Part 51, page 98

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(12/31/1995)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 11/25/1996 To: Seattle Attn: Squad 5 From: Newark FT-1 Contact: [REDACTED]

Approved By: [REDACTED] Drafted By: [REDACTED]

Case ID #: 164A-SE-81 SG 164A -P/

Title: D. B. COOPER Information Concerning

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Synopsis: Anonymous complainant telephonically furnished information relating to identity of D. B. COOPER.

Details: On 11/25/96, 1:35 p. m., unfemale telephonically contacted NK Division and furnished the following information.

She said she had known this information for about ten years, and that only a handful of people know this information about the true identity of D. B. COOPER. She said she was motivated to call in by a recent newspaper article portraying COOPER as some kind of folk hero. She said COOPER was no folk hero. He was an experienced pilot and sky-diver, but was also a drug smuggler. She is opposed to drugs and wants to set the record straight about COOPER.

She said she did not know COOPER personally, but knows from others in a family that she associated with until recently that he used the name JOHN and [REDACTED]. He lived in Florida around 1985 or 1986 and travelled with [REDACTED] based there and [REDACTED] travelled with him.

He and [REDACTED] in NJ in 1986. He subsequently lived in Texas, in or near Austin, and in 1987 was reported to have died in a small plane crash in 1987 or 1988 in Texas, while smuggling drugs from Mexico. [REDACTED] supposedly was taken to the crash site at that time.

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SG 164A - P/ - [guess: 82877]

SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____

DEC 0 4 1996

[REDACTED - SEATTLE stamp]

330 CE203. EC

DB Cooper-21203