AirtelSAC Portland to SAC Seattle eliminating Merlin Gene Cooper as NORJAK suspect22 February 19891 page
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Part 49, page 202

DB Cooper-20340Serials PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8956

Document date 22 February 1989

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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 2/22/89

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TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) FROM SAC, PORTLAND (164A-41) (P) SUBJECT: NORJAK OO: SEATTLE

Re Portland airtel to Seattle 11/7/88.

For information of Seattle, suspect MERLIN GENE COOPER, DOB 7/8/34, has been eliminated as a suspect in captioned matter by Portland in that it has been ascertained that COOPER was a patient in the Walla Walla General Hospital, Walla Walla, Washington, on the date of the hijacking. Nurses' notes disclosed he was physically present at the hospital that day.

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Sub: [guess: Merlin] Gene Cooper 1002

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(2) - Seattle 1 - Portland SMM:saf (3) 1*

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Approved: _____________ Transmitted _____________ Per 164A-81 -8956 (Number) (Time)

SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED SERIALIZED [illegible] FEB 2 7 1989

DB Cooper-20340

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