MemoTo SAC Seattle re 5:08 a.m. anonymous call on ex-paratrooper hijacker9 April 19721 page
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Part 67, page 262

DB Cooper-28568Serials SE 164-81

Document date 9 April 1972

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SAC SEATTLE (164-81) 4/9/72

SPC [REDACTED]

NORJAK

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At 5:08 AM I received a telephone call from [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Washington. [REDACTED] stated that he knew who the Hijacker was. He stated that he lives in [REDACTED] which is a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] which is [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. He stated he was [REDACTED] which he does quite often about 2½ months ago and that [REDACTED] TO confide in someone told him how he, [REDACTED], [guess: knew] was the NORJAK hijaker. [REDACTED] said he was an X-army paratrooper and that he figured a little over 27 minutes out of Seattle would be enough time to get near [REDACTED]. He said he landed between [REDACTED]. He barried the two shuts in front of a chicken farm (deserted) just outside of [REDACTED] he had the money in a suitcase. [REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] showed him the money and it was a suitcase full of stacks of $20 bills. He said the reason he hadn't spent the money was because he knew the bills were marked and they wouldn't be able to be passed. He stated that [REDACTED] had left the suitcase with [REDACTED] (no last name given) for safe keeping while [REDACTED] was away. [REDACTED] stated he would not have turned [REDACTED] in except that [REDACTED]. He gave [guess: sub.] [REDACTED] age as about 39. 164-81-[guess: 2646]

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I than put him intouch with SA FARRELL of SE office. While SA FARRELL was talking to [REDACTED] stated he was here in Seattle at the present time because he was being treated [REDACTED], but was traveling back to his home in [REDACTED] and would arrive about 4:30 or 5:00 this PM. He gave his phone # in Seattle at which I called him when he talked to SA FARRELL as [REDACTED] which he stated as unlisted which it was. He said the address where he was staying as [REDACTED] [REDACTED] states that address belongs to [REDACTED], with a phone # [REDACTED]. He told SA FARRELL he was under the care of a doctor [REDACTED] at Harbor View XXXX Hospital for about 3 days.

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SEARCHED .... INDEXED .... SERIALIZED ... FILED .... - APR 9 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-28568