AirtelSAC New Orleans to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect reported by Houma source3 December 1976page 1 of 3
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Part 61, page 270

DB Cooper-25479Serials LA 164-497-8, NO 164-136, SE 164-81

Document date 3 December 1976

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FD-36 (Rev. 2-14-74)

FBI

Date: 12/3/76

Transmit the following in ________ (Type in plaintext or code)

Via AIRTEL (Precedence)

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TO: SAC, Seattle (164-81)

FROM: SAC, New Orleans (164-136) (P)

NORJAK AIRCRAFT HI-JACKING (OO: SEATTLE)

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Re New Suspect: [REDACTED] also known as [REDACTED]

The following information concerns captioned new suspect in the D. B. COOPER sky-jacking incident.

On 11/30/76, [REDACTED] Houma, Louisiana, home telephone [REDACTED] telephonically advised as follows to SA [REDACTED]

In early 1975 or late 1974, a man calling himself [REDACTED] applied for a job with [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Houma, Louisiana, and was hired. [REDACTED] On his job application form, he claimed his date of birth was [REDACTED] SSAN [REDACTED] He also claimed he had served in the U. S. Army at Fort Lewis, Washington, from [REDACTED] He was a white male, appeared to be about 40 years old, five feet ten inches tall, slender build, brown and slightly receding hair, parted on the left, and was a very neat dresser and took such care of himself that he was referred to as [REDACTED] He obtained permission

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2 - Seattle 2 - San Francisco 2 - Buffalo 2 - Sacramento 2 - NYC 3 - New Orleans 2 - Albany JAP/tac 2 - Atlanta (25) 2 - Savannah 2 - Los Angeles 2 - San Diego

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164 - 497-8[illegible] [SERIALIZED] [FILED] [illegible] 12 DEC 9 1976 FBI - LOS ANGELES

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Approved: _________ Sent _________ Special Agent in Charge

GPO: 1975 O - 590-983

DB Cooper-25479