Interview of Houston witness re Bill Mason claiming Northwest hijacking
Interviewed 21 January 1972Dictated 25 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-105:171-172 Document: FD-302 interview of Houston witness re Bill Mason claiming Northwest hijacking Id: Cooper-Part-105:171-172 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-105%3A171-172 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 105 pp. 171–172 (DB Cooper-47721–47722), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Jan 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-105%3A171-172
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:
Over the Christmas, 1971 holidays [REDACTED] and some family friends named [REDACTED] traveled to Mexico. While in Mexico they rode a ferry boat from the Mexican mainland to the [REDACTED] and while on this boat met three Americans named [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California; [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California; and [REDACTED] (LNU), who was a doctor living in Oregon. These individuals asked [REDACTED] and his party to met them at a bar named Raphaels in [REDACTED] which is at the tip of the [REDACTED]
Upon arriving there [REDACTED] and his party met the above three individual at the bar and while drinking with them also became acquainted with an individual named BILL MASON and [REDACTED]
Over a period of several days they learned from MASON that he was from Highlands Park, Illinois and had previously been employed by Northwest Orient Airlines as a sales agent in Seoul, Korea. MASON also stated that he had lived in Portland, Oregon and on the west coast of California for some time.
MASON and [REDACTED] along with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] were staying on a large Tri-maran boat named The Red Wing. This boat was over 40 feet long, had a white hull and red sails.
One morning [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that the night before, MASON 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 by SA [REDACTED] /sac . Date dictated 1/25/72 164-81 - [REDACTED] sub. 3rd
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. SERIALIZED MAILED [REDACTED] DB COOPER-47721 FBI - SEATTLE
SE 164-81 HO 164-118
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airliner over Oregon and had jumped with a parachute with $200,000. MASON claimed to still have one of the parachutes he used in his possession on his boat. [REDACTED] that MASON went into very great detail in describing how he had accomplished the hijacking.
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After learning this information [REDACTED] immediately went to where The Red Wing had been anchored but discovered that the boat and MASON were gone. [REDACTED] stated that he felt this was unusual inasmuch as MASON had indicated he would be there for at least a week.
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WEST stated that he recalled MASON's [REDACTED] having mentioned that she had worked for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and that she still had her credentials in her possession.
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[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 BILL MASON.
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[REDACTED] provided the following description of MASON:
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
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DB COOPER-47722
Serials: HO 164-118, SE 164-81
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