Interview re FAA employee suspect at JFK Airport
This copy: Part 111 p. 160Also filed at Part 25 p. 285 (primary)
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Interview re FAA employee Richard Gilbert, JFK International Airport
Interviewed 28 April 1972Transcribed 12 May 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:160-160 Document: FD-302 interview re FAA employee Richard Gilbert, JFK International Airport Id: Cooper-Part-111:160-160 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A160-160 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 111 p. 160 (DB Cooper-5055), FD-302 interview, interviewed 28 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-3354 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A160-160
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 5/12/72
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[REDACTED] Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York, was contacted regarding RICHARD GILBERT [REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] is an employee of the FAA and is well known to the [REDACTED] provided the personnel file of [REDACTED] from which the following informa- tion was excerpted:
[REDACTED] is currently reemployed as an [REDACTED] in the Washington, D. C., Center, located at Leesburg, Virginia. [REDACTED] entered on duty with the FAA on [REDACTED] The file further indicates that [REDACTED] had previously been employed by Piedmont Airlines at Newport News, Virginia, and had served in the United States Air Force from 1962 to 1966. While in the Air Force, [REDACTED] duties as a [REDACTED] brought him into contact with different types of parachutes and parachute equip- ment and parachute techniques. [REDACTED] stated that on his applica- tion for employment with the FAA that one of his duties as a
[REDACTED] further indicated on his application that he holds a student pilot's license and that one of his duties with Piedmont Air- lines was to taxi and park aircraft.
The file further indicates that [REDACTED] had been dis- ciplined for unauthorized absence in the past. He was also disciplined for activities involving a "sick out" in connection with a Union problem.
[REDACTED] advised that the FAA has conducted an exten- sive investigation of [REDACTED] in connection with his being a sus- pect in numerous [REDACTED] The results of this investigation indicated that there was a preponderance of cir- cumstantial evidence linking [REDACTED] but suf- ficient evidence to charge him criminally or to dismiss him from his job was not established.
FAA also instituted an investigation regarding [REDACTED] activities with a familiarization flight on a commercial airliner
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Interviewed on 4/28/72 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York File # NY-164-[REDACTED] 164-81- 3354 by [REDACTED] Date dictated [REDACTED]
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DB COOPER-5055
Serials: SE 164-81-3354