Re parachute sighting near Oakridge, Oregon, December 3, 1971
Interviewed 3 December 1971Dictated 4 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-100:001-001
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-100:001-001 Document: FD-302 re parachute sighting near Oakridge, Oregon, December 3, 1971 Id: Cooper-Part-100:001-001 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A001-001 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 100 p. 1 (DB Cooper-40675), FD-302 interview, interviewed 3 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-339 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A001-001
FD-302 (REV. 3-17-69)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date: December 6, 1971
[REDACTED] U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Rigdon b6 per DOA Ranger Station, Oakridge, Oregon, was telephonically b7C per DOA contacted at the ranger station and provided the following information:
On December 3, 1971, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] b6 per DOA were heading for the Rigdon Guard Station about 20 b7C per DOA miles south of Oakridge to check on an area where a sale of forest timber was being let. About 11 a.m., they started back toward Oakridge. [REDACTED] spotted a bright reddish orange pilot parachute in a ponderosa tree about 150 feet off the ground. This was about 100 feet from the main Rigdon road. It was snowing and fresh snow covered the area.
The parachute was hung up in the branches of the ponderosa pine tree and the lines from the umbrella part of the chute were holding up a white plastic type sack. They were unable to determine the exact item at the end of the lines.
When the two returned to the ranger station, they notified the state police that this parachute had been spotted.
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PARACHUTE OAKRIDGE RANGER STATION WIT[illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
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On 12/3/71 at Eugene, Oregon File# PD 164-41-339
by SA [REDACTED] [signature] mp Date dictated 12/4/71 b6 per FBI b7C per FBI
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DB Cooper-40675
Serials: PD 164-41-339