFELT AND ASKED IF COFFELT HAD OWED [REDACTED] ANY MONEY.
[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE HAD DONE SOME LEGAL WORK FOR COFFELT