LetterCitizen tip letter to SA Tom Manning naming Jack Linkletter as the hijacker, with envelopeNovember 1971page 1 of 2
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Part 74, page 15

DB Cooper-31810

Document date November 1971

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F.B.I. Agent, Tom Manning, Portland Oregon

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Dear Mr. Manning,

[re] Jack Linkl[etter] [illegible] [illegible] wa[s] Scuba [illegible] Day. [illegible] he [illegible] proposing himself as the [follows/police] [illegible] [illegible] of Nov. 171, about two [weeks] [ago]. [He's/that] [illegible] be able to take away when the [businessman] [illegible] [Jack] knows about helicopter tricks, how to [give] [illegible] look, how to get that olive complexion, [illegible] [necessary] change the color of his eyes [illegible] probably slightly taller than 6'1, [must] [illegible]

Jack Linkletter [is an] [experienced] [illegible] [he] [pro]bably made a few parachute jumps before[,] [illegible] place who flew up with him to [maybe] [or] [illegible] grounds near the area where [his/he] [illegible] [illegible] to the [planes] used. Then they [flew] [illegible] the note was mailed to the [illegible] [illegible] hours back to Newport Beach [Where] [he] [illegible] accomplice, the rest of the [illegible] [illegible] area.

[Also] to that [alone] [illegible] [illegible] between any member of the [illegible] [illegible] [was] [attempts] [can] [illegible] [at] [false] [against] [illegible]

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DB Cooper-31810