AirtelSAC Portland to SAC Los Angeles re NORJAK suspect James Ray Fugate Jr.7 July 1972page 1 of 2
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Part 59, page 469

DB Cooper-24639Serials CV 164-88, LA 164-497, PD 164-41, SE 164-81

Document date 7 July 1972

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date: 7/7/72

Transmit the following in ___________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL (Priority)

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TO: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)

FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)(P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

Re Los Angeles nitel to Seattle, ET AL, 7/4/72.

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Chief LARRY EDLUND, Portland International Airport Police, Portland, Oregon, advises he has no recent information concerning suspect JAMES RAY FUGATE, JR., and believes him to be dead. Chief Postal Inspector ROY LOVE, Portland, Oregon, likewise, has no current information re FUGATE, but furnished following aliases reportedly used by FUGATE during 1958 check kiting violation in Littleton, Inglewood, and Golden, Colorado, for which sentenced to USP for mail fraud:

J. J. SMALLWOOD; WADE MOORE, JR.; WILLIAM T. GATTIS.

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Los Angeles note that in Portland teletype to Los Angeles and New York, 3/22/72, in TWABOM case, LA file [REDACTED] b6 Portland furnished information from [REDACTED] Salem, b7C Oregon, former [REDACTED] for Golden West Airlines, that one [REDACTED] is currently employed as [REDACTED] for Golden West. Los Angeles consider possibility [REDACTED] may be identical with suspect FUGATE.

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(2) Los Angeles 1-Cleveland (164-88)(Info) 1-Seattle (164-81)(Info) 2-Portland

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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge

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DB Cooper-24639