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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, PORTLAND DATE: 4/18/72

FROM : ASAC VINCENT E. RUEHL

SUBJECT: NORJAK

BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS PROGRAM

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On 4/18/72, at 7:50 a.m., Bureau Supervisor HOWARD W. ARENDT, telephonically advised Bureau is in receipt of a letter from [REDACTED], Oregon . b6 [REDACTED]. b7C

[REDACTED], in his letter to the Director, stated he placed a long distance call to the Portland Office 4/10/72, and spoke b6 first to an individual named [REDACTED] and then to an Agent named b7C [REDACTED]. He claimed he advised SA [REDACTED] an individual [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and this individual, not otherwise identi- fied, was displaying a large number of $20 bills. He allegedly made the claim to [REDACTED] that he was formerly a paratrooper. He paid [REDACTED] [REDACTED] added this individual met the descrip- tion of DAN COOPER.

Foregoing telephonically furnished SA [REDACTED] Salem RA, b6 who stated he previously received similar information from b7C SA RALPH P. HIMMELSBACH under the Bank Robbery Suspects Program. SA [REDACTED] was instructed, in view of the [REDACTED] letter to the Director, to promptly contact [REDACTED] and resolve all aspects of this matter.

SA HIMMELSBACH acknowledged he had taken the original call from [REDACTED], who told a rambling, barely coherent story very b6 much in conformity with the foregoing. However, SA HIMMELSBACH b7C had the distinct impression the individual with whom he conversed was intoxicated and it was very difficult to elicit any pertinent information. SA HIMMELSBACH recalled the description furnished by [REDACTED] of the unsub did not in any way match the description of DAN COOPER.

For information.

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164-41 (NORJAK) 1-91-1943 (BR SUSPECTS PROGRAM) 1-SA [REDACTED] 1-SA HIMMELSBACH

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SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED ....... FILED ......... APR 1 8 1972 FBI—PORTLAND

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Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-42236