Interview re man met at Raphaels bar in Mexico during Christmas holidays

Interviewed 21 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972

Part 20pages 231–2322 pagesDB Cooper-6188–6189

Also filed at: Part 56 pp. 136–137

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Document: FD-302 interview re man met at Raphaels bar in Mexico during Christmas holidays
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 20 pp. 231–232 (DB Cooper-6188–6189), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-208 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-20%3A231-232

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 [REDACTED] claimed to have been employed by [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] later learned from another individual that [REDACTED] had been claiming that he was a sky diver and was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient Airliner in Oregon and had parachuted out.

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] seemed to be well known to the [REDACTED] of the Raphaels bar. [REDACTED] known as [REDACTED] is believed to be an American.

[REDACTED] were staying on a large [REDACTED] which [REDACTED] believes is registered out of San Diego, California.

[REDACTED] had been telling everyone that he would be in [REDACTED] 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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Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Freeport, Texas File # SE 164-81-208/ HO 164-118 by SA [REDACTED] /sac Date dictated SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED 25/FAB JAN 28 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-6188

HO 164-118 SE 164-81

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[REDACTED] but that he could not positively say that it looked exactly like him.

[REDACTED] advised further that he recalls [REDACTED] mentioning the fact that he was planning on [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Mexico to spend the New Years' holiday there. [REDACTED] also recalls that [REDACTED] was spending large sums of money and was also tipping all of the waiters very high.

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DB Cooper-6189

Serials: HO 164-118, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-208