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Teletype
10
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4
Airtel
3
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3
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1972 (13)
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20 documents, 22 including copies
Teletype
Los Angeles re NORJAK suspect travel to Costa Rica; armed and dangerous
30 June 1972 · Los Angeles · Part 26 · 3 pages · 1 of 3 pages
p. 554 · page 1 of 3
San Jose, Costa Rica
Case number and page continuation header. Continuation of an FBI interview report. The interviewee describes a subject who departed Los Angeles for Costa Rica, first around June 28 and again around…
Teletype
SAC Los Angeles to Acting Director and field offices re NORJAK suspect departing for Costa Rica
30 June 1972 · Los Angeles · Part 59 · 4 pages · 1 of 4 pages
p. 408 · page 2 of 4
San Jose, Costa Rica
Page two of an FBI report (LA 164-497) documenting an interview about a subject who departed Los Angeles for Costa Rica around June 28. The subject was depressed over the failure of Westward Manufact…
Teletype
Nitel Los Angeles to Acting Director and offices re NORJAK suspect Willard Carlos Twigg, suicidal tendencies
30 June 1972 · Los Angeles · Part 112 · 4 pages · 1 of 4 pages
p. 385 · page 2 of 4
San Jose, Costa Rica
Case number and page continuation header for FBI Los Angeles field office file 164-497. Continuation from previous page describing someone departing Los Angeles for Costa Rica on June 28 to supply a…
Teletype
Urgent teletype Indianapolis to Acting Director re NORJAK suspect and leads
3 July 1972 · Indianapolis · Part 26 · 3 pages · 1 of 3 pages
p. 379 · page 1 of 3
San Jose, Costa Rica
FBI teletype from Indianapolis field office to Acting Director and multiple field offices regarding NORJAK case. A white male adult has been developed as a suspect. A Terre Haute, Indiana PD officer…
+1 copy
Part 59 pp. 422–424
· matching p. 422
Copies may differ in what was redacted.
Letter
From San Jose, Costa Rica to recipient in Hawthorne, California
11 July 1972 · Part 50 · 1 page
p. 150
San Jose, Costa Rica
Redacted return address with San José, Costa Rica visible. A personal letter dated July 11, 1972, written in English from San José, Costa Rica to a recipient in Hawthorne, California. The sender men…
Teletype
Indianapolis to Seattle re Terre Haute confidential source report on NORJAK suspect and LIFE magazine article
13 July 1972 · Indianapolis · Part 26 · 2 pages · 1 of 2 pages
p. 566 · page 1 of 2
San Jose, Costa Rica
Teletype routing header indicating an urgent message from Indianapolis field office to Seattle and Phoenix offices, dated July 13, 1972. Teletype from Indianapolis to Seattle (with Phoenix for info)…
Airtel
Legat Managua to Acting Director re passport photographs and Costa Rican records checks
13 July 1972 · Legat Managua · Part 27 · 4 pages · 1 of 4 pages
p. 22 · page 1 of 4
San Jose, Costa Rica
Header block of FBI airtel memo dated 7/13/72 from Legal Attaché in Managua to the Acting Director of the FBI, regarding the NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case with Seattle as the Office of Origin. Body of t…
Teletype
Indianapolis to Seattle and Phoenix re Terre Haute source information on Willard C. Twigg
13 July 1972 · Indianapolis · Part 112 · 2 pages · 1 of 2 pages
p. 367 · page 1 of 2
San Jose, Costa Rica
FBI Indianapolis teletype to Seattle and Phoenix offices regarding a tip from a Terre Haute confidential source. Ben Twigg of Paris, Illinois stated that an artist's conception of D.B. Cooper in the…
Teletype
Phoenix to Acting Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re NORJAK suspect movements 11/23-24/71
14 July 1972 · Phoenix · Part 27 · 4 pages · 1 of 4 pages
p. 11 · page 3 of 4
San Jose, Costa Rica
Case number and page designation for the teletype communication. Page three of a multi-page teletype regarding a D.B. Cooper suspect. The suspect reportedly became drunk in Santa Monica on November…
+1 copy
Part 59 pp. 457–460
· matching p. 459
Copies may differ in what was redacted.
Teletype
Phoenix to Acting Director, Los Angeles and Seattle re NORJAK suspect Twigg's movements 11/23-24/71
14 July 1972 · Phoenix · Part 112 · 4 pages · 1 of 4 pages
p. 360 · page 3 of 4
San Jose, Costa Rica
Teletype page header with case reference number PX 164-100 and page designation PAGE THREE. Page three of an FBI teletype regarding a D.B. Cooper suspect. The suspect was in Santa Monica, became dru…
Teletype
Urgent teletype Acting Director to Seattle and Los Angeles re Legat Managua report on San Jose investment
19 July 1972 · Bureau · Part 27 · 2 pages · 1 of 2 pages
p. 20 · page 1 of 2
San Jose, Costa Rica
Teletype routing header showing urgent message dated July 19, 1972, sent from the Acting Director to Seattle and Los Angeles field offices regarding NORJAK case. Teletype body relaying information f…
Teletype
Urgent teletype Acting Director to Seattle and Los Angeles re Twigg investment report from Legat Managua
19 July 1972 · Bureau · Part 112 · 2 pages · 1 of 2 pages
p. 349 · page 1 of 2
San Jose, Costa Rica
Teletype routing header from Acting Director to Seattle and Los Angeles field offices, classified as urgent, regarding NORJAK case with Seattle as office of origin. Legal attaché in Managua reported…
Letter
From San Jose, Costa Rica re being cleared as a hijacking suspect
24 July 1972 · Part 50 · 1 page
p. 151
San Jose, Costa Rica
Return address location visible in upper right area of letter. Personal letter dated July 24, 1972, written from San José, Costa Rica to a recipient in Hawthorne, California. The writer humorously r…
Letter
From Costa Rica correspondent to TIME magazine re D.B. Cooper sighting, with envelope
28 January 1974 · Part 34 · 2 pages · 1 of 2 pages
p. 79 · page 1 of 2
San Jose, Costa Rica
Return address of the letter writer, located in San Jose, Costa Rica. Recipient address for TIME magazine at Rockefeller Center, New York. A letter from a person in Costa Rica to TIME magazine, cla…
Letter
Handwritten letter from San Jose, Costa Rica to Time magazine reporting Cooper sighting
28 January 1974 · Part 117 · 1 page
p. 283
San Jose, Costa Rica
Handwritten letter from a citizen in San Jose, Costa Rica, addressed to TIME magazine. The writer claims to have seen D.B. Cooper in San Jose, Costa Rica approximately 4 months prior to writing. The…
Memo
SAC New York to Director forwarding Costa Rica letter to Time Magazine
28 February 1974 · New York · Part 34 · 1 page
p. 81
San Jose, Costa Rica
Standard FBI interoffice memorandum header addressed from SAC New York to Director FBI, regarding a redacted subject in San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica, filed under NORJAK (D.B. Cooper case) with fil…
Memo
SAC New York to Director forwarding Costa Rica letter to Time magazine re NORJAK
28 February 1974 · New York · Part 117 · 1 page
p. 282
San Jose, Costa Rica
FBI memorandum dated 2/28/1974 from SAC New York to Director FBI, regarding the NORJAK case (D.B. Cooper). Forwards a letter from a subject (name redacted) in San Jose, Costa Rica that was originally…
Memo
Legat Mexico City to Director re NORJAK, reported Cooper sighting in San Jose, Costa Rica
31 July 1974 · Legat Mexico City · Part 117 · 2 pages · 1 of 2 pages
p. 276 · page 1 of 2
San Jose, Costa Rica
Routing header of an FBI memo dated 7/31/74 from Legal Attache Mexico City to FBI Director regarding NORJAK (the FBI codename for the D.B. Cooper hijacking case). Memo references a 2/28/74 New York…
Airtel
SAC Seattle to SAC Tampa re NORJAK suspect passport information
19 August 1974 · Seattle · Part 34 · 1 page
p. 348
San Jose, Costa Rica
Header block of an FBI Airtel memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Tampa regarding the NORJAK case, dated August 19, 1974. Body of the airtel forwarding a Detroit teletype (dated 1/6/72) to Tampa. Notes tha…
Airtel
SAC Seattle to SAC Tampa re NORJAK suspect Wayne King, enclosing Detroit teletype
19 August 1974 · Seattle · Part 104 · 1 page
p. 305
San Jose, Costa Rica
Date of the memo. Airtel memo from SAC Seattle to SAC Tampa regarding NORJAK suspect Wayne King. Seattle encloses a Detroit teletype dated 1/6/72. King's whereabouts are unknown. Tampa has most Norj…