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AIRTEL 7/12/78

TO : SAC, MIAMI

FROM : SAC, ALBUQUERQUE (149-131)

SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) OO: SEATTLE

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For Miami Office, the following information was obtained re the possible identity of D. B. COOPER, Fugitive Subject, in the Seattle "NORJAK" case.

On 6/16/78, [REDACTED] Las Cruces, New Mexico, work telephone [REDACTED] contacted Agents at the Las Cruces Resident Agency. He advised that he had a possible lead on D. B. COOPER - Fugitive.

[REDACTED] stated that due to a recently aired television program describing the COOPER hijacking, he had begun to reflect on an acquaintance of his in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and his possible connection as the individual known as D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] said that shortly after [REDACTED] [REDACTED] he joined a loose-knit group known as the South Florida Parachute Association, which was dedicated to sport parachuting. One of the founders of that club was [REDACTED] whom he described as a white male with light brown hair, and light colored eyes, 6', 100-170 lbs., medium build. [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] would not be in his late 40's, or early 50's.

In 1953, [REDACTED] had made between [REDACTED] sport jumps under all types of conditions, and was involved in sport parachuting to the point that [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] stated that he [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and did not see [REDACTED] again until approx- imately the spring of [REDACTED] when he [REDACTED] in Ft. Lauderdale. Present in the house when he arrived was [REDACTED] (name unknown), and [REDACTED] who [REDACTED] remembers as having graduated approximately the same time as he had from [REDACTED]

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2 - Miami (RAM) (2) Seattle (164-31) (RAM) OJA 2 - Albuquerque new nab

PEN:ras (6)

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SEARCHED___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___FILED___ JUL 17 1978

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b6 b7C DB Cooper-16810