Part 48, page 33
Document date 20 April 1976
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 48 p. 33 (DB Cooper-19824), Memo, dated 20 Apr 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-48/pages/33
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Memo [REDACTED] RE: NORJAK
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DETAILS: A conference was held at San Francisco, California, on 4/8-9/76, with the following individuals in attendance:
FBIHQ - Supervisor SA [REDACTED] b6 Las Vegas - SA [REDACTED] b7C Los Angeles - SA [REDACTED] Portland - SA [REDACTED] Seattle - SA [REDACTED] (Case Agent) San Francisco - SAC Charles W. Bates ASAC [REDACTED] Supervisor SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED]
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This conference was set up to establish the feasibility of obtaining a John Doe indictment and to determine the value of redoing any basic investigation, the reviewing of investigation previously conducted, and to study possible new approaches that would result in the positive identification and subsequent location of the subject and/or the ransom money.
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It was determined that at the present time, we had no good suspects outstanding and the amount of hard physical evidence was extremely limited (tie and tie tack, straps of material from one of the parachutes, papers from around subject's seat area, eight cigarette butts, two hair samples and approximately 66 unidentified latent fingerprints). To date, not one of the ransom twenty dollar bills (10,000 in all) has been located. A discussion ensued as to the present strength of eyewitness identification to which Case Agent [REDACTED] responded that it was b6 weak. It was noted that these witnesses (10 in number) b7C remain very cooperative, even though it has been four and one half years since the hijacking and several differing composites have been made.
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Concerning present status of prosecution, the attendees felt that if Cooper was to surrender to authorities now or in the near future, it would be extremely difficult to "make the case" if he was uncooperative, but if he gave a signed statement they felt they could verify whether this was in fact the true hijacker. The Seattle and Portland Agents in attendance felt the accurate story concerning the incident had never appeared in its correct form in any publications they had read; therefore,
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