Part 40, page 376
DB Cooper-15960Serials SC 164-50
Document date 6 March 1978
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 40 p. 376 (DB Cooper-15960), Airtel, dated 6 Mar 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-40/pages/376
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SC 164-50
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effecting the NORJAK hijacking, but denied participation and claimed he was interviewed and eliminated as a suspect by a San Francisco FBI Agent in Fort Cronkite, California in 1971.
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Photos of RACKSTRAW taken within the past three years have been sent direct to the Seattle case agent and should be returned to SA [REDACTED] at the Stockton, California RA when no longer needed.
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The day after RACKSTRAW was arrested in New York, the body of his stepfather was located in a hole in Calaveras County, California, and a murder warrant against RACKSTRAW has just been issued.
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RACKSTRAW's [REDACTED] has been located by the FBI [REDACTED] been with the suspect in November, 1971 at the time of the NORJAK and may be able to establish his whereabouts at the pertinent time.
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FBI Identification Division, Latent Fingerprint Section, is requested to compare suspect's fingerprints under FBI No. 977 973E with the NORJAK partials.
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LEADS:
SAN FRANCISCO
Will assign SA [REDACTED] to interview suspect's [REDACTED] and will search files to determine why RACKSTRAW was considered a suspect in NORJAK in 1971. Advise Seattle and Sacramento if he was interviewed and eliminated as a suspect in 1971.
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SEATTLE
Will consider RACKSTRAW as a suspect and set out other logical leads.
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ST. LOUIS
Will review RACKSTRAW's military record under SSAN 546-54-1279 and send Seattle a copy of it and will attempt to locate good copies of any 1971 photos of RACKSTRAW for the Seattle Division.
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DB Cooper-15960
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