AirtelSAC Portland to SAC Seattle re Merlin Gene Cooper elimination (file copy)22 February 19891 page
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Part 49, page 203

Serials PD 164-41, SE 164-81

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 [X] 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 /OO7 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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(2) - Seattle 1 - Portland SMM:saf (3) 1*

Approved: _____________ Transmitted _____________ Per (Number) (Time)

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