Interview of Freeport, Texas witness re meeting Bill Mason at Raphaels bar in Mexico
Interviewed 21 January 1972Dictated 25 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-105:173-174
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-105:173-174 Document: FD-302 interview of Freeport, Texas witness re meeting Bill Mason at Raphaels bar in Mexico Id: Cooper-Part-105:173-174 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-105%3A173-174 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. 173–174 (DB Cooper-47723–47724), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Jan 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-105%3A173-174
FD-302 (Rev. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 1/25/72
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[REDACTED] Freeport, Texas, telephone number [REDACTED] supplied the following information:
During the Christmas holidays [REDACTED] were in [REDACTED] Mexico, with his family friends named [REDACTED]
While in this town in Mexico on the day before Christmas they were at a bar called Raphaels and had occasion to meet a man named BILL MASON. MASON claimed to have been employed by Northwest Orient Airlines in Seoul, Korea as a ticket agent.
[REDACTED] later learned from another individual that MASON had been claiming thathe was a sky diver and was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient Airliner in Oregon and had parachuted out.
[REDACTED] advised that MASON seemed to be well known to the [REDACTED] of the Raphaels bar. [REDACTED] known as [REDACTED] is believed to be an American.
MASON and [REDACTED] were staying on a large sail boat named The Red Wing which [REDACTED] believes is registered out of San Diego, California.
MASON had been telling everyone that he would be in Corbo San Lucas for about a week but he suddenly dis- appeared on Christmas day.
[REDACTED] was shown an artist conception drawing of the individual who actually hijacked the above mentioned airliner and he stated that this drawing vaguely resembled
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SE 164-81 Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Freeport, Texas File # HO 164-118 sub 304 /6-1-81-8081 SA [REDACTED] /sac Date dictated 1/25/72
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DB COOPER-47723
HO 164-118 SE 164-81
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MASON but that he could not positively say that it looked exactly like him.
[REDACTED] advised further that he recalls MASON mentioning the fact that he was planning on sailing to La Paz, Mexico to spend the New Years' holiday there. [REDACTED] also recalls that MASON was spending large sums of money and was also tipping all of the waiters very high.
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DB COOPER-47724
Serials: HO 164-118, SE 164-81