Interview of Houston source re man met in Baja California
Interviewed 21 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-08:085-086
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-08:085-086 Document: FD-302 interview of Houston source re man met in Baja California Id: Cooper-Part-08:085-086 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-08%3A085-086 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 8 pp. 85–86 (DB Cooper-104), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Jan 1972, serial SD 164-91-43 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-08%3A085-086
FD-302 (Rev. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 1/25/72
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[redacted], Houston, Texas, supplied the following information:
[redacted]
[redacted] traveled to Mexico. While in Mexico they rode a ferry boat from the Mexican mainland to the Baja, California Peninsula and while on this boat met [redacted] Americans named [redacted] California; [redacted] California; and [redacted] (LNU), who was [redacted] Oregon. These individuals asked [redacted] to met them at a bar named [redacted] in Corbo San Lucas which is at the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
Upon arriving there [redacted] met the [redacted] individual at the bar and while drinking with them also became acquainted with an individual named [redacted]
Over a period of several days they learned from [redacted] that he was [redacted] Illinois and had previously been [redacted] also stated that he had lived in Portland, Oregon and on the west coast of California for some time.
[redacted] along with [redacted] boat named [redacted] This boat was over 40 feet long, had a [redacted]
One morning [redacted] that the night before, [redacted] had been drinking quite heavily and had stated that he was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient
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Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Houston, Texas File # HO 164-118 SE 164-81 [handwritten:] 164-91-43
by SA [redacted] /sac. Date dictated [stamp:] 1/25/[72?] FILED JAN 20 [19]72
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DB Cooper-104
SE 164-81 HO 164-118
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airliner over Oregon and had jumped with a parachute with $200,000. [REDACTED] claimed to still have one of the parachutes he used in his possession on his boat. [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] went into very great detail in describing how he had accomplished the hijacking.
After learning this information [REDACTED] immediately went to where [REDACTED] had been anchored but discovered that the boat and [REDACTED] were gone. [REDACTED] stated that he felt this was unusual inasmuch as [REDACTED] had indicated he would be [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] having mentioned [REDACTED] worked for [REDACTED] the west coast and that [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] was shown an artist conception of the indivi- dual who actually hijacked the Northwest Orient airliner, and he stated that this drawing bears a close resemblance to [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] provided the following description of [REDACTED]
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Race White Sex Male Age 40-45 years Height 5'11" Weight 175 lbs. Complexion Ruddy, weathered Hair Dark brown with long sideburns Voice Low, intelligent, no noticeable accent Characteristic Starting to grow beard
Serials: HO 164-118, SD 164-91-43, SE 164-81