Part 48, page 22
DB Cooper-19813Serials 164-2111, 164-2343, 164-36, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8843, SU 164-259
Document date 26 January 1986
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 48 p. 22 (DB Cooper-19813), Airtel, dated 26 Jan 1986, serial SE 164-81-8843 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-48/pages/22
Transcript
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X AIRTEL
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1/26/86
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2343)
FM: SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164-36) (C)
RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., aka; CAA - AIR PIRACY; EFP (OO: SU)
Re SUairtel 6/27/73.
Enclosed for the Bureau are four copies and for Seattle one copy each of two newspaper articles regarding D. B. COOPER and RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR.
On 1/23/86 the DESERET NEWS, page B1 of the Salt Lake City, Utah, edition, printed an article which states that BERNIE D. RHODES, a retired Chief Probation Officer, has filed a Freedom of Information Act request before the Federal court to force the FBI to turn over documents regarding MC COY. MC COY was convicted in Federal court in April of 1972 for hijacking a United Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner. MC COY was sentenced to 45 years in prison but escaped in August, 1974. He was shot and killed in a shoot-out with FBI Agents 11/9/74 in Virginia. On 1/24/86 the Salt Lake Tribune, page B-7, ran a similar story.
It is noted that [REDACTED] was the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] who was involved in the MC COY case and is currently in the process of writing a book claiming that MC COY was in fact D. B. COOPER.
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4 - Bureau (Encs.) (2 - 164-2343) (2 - 164-2111) 1 - Seattle (164A-81) (Info.) (Encs.) 2 - Salt Lake City (1 - 164-36) (1 - 164-259)
VDK:jb (7)
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164A-81-8843 SEARCHED [checkmark] INDEXED [checkmark] SERIALIZED [checkmark] FILED [checkmark]
JAN 31 1986
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DB Cooper-19813