FBI FOI/PA deleted page information sheet for case 1:16-cv-01790-02 listing 14 pages removed as duplicates (pages 45-55, 61, 99, 100). Standard FBI stamp/box indicating deleted pages with no duplica…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated December 27, 1973, sent via airmail/airtel. Airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Seattle is follow…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header, dated December 27, 1973, sent via AIRTEL/AIRMAIL in plaintext. Routing block of the airtel: from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK c…

Header of a US Government memorandum from a Special Clerk (SC) to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Portland FBI office, case number 164-41, dated December 27, 1973, regarding the NORJAK case.…

Redacted return address with location in Oregon and date of December 29, 1983. Letter addressed to a redacted FBI Special Agent at the Portland, OR field office. A citizen writes to an FBI Special…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Addressed to SAC Portland, file number 164-41, from a Special Agent (name redacted under b6/b7C), dated January 2, 1974, regarding the NORJAK cas…

Date of document An AIRTEL memo from SAC WFO to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. On 1/3/74, a woman from Rockville, Maryland telephonically contacted WFO requesting a list of twenty dollar bills s…

A handwritten letter dated December 3, 1973, addressed to the FBI, requesting a listing of the serial numbers on the $20 bills associated with D.B. Cooper. The sender's name and address are redacted…

Postmark from U.S. Postal Service dated 1973 with an 8-cent U.S. flag stamp. Return address area is redacted, covered by a black rectangle consistent with FBI privacy exemptions b6 and b7C. Handwri…

FBI Portland field office return address and date of letter. Recipient address and salutation with redacted name and address details; state visible as Kansas. Response letter from FBI SAC J. L. Mat…

FBI form identifier and revision date. Document header with transcription date. An individual was interviewed by a Special Agent regarding his discovery of a parachute in the mountains near Sherida…

Header block identifying the memo as from/to SAC Seattle and SAC Portland, case NORJAK, dated January 10, 1974. Handwritten case number annotation, partially legible. FBI memo describing investigat…

FBI memo header identifying the sending and receiving offices (Seattle and Portland) with file numbers and the NORJAK case designation. FBI investigation report from Hood River, Oregon. Sheriff Rube…

A citizen writes to Mr. Mattson (likely an FBI agent) describing how an image in Time magazine startled them a few weeks prior. Despite feeling the idea is absurd, they enclose two pictures for revie…

Feature article from The Oregonian by Leverett Richards recounting the D.B. Cooper hijacking of November 24, 1971. Reviews the two-year investigation, FBI agent Julius Mattson's statements that no cl…

Article about Oregon Liquor Control Commission's authority to seize vehicles carrying contraband liquor, including aircraft. Discusses OLCC enforcement priorities, licensing of service permittees, an…

FBI Portland field office return address and date line with case number 164-41. Recipient name and address redacted; located in Tigard, Oregon. Exemption codes b6 and b7C noted in right margin. A b…

Handwritten notation indicating the source publication and date: Time magazine, November 26, 1973 issue. Grid of 16 portrait photographs of Electrolux sales representatives and managers from various…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland, case file 164-41, dated 1/7/73, subject NORJAK (FBI code name for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case). Sender SA name is redacted. A c…

FBI case file number for the Portland field office. Continuation of interview with Rose. He claimed classified Navy training, employment at North American Rockwell, flying the U-2 spy plane, pulling…

New employee check list form for Matthew Casterbook, hired at the Portland branch on 11-30-73 at an hourly rate of $3.50. Various onboarding items are checked off including time card explanation, tra…

IRS Form W-4 (Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate, Rev. Aug. 1972) filled out in the name of Mack A. Pasterbrook, SSN 557-46-8529, with a Beaverton, Oregon address (P.O. Box 950). Married st…

Employment application filled out by Matthew (Mack) H. Easterbrook, age 37, dated 11/30/73. He was a single male from Beaver, TN, born 7/12/36 in Wisconsin. He owned a 1972 Oldsmobile, rented his hom…

Handwritten annotations listing types of work experience, including retail, industrial, agricultural (hay/feed/grain/cattle), and outside sales. Employment application form showing education history…

Group Enrollment Card from The Bankers Life for Mack H. Easterbrook, employed by Kans Lu[re] Corporation. Born 07/04/1936, spouse born 11/08/1936, married, SSN 557-46-8529. Occupation listed as Patte…

Company letterhead for Electro Painters, Inc., a nationwide electrostatic refinishing company with a Western Regional Office in Portland, Oregon. Employment offer letter from Electro Painters, Inc.…

Routing header of an FBI inter-office memo from Portland to Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, dated January 8, 1974. Portland office reports that files contain information received 12…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated January 4, 1974, sent via airtel air mail. Routing information for NORJAK case communication from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle, referencing…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. Opening statement of a detailed investigative summary being shared with receiving FBI offices. In January 1971, a source at the South Bay Dail…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office, file 164-497. Continuation of an FBI interview with Mrs. SILKWOOD regarding a subject of interest in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case (LA 164-497…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Description of a California driver's license issued to a redacted individual in Los Angeles. Subject described as male, 5'…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. An unidentified woman in Los Angeles was interviewed on 2/15/72. She described herself as closely associated with certain…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for the NORJAK/D.B. Cooper investigation. A female subject states that mail received at two Los Angeles PO boxes is being forwarded to her attorney, who was…

FBI Los Angeles field office case file number. On 11/8/73 two individuals were interviewed who expressed interest in a reward related to the Seattle hijacking. They had contacted Northwest Orient Ai…

FBI case file number for Los Angeles field office. On 11/8/73, an Oregon license plate was traced through the Oregon law enforcement data system to a 1972 Imperial registered to MARGARET B. WOOD, bo…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. An attorney disposed of a boat without filing a petition. A female interviewee describes a close relationship with a redacted individual, hand…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. Subject's relative states he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, was honorably discharged, and had never been arrested. The interviewee describes a clo…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for this report page. Review of prior investigation into a suspect involving Redondo Beach PD, LA Sheriff Harbor Division, and U.S. Coast Guard. LAPD West V…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for this report page. An unidentified person states they never observed a 1971 or 1972 Chrysler Imperial at a referenced address and mentions a former tenant…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. A female subject stated that records show four payments received on a redacted account: three on 4/4/72 for a 1970 Buick (paid in full), a Volv…

FBI case file number for the Los Angeles field office. On December 8, 1973, an Atlantic Richfield Company employee in Los Angeles advised that a redacted individual in Glendale, California opened an…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number header. On 12/19/73, a source advised that a telephone number was a published number which had been disconnected. The subscriber was located in Van Nuys, Cal…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for the NORJAK/D.B. Cooper investigation. A witness (redacted) advises that a person of interest paid rent by checks drawn on a Bank of America account and p…

FBI Los Angeles field office case file number. Continuation of an FBI investigative report regarding the D.B. Cooper ransom bills. A female subject was furnished the ransom bill list and agreed to c…

FBI Los Angeles field office file number for the NORJAK/D.B. Cooper case. A subject provided personal references including employers and a bank in Portland, Oregon. Former addresses in Portland from…

Date of the letter. Letterhead address for the Oregon Journal newspaper in Portland. Letter from an FBI official to the Oregon Journal thanking the newspaper for its coverage of the D.B. Cooper hij…

FBI inter-office memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle, dated 1/16/74, forwarding two copies of an FD-302 regarding the recovery of a parachute found in a mountainous area near Sheridan, Oregon on 12…

Routing header of an FBI inter-office memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated January 16, 1974. Cover note enclosing a photograph of a suspect for the Seattle office.…

Continuation of an FBI report describing a suspect as quiet, a loner, methodical, who saved everything, and a shady character. A photograph was furnished by someone in Salem, Oregon on 12/18/73 for t…

Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Notes a subtitle change to correct the spelling of a suspect's name. SA LeROY R. ELLIOTT conducted in…

FBI form/case reference number for this page of the report. An individual in Oregon advised the FBI on 1/18/74 about a worker who disappeared without notice in late July 1973. The worker left withou…

Standard header for a United States Government memorandum from a Special Agent to SAC Portland, dated 1/18/74, regarding the NORJAK case (164-41). An informant from Tigard, Oregon called FBI Portlan…

Standard USG memo header addressed to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case, dated 1/23/74. Sender SA name is redacted. Follow-up investigation on JOHN EDWARD HALE, an employee at U.S. Plywood Mill in…

Standard header of a United States Government interoffice memorandum addressed to SAC Portland, file number 164-41, dated January 23, 1974, from a Special Agent (name redacted), regarding the NORJAK…

Header line identifying this as a memo to SAC Portland, case number 164-41, dated 1/22/74. The SA (Special Agent) name is redacted. An unidentified caller contacted the Portland FBI office to report…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case, dated January 24, 1974. Memo documents a lead from a source at Mannings Restaurant, L…

Memo header identifying sender (SAC Seattle), recipient (SAC Portland), case name NORJAK, and reference to a prior Los Angeles airtel dated 1/4/74. An employee at Canyon Chrysler Plymouth in Beavert…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach to SAC (164-41), dated January 29, 1974, regarding the NORJAK case. SA Himmelsbach reports on an interview with a redacted suspe…

FBI internal memorandum from a Special Agent in Portland to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. On 1/16/74, a redacted individual in Oregon was contacted about a suspect. After view…

Header of a US Government memorandum form (Optional Form No. 10) addressed to the SAC (Special Agent in Charge), dated 1/28/74, with file number 164-41-1294. The TO, FROM, and SUBJECT fields are part…

Header of an FBI inter-office memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, dated 1/31/74. A source contacted the Portland FBI office on 12/27/73 at 4:43 p.m. to rep…

Case file number header Portland indices search results for a suspect. Oregon driver's license registration records describe the holder as male, 5'10", 145 pounds. Multnomah County Sheriff's Office…

FBI non-symbol source administrative page for case PD 164-41. The source name has been redacted (blocked out). Exemption codes b6, b7C, and b7D are noted in the right margin, indicating the redaction…

Internal FBI memo from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland offices regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. San Francisco encloses copies of an FD-302 interview report as requested in a prior Portl…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. Interview of a redacted individual from Campbell, California who wrote a letter to the Portland, Oregon Police Department about…

Sender's return address block with name redacted, located in Oregon, dated January 26, 1974. Handwritten letter addressed to the FBI at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., requesting…

Handwritten notations, possibly a name and reference numbers with a date of birth. FOIA exemption codes indicating redacted personal information. Letter from FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley dated F…

Header block identifying this as a NORJAK memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland, dated 2/12/74. Memo body discussing the identification of a 1972 Chrysler Imperial through cross-referencing Oregon a…

Case file numbers and dictation/typist initials with page number. FBI investigative report documenting checks conducted in Wilsonville, Oregon in late 1973 and early 1974. A realty company was found…

Cover memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK investigation, enclosing copies of an insert about an SA's investigation at Wilsonville, Oregon on 12/21/73, referencing a Seattle airtel…

Case file reference number for Portland FBI office. On 2/4/74, an individual at James John Grade School in Portland, Oregon advised SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach that a redacted individual was registered…

FBI file reference numbers and typist initials for the document. On January 30, 1974, an employee at Barker Motors in Eugene, Oregon provided information about a 1972 Imperial vehicle serviced on De…

Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. FBI interview of Donald Lee Tompkins at an Oakland, California motel. Tompkins discusses obtaining something, a p…

Page 2 header with FBI case file number SF 164-220 and typist initials DRE/vmd. Continuation of an FBI subject profile (page 2). Lists FAA flight certificate number, no military or parachute experie…

Routing header of FBI memo from SAC Seattle to SAC San Francisco, case NORJAK, office of origin Seattle, dated 2/12/74. Subject line identifies suspect Donald Lee Tompkins. References a San Francisc…

FBI file number and dictator/typist initials header. Continuation of an FBI investigative report. A 1968 Buick with Oregon plates was registered to a person named DONALD (surname redacted). Subject…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach to SAC Portland, dated February 13, 1974, regarding NORJAK (the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case). SA Himmelsbach…

Standard US Government interoffice memo header addressed to SAC Portland, dated 2/13/74, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Sender SA name is redacted. On 1/4/74 a Chief Deputy of Tillamook County…

Document control number for the FBI report. A source (name redacted) stated he would try to determine the name and current residence of an individual of interest. On February 7, 1974, the source wa…

Header of a US Government memorandum from an SA (Special Agent) in Portland field office to SAC Portland, dated February 13, 1974, regarding the NORJAK case. An FBI Special Agent attempted to contac…

Case file reference number header for this report page. An interviewee described a male individual as 5'7", 155 lbs, medium build, medium brown hair, hazel eyes, with no arrest record. She does not…

Header block of FBI memo from SAC Portland office, NORJAK case file 164-41, dated 2/26/74, referencing a prior memo dated 1/22/74. On 1/31/74, a U.S. Post Office employee in Lakeview, Oregon confirm…

Case file number header. FBI interview of Roger Cliffe Strom on 2/25/74 at Hunter's Lodge, Lakeview, Oregon. Strom was hostile and uncooperative during the interview. When shown the D.B. Cooper comp…

Strom refused to provide background information to the FBI, stating they could check their own records. He initially refused to give his date of birth but later handed over his driver's license. Phy…

FBI Portland field office case number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Notes that ROGER CLIFFE STROM resembles the D.B. Cooper composite drawing and recommends obtaining a photograph for witness e…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with date 2/28/74, sent via AIRTEL / AIR MAIL. FBI airtel from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. References a prior airtel dated 1/4/74…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for this document. Page 2 of an FBI report documenting investigative steps taken in January and February 1974. An agent reviewed bank records at Bank of Amer…

Header of an FBI inter-office memo from ADIC Los Angeles to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case, referencing a Los Angeles airtel to Seattle dated 1/4/74. Suspect name is redacted. An SA conducte…

FBI Portland field office processing stamp showing the document was searched, indexed, serialized, and filed on March 7, 1974, under case number 164-41-1380. Document identification number stamped o…

File reference numbers and agent/typist initials for the FBI document. FBI Portland Division found that a redacted individual rented a 1971 Cougar in October 1971 for one month but did not return th…

File reference numbers and typist initials for this FBI document page, indicating Seattle and Anchorage field office file numbers. Subject explains the source of a deposit made between March 10-16,…

FBI airtel from SAC Anchorage to SAC Seattle and Portland regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. References a Portland airtel dated 12/4/73. Encloses an investigative insert reflecting an interview…

Header block of an FBI memo from Portland field office dated 2/8/74, regarding subject E. Allen Probert, information concerning. Reporting SA name is redacted. A source from Valley News in Eugene, O…

FBI form designation header indicating this is a continuation page of an FD-62 (NEW) form. Continuation of an FBI interview (FD-62) with a subject who claims to know D.B. Cooper's true identity, the…

Form designation header, likely an FD-302 or similar FBI interview form variant. Subject claims to be a candidate for governor of Oregon and has run political ads on radio stations including KPNW in…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header from SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach to SAC (164-41), dated 3/11/74, regarding NORJAK (the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper case). On 3/8/74, a bank employee at th…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA George H. Ng to SAC Portland, dated March 12, 1974, regarding D. B. Cooper. An unidentified woman from Oregon called on 3/12/74 stating she has infor…

Header of FBI memo addressed to SAC Portland, file 164-41, dated 3/22/74, regarding NORJAK case, referencing a prior Portland memo dated 2/26/74. On 3/6/74 law enforcement agencies (Marion County Sh…

FBI case file number for the Portland field office D.B. Cooper investigation. On March 12, 1974, an Oregon State Police investigator in Newport, Oregon provided information about Roger Cliffe Strom.…

An interview subject (redacted) describes ROGER (STROM) as eccentric and paranoid, believing people were trying to poison him. He was frugal, lived on a dollar a day, stayed in old motels, and was la…

FBI Portland field office case file reference number. A redacted witness describes an incident where ROGER, residing in a tent near Seattle, Washington, came out with a gun and ordered someone off h…

Standard FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header dated March 27, 1974, sent via AIRTEL with AIR MAIL - REGISTERED priority. Airtel from SAC Los Angeles to FBI Director (attention FBI Laboratory) re…

FBI subject description form for a person of interest in the D.B. Cooper case (LA field office file 164-497). Subject is a white male, 5'11", 160 lbs, blue eyes, blonde hair below shoulders in length…

Request to the FBI Identification Division to compare enclosed finger and palm prints of a redacted individual with unidentified latent prints in the D.B. Cooper case. Lead assigned to Las Vegas fie…

Header of a US Government interoffice memorandum from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Portland, attention Ralph H. Himmelsbach, regarding the NORJAK case, dated April 4, 1974. An FBI Special Agent r…

FBI case file number header for the Portland field office D.B. Cooper case. A redacted individual relayed an opinion from another redacted person that it would be impossible to parachute from an air…

Standard U.S. Government interoffice memorandum header from SAC Sacramento to SAC Portland, dated April 5, 1974, regarding the NORJAK case. SAC Sacramento forwards a letter from James M. Woodside, S…

Return address and date of the letter. Addressee location — Federal Building in Sacramento, likely FBI field office. Letter body describing the writer as a retired food processing company employee…

FBI Portland filing stamp with case number 164-41-1388, serialized and indexed on April 8, 1974. Bates/tracking number stamped at bottom right of the page.

Subject served in the United States Air Force, originally from Seattle, Washington. After World War II he was stationed at Portland Air Base until a redacted date. Describes the tavern scene in Port…

Page continuation marker indicating this is page 2 of a multi-page document. The author describes an unnamed individual who is a former Air Force crew member living in Portland, Oregon (Apt# 305). T…

Date of the airtel document. FBI airtel from SAC Las Vegas to the Director of the FBI, attention FBI Laboratory, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking). Encloses one glass slide containin…

FBI inter-office memo header addressed from Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case subject Raymond Torrey Heald, sub number 278. Investigation results showing Raymond Torrey Heald was arreste…

Case or file reference number for the document. Physical description and biographical data for suspect HEALD: American, born 10/24/31, age 42, 5'3", 123 lbs, hazel eyes, blonde hair. HEALD was elim…

Standard US Government memorandum header on Optional Form 10, from Special Agent Ralph P. Himmelsbach to SAC, file 164-41, regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), dated April 17, 1974. SA Himmelsbach r…

Standard FD-302 FBI interview form header with date of transcription April 15, 1974. An individual was interviewed in Los Angeles at the office of their attorney. SA C. Robert Stranger and another a…

Page number and FBI Los Angeles field office case file number. Subject describes picking up his car on November 22, 1971 and driving north on Interstate 5 to Sacramento, California, where he stayed…

FBI field office file number and page number for the Los Angeles office, case 164-497, page 3. A redacted individual describes how he probably registered at a motel under a possibly false name, gave…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated April 16, 1974. Los Angeles FBI office reports on a suspect who possessed three…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for D.B. Cooper investigation. A redacted individual provided an itinerary covering travel from Redondo Beach, CA on November 21, 1971 to arrival in Portland…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland, case file 164-41, dated April 24, 1974. Sender SA name is redacted. Subject is NORJAK (FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper case). Fol…

Standard FBI inter-office memorandum header addressed from a Special Agent to the SAC, case 164-41 (NORJAK), dated April 23, 1974. E. Allen Propst was contacted by the FBI on April 23, 1974 at an ad…

Describes SITTON operating a flight service from an airfield on PROPST's ranch at 253 SE Scravel Hill Road, Albany, for several years. PROPST produced a photograph of a redacted individual who bears…

Case file number for Portland Division file 164-41. Recommendation that limited investigation be conducted on a redacted individual to determine whereabouts, employment, and financial status, and th…

Standard header of a United States Government interoffice memorandum from a Special Agent to SAC Portland, dated 5/13/74, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. E. Allen Propst of Albany, Oregon c…

Case/file number for this document page. Continuation of investigative leads. The Eugene, Oregon office will maintain contact with PROPST. The Portland, Oregon office will review information furnish…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case, dated 5/20/74. The sender SA name is redacted. FBI Special Agents contacted E. Allen Propst at a restaurant…

Case file number header for this page of the report. Report describes interview with PROPST, who is characterized as mentally unstable. PROPST believes a redacted individual is identical to D.B. Coo…

FBI case file number for this document. Continuation sentence describing the location of a hole dug by a redacted individual as a grassy area. Recommendations to show a photograph of a redacted ind…

Header of FBI Identification Division Latent Fingerprint Section report, form 1-336 (Rev. 7-16-73), addressed to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case, dated May 15, 1974. The report states that fi…

FBI airtel (FD-36) dated 6/4/74 from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Identifies a redacted individual as a suspect because he reportedly was in the Washington area re…

FBI Seattle field office case file number for the D.B. Cooper case. An interview conducted on 4/25/74 with a female contact in Spokane, Washington. She stated she had no idea of the suspect's wherea…

Header of FBI inter-office memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, referencing a prior Portland letter to Seattle dated 4/12/74. A subject name is redacted under b6/b7C exemption…

Header identifying this as an FBI FOI/PA deleted page information sheet for case 1:16-cv-01790-02. List of 41 deleted pages with reasons: duplicates, FOIA exemptions (b3, b6, b7C, b7D, b7E, b7F), an…

Fragment of an FBI administrative notation referencing an airtel sent to all SACs (Special Agents in Charge) dated 11-3-86 regarding destruction of field files and records. A review or sign-off line…

Teletype header from FBI Director to FBI Atlanta, Seattle, and Portland field offices, marked IMMEDIATE priority. Subject line is NORJAK (the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper case). Dated May 7 (1973…

Header line indicating this is page two of a teletype or communication from Kansas City. Continuation of a report discussing Wallace's claims about Jack Coffelt being identified as D.B. Cooper. Ment…

Page header markings, likely pagination from original document. Continuation of a report about the D.B. Cooper (NORJAK) case. Discusses events during the actual flight with Cooper, conversations wit…

Page four of a multi-page teletype regarding additional investigation of Jack Coffelt in the D.B. Cooper case. Wallace advised he wanted to know why the FBI is certain Jack Coffelt is not D.B. Cooper…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header, dated May 15, 1978, sent via AIRTEL/AIRMAIL. Routing block identifying memo from SAC Seattle to FBI Director regarding NORJAK media matters, referencing p…

FBI case file number for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper investigation. Author describes prior discussions with FBIHQ about CBS cooperation, notes CBS was not authorized. MIKE WALLACE had calle…

FBI case file number header for the Seattle field office D.B. Cooper case. Continuation of an FBI agent's account of a conversation with GORIN from CBS's 60 Minutes regarding media cooperation on th…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper case (Seattle field office 164-81). Summary of FBI cooperation with media representative GORIN regarding the D.B. Cooper case, including sharing the name of…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Seattle division). Internal FBI memo recommending that Portland Office direct all media inquiries about the D.B. Cooper case to Seattle as Off…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland from ASAC (name redacted), regarding NORJAK case, dated 5/17/78. Bureau Supervisor at FBIHQ relays that a memorandum exists documen…

Portland Division file number reference. A redacted source reports that WALLACE told BOYNTON that CBS determined COFFELT's only prison visitor in Atlanta was the SAC. WALLACE alleges COFFELT knew J.…

Document type designation indicating this is an Airtel communication. Routing header of an FBI Airtel dated 5/22/78, from Portland field office (164-41) to Seattle field office (164-81), regarding t…

FBI airtel transmittal form header. Transmit via AIRTEL is checked. Date is 5/17/78. No classification or precedence boxes are checked. Airtel from SAC Pittsburgh to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK ca…

Standard FD-302 form header with date of transcription 5/17/78. An unnamed female witness in Grove City, PA was interviewed after reading an article in 'The Star' about the Northwest Airlines Flight…

Page header showing case file number PG 164-93, page 2 of a multi-page document. Continuation of an interview statement. A female interviewee states she has no knowledge of the subject's current whe…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header. Transmission via teletype, immediate precedence, unclassified. FBI teletype from Portland to Director and Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Coop…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header. All classification levels are struck through except CLEAR. Page two of an FBI teletype (PD 164-41, unclassified) describing the ground rules and…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with no boxes checked and no date filled in. Continuation (page two) of a teletype from the Portland FBI field office (PD 164-41) stating that during an in…

FBI teletype transmittal form header indicating routine priority, clear (unclassified) classification, dated May 22, 1978. Teletype from FBI Portland to the Director regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Coope…

Sender location (redacted city, Oregon) and date of letter. Addressee block directed to the Chairman of the Board of Northwest Airlines in Portland, Oregon. A citizen's letter to Northwest Airlines…

Page number header indicating this is page 2 of a multi-page letter. Continuation of a letter to the FBI arguing that D.B. Cooper did not actually jump from the aircraft. The writer claims Cooper kn…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header indicating an AIRTEL communication dated 5/23/78. Airtel from SAC Seattle to FBI Director regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Seattle requests a copy of the Alan L…

FBI filing stamp showing case number 164-41-1701, with SEARCHED/INDEXED/SERIALIZED/FILED checkboxes, dated MAY 26 1978, with a handwritten signature or initials that appear to reference Portland fiel…

FBI FD-36 airtel form header from Sacramento field office to Seattle, dated 5/5/78, regarding NORJAK suspect Robert Wesley Rackstraw, sub number 934933. Sacramento FBI agents attempted to obtain pal…

Case file reference number header. On May 4, 1978, an AUSA in Sacramento advised that the court order should be obtained through the U.S. Attorney in Seattle. A Stockton Police Department detective…

FBI case file number for this document. Continuation of a memo noting that a subject's stepfather was involved during summer 1977, the subject fled to Iran in early 1978, and at least one case of ex…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is AIRTEL, classification is CLEAR, dated 5/24/78. Airtel from Sacramento (sender redacted) to SAC Portland regarding Robert Wesley Rackstraw,…

FBI airtel transmittal header, sent via AIRTEL on 5/24/78. Classification and precedence boxes unchecked. Airtel from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking). Rober…

FBI form identifier and revision date. Document header with transcription date. FBI interview of William Charles Nye, a former Northwest Orient Airlines jet mechanic. Nye suffered a back injury in…

FBI airtel transmittal form header indicating the document is sent via Airtel, dated May 25, 1978. Classification and precedence boxes are unchecked. Airtel from SAC Seattle to FBI Director regardin…

Author follows up on a letter dated March 5, 1978, noting they have not received a response. Requests an RSVP if the original letter was not received. Closes politely. Sender's name and signature re…

Date stamp and redacted recipient information at top of letter. Return address of the letter writer, with name redacted. P.O. Box 709, Portland, Oregon 97207. Letter from a tipster to the FBI offer…

Circular postmark stamp dated 2 JUN with remainder of date and originating city illegible. Return address area has been redacted with a black rectangle, consistent with FOIA privacy redactions. Rec…

FBI FOIA exemption codes b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enforcement - personal privacy) indicating the reason for redactions on this page. Faint handwritten notations, mostly illegible. Possibly…

Header block of an FBI interoffice memo addressed to SAC Portland, dated 6/7/78, regarding NORJAK case with office of origin Seattle. The SA (Special Agent) name is redacted. References a Portland-t…

FBI Portland case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation. Leads section directing Portland field office agents to contact redacted individuals in Oregon for information about the whereabouts…

Document classification marking indicating an Airtel communication. Standard FBI Airtel header from SAC Portland to SAC Butte regarding the NORJAK case, dated June 16, 1978. Portland FBI office rep…

Continuation of an investigative report describing a subject who lived in Portland, visited Seattle and Boise, Idaho, and claimed to be well-acquainted with an individual in Seattle, Washington. Reco…

Document type designation indicating an airtel communication. Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case. Portland is forwarding xerox copies of all press clippings from the…

Document type designation as an Airtel communication. Header block of an FBI Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, referencing a prior Portland letter…

Case file number header An informant describes NYE as a white male, approximately 6'0", 200 pounds, with dark graying curly hair, who moved from Minnesota. The informant believes NYE resembles an ar…

Standard US Government memorandum header from a Special Agent in Portland to SAC Portland, dated 7/5/78, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking), with Seattle as office of origin. A tipste…

Case file number for the Portland field office. Describes a redacted individual's employment at a firm in Portland, Oregon, which may now operate under a different name. A redacted source states th…

Document type marker indicating this is an Airtel communication. Header block of an FBI Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Sacramento regarding the NORJAK case, specifically concerning suspect Rob…

Case file number for the Portland Division FBI case. Lead assigned to Sacramento field office to identify the District Attorney prosecuting Rackstraw on local charges and forward that information to…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is AIRTEL. Dated 7/12/78. Classification options all crossed out (TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL struck through). Routing block of airtel fro…

Standard USGOV memo header dated July 14, 1978, from a redacted office/agent to SAC Portland, referencing case file 164-81 and 164-41. A female employee at KING Broadcasting in Seattle was interview…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header. Memo is from a Special Agent (redacted) in Portland to SAC Portland, regarding NORJAK (A) case, office of origin Seattle. A Cannon Beach, Oregon…

FBI File-Serial Charge Out form (FD-5) dated 9/11/97 for file 164-41, serial number 1714. The description notes the serial is missing when purging the case and cannot be located. A handwritten instru…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is Airtel. Date is 7/25/78. No precedence or classification boxes checked. Routing block of an airtel from SAC Los Angeles to SAC Portland rega…

Memo header from Denver field office to Seattle SAC regarding NORJAK case, dated 7/28/78. Subject name and details redacted. Reference to Portland airtel dated 3/6/78. Physical description of suspec…

Memo header identifying sender (Portland), recipient (Seattle SAC), case name NORJAK, dated August 2, 1978. Reference lines identifying the subject as Howard Roger Masterson and a prior Los Angeles…

Case file reference number for the document. Continuation of a report regarding a suspect named MASTERSON. The reporting agent concludes MASTERSON could not be involved in the captioned matter due t…

Case file reference numbers and page identifier. Interview with a father at B & W Advertising Company in Boise, Idaho on July 25, 1978. He describes his son as a brilliant, imaginative individual wi…

File number header and page number for FBI report, continuation page 2. Interview on July 26, 1978, at St. Alphonsus Hospital with a female subject who discussed her brother. He lives in Oregon, pre…

Case reference numbers and page indicator for a multi-page FBI report. Continuation of an FBI report (page 3) describing a subject possibly living in Washington with a redacted long-time friend who…

FBI inter-office memo from SAC Butte to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Encloses an insert about an investigation conducted in Boise, Idaho. References a Portland airtel dated 6/…

Case file reference numbers and page designation. Introduction line identifying the investigating Special Agent, name redacted. Interview with the father of a person of interest, conducted at B & W…

FBI case file header with file numbers and page number. A female relative (name redacted) was interviewed at St. Alphonsus Hospital on July 26, 1978. She states she has not heard from her brother in…

Case file reference numbers and page number for this continuation page. A female informant states a subject may be living in Washington with a redacted long-time friend, possibly associated with Gar…

Header block of an FBI airtel memo dated 8/4/78, from SAC San Francisco to SAC Seattle, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper), classified CAA (A), office of origin Seattle. The memo describes a ti…

Date of the memo. Routing header of an FBI inter-office memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), specifically about subject Robert Wesley Rackstraw, sub-file #933.…

Case or file reference number. Lead assigned to Sacramento field office directing agents to maintain contact with a redacted Deputy District Attorney in Stockton, California regarding efforts to obt…

FBI memo header addressed to SAC Portland from SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach regarding NORJAK case, dated 10/6/78. A Marion County Sheriff's Office detective contacted the FBI on 9/14/78 with information…

Case or file reference number for this report page. Continuation (page 2) of an interview report regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking. An informant describes a plan involving picking up the hijacker…

Portland field office case file number for this document. Partially redacted biographical details of an individual including Oregon residence, Oregon driver's license number, date of birth, and an e…

FBI File-Serial Charge Out form (FD-5) dated 02/11/97 for file 164-41, serial number 1723. The description indicates the serial was missing when a case (possibly garage case) was reviewed, with a han…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case, from a redacted Special Agent, dated November 15, 1978. Follow-up investigation referencing SA Himmelsbach's…

FBI Portland filing stamp dated December 4, 1978, with case number 464-41-1725, search/serialize fields, and an agent signature. Handwritten note reading approximately 'Pls reply', likely an instruc…

Date of the letter. A citizen letter dated December 1, 1978 addressed to the FBI asking three questions: (1) whether the statute of limitations on the D.B. Cooper ransom money has expired, citing co…

Scanned image of a mailed envelope addressed to the FBI Portland field office. The sender's name and full address are redacted (b6/b7C privacy exemptions). A 15-cent Giant Sequoia US postage stamp is…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is Airtel. Date is 12/27/78. No classification or precedence boxes checked. Memo routing header from SAC Butte to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK…

Physical description of a person of interest (5'6", ~200 lbs, gray hair, round face). A composite of D.B. Cooper was shown to a redacted witness who said the man did not resemble it. Treasure Enterpr…

Document classification stamp marking this as an AIRTEL communication. AIRTEL memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Portland reports on a novelty business ca…

Internal FBI memo documenting a media relations contact. Pat Wilkins of KATU-TV News called a redacted Special Agent on 11/20/78 to request an interview with SAC Arthur G. Barger regarding the Norjac…

Return address and date of the FBI letter from the Portland field office. Redacted recipient name and address in Oregon. FBI response letter explaining that the statute of limitations on the hijack…

Date and location header for the news inquiry document. Document type header indicating this is a news inquiry release. FBI Special Agent in Charge Arthur G. Barger confirms that a portion of a pla…

Standard FBI complaint form header with revision date and instructions. Form fields identifying the case as NORJACK (the FBI code name for the D.B. Cooper hijacking), originating office Seattle, wit…

Document classification marker FBI AIRTEL memo header from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, dated January 26, 1979. A woman from Washington state telephonically…

Document classification stamp indicating this is an AIRTEL communication. Header block of an FBI AIRTEL memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, referencing Western Academy o…

File/case number header for this FBI document page. Continuation of an FBI report describing an anonymous female caller from Vancouver, BC, Canada who contacted the FBI about the skyjacking over Woo…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header on Optional Form 10, addressed to SAC Portland (file 164-41) from an unnamed Special Agent, dated January 17, 1979, regarding the NORJAK case. A Special Ag…

FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header, classified UNCLAS, dated February 2, 1979, sent via teletype at routine precedence. Teletype from Portland FBI to Los Angeles and Seattle regarding NORJAK…

FBI teletype from Los Angeles to Seattle, Portland, and Sacramento regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Reports that Robert Wesley Rackstraw has been considered as a possible suspect and was in custo…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Method is AIRTEL, classification is UNCLAS, dated 2/6/79. Airtel from SAC Sacramento to FBI Director regarding NORJAK case. Reports that Robert Wesley Rackstraw wa…

Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland, dated February 12, 1979, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding media relations. FBI memo documenting media inquiries on 2/1/7…

Standard FBI inter-office memorandum header from SAC Seattle to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case, dated March 6, 1979. Seattle Division reports to Portland on investigation into a NORJAK subje…

FBI Seattle field office case number for the NORJAK / D.B. Cooper investigation. Exemption codes indicating redaction bases: b3 per IRS, b6. Administrative section describing IRS Intelligence Detai…

Document type designation indicating an airtel communication. Standard FBI airtel header from SAC Sacramento to FBI Director regarding NORJAK case, with Seattle as office of origin. Sacramento FBI…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Airtel selected as transmit method. Classification markings TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, and UNCLAS EFTO are all struck through; UNCLAS is checked. Dated 3/16/…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland from a redacted Special Agent, regarding the NORJACK case with Seattle as Office of Origin, dated April 2, 1979. Multiple attempts…

Header block of an internal FBI memorandum from a Special Agent in Portland to the SAC Portland office, dated April 19, 1979, regarding the NORJACK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking). A Tillamook County S…

FBI transmittal form header (FD-36) indicating an Airtel transmission, unclassified, dated 4/20/79. Airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Indianapolis regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. A woman from…

Return address and date of the FBI letter from the Portland field office. Recipient name and address redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. Thank-you letter from FBI SAC Arthur G. Barger to a ci…

Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header from SAC Portland to FBI Director regarding NORJAK case, specifically about Robert Wesley Rackstraw, Sub #933. AUSA in Portland reports receiving a letter…

Document type indicator marking this as an Airtel communication. Routing block of an FBI Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated April 25, 1979. A woman near L…

FBI teletype transmittal form FD-36, priority classification UNCLAS, dated 4/25/79. Teletype from Portland to Seattle and Cleveland reporting that on April 25, 1979, a source in Portland, Oregon pro…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with UNCLAS classification checked. Page two of a teletype (PD 164-41) describing intercepted CB radio communications where parties discussed finding bills…

Standard FBI teletype transmission form header (FD-36). All classification levels above UNCLAS are struck through, indicating unclassified status. Transmit method, precedence, and date fields are bla…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is Airtel, dated 4/23/79. Classification and precedence boxes are unchecked. Airtel from SAC Minneapolis to AC Portland and SAC Seattle regardi…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed from SC Joan M. Thomas to SAC, file 164-41, dated April 23, 1979, regarding the NORJAK case. A woman from Portland, Oregon telephoned to report fin…

Teletype routing header from FBI Cleveland field office to Portland and Seattle, dated April 27, 1979, sent priority. FBI Cleveland reports interview of a redacted individual regarding NORJAK case.…

Continuation (page two) of a teletype classified UNCLAS, case number CV 164-88. States that a subject was employed at Ohio Steel and Tube in Shelby, Ohio for seven years. The subject is noted as arme…

FBI inter-office memo header from Seattle SAC to Portland SAC regarding NORJAK case, referencing BuFile 164-2111 and a prior Seattle letter to Portland dated 3/6/79. An individual (name redacted) wa…

Case file number header for the document. Continuation of an FBI report (page 2) describing a witness account. A young man convinced a relative that his father-in-law was in trouble on Lake Merwin d…

FBI form FD-350 header identifying the clipping as from page 12 of the Pioneer Press, St. Paul, MN, morning edition dated May 2, 1979. Classification 163-74, submitted by Minneapolis office. Newspap…

Headshot illustration of columnist David Hawley, rendered in a sketched/crosshatch style, accompanying his byline. Column text discussing differing views on D.B. Cooper's fate. Law enforcement belie…

Document type designation marked as AIRTEL. Date of the memo. Memo from SAC Minneapolis to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Encloses a St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper article from…

Letterhead with sender name/address redacted, located in Oakland, California. Date, confidentiality marking (with CONFIDENTIAL struck through), addressee block directed to a redacted Assistant Unite…

Vertical text stamp along left margin indicating origin as Oakland, California. Header line marked 'PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL' with 'CONFIDENTIAL' struck through. Received stamp from the U.S. Attor…

Routing line directing correspondence to Special Agent Ralph Himmelsbach, the lead FBI agent on the D.B. Cooper case. Case identifier / Bates stamp number for the D.B. Cooper file. Heavily redacted…

Page number and date header for the letter. Redacted recipient address in Oakland, California. FBI letter to a person in Oakland, CA whose client claims to be D.B. Cooper. The letter lists six ques…

Header indicating this is page 2 of a letter dated March 15, 1979. Continuation of a numbered list of questions (items 7 and 8) directed to an attorney's client regarding what D.B. Cooper carried on…

Memo header identifying recipients (SAC Seattle and SAC Portland), case name NORJAK, originating office Seattle, Bureau file number 164-2111, dated 5/29/79. An individual from Beaver Creek, Oregon c…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated June 7, 1979. Memo body describes an individual from Oregon who taught parachut…

Continuation of a report describing a co-conspirator who allegedly met the hijacker after he landed, found him injured or dead, and buried both the hijacker and the ransom money. The co-conspirator h…

FBI FD-36 airtel transmission form header dated 6/20/79. Transmission method is AIRTEL. Classification markings TOP SECRET, SECRET, and CONFIDENTIAL are struck through. Airtel from SAC Portland to S…

Header block of an FBI inter-office memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. A representative of the Lewis River News in Woodland, Washington contacted the Portland FBI offic…

Header of an FBI inter-office memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle, dated 10/25/79, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper). Office of Origin is Seattle, Bureau file 164-2111. References a prior Po…

Document type designation as an Airtel (internal FBI communication). Date of the airtel. Routing header showing the airtel is from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Background…

Case file number header for Portland field office file 164-41. A source describes a suspect employed at a Newark, Delaware newsstand who is a former military pilot and Korean war veteran, came into…

Standard US Government memorandum header from a Special Agent to SAC Portland, dated 12/12/79, regarding the NORJAC case. An anonymous letter received at the FBI Eugene Resident Agency on 11/30/79 s…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Portland division file 164-41). Leads section directing the Portland FBI field office to develop background information on a redacted individu…

Standard FD-302 interview form header with date of transcription. An unidentified person requesting strict confidentiality visited the Major Fraud Unit at the FBI's Phoenix, Arizona Federal Building…

Case file number and page number header. SA Joseph C. Kelly documents an investigation in Phoenix. A U.S. Probation and Parole officer reported information about Warren David Smith (DOB 12/2/1916, F…

Continuation of an FBI report concerning a subject named HUBBEL and the D.B. Cooper hijacking. A source indicates that someone associated with HUBBEL pulled off the hijacking and used the alias D. B.…

Headline of the National Enquirer newspaper clipping asking readers to help find D.B. Cooper. National Enquirer article asking readers to help the FBI solve the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case. FBI Agen…

FBI case file routing stamp or cover sheet fragment showing case number 164-41-1767 with exemption codes b6 and b7C, date-stamped December 17, 1979, with a handwritten signature that appears to read…

FBI Portland filing stamp with case number 164-41-1768, serialized and searched on December 17, 1979, with a handwritten name or initials. FOIA exemption codes b6 (personal privacy) and b7C (law enf…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with classification and date fields. AIRTEL is checked as transmit method. Date is 12/14/79. Classification markings TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, and UNCLAS EFT…

FBI file number and dictation initials for the document. FBI memo discussing the enclosure of documents for Portland, difficulty interviewing a fearful female witness in Arizona, and a telephonic co…

Standard U.S. Government memorandum header (Optional Form No. 10, July 1973 edition). Internal FBI memorandum from Special Agent Ralph P. Himmelsbach to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Coope…

Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date. A woman contacted the FBI after finding a black parachute pack approximately three years earlier near a freewa…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland, from an unnamed Special Agent, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper hijacking), office of origin Seattle, dated January 10, 1980.…

Memo from SAC Baltimore to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. Baltimore notes that no response has been received to prior airtels dated 11/9/79 and 10/29/79, and therefore the case is being consi…

Standard U.S. Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland, dated January 21, 1980, regarding the NORJAC (D.B. Cooper) case. References a prior Portland memo dated 12/12/79 reg…

Case file reference number for the Portland Division FBI file. Continuation of a numbered list describing vehicles. Item (2) references a vehicle with redacted license and registration info, noting…

Header of an FBI interoffice memorandum from SAC Arthur G. Barger to SA Ralph P. Himmelsbach regarding the NORJAK case, dated January 24, 1980. An anonymous source reported on 1/24/80 that an employ…

FBI Portland field office return address and date of letter. Recipient address in Reno, Nevada and salutation, both partially redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Form acknowledgment letter from SAC A…

FBI exemption codes b6 and b7C indicating redacted personal information. FBI case tracking stamp with document number. A citizen writes to FBI agent Ralph Himmelbach on 12/22/1979 from Reno, Nevada…

Handwritten witness statement (page 2) describing a stocky man in a brown suit and horn-rimmed glasses who boarded a bus and asked about proximity to an airport without disembarking. The witness late…

UPI article by Clyde Jabin marking the 8th anniversary of the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Recounts the 1971 Thanksgiving eve hijacking of a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 from Portland to Seattle, w…

FBI inter-office memo header addressed from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK case, dated 1/30/80. An anonymous male caller on 1/15/80 contacted the Portland FBI office to report a possib…

Header block of an FBI memo addressed to SAC Portland, dated 1/31/80, regarding the UNSUB aka Dan Cooper aircraft hijacking case, with Portland as the Office of Origin. On 12/27/79, a Yamhill County…

Continuation of a prior page noting that a redacted individual was a previous neighbor and not a current neighbor at a redacted address. Leads section directing the Portland field office to contact…

FBI teletype transmission form header. Transmission via Teletype, Immediate precedence, CLEAR classification, dated February 12, 1980. Teletype from FBI Portland to FBI Director, NORJAK case (office…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header with classification options. All classification levels above CLEAR are struck through, indicating UNCLAS/CLEAR. Page two of an FBI teletype regard…

FBI teletype header form indicating Immediate/Priority precedence, Unclassified, dated February 12, 1980. TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, and UNCLAS EFTO classifications are struck through or unche…

Official FBI letterhead with location and date. FBI press release dated January 12, 1980, announcing a development in the D. B. Cooper hijacking case. Recaps the events of November 24, 1971: a man u…

Continuation of an FBI report describing the discovery of D.B. Cooper ransom money on February 10, 1980. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dwayne Ingram found badly decomposed $20 bills partially buried in sand on…

Continuation of a report (page -3-) listing attendees of an FBI press conference held in Portland on February 12, 1980, regarding the D.B. Cooper case. Attendees included ASAC William M. Baker, SA Ra…

Airtel header from SAC Portland to FBI Director, attention FBI Laboratory Document Section and Identification Division Latent Fingerprint Section, regarding NORJAK case. Portland FBI office forwards…

FBI file stamp with case number 64-41-1782, date stamp FEB 13 1980, and exemption codes b6/b7c. Standard terms and conditions section of a U.S. Government Bill of Lading form, referencing Title 4 Pa…

U.S. Government Bill of Lading (Standard Form 1103) documenting the shipment of 1 box of evidence weighing 2 lbs via Federal Express from the FBI Portland field office (1500 S.W. First, Portland, OR…

FBI teletype transmittal form FD-36 header showing transmission via teletype, routine precedence, unclassified, dated February 12, 1980. Teletype from FBI Portland (file 164-41) to Director, routine…

Standard US Government memorandum header. Filed to case 164-41, dated February 12, 1980, from ASAC William M. Baker regarding NORJAK (the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case). Memo docum…

FBI case file number designation for the Portland field office, file 164-41. A heavily redacted sentence indicating that arrangements were made with a redacted party in order to maintain confidentia…

FBI FD-5 form header identifying file 164-41 with a date of February 11, 1997. Neither Pending nor Closed is checked. Handwritten entry for serial number 1785 noting the item was missing when the ca…

Standard header of a US Government interoffice memorandum from a Special Agent in the Portland field office regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case, dated February 15, 1980. A walk-in informant from…

A.P. photo showing several thousand dollars displayed on a picnic table, related to the D.B. Cooper ransom money discovery. Continuation of a newspaper article about D.B. Cooper. Describes fake inte…

Location and date line for the press release, with the date corrected from 12 to 13. FBI press release from SAC Arthur G. Barger announcing that a joint FBI/Clark County Sheriff search of a Columbia…

Document origin and date. Brief press-ready statement reporting that the Columbia Riverbank search is complete. The total find was bills found by a redacted individual and a few bill fragments. Resu…

FBI Dissemination Routing Slip (FD-417) dated 2/19/80, from ASAC William R. Baker in the Portland office, routed to SAC Seattle with personal attention. Regarding NORJAK case. Encloses a letter from…

Letterhead of a law firm located at 33 South Fifth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Firm name is redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. Letter from a law firm representing Globe Indemnity Company t…

FBI case file numbers for the D.B. Cooper investigation. FBI Special Agents contacted a U.S. Army Engineer at the Waterways Maintenance Branch, Navigation Division in Portland on February 13, 1980 t…

Case file number header block with page number 2, indicating this is the second page of the document. Description of dredging operations on the Columbia River, explaining how material is deposited o…

FBI teletype transmission header form FD-36, marked Priority precedence, Unclassified, dated February 20, 1980. Handwritten annotations, likely routing or time stamps. Teletype from Portland FBI to…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with classification and precedence options. All options are unchecked. Page two of an FBI teletype (PD 164-41) describing the discovery of D.B. Cooper rans…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. All classification levels struck through except UNCLAS, which is checked. Page three of an FBI teletype (PD 164-41) describing the discovery of money held…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. All classification levels struck through except UNCLAS, which is checked. Page four of an FBI teletype (PD 164-41) describing an interview about the disco…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with classification options. All classification levels above UNCLAS are struck through, indicating UNCLAS classification. Page five of an FBI teletype (PD…

FBI form FD-36 teletype transmission header. Classification is marked UNCLAS. All other classification levels are struck through. Transmit method, precedence, and date are not filled in. Page six of…

Case file numbers for the FBI investigation. Standard FBI report introductory line identifying the conducting Special Agent, whose name is redacted. On February 20, 1980, an individual at the U.S.…

Standard FBI FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. An individual affiliated with Portland State University was interviewed by an FBI Special Agent from the Portland…

Page header indicating this is page 2 of document PD 164-41. A redacted individual explains three facts supporting their belief about how the D.B. Cooper ransom money arrived at the Tena Bar find si…

Page number indicator showing this is page 3 of a multi-page document. Continuation of an FBI report (page 3) discussing analysis of how D.B. Cooper ransom money likely reached Tena Bar. An unidenti…

Hand-drawn geological cross-section diagram of Tena Bar beach sediment profile, showing layers including reworked beach sand, postdredging sand, a clay lump, dredge sand, light color sand, and cross…

FBI Laboratory report dated February 25, 1980, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Specimens received February 14, 1980 included deteriorated U.S. currency (Q58) and soil from the currency (Q59)…

Form identifier and revision number in upper left corner. FBI Laboratory Transmittal Form from Director, FBI to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case. Requests document, mineralogy, and fingerprint exa…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case), office of origin Seattle, dated February 27, 1980. Agent references prior Portland memos and r…

Standard US Government interoffice memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland, from a redacted Special Agent, regarding NORJAK case, dated 2/27/80. Anonymous caller on 2/14/80 reported that a newsp…

Redacted block containing the sender's personal information, withheld under FOIA exemptions b6 and b7C. A citizen writes to the FBI Bend, Oregon office on February 25, 1980, regarding the recent pub…

Header identifying the document as an FBI report dated February 25, 1980, page 2 of a multi-page document. Numbered recommendation (item 4) suggesting that abrasion analysis of the money bundle coul…

Scanned image of a mailed envelope addressed to the FBI field office in Bend, Oregon 97701 at 745 Wall Street. The return address and sender name are redacted (b6/b7C privacy exemptions). A USPS post…

Header block of an FBI memo from SAC Portland to the Director of the FBI, Public Affairs Office, dated 2/26/80, regarding the NORJAK case with Seattle as the office of origin. Cover memo transmittin…

FBI Laboratory report header addressed to SAC Portland, dated February 29, 1980, regarding the NORJAK case. Laboratory examination results for specimen Q59, which contains sand consistent with Colum…

Form identifier and revision number in upper-left corner. FBI Laboratory transmittal form from Director, FBI to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case. References an airtel dated February 13, 1980.…

FBI press inquiry announcing that the $20 bills found on a sandy beach near Vancouver, WA on February 10, 1980, confirmed as D.B. Cooper ransom money, totaled approximately $5,800. Lab examination fo…

FBI airtel transmittal form header. Transmission method is Airtel, classification is UNCLAS, dated 2/29/80. Airtel from SAC Portland to Director FBI regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Encloses fou…

Date and origin location of the letter. Letter addressed to FBI Portland regarding the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case. Sender's name and employment details are redacted (b6/b7C). The writer describes…

Addressee line indicating this document was sent to the FBI Portland, Oregon field office. The author describes a person whose age in 1971 and physical appearance closely match the D.B. Cooper compo…

Handwritten date notation indicating the date of the newspaper clipping. Newspaper masthead identifying the publication as The Sun, page D7. Associated Press article from Kelso, Wash. reporting tha…

Top portion of page contains noise or a faded/unreadable section, possibly the tail end of a prior clipping or blank space. Newspaper article summarizing the D.B. Cooper hijacking of a Northwest Air…

Envelope mailed from Gulfport, Mississippi on February 20, 1980, addressed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Portland, Oregon, with an ATTN line redacted under FOIA exemptions b6/b7C. The sen…

A handwritten or stamped marking showing 'D2' alongside a small circular stamp or symbol that is not fully legible. A black filled circle consistent with a hole punch mark on the document. Bates-st…

FBI return address and date of the letter. Recipient address (redacted name, city in Mississippi) and salutation, redacted under b6/b7C privacy exemptions. FBI response letter acknowledging receipt…

Communication type marker indicating this is an Airtel (internal FBI priority communication). Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle dated 3/6/80 regarding the NORJAK case. Encloses two invest…

Standard US Government Memorandum header from SA (redacted) to SAC Portland, dated 3/6/80, regarding NORJAK (A) case with Seattle as office of origin. Citizens of Vancouver, Washington brought $20 b…

FBI case file number header for Portland Division file 164-41. Continuation sentence from previous page referencing the search site in Washington. Preparations for a press conference (PC) at the Po…

Continuation of a report (page 3) noting that numerous complimentary comments were received from media representatives and the public regarding efforts described on prior pages. Page number indicato…

Standard FD-302 interview report header with form revision date and transcription date of March 4, 1980. An unidentified woman from Vancouver, WA contacted the FBI on February 13, 1980 to provide he…

Page number indicator showing this is page 2 of the document. Continuation (page 2) of an FBI report (PD 164-41) in which a female witness (name redacted) states that to her knowledge, four addition…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. An individual from Vancouver, WA appeared at the Portland FBI Office and described how on Sunday afternoon, February 10, 1980,…

Standard FD-302 form header with transcription date of March 4, 1980. An individual from Vancouver, Washington contacted the Portland FBI Office on February 11, 1980 to report finding $20 bills with…

Continuation of an FBI report describing how an individual found badly decomposed $20 bills. The next day (February 11, 1980) the individual told coworkers at U-Cart Manufacturing Company in Vancouve…

FBI Latent Fingerprint Section report dated March 14, 1980, addressed to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case. Approximately $5,800.00 in U.S. currency (specimen Q58) was examined for latent finger…

FBI Laboratory report dated March 18, 1980, addressed to SAC Portland regarding the NORJAK case. Four U.S. twenty dollar bills (specimens Q60–Q63) were received on February 3, 1980. Their serial numb…

Form identifier and revision date in upper left corner. FBI Laboratory Transmittal Form from Director, FBI to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case. Examination requested by Portland office referencing…

FBI form O-4 (Invoice of Contents) dated March 12, 1980, addressed to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case. Documents shipment of approximately $5,800.00 in U.S. currency, designated Q58, sent via regi…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland from an unidentified Special Agent, dated March 24, 1980, regarding D.B. Cooper. A witness contacted the FBI on March 22, 1980 to r…

Header and addressee block of an FBI Latent Fingerprint Section report, form 1-336, directed to SAC Portland. File numbers 164-41(P), 164-2111, latent case A-45410. Date is March 21 with year partial…

Standard FD-302 interview form header with form revision date and transcription date. An individual in Terrebonne, Oregon reported that a redacted person had applied for employment with a redacted b…

FBI teletype transmittal header form, priority precedence, unclassified, dated March 3, 1980. Teletype from Portland FBI to Director and Seattle FBI, priority, notifying the Public Affairs Office th…

Letterhead with institutional seal/logo and mailing address. Letter from the California Institute of Criminology to the FBI SAC in Portland, Oregon, dated 25 March 1980, proposing a case study of th…

Letterhead for the California Institute of Criminology with address and a redacted line (likely date or recipient reference). Continuation of a letter (page 2) from the California Institute of Crimi…

Letterhead or mailing label from the California Institute of Criminology, referencing DB Cooper case number 43286. The institute is located at 6253 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 519, Hollywood, CA 90028. Th…

FBI File-Serial Charge Out form (FD-5) dated 2/11/97 for file 16 H-HI, serial number 1820. The serial is noted as missing when purging the case, with the instruction 'Can't locate' and 'Do not Remove…

Teletype routing header from FBI Dallas to FBI Seattle (primary) and FBI Portland (info copy), dated April 30, classified UNCLAS (unclassified). FBI Dallas reports that on April 9, 1980, a protected…

Page two of a teletype (DL 164-1928) discussing Howard J. Hubbell, recently released from federal prison after serving twelve years of a twenty-five year sentence for bank robbery in Puget Sound. Hub…

Final page (page three) of an FBI teletype message from Dallas field office, classified UNCLAS, referencing case file DL 164-1928. States that additional leads will be set out at the discretion of th…

FBI airtel transmission form header dated 4/22/80, sent via AIRTEL. Classification markings (TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, UNCLAS E F T O) are struck through, indicating UNCLAS. Routing block of…

FBI Routing Slip (Form 0-7) dated 4-28-80 regarding the D. B. Cooper case, routing information to SAC offices in Knoxville, Portland, and Seattle. Marked as 'For information' with the remark 'A possi…

Date of the letter. Redacted addressee block showing a retired USAF individual in Hicksville, New York. Name, street address, and ZIP redacted under b6/b7C. FBI response letter from Roger S. Young,…

Return address and date of the letter Addressee of the letter Postal stamp showing origin as Hicksville, N.Y. A retired USAF officer writes to the FBI after seeing a CBS program about D.B. Cooper'…

Case number header and page indicator for FBI file MM 164-552. FBI investigation in Miami regarding surveillance and background checks. An unidentified redacted individual was checked at a rental of…

Standard FBI FD-35 airtel transmittal form header. Classification is UNCLAS, dated 4/15/80, sent via AIRTEL. Routing information: airtel from SAC San Francisco to SAC Miami regarding NORJAK case, re…

FBI case file number for the San Francisco field office, file 164-220. A redacted source states Ralph Hess was formerly a school teacher in Seattle, WA, was fired for hitting a child, and is conside…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is Airtel, dated 5/1/80. No classification or precedence boxes checked. FBI airtel from SAC Miami to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK (D.B…

Standard header for a U.S. Government interoffice memorandum form (Optional Form No. 10, July 1973 edition). Internal FBI memo dated 5/9/80 from a redacted Special Agent to SAC Portland regarding th…

FBI filing stamp with case serial number 164-41-1828 and processing stamps indicating the document was searched, indexed, serialized, and filed, with a partial date of 1980 and a partial FBI field of…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is AIRTEL, classification is UNCLAS, dated 5/27/80. AIRTEL from SAC Los Angeles to Director FBI and field offices regarding NORJAK subject Jame…

FBI Los Angeles field office case number for the NORJAK/D.B. Cooper investigation. Heavily redacted continuation of an FBI report discussing an arson and insurance fraud investigation possibly conne…

FBI filing stamp with case number 164-41-1830, serialization markings, date of June 4, possibly 1980, and FBI field office designation likely Los Angeles (LA). FOIA exemption codes b6 (personal priv…

FBI Airtel memo dated 5/28/80 from SAC Dallas to SAC Seattle regarding NORJACK case. Dallas encloses a letter from a redacted source relating knowledge of a possible Norjack subject. On 5/22/80, the…

Continuation of an FBI report regarding a person named Hubble. An unidentified individual, while in a delirious state, told someone that his associate hijacked a plane and escaped with $200,000. A wi…

Teletype routing header with message number, routing codes, and date-time group indicating June 25, 1980. Teletype routing and classification block from Pittsburgh field office to FBI Director and m…

Page header indicating this is page two of document PG 164-93, classified UNCLAS. On June 24, 1980, multiple witnesses with protected identities were shown a composite photograph of D.B. Cooper and…

Teletype header with message routing number and classification marking (UNCLAS). Continuation of an investigative report on suspect Richard A. Armstrong. Armstrong showed interest in the Cooper case…

Page four of a multi-page teletype (PG 164-93, UNCLAS) providing detailed background on a suspect: medium build, dark brown thinning hair, olive complexion, southern accent, tattoos on both forearms…

Continuation of a subject profile listing brothers and sisters with locations in Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Marital status is divorced twice. Some individuals' whereabouts…

Header line indicating page six of teletype PG 164-93, classification UNCLAS (unclassified). Continuation of a teletype assigning investigative leads across multiple FBI field offices regarding a su…

FBI teletype routing header from Pittsburgh field office (Section 2 of 2), sent routine priority to Director and multiple field offices (Charlotte, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Baltimore). Related t…

Header line identifying this as page seven of teletype PG 164-93, classification UNCLAS (unclassified). Continuation of a multi-office FBI teletype assigning investigative leads on a subject named A…

FBI teletype from St. Louis field office to Director, Pittsburgh, Portland, and Seattle offices regarding NORJAK suspect Richard Andrew Armstrong. Reports his military service records showing he serv…

Page two of an unclassified teletype regarding a suspect named Armstrong. States Armstrong attended Airborne School in December 1961 with 15 recorded parachute jumps. Born August 3, 1937, in High Poi…

FBI Latent Fingerprint Section report dated July 3, 1980, informing SAC Los Angeles that previously unidentified latent fingerprints in the NORJAK case do not match a specific individual (name redact…

Standard FBI inter-office memorandum header from SAC Sacramento to SAC Portland, dated July 11, 1980, regarding the NORJAK case with Seattle as the office of origin. A deputy from Siskiyou County Sh…

FBI case file number for the D.B. Cooper investigation (Seattle field office). Description of an individual (approximately 40 years old, small, thin build, dark brown hippie-type hair with a beard)…

Document type designation: AIRTEL Date of the AIRTEL memo AIRTEL from SAC Charlotte to FBI Director regarding NORJAK case. Reports arrest checks on RICHARD A. ARMSTRONG in Greensboro, High Point, T…

FBI case file number header for this page. An unidentified female interviewee states she was not being deceptive with the FBI but could not recall exact dates of Richard Armstrong's employments and…

Standard FBI inter-office memorandum header from the Detroit field office to SAC Portland, dated July 21, 1980, regarding the D.B. Cooper aircraft piracy case. Follow-up interview conducted on July…

FBI teletype from Washington Field to Director FBI and multiple field offices reporting that a passport records search conducted by SC Sadie L. Dye on July 22, 1980 found no record for Richard A. Arm…

FBI case file numbers and redacted classification markings. An FBI Special Agent conducted an investigation at OSU in Corvallis, Oregon on June 11, 1980. A Campus Security Office representative made…

Teletype from FBI Anchorage to WFO, Portland, and Seattle regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking case. Reports that an unknown subject applied for a passport in Washington, D.C. under the name Robert Ne…

Page two of an unclassified teletype (AN 164-227) reporting results of records checks on Robert Ned Bishop. Vital statistics show a male, age 27, born Missouri, occupation contractor, and his mother…

FBI FD-448 facsimile transmittal form from SAC Portland to SAC WFO, dated 7/30/80, requesting expedited transmission of the indictment for John Doe, aka D.B. Cooper, needed for trial the morning of J…

FBI Latent Fingerprint Section report dated September 3, 1980, regarding NORJAK case. Seven latent fingerprints were compared with those of Wilbert Luther Parker (FBI #563385C) but no identification…

Handwritten notation at top of page, likely a serial or file reference number. FBI Portland field office file processing stamp dated September 9, 1980, with standard SEARCHED/SERIALIZED/INDEXED/FILE…

Inter-office FBI memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Portland encloses original FD-302 interview forms (names redacted) and investigative inserts from Portl…

Document type designation as an Airtel communication. Date of the airtel. Routing header of the airtel from Washington Field Office SAC to Seattle SAC regarding the D.B. Cooper case. WFO encloses…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Method is AIRTEL, classification markings are struck through except UNCLAS, dated February 11, 1981. Routing block directing the airtel to SAC Portland an…

FBI airtel from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case). Portland encloses four photographs of suspect Robert Ned Bishop, whose photo was altered by the special projects unit…

FBI FD-36 airtel transmittal form header, classified UNCLAS, dated 3/26/81, sent via AIRTEL. Airtel from Seattle to Portland regarding NORJAK case. Encloses a photograph of Robert Ned Bishop, a NORJ…

Standard FD-302 interview form header with revision date and transcription date. Interview of a female witness (name redacted) in Eugene, Oregon regarding the D.B. Cooper hijacking. She was shown a…

Header of an FBI Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case, dated 4/24/81, referencing a prior airtel from 3/26/81. Portland is forwarding a photographic spread of suspe…

Document type designation as AIRTEL (inter-office FBI communication). Routing header of an FBI AIRTEL memo dated October 1, 1981, from SAC Las Vegas to SAC Oklahoma City regarding the NORJAK (D.B. C…

FBI file number for the Las Vegas field office, case 164-60. A witness reported that a redacted individual bragged about the hijacking to his son while living across the street. A bakery employee (L…

Teletype routing header from FBI Director to all field offices, marked IMMEDIATE and PERSONAL ATTENTION, unclassified, dated November 1981. Handwritten stamp or annotation indicating the SAC was adv…

Continuation header for page two of an unclassified teletype message, HQ reference 0185. Continuation of FBI teletype regarding Universal Pictures' reward offer for identification of D. B. Cooper. I…

Standard FD-302 form header with revision date and transcription date. An informant (identity protected) reports that Wilbert Parker, also known as Bill, claimed to be D.B. Cooper while drinking at…

Document identifier and page number for this FBI report continuation page. Fragment describing a prior encounter with BILL at a bar; details redacted. Entire paragraph redacted under FOIA exemption…

Document identifier and page number within the sub-document. Source describes a large German shepherd dog and numerous weapons (handguns and shoulder weapons) at a house. PARKER discussed having bu…

File number and page continuation indicator for FBI report DE 164A-115, page 4. An unnamed source describes PARKER as a cold, calculating 'stone face' individual, not mentally unbalanced. The source…

Top-right corner contains a handwritten FBI case number 164-41-1852, along with redacted name/information boxes and FOIA exemption codes b6 and b7C indicating personal privacy redactions. FBI Vault…

Header of FBI memo addressed to SAC Detroit, dated 9-25-81, with redacted SA name, classified under NORJAK CCA. Follow-up memo regarding W. L. Parker, a white male American employed at Hydromatic-GM…

FBI case number 164-41-1853 with FOIA exemption codes b6 and b7C visible in the upper-right corner, along with several redacted (blacked-out) rectangular boxes that likely contained personal identify…

Standard US Government memorandum header from SA Dennis W. Langkos to SAC Detroit regarding NORJAK case. Memo references a prior memo by SA Orlin D. Lucksted dated 9/14/81. On 9/4/81, a redacted sou…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Transmission method is Airtel. Classification markings for TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, and UNCLAS E F T O are all struck through. Date is 11/5/81. Airtel mem…

Teletype routing header with precedence and date-time group indicating November 1981. Teletype origin (Detroit field office) and destination routing to FBI Director, Washington Field, and Portland,…

Header line identifying this as page two of a classified communication with file number 164-115. A female informant reports to the FBI that a former coworker fits the composite drawing of D.B. Coope…

Continuation (page 3) of a teletype message. A woman states her husband told her he believes a redacted individual is currently assigned with the Federal Aviation Administration. She and her husband…

FBI teletype from Washington Field Office to Director FBI, Chicago, and Portland, dated December 1, 1981, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. Reports that a redacted female individual appeared a…

Continuation header for an unclassified teletype or communication, page two, reference number WF 0053. A female source provides information about her current employment in Michigan and advises on th…

Teletype header indicating page three of message DE WF 0053, unclassified. A woman reports that she does not know certain information. Her husband believes a redacted individual is currently assigne…

Final page (page four) of an unclassified FBI teletype (WF 0053) directing a lead to locate a subject and conduct a "look a like" investigation. The message ends with standard teletype closing indica…

FBI filing stamps showing a serial number 7D-1-1857, searched/serialized index markings, a date stamp of December 2, 1981, and a partial FBI Portland office stamp. FOIA exemption codes b6 (personal…

An unsolicited analysis/theory document arguing that D.B. Cooper was intelligent, not stupid, and that he deliberately planted $5,800 found along the Columbia River in February 1981 to mislead the FB…

Page number marking at top of page Continuation of an amateur analysis or tip letter regarding D.B. Cooper. The author theorizes Cooper intended for the ransom money to scatter along the river bank…

An anonymous author's theory about how D.B. Cooper executed the hijacking, proposing Cooper had at least two accomplices. 'A' planted luggage containing jump boots, a custom jump suit, a sport parach…

Describes a detailed theory of how D.B. Cooper planned his parachute jump using OMNI/Vortac navigation stations, a pre-selected landing site near Red Bluff, California, and coordination with an accom…

Sender address and date line; sender name redacted under b6/b7C. A citizen letter to the FBI Portland office offering an enclosed personal analysis/profile of D.B. Cooper's characteristics, noting t…

FBI letterhead with Portland, Oregon office location and date of December 7, 1981. FBI press release by SAC Robert S. Gast II regarding the 10th anniversary of the D.B. Cooper hijacking. States that…

Continuation of a report describing a followup FBI investigation on December 4 after Portland Police Bureau officers were asked to photograph and describe an individual. The evaluation concludes the…

FBI teletype transmittal form header. Sent via Teletype with Immediate precedence, classified UNCLAS, dated December 7, 1981. Teletype from FBI Portland to FBI Director regarding a Washington Post a…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmission header with classification and routing options. Classification options TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, and UNCLAS E F T O are struck through; UNCLAS is chec…

Standard FBI FD-36 transmittal form header with transmission, precedence, and classification options. No boxes are checked and no date is filled in. Several classification levels are struck through.…

Standard FBI FD-36 teletype transmittal form header with classification options. All classification levels above UNCLAS are struck through. Page four of a teletype from SAC Portland (case 164A-41).…

Standard US Government memorandum header addressed to SAC Portland regarding NORJAK case, dated 12/8/81. Sender name redacted under b6/b7C exemptions. Memo describes an erroneous AP wire service sto…

FBI case file number for this page of the report. Report describes newspaper and TV station contacts related to the D.B. Cooper investigation. An individual who visited PPB also went to KOIN-TV; his…

FBI letterhead with office location and date. FBI press release from SAC Robert S. Gast II regarding the 10th anniversary of the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Notes that the FBI received numerous calls and…

Two filled-in black circles consistent with redaction stamps or hole punches at the top of the page. Continuation of an FBI report describing a follow-up investigation by Portland Police Bureau and…

FOIA exemption codes marked in margin indicating redactions for personal privacy (b6) and law enforcement source information (b7C). A newspaper article reporting that a man claiming to be D.B. Coope…

Document type designation. Airtel memo from SAC Portland to FBI Director regarding the NORJAK case. Describes an incident on 12/3/81 where an individual claiming to be D.B. Cooper presented himself…

FBI case file number for Portland field office. Discussion of numerous calls received around the tenth anniversary of the D.B. Cooper skyjacking, coinciding with a motion picture release offering a…

Document type indicator marked as Airtel. Airtel header from Sacramento SAC to Seattle SAC regarding NORJAK case, dated 12/11/81. An anonymous female source in Hayfork, Ca. reported that Richard Ll…

FD-350 form fields identifying the newspaper clipping source as the Oregon Journal, page 2, dated 12/7/81. Title, Character, Classification, and Submitting Office fields are blank. Newspaper article…

FBI FD-36 transmittal form header. Airtel selected as transmit method. Classification and precedence not checked. Dated 12/11/81. Airtel from SAC Oklahoma City to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK ca…

FBI Airtel memo from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle dated 12/21/81 regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case. A tipster from Coquille, Oregon contacted the Portland FBI office on 11/23/81, claiming to kno…

Portland field office case file number reference. Continuation page of an FBI report from the Portland office. A captioned matter is referenced but the subject description is redacted (b6/b7C privac…

Document type header indicating this is an AIRTEL communication. FBI AIRTEL memo dated 12/23/81 from SAC Portland to SAC Seattle regarding the NORJAK case. References a Detroit teletype and airtel.…

FBI case file number AN 164A-227 with redacted sub-reference and page number 1. An individual (name redacted, marked Protect) appeared at the FBI Juneau Resident Agency and provided a list of names…

Case number header and page continuation number, indicating this is page 2 of a document under FBI case AN 164A-227. Continuation of a numbered list (items 6–9) of individuals with their associated…