Interview of New York Times employee re letter received 9/23/72
Transcribed 18 October 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-09:013-013 Document: FD-302 interview of New York Times employee re letter received 9/23/72 Id: Cooper-Part-09:013-013 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A013-013 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 9 p. 13 (DB Cooper-642), FD-302 interview, transcribed 18 Oct 1972, serial SD 164-91-67 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-09%3A013-013
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription: 10/18/72
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[REDACTED b6/b7c] New York Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York, New York, advised that the hand-written letter [REDACTED b6/b7c] was received over the weekend of September 23, 1972. He stated that the letter was passed from Department to Department for about two weeks and was handled by a number of clerks and editors before he received it approximately ten days ago. He declined to estimate the number of people who handled the letter adding that it would be impossible to determine the number or identities of those people.
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[REDACTED] continued that [REDACTED] no present plans for publication of the letter. He advised that a photocopy of the letter was forwarded [REDACTED] in the San Diego, California area. He named [REDACTED] California, telephone [REDACTED] explained that [REDACTED] determined from the letter's postmark that the letter had been mailed within a one hundred mile radius of San Diego but outside San Diego's city limits. He said [REDACTED] had requested the local Bureau of Vital Statistics to furnish a list of all deaths on [REDACTED] but [REDACTED] discovered such records are not filed by date. He related that to his knowledge no one else has made any attempt to determine the letter's accuracy or authenticity.
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[handwritten] 164-91-67
Interviewed on: 10/17/72 at: New York, New York File #: NY 164-627
by: SA RONALD D. HODGES:mmz Date dictated: [REDACTED b6/b7c]
SEARCHED / INDEXED SERIALIZED / FILED [stamp date: partially legible, approximately 10/[?]/1972] FBI SAN DIEGO
[stamp] DB Cooper-642
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
Serials: NY 164-627, SD 164-91-67
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