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FD-36 (Rev. 8-29-85)

FBI

TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☒ Airtel ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ UNCLAS E F T O ☐ UNCLAS Date 7/22/88

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INDICES MANUAL [illegible] FOIMS [illegible] CONFIDENTIAL [illegible]

Sus 1002

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) FROM: SAC, MILWAUKEE (164A-36)(MRA)(P)

NORJAK; CRIME ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT-HIJACKING; OO: SEATTLE

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Re Milwaukee airtel, 6/9/88, captioned as above.

On 6/16/88, [REDACTED], Wisconsin, advised that he has lived his entire life in [REDACTED] Wisconsin and has never heard of any family named [REDACTED] living in that area.

On the same date, [REDACTED] (protect identity), [REDACTED] Wisconsin, advised that MERLIN GENE COOPER was [REDACTED] She explained that COOPER married [REDACTED] on [REDACTED] at Decorah, Iowa. At the time of the marriage COOPER was in the U.S. Air Force and immediately following the marriage [REDACTED] and MERLIN went to Europe, where COOPER was assigned duties as an Air Traffic Controller. Upon his release from military service in 1955 (approximate), MERLIN and [REDACTED] moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where MERLIN was employed as an Air Traffic Controller at Truax Field. COOPER was almost continuously unfaithful to [REDACTED] and in [REDACTED] filed for divorce.

A review of plaintiff and defendant file, [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] Circuit Court, reveals that [REDACTED] was divorced from MERLIN on [REDACTED] At that time MERLIN COOPER was residing at Truax Park, #6-M, Madison, Wisconsin. The file reflects that MERLIN and [REDACTED] born [REDACTED]

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2-Bureau (164-2111) ②-Seattle 2-Milwaukee (164A-36) KHM/psr (6)

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Approved: [signature] Transmitted __________ Per __________ (Number) (Time)

[handwritten] 164-81-89220

JUL 29 1988

DB Cooper-20215

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