MemoSAC Anchorage to SAC Seattle re NORJAK suspect Douglas Gibson Burns, enclosing FD-302 and photo22 May 19731 page
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Part 95, page 310

DB Cooper-42721Serials AN 164-59, SE 164-81

Document date 22 May 1973

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

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 5/22/73 FROM : SAC, ANCHORAGE (164-59) (RUC) SUBJECT: NORJAK (OO:SE)

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Enclosed for Seattle Division is one copy of an FD-302 reflecting the interview of [REDACTED] b6 Anchorage, Alaska, in which [REDACTED] furnished a suspect, b7C DOUGLAS GIBSON BURNS, FBI No. 136659B. Also enclosed is a photograph of BURNS.

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For the information of Seattle Division, BURNS was the subject of an investigation by the San Francisco Division, entitled "DOUGLAS GIBSON BURNS, Bank of America, NT & SA, Marina Branch, San Francisco, Calif.; 8/12/69; BR." BURNS was acquitted 7/29/70 by jury trial. The San Francisco Division file number is 91-7589 and the Portland Division file number is 91-2425.

Further, BURNS was the subject of Fugitive Bank Robber Memorandum #35, dated 3/7/69 with reference to the above- mentioned San Francisco bank robbery.

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The following additional investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED] at Anchorage, Alaska: b6 b7C Initiation of investigation in this matter was predi- cated upon receipt of information from Investigator [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Anchorage, Alaska Police Department, who advised on 5/7/73 that [REDACTED] informed him that DOUGLAS GIBSON BURNS might be identical to the hijacker of the Northwest Airlines aircraft of about two years ago in the Seattle, Washington area.

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On 5/18/73, Sergeant [REDACTED], Alaska State Troopers, Anchorage, advised that DOUGLAS GIBSON BURNS, FBI No. 136659B, b6 was returned to Anchorage following his acquittal on bank b7C robbery charges in San Francisco, California, in July, 1970. BURNS had been indicted by the State of Alaska for the 1st degree

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SEARCHED.......INDEXED....... SERIALIZED...[illegible]..FILED....[illegible] MAY 6 1973 FBI — PORTLAND

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DB Cooper-42721

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164-81- [guess: 1a] (-/2)

16-4-41-1237