MemoSAC Minneapolis to SAC Seattle enclosing photographs and suspect description12 March 1981page 1 of 2
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Part 46, page 81

DB Cooper-18853Serials MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8563

Document date 12 March 1981

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 46 p. 81 (DB Cooper-18853), Memo, dated 12 Mar 1981, serial SE 164-81-8563 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-46/pages/81

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Memorandum

To: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) From: SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164A-73)(C)

Subject: NORJAK PRIORITY A OO: SEATTLE

Date: 3/12/81

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Re San Francisco letter to Seattle dated 6/27/80.

Enclosed for Seattle are two photographs, one of them being the photograph furnished by [REDACTED] and the other photograph being the most recent one of [REDACTED]

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On 10/22/80, [REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] should be considered a suspect in the NORJAK hijacking. [REDACTED] bases his opinion on the fact that the hijacker is known as D. B. COOPER and that [REDACTED] is the last of what might be considered the rugged individualists. Further, [REDACTED] is of the opinion that [REDACTED] bears a resemblance to the composite picture which was made following the hijacking. [REDACTED] thought [REDACTED] was a parachutist and knows him to be a pilot very knowledgeable about aircraft. Further, [REDACTED] is an outdoorsman and knowledgeable about the wilderness areas both in the United States and Canada. In [REDACTED] [REDACTED], however, the [REDACTED] was never completed. Following is a description of [REDACTED]

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(2) - Seattle (Encs. 2) [handwritten: Recd] 2 - Minneapolis JDH:pfc (4)

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164-81 -8563 [illegible] ce[illegible] u[illegible] MAR 1 8 1981

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[illegible handwritten annotation, partially reads: some form of routing notation]

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DB Cooper-18853