Telephone interview of DAN COOPER look-alike, Dallas

Interviewed 16 February 1972Transcribed 28 February 1972

Part 23pages 128–1292 pagesDB Cooper-7275–7276

Also filed at: Part 72 pp. 288–289

Copies may differ in what was redacted.

Open in FBI Vault (Part 23, page 128 of the PDF)
Report a problem

Email this to [email protected]

Id: Cooper-Part-23:128-129

Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-23:128-129

Document: FD-302 telephone interview of DAN COOPER look-alike, Dallas
Id: Cooper-Part-23:128-129
Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-23%3A128-129

What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)?


What does the scan show?

Open in email app

A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 23 pp. 128–129 (DB Cooper-7275–7276), FD-302 interview, interviewed 16 Feb 1972, serial SE 164-81-2426 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-23%3A128-129

FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

---

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

1 Date of transcription 2/28/72

[REDACTED] telephone [REDACTED] was interviewed.

SAs [REDACTED] identified themselves to [REDACTED] and advised him that he was a look alike to DAN COOPER, a suspect in an aircraft hijacking case. SA [REDACTED] furnished him an advice of rights and waiver form which he read, stated he understood and signed. He then furnished the following information:

He boarded Flight 403, Braniff International Airlines, at Detroit, Michigan, and was en route to Houston, Texas, to attend [REDACTED]. The plane stopped in Dallas, Texas at 3:25 PM.

[REDACTED] is described as follows:

Race White Sex Male Date of birth [REDACTED] Place of birth [REDACTED] Age [REDACTED] Hair Black, parted on left side, sideburns to lower ear lobe Height 5'11" Weight 170 pounds Complexion Olive-medium Education University of Detroit, three years, downtown campus

Employment [REDACTED]

Telephone number [REDACTED] Social Security Number [REDACTED] Marital status [REDACTED] Wife [REDACTED] Children [REDACTED]

---

Interviewed on 2/16/72 at Dallas, Texas File # Dallas 164-191 SAs [REDACTED] and 164-81-2426 by [REDACTED] HJM/pkp Date dictated [guess: 2/28/72] PM FILED SEARCHED INDEXED MAR 4 0 1972

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DB Cooper-7275

---

b6 b7C

DL 164-191 2

---

Characteristic Smokes a pipe but no cigarettes Arrest record Admits none Military service U. S. Navy, Alameda, California, 1958-1959, although he was vague on the dates. He was

Selective Service No. [REDACTED]

---

[REDACTED] stated he was at home in [REDACTED] between November 23 and November 27, 1971, and did no traveling. He stated his income is $16,000 per year.

---

He had the following $20 bills on him, which were checked out against a ransom list negatively:

Serial Number Series Type [REDACTED] 1969A Federal Reserve Note " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "

---

He stated he banks at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] where he has [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

He stated he never has flown an airplane or had any experience with parachute clubs, sky divers clubs or affiliate clubs.

He denied hijacking any plane.

---

DB Cooper-7276

Serials: DL 164-191, SE 164-81-2426