MemoTo SAC Seattle re possible suspect known to tipster from Navy service11 January 19721 page
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Part 67, page 299

DB Cooper-28612Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1836

Document date 11 January 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 67 p. 299 (DB Cooper-28612), Memo, dated 11 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1836 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-67/pages/299

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) SUB J

SA [REDACTED]

NORJAK

RE: [REDACTED] POSSIBLE SUSPECT

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On 1/3/72, [REDACTED], Washington, telephone [REDACTED], who is employed at [REDACTED], Washington, telephone [REDACTED], contacted the writer to advise that he awoke one morning last week with the thought that [REDACTED], whom he knew some 18 to 20 years ago in the U. S. Navy, might be a likely suspect in instant case. [REDACTED] said that [REDACTED] has long time experience as a parachute rigger and a jumper and was working in [REDACTED], California, in 1950 and 1951. He said this was an [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. He said that [REDACTED] is a eccentric person, is a man who has very definite ideas and who was an extremely good parachute rigger and jumper.

[REDACTED] continued that [REDACTED] left the Navy about 1954 at the end of his enlistment and went to work for [REDACTED] somewhere in the Los Angeles, California, area, working in [REDACTED]. He said that [REDACTED] had some very excellent design ideas and probably continued to work in this area.

[REDACTED] continued that he has not seen [REDACTED] in 18 or 19 years and does not know why he suddenly came to his mind as a possible suspect in this case. He said that he had seen the artist's conception earlier, but that for some reason on this particular morning, [REDACTED] came to mind and there is a likeness to the artist's conception. He said that at that time [REDACTED] was to the best of his recollection, described as follows:

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