Interview re alibi placing subject at White Stag Lodge, Tryon, NC during Thanksgiving week 1971

Interviewed 26 November 1976Dictated 26 November 1976Transcribed 30 November 1976

Part 38pages 377–3793 pagesDB Cooper-15074, DB Cooper-15076, DB Cooper-19075

Also filed at: Part 68 pp. 148–150

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Document: FD-302 interview re alibi placing subject at White Stag Lodge, Tryon, NC during Thanksgiving week 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 38 pp. 377–379 (DB Cooper-15074, DB Cooper-15076, DB Cooper-19075), FD-302 interview, interviewed 26 Nov 1976, serial SD 164-91-7216 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-38%3A377-379

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

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription November 30, 1976

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[REDACTED] North b6 Carolina, [REDACTED] b7C was interviewed at her place of employment, Bruards Incorporated, Highway 70 A, Conover, North Carolina. She furnished the following information:

She stated that she had met [REDACTED] b6 also known as [REDACTED] in October, 1971, and believes b7C the exact date of October 10 of that year. This was in South Carolina and she believes it was about the time that [REDACTED] She began [REDACTED] and stated on Thanksgiving of 1971, she [REDACTED] were at the White Stag Lodge at Tryon, North Carolina.

Her recollection is that [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] before Thanksgiving and that her and b7C [REDACTED] then went to the White Stag Lodge either on that Tuesday or on Wednesday which would be November 24, 1971. She says that she definitely remembers that [REDACTED] was not out of her sight for more than a few minutes during this entire week and upon further reflection, recalls that [REDACTED]

She recalls that she prepared with the assistance b6 [REDACTED] a very sumptuous dinner for Thanksgiving, this b7C preparation being mostly done the day before Thanksgiving and that another couple, [REDACTED] from Spartanburg, South Carolina, where they now reside in [REDACTED] came up to the White Stag Lodge and had Thanksgiving dinner with her [REDACTED] She recalls that her [REDACTED] stayed at the Lodge for some time [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and that she actually [REDACTED] and she believes [REDACTED] took place in York, South Carolina. She has not, of this time, [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] resides [REDACTED] b6 South Carolina, with a residence telephone of [REDACTED] b7C and employed with an employment telephone of [REDACTED]

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Interviewed on 11/26/76 at [REDACTED] N. C. File # 164-91-7216 GE-164-101 b6 by SA [REDACTED] Date dictated 11/26/76 b7C

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DB Cooper-15074

CE 164-101 2

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[REDACTED] are very good friends and often talk to each other by telephone and most of the information concerning [REDACTED] has been furnished to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This concerns [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] recalls that she has received information [REDACTED] out west and she believes it was in Colorado [REDACTED] state of Washington. This was subsequent to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] occurred in October [REDACTED] She has had no contact with him since that time and has no idea as to his whereabouts.

[REDACTED] North Carolina, and she believes it is [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and it would be a possibility that [REDACTED] might either visit in that area or live in that area.

[REDACTED] recollection was refreshed by the [REDACTED] and she recalled that [REDACTED] had come over [REDACTED] in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She also recalls that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and that it was this week, which was Thanksgiving week, in 1971, when she [REDACTED] went to the White Stag Lodge in Tryon, North Carolina.

[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] could not have been in the state of Washington or anywhere else on November 24 or November 25, 1971, as he was with her this entire time.

She stated that [REDACTED] in Spartanburg, South Carolina, might also remember this Thanksgiving dinner quite well as [REDACTED] was

[REDACTED] She stated another former close friend [REDACTED] an Agent of the ATF Station in Greenville, South Carolina. As far as she knows, [REDACTED] is still assigned to that station.

[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] was inclined to brag about things and lie in order to impress his listeners and she described him as a con-man type person

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DB Cooper-19075

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b6 b7C

CE 164-101 3

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and that he certainly had conned [REDACTED] and then taking about everything she had from her. She said she was sorry that it appeared that he was not involved in the matter under investigation.

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-15076

Serials: CE 164-101, SD 164-91-7216