TeletypeBuffalo to Seattle re NORJAK lead, hitchhiker's account of man with hijacking clipping23 May 1980page 2 of 3
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Part 44, page 214

DB Cooper-18060Serials BU 164-134

Document date 23 May 1980

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 44 p. 214 (DB Cooper-18060), Teletype, dated 23 May 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-44/pages/214

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PAGE TWO BU 164-134 UNCLAS THE FOLLOWING INFO: ON MAY 21, 1980, [REDACTED] IN REGARDS TO A LOCAL EMPLOYMENT. [REDACTED] AT THAT TIME ADVISED THAT IN JANUARY OF 1980 HE WAS HITCHHIKING ON ROUTE 5 GOING TOWARDS SEATTLE DURING A SNOWSTORM. AT THAT TIME AN UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MALE (W/M) DRIVING A LATE MODEL CADILLAC STOPPED TO GIVE HIM A RIDE. THIS W/M WAS ONLY DESCRIBED AS BEING IN HIS 40'S AND HAVING [REDACTED] [REDACTED] AND UNIDENTIFIED W/M PROCEEDED TO THE SEATTLE AREA UNTIL THEY CAME TO AN UNIDENTIFIED BODY OF WATER. AT THIS POINT, [REDACTED] AND UNIDENTIFIED W/M PROCEEDED TO TAKE A MOTORBOAT TO [REDACTED] ON [REDACTED] WAS A LOG CABIN IN WHICH UNIDENTIFIED W/M APPARENTLY RESIDED. ONCE INSIDE UNIDENTIFIED W/M SHOWED [REDACTED] A PARACHUTE WITH THE WORD NASA WRITTEN ACROSS IT. UNIDENTIFIED W/M THEN PROCEEDED TO TELL [REDACTED] A STORY OF HOW SEVERAL YEARS EARLIER HE HAD HIJACKED AN UNIDENTIFIED PLANE FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS. UNIDENTIFIED W/M EXPLAINED THAT AFTER RECEIVING THE ONE MILLION DOLLARS HE PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE. AT THAT POINT UNIDENTIFIED W/M SHOWED [REDACTED] LARGE AMOUNTS OF

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