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re OPTIONAL, FORM NO. 10 ) MAY 3962 EDITION SSA FPMR (41 CFR) 10!-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum . TO SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 8/23/72 ~ . ~ Cty -_ MROM| ¢ | BAC, CHICAGO (164-297) (P) ~ \ Sue bo SUBJECT: NORJAK £010-104g-02 00: SEATTLE Re New York airtel dated 7/24/72. On August 15, 1972,[ _——s*i|’séPara-Gear Equipment Company, 5138 North Broadway, Chicago, Tilinois, advised his company is one of the largest mail order sport parachuting equipment supply houses in the United States. fe and[ | have little direct contact with their customers. e has reviewed his files and the name COOPER does not appear. advised he is from the Seattle area and came to Chicago one year ago. While in Seattle he sport parachuted for six years. He stated he did not recali having met anyone he felt could be identical to unknown subject. stated in his opindton the person responsible for the hijacking is not a sport parachutist. He bases this opinion on the theory that sport parachutists have an emotional attachment to their equipment, and probably would not perform a jump with equipment not known to them. From the accounts he read concerning the hijacking he assumes the hijacker had military parachuting experience. (2)- Seattle a oS 537 { - Chicago | SEARCHED. eee EDEKED... | CRRA Dt FLED. REH/pal AUS 2 6 1972 (3) FUItEATTLE | oth: Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan b6 b7C b6 b7c b6 b7¢c DB Cooper-9375