Part 78, page 353
DB Cooper-34230Serials MP 164-73
Document date 21 July 1977
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 78 p. 353 (DB Cooper-34230), Teletype, dated 21 Jul 1977, serial MP 164-73-514 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-78/pages/353
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FD-36 (Rev. 7-27-76) FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☐ Airtel ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ E F T O ☐ CLEAR Date ____________
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PAGE THREE, MP 164-73, CLEAR
[REDACTED] ALSO TOLD HIM THAT THE PLACE THE HIJACKER WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE BAILED OUT OF THE NWAL FLIGHT WAS INCORRECT, BUT [REDACTED] DID NOT STATE THE EXACT LOCATION. [REDACTED] SAID THAT D. B. COOPER (HIJACKER) DIED IN 1975, NOT AS A RESULT OF BAILING OUT OF THE NWAL FLIGHT, AND COOPER HAD SPENT TIME IN PRISON, POSSIBLY NEBRASKA, WITH JAMES EARL RAY. [REDACTED] TOLD [REDACTED] THAT HE HAD NOTES ON THE HIJACKING AND [REDACTED] SAID HE WANTED TO SEE THEM, AND TOLD [REDACTED] THEY COULD COMPARE EVERYTHING THEY HAD.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE INFORMATION CONCERNING JAMES EARL RAY MAY HAVE SOME CONNECTION WITH THE INFORMATION [REDACTED] [REDACTED] FURNISHED [REDACTED] AS SET FORTH IN LITTLE ROCK TELETYPE TO BUREAU, JULY 20, 1977, AND MAY CONNECT [REDACTED] [REDACTED] IN SOME WAY.
[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HE HAS ONLY SUPPLIED [REDACTED] WITH GENERAL INFORMATION, WHICH WAS IN THE NEWSPAPERS. HE WAS ASKED ABOUT SPECIFICS WHICH [REDACTED] MENTIONED TO [REDACTED] AS MENTIONED IN ABOVE LITTLE ROCK TELETYPE, AND STATED HE
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Approved: ____________ Transmitted ____________ Per ____________ (Number) (Time) GPO : 1977 O - 225-539 DB Cooper-34230