Part 40, page 8
DB Cooper-15672Serials AT 164-254
Document date 13 May 1977
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 40 p. 8 (DB Cooper-15672), Airtel, dated 13 May 1977, serial SE 164-81-7512 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-40/pages/8
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AT 164-254
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[REDACTED] related that he was first put in contact with [REDACTED] in about 1946, when [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was, at that time, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] trial and defense had been handled by another attorney, who upon leaving private practice, asked [REDACTED] to look after [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] and help him if he could. [REDACTED] after reviewing the appropriate transcripts and records, did not file appeal or attempt to open [REDACTED] but he did succeed in obtaining [REDACTED] out of gratitude, maintained contact with [REDACTED] through the years and recently began a series of letters and phone calls from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he now resides to [REDACTED] and related the following story:
While [REDACTED] was [REDACTED] he became acquainted with DAVID BRYANT COFFELT, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] During [REDACTED] [REDACTED] on a literary story, written for the purpose of sale and personal gain entitled, "Cleave The Liquid Sky". The story was written in the local of the Kansas/ Oklahoma area and according to [REDACTED] is somewhat biographical. [REDACTED] writes that after [REDACTED] [REDACTED] he had no further contact with DAVID BRYANT COFFELT until the latter part of 1961, at which time [REDACTED] COFFELT contacted [REDACTED] at that time and indicated that he was a student at the University of Kansas, and [REDACTED]
During 1973, after no further contact with COFFELT during the interim period, [REDACTED] decided to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and as a result, he attempted and succeeded in re-establishing contact with COFFELT. In 7/73, [REDACTED] recontacted COFFELT at COFFELT's home in Virginia, and in the ensuing conversation, COFFELT indicated that he had other matters pending at the time and that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] next contact with COFFELT was in 1/74, at which time COFFELT allegedly identified himself to [REDACTED] as D.B. COOPER, the highjacker in instant matter. He relayed certain information to [REDACTED] which in
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