AirtelSAC Portland to SAC Seattle re Coquille, Oregon tipster naming a Cooper lookalike21 December 1981page 1 of 2
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Part 46, page 286

DB Cooper-19123Serials PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8644

Document date 21 December 1981

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 46 p. 286 (DB Cooper-19123), Airtel, dated 21 Dec 1981, serial SE 164-81-8644 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-46/pages/286

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-78)

FBI

TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☒ Airtel ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ UNCLAS E F T O ☐ UNCLAS Date 12/21/81 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)

FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164A-41) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK; (OO: Seattle)

Re Bureau teletype to all offices 11/10/81.

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On 11/23/81, [REDACTED], Coquille, Oregon, residence [REDACTED] business telephone [REDACTED], telephonically contacted the Portland Office of the FBI regarding an individual he feels he is identical to "D.B. COOPER," and thereafter received consideration for the one million dollar reward offered by Universal Studios. [REDACTED] refused to divulge the name of the individual he feels is identical to captioned subject unless contacted personally by an agent. [REDACTED] based his belief that this individual is captioned subjct based on an article which ap- peared in the North West Magazine of "The Oregonian" newspaper during November, 1980. [REDACTED] described this individual as a white male, [REDACTED] years of age at the time of the highjacking, 5'8" in height, 160 pounds, ruddy face, small ears, and having [REDACTED] sounding like "W.C. Fields." This individual also smoked Raleigh brand cigarettes.

[REDACTED] advised he had not seen this individual for 15 years but knew of him when they were growing in the Myrtle Point, Oregon, area. Additionally, this individual moved to the State of Washington to reside with his grandmother and served as an Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Initially he looked like the composite drawing of the subject in captioned matter.

On 11/30/81 [REDACTED] (Supra), furnished the name of the individual he feels is identical to the subject in

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(2) - Seattle 2 - Portland

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DB Cooper-19123

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INDRY - Eliminate duplicatephy[guess: sical] Aged + Re[guess: pay] 1/21/82

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b6 b7C

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164A-81-8644