Document date 23 December 1982AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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1983. SOME PRESS SOURCES HAVE HEADLINED HIS ACTIVITIES AS
"FORMER FBI AGENT CONTINUES SEARCH" AND "SEARCH FOR COOPER GOES
ON," TO THE EXTENT WHERE PORTLAND HAS FOUND IT NECESSARY TO
CLARIFY THAT TOSAW IS NO LONGER ASSOCIATED OR EMPLOYED WITH THE
FBI. (FBIHQ PERSONNEL DIVISION ADVISED SA [REDACTED] ON
NOVEMBER 4, 1982 THAT TOSAW WAS A SPECIAL AGENT FROM MARCH 19, 1951
TO DECEMBER 16, 1955, AND RESIGNED 27 YEARS AGO.)
PORTLAND HAS BEEN ADVISED BY LOCAL NEWS MEDIA SOURCES THAT
TOSAW IS "USING" THE FBI TO ESTABLISH CREDIBILITY FOR HIS BOOK
AND USING THE PRESS AND HIS "SEARCH" FOR FREE PUBLICITY. FOR
THAT REASON MANY LOCAL TV, RADIO STATIONS, AND "THE OREGONIAN"
HAVE RECENTLY REFUSED TO CARRY STORIES CONCERNING HIS ACTIVITIES.
THE OREGONIAN, PORTLAND'S MAJOR NEWSPAPER, DID NOT CARRY THE
RECENT UPI WIRE SERVICE STORY. SOME PREVIOUS ARTICLES WERE
CRITICAL ALMOST RIDICULING, AS THE OREGONIAN ARTICLE OF
NOVEMBER 24, 1982, WHICH STATES "ALTHOUGH TOSAW CLAIMS TO BE