Butte insert re 2/13/73 interview at Montana residence on Cooper suspect
Document date 13 February 1973
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Id: Cooper-Part-30:303-304
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-30:303-304 Document: Butte insert re 2/13/73 interview at Montana residence on Cooper suspect Id: Cooper-Part-30:303-304 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-30%3A303-304 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 30 pp. 303–304 (DB Cooper-10965–10966), Report, dated 13 Feb 1973, serial SE 164-81-4553 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-30%3A303-304
BT #164-26 SE #164-81 JHS/cjs/mhs Page 1
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The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED]
AT [REDACTED] MONTANA
Efforts to contact [REDACTED] on February 9 and 12, 1973, were negative.
On February 13, 1973, [REDACTED] who is [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was interviewed at his resi- dence at which time he furnished the following information:
He has discussed the D. B. COOPER hijacking case at length with [REDACTED] a young woman who formerly resided at [REDACTED] and was employed at the [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] told him about conversations she had had with an individual by the name of [REDACTED] from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Montana. Apparently [REDACTED] and one evening while they were having a few drinks, [REDACTED] started bragging about the fact that he knew D. B. COOPER. Based upon conversations he has had with [REDACTED] he has come to the following conclusions concerning the possible identity of the individual [REDACTED] was referring to:
Mr. X, [REDACTED] went to school with him. [REDACTED] has [REDACTED] possibly involved, whom he will identify as Mr. Y. [REDACTED] and Mr. Y are from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. X was raised in [REDACTED] Montana. [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that his initials are [REDACTED] Mr. X and Mr. Y [REDACTED] [REDACTED] said Mr. X has enough money so that he would not have to spend any of the ransom money he received from the hijacking.
Mr. X is a pilot and had worked out of [REDACTED] sometime in 1968. If this is true, he would have had to
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[partially illegible handwritten text] [guess: 164-81-4553]
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DB Cooper-10965 164-81-4553
BT #164-26 SE #164-81 JHS/cjs/mhs Page 2
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work for either [REDACTED] or JOHNSON FLYING SERV- ICE, since they are the [REDACTED] Mr. X is parachute qualified from his service in the Army; he is also a qualified navigator because of his flight exper- ience. According to [REDACTED] Mr. X spent some time during his youth working at a location somewhere along the flight path that was taken by the hijacked airplane.
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[REDACTED] indicated that his other friend, Mr. Y, is involved in organized crime in Minneapolis and Mr. Y and [REDACTED] were going to buy one of the [REDACTED]
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Since his most recent discussion with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] he has determined that [REDACTED] has no connection with this case. [REDACTED] name just came to mind after he had talked with [REDACTED] about her conversations with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] would not even come close to the description of D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] is younger, shorter, has reddish-brown hair, weighs less than 160 pounds, and could not be over 5'9" tall, has a light complexion, and as previously stated, [REDACTED] name came to mind because he had been [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He had indicated to [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] had be- come incommunicado for the last six or seven months; however, he has determined that this is not true.
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DB Cooper-10966
Serials: BT 164-26, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4553