Part 46, page 268
DB Cooper-19094Serials SC 164-50
Document date 5 January 1982
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 46 p. 268 (DB Cooper-19094), Airtel, dated 5 Jan 1982, serial SE 164-81-8637 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-46/pages/268
Transcript
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SC 164-50
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[REDACTED] advised that during the hijacking period Cooper disappeared from her friend's home in [REDACTED] Cali- fornia and was gone several days. Upon his return, to the [REDACTED] California area, he told everyone that he wanted to celebrate and that he felt so terrific. [REDACTED] noted a this time Cooper had a substantial amount of money. According to [REDACTED] Cooper bragged to her friends in [REDACTED] California that he perpetrated captioned skyjacking and that because of their fear for Cooper they have never said any- thing about Melvin Cooper.
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[REDACTED] advised that Cooper also served in Viet Nam and that he married a [REDACTED] who had a [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] advised that she has been around Cooper during his trips to Tahoe and that during these trips Cooper has spent a considerable amount of money gambling and drinking. She stated that Cooper [REDACTED] who is employed for the Forest Service in Reno, Nevada and that he was also involved in the hijacking. According to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was waiting for him near Reno and after the skyjacking [REDACTED] picked Melvin up and made good their escape. Cooper has bragged to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California that he had thrown out some of the money that was subsequently found by a small boy in the Oregon area just to make it look like he had died.
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On 12/28/81, [REDACTED] telephonically contacted the Sacramento Division and advised that she had recently learned from her friends in [REDACTED] California that Melvin Cooper was employed in a helicopter rescue business located in the Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, California area and that he had died approximately five or six months ago in a helicopter crash. She stated that the crash was a result of his employment and that he was returning from Santa Barbara with a patient when this helicopter crashed into the side of a hill.
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Efforts to locate a driver's license for Melvin Cooper in the Sacramento Division has been negative.
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It is noted that [REDACTED] will not identify her friends in [REDACTED] California and has requested that they not be contacted by the FBI.
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DB Cooper-19094
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