Interview re David Arthur Staudt's claims to be the Northwest Flight 305 hijacker
Interviewed 21 October 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-117:362-363 Document: FD-302 interview re David Arthur Staudt's claims to be the Northwest Flight 305 hijacker Id: Cooper-Part-117:362-363 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A362-363 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 117 pp. 362–363 (DB Cooper-53896–53897), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Oct 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-117%3A362-363
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE[STIGATION]
[Date of transcrip]tion 10/23/75
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[REDACTED] was intervi[ewed at her] [r]esidence [in] Wisconsin. The interview concerned [REDACTED] DAVID ARTHUR STAUDT and claims he ha[s prev]iously [made/stated] with respect to being D.B. COOPER, [the individu]al responsible for the hijacking of Northwest airli[nes flight] [3]05 on November 24, 1971. [REDACTED] advised a[s follows]:
[REDACTED] stated that she has k[nown STAUDT] since [first] having met him in Mi[lwaukee duri]ng that general time. She stated she [REDACTED] [the matter/this] [REDACTED] [first came] to her attention [via/through] [a story/article] [in the] [Mil]waukee Journal" (Milwaukee evening newspaper), ran a[n article on] [about] the hijacking during late 1973. On this occasion [REDACTED] [came/approached her] with the article and said, "Doesn't t[his] [loo]k[e] [li]ke me?" [REDACTED] advised that she noted a slight rese[mblance and] mentioned the matter to her family. [REDACTED] stated th[at he] [further made] claims that he in fact was the indivi[dual respon]sible for the hijacking and furnished the followin[g]:
STAUDT had stated that wh[ile working] [for] Sundberg - Farrar, as an industrial designer in [Mi]chigan, he obtained plans for a Boeing 727 whic[h gave him] [t]he idea of hijacking this type of aircraft. [REDACTED] [STAUDT in fact] hijacked Northwest Airlines flight 3[05 and] [REDACTED] told [her] that he was not able to spend the mo[ney because] it was "too hot". [REDACTED] advised that she never p[aid much] [a]ttention to his claims inasmuch as he was always m[a]l[ing] [st]atements like this and she thought it was a joke. [REDACTED] [sai]d he never told her of any of the details of t[he hijacking] [n]or where the money was located. She stated that [to her kn]o[w]ledge, he has never been in Washington or O[r]e[gon and] [REDACTED] he has a [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] stated that during [REDACTED] while STAUDT was in a fugitive status, she had c[amped] [REDACTED] with him to Joshua Tree National Monument to a[REDACTED] [nea]r Barker Dam. She advised STAUDT told her that t[his] [was a pre]tty spot that he wanted her to see and that ina[smuch as] [she] had previously [REDACTED]
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Interviewed on 10/21/75 at Muskego, Wisco[nsin]
by SA JOHN W. FRAZER, JR/JWF/pmc 1
MI 164-36
10/22/75
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DB COOPER-53896
MI 164-36 2
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been camping in the desert in the Palm Springs area it did not strike her as being unusual. She advised they were at this location for approximately a one hour period of time during which time he never left her sight. [redacted b6 b7C] advised that the hour was spent walking around the area and looking at rock formations and oasis.
She stated that he never made any mention of money being buried in that area nor did he do any digging while there. She advised that there were several other people in the area, appearing to be campers during the time they were at this location. [redacted] noted that STAUDT had indicated that he had been to that spot previously with [redacted]. She stated that it was obvious that he knew his way around the area.
[redacted b6 b7C] advised that during June they were in the desert approximately a week during which time they visited Palm Springs and the Sultan Sea State Park. She stated she was unable to fix the exact time; however, during this week a big sand storm came up which would be remembered by any resident in the area as far as setting a specific time.
[redacted] advised that she does not believe STAUDT to be the hijacker inasmuch as he would have gotten the money and spent it even if the money was "hot".
She stated that during some of the time that she was living and traveling with STAUDT they were without funds to the extent that she had to hock some of her jewelry in order to live. [redacted b6 b7C] noted that STAUDT has a history of making statements such as this, none of which have proved true.
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DB COOPER-53897
Serials: MI 164-36