Document date 19 May 1978AIDates: 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.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 41 p. 448 (DB Cooper-16563), Teletype, dated 19 May 1978, serial SE 164-81-7896 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-41/pages/448
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
PAGE FOUR SE 164-81 UNCLAS
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FORMER SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY IS BRAND NEW. COFFELT'S ARREST
RECORD AND BACKGROUND WOULD TEND TO DISCREDIT SUCH GRANDIOSE
CLAIMS. THERE IS ALSO NO INDICATION IN SEATTLE FILE OF WHO
VISITED COFFELT WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON IN ATLANTA AND [REDACTED]
ALLEGATION THAT SAC, ATLANTA WAS COFFELT'S ONLY VISITOR IS
HIGHLY DOUBTFUL AND BORDERS ON THE LUDICROUS.
SEATTLE FILE DOES NOT REFLECT ANY FACTS THAT WOULD
SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT COFFELT WAS AN [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] HOWEVER, INFORMATION CONTAINED IN WFO AIRTEL TO BUREAU,
MARCH 2, 1977, DOES INDICATE THAT THE LAWRENCE, KANSAS POLICE
DEPARTMENT PROVIDED INFORMATION THAT [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] AND COFFELT WORKED FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. THIS AIRTEL SHOWS COFFELT INTERVIEWED
BY WFO AT WHICH TIME HE DENIED POSING AS A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
EMPLOYEE OR THAT [REDACTED]
COFFELT HAS BEEN PRINCIPALLY ELIMINATED AS A SUSPECT
BECAUSE OF A NUMBER OF FACTORS: (1) DOCTORS' STATEMENTS
INDICATING HIS HEALTH WOULD PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN AN
ACTIVITY SUCH AS NORJAK. [REDACTED] NORTHERN
VIRGINIA DOCTORS HOSPITAL DIAGNOSED COFFELT AS HAVING SEVERE