Part 96, page 141
DB Cooper-43054Serials SE 164-81
Document date 15 May 1978
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 p. 141 (DB Cooper-43054), Airtel, dated 15 May 1978, serial PD 164-41-1692 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-96/pages/141
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SE 164-81
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this matter had been discussed with FBIHQ, cooperation with CBS had not been authorized. I personally spoke with Supervisor [REDACTED] who indicated that MIKE WALLACE had called him on a number of occasions regarding the possibility of a show and that the Bureau had approved Portland and later Seattle, as Office of Origin, being contacted by GORIN. I returned GORIN's call and informed him of the above and it was agreed to meet on 5/5/78 at my office.
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Mr. GORIN came to my office at the appointed hour and for approximately the next 1½ to 2 hours, he spoke with myself, SA [REDACTED] who is the Case Agent in this investigation, and SA [REDACTED] who is the Media Repre- sentative for the Seattle Office.
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GORIN indicated he had spoken at length with SA HIMMELSBACH, whom he described as being the "Case Agent", concerning background information about captioned matter. I first informed GORIN of the administrative breakdown of an investigation as to Office of Origin, Case Agent, Lead Agent, etc., and that in this investigation, the Case Agent was SA [REDACTED] and that the Lead Agent in the Portland Division was SA HIMMELSBACH. I then made available to GORIN, a copy of the case summary contained in ReBUtel dated 5/5/78 and explained to him the necessity of keeping a certain amount of "identifiers" confidential as this was a pending investigation. GORIN asked a multitude of questions deal- ing with: specific comments of the Unsub; the denomina- tions of money that he wanted; type(s) of parachutes asked for and received; any comments he made to stewardesses; etc. In a number of these areas, it was necessary, for the reasons stated above, to merely reply "no comment", and again refer to the fact that this was a pending investigation and we needed certain information kept confidential to either prove or disprove that a particular individual is or is not the Unsub.
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Being perfectly candid, it was obvious that GORIN was not entirely pleased with his trip to Seattle and referred to information that he had received from SA HIMMELSBACH of the Portland Office and the fact that he had been so fre- quently quoted in the news media. I informed Mr. GORIN that
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