Part 49, page 130
Serials 164-2111, 164-36, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8932
Document date 16 August 1988
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 49 p. 130, Airtel, dated 16 Aug 1988, serial SE 164-81-8932 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-49/pages/130
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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 8/16/88
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, MILWAUKEE (164A-36) (MRA) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK; CRIME ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT-HIJACKING; OO: SEATTLE
Re Seattle airtel to Director, 7/28/88, captioned as above.
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For information and evaluation of Seattle,
[REDACTED], Baraboo, Wisconsin, telephone number [REDACTED], advised that [REDACTED] MERLIN GENE COOPER, who is now deceased. He advised that MERLIN COOPER was a pathological liar and a con man, and he would not be at all surprised if [REDACTED] was determined to be identical to hijacker D.B. COOPER. He stated that in about 1971, when the D.B. COOPER story broke and artists' drawings of D.B. COOPER were printed in newspapers, he thought to himself that the artists' drawings bore a striking resemblance to [REDACTED] MERLIN COOPER.
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He advised that [REDACTED] was in the U.S. Air Force in Europe, and, upon his discharge from the Air Force, worked as an air traffic controller at Midway Field in
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
2 - Bureau (164-2111) 2 - Seattle (164A-81) 2 - Milwaukee (164A-36) KHM:cal (6)
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Approved: __________ Transmitted ______ (Number)
[Handwritten] 164-81-8932 [guess: or similar] (Time)CHILD _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____
AUG 23 1988
FBI-SEATTLE