Teletype · WFO to Director re NORJAK: interviews concerning James Bryant Coffelt · 2 August 1977 · page 3 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. 208 (DB Cooper-15903), Teletype, dated 2 Aug 1977, serial SE 164-81-7634 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-40/pages/208
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IN A CLAIM COFFELT HAD AGAINST ROBERT TODD LINCOLN BECKWITH
AND WAS STILL OWED MONEY FOR LEGAL FEES.
AFTER [REDACTED] VISIT, A PRODUCER FROM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
CALLED AND ADVISED THEY NEEDED PERMISSION TO MAKE PUBLIC
SOME OF COFFELT'S WORK. [REDACTED] SAID HE WAS OFFERED $25,000
AND A PERCENTAGE OF THE PROFITS AND [REDACTED] WAS OFFERED
THE SAME. [REDACTED] DECLINED AND ADVISED HE HAD BEEN TOLD BY
[REDACTED] THAT SHE, [REDACTED] WAS VERY DISTRESSED OVER A
TELEPHONE CALL FROM A MAN NAMED [REDACTED] WHO HAD GONE TO A
RELATIVE OF [REDACTED] AND COFFELT
WERE COUSINS. [REDACTED] ADVISED THE AGENTS THAT DURING THE TIME
HE KNEW [REDACTED] AND JACK COFFELT, THEY HAD NOT [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
[REDACTED] ADVISED HE COULD NOT BELIEVE COFFELT COULD HAVE
BEEN INVOLVED IN A HIJACKING, "IT WAS NOT HIS STYLE," AND
"I DON'T THINK HE'D KNOW HOW TO OPEN A PARACHUTE LET ALONE
OPEN AN AIRPLANE'S DOOR FROM THE INSIDE." [REDACTED] STATED
COFFELT HAD ENTRUSTED NOTHING TO [REDACTED] FOR SAFEKEEPING IN
A VAULT OR ELSEWHERE.