Interview re Lloyds of London insurance inquiry on Mexico City shipment
Document date 7 November 1966
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-29:405-407 Document: FD-302 interview re Lloyds of London insurance inquiry on Mexico City shipment Id: Cooper-Part-29:405-407 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A405-407 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 29 pp. 405–407 (DB Cooper-10501–10503), FD-302 interview, dated 7 Nov 1966 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-29%3A405-407
FD-302 (Rev. 4-15-64)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date 11/7/66
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[redacted], New York, New York, advised he is the [redacted] for Lloyds of London in the Western Hemisphere. He stated that on September 15, 1966, he received a telephone call from [redacted] an employee of S & H Insurance Associates, 7916 East Florence Avenue, Downey, California. [redacted] wanted [redacted] to have Lloyds of London to insure the
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[redacted] indicated his firm was contacted by two individuals, stating one represented the buyer and the other the seller [redacted] They allegedly told [redacted] that [redacted] was being dre[guess: dg]ed from a country in Central America and was 90% refined. Presently, a portion of [redacted] was in a bonded warehouse in Los Angeles, California.
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The person acting for the seller used the name of [redacted] Hotel Paraiso, Mexico City, Mexico, and said he re[guess: presents] the Central American dredging company to sell [redacted] The person acting for the buyer, told [redacted] his name was [redacted] Houston Tool Company, 6338 Cochran, Santa Susana, California. [redacted] was allegedly acting for the Guarantee Title Trust Company, El Paso, Texas, who had the home office in Vancouver, British Columbia. [redacted] said he was under the [guess: impression] the Guarantee Title Trust Company was buying [redacted] for the Bank of Montreal.
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[redacted] stated that the S&H Insurance Associates cannot get Lloyds of London to insure anything without going through a broker in England. [redacted] said he determined that S&H was in contact with Lyman, Lohr and Sly, Limited, 9 St. Helena Place, London, England, which had him determine the security of the insurance.
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[handwritten case number, partially illegible: 164-81- [illegible] ]
11/2/66 New York, New York NY [redacted] File #__
SA [redacted] /ags Date dictated___
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-10501
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SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED [illegible] SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] JAN 2 6 1973 [illegible] AGENCY [illegible]
MY [redacted]
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[redacted] said he did not hear from [redacted] again but [redacted] S&H Insurance Company continued to call. He told [redacted] that the Central America company [redacted] had [redacted] in bonded warehouses in Mexico City. He said an appraiser for the company put a value on [redacted] being [redacted] Instead of the Bank of Montreal he indicates the potential buyer as the bank of England. [redacted] is to be flown from the Central America country to Belize, British Honduras in the Gulf of Mexico. Then [redacted] is to be flown on a converted A-26 from Belize to Aruba, Dutch West Indies. [redacted] wanted Lloyds of London to insure [redacted] from Belize to Aruba.
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[redacted] stated he investigated the information supplied by the [redacted] Insurance Company. He determined there was no Guarantee or Guardian Title Trust Company in El Paso, Texas or Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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He was told that final refining was to be done in England, however 30% of [redacted] in the world is refined at Englehart, Company, in Newark, New Jersey.
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[redacted] said he was telephonically advised that the agent for the buyer had leased one B-26 from Bonair Corporation. The plane, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) registration number [redacted] would be piloted by [redacted] who is from Dear Valley Airport, Phoenix, Arizona. This plane was to make one trip with [redacted] while insured by Lloyds of London with [redacted]
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Investigation by [redacted] found that there was no such [guess: man] number as [redacted] issued to a plane, and the FAA does not issue 6 digit numbers. The aircraft load the converted B-26 could possibly carry was two tons, and not [redacted]
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On September 19, 1966, [redacted] said he received the last call from [redacted]. He said [redacted] was ready to move, the papers were in order and he still wanted Lloyds of London to insure the flight. This call culminated between 30 and 35 calls that [redacted] received from S&H Insurance Company.
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DB Cooper-10502
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b6 b7C
NY [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] later determined from London brokers that individuals in the Southwest United States were trying to insure the transportation [REDACTED] by various methods for the past 14 years. These plans varied from the finding of lost Inca treasures to transportation of [REDACTED]
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-10503