Springfield investigative insert re Paducah, Kentucky conversation about suspect
Document date 29 March 1977
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Id: Cooper-Part-39:339-340
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-39:339-340 Document: Springfield investigative insert re Paducah, Kentucky conversation about suspect Id: Cooper-Part-39:339-340 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A339-340 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 39 pp. 339–340 (DB Cooper-15527–15528), Report, dated 29 Mar 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-39%3A339-340
SI 164-31 FWH/sjs .1
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The following investigation was conducted by Special Agent [REDACTED] Illinois:
On March 28, 1977, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] home phone [REDACTED] advised that he recalled engaging in general conversation with a person known only to him as [REDACTED] when appearing for [REDACTED] in the latter part of December, 1976, at the West Kentucky Roofing Company in Paducah, Kentucky. The individual whom he mentioned to [REDACTED] as being capable of accomplishing a sky-jacking such as in this matter was [REDACTED] [REDACTED] indicated that [REDACTED] was a retired United States Army sergeant and had served many years in [REDACTED] in the United States Army, and was a qualified paratrooper. [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] with the Pope County Sheriff's Office in [REDACTED]
On March 29, 1977, [REDACTED] with the Pope County Sheriff's Office, [REDACTED] home phone [REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] stated that he [REDACTED] was [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and only saw [REDACTED] in 1961, in 1966, in 1974, and again in November, 1976, when [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Canada.
[REDACTED] is a white male, born on or about [REDACTED] 5'7"-8", 170 pounds, stocky build, medium dark brown hair presently with some gray in it, medium complexion, a much larger than average nose, smokes cigarettes, previous brand used unknown but presently rolls his own using Prince Albert tobacco.
[REDACTED] is a retired, higher-ranking sergeant of the United States Army, having spent a considerable portion of his military service serving [REDACTED] and he is an accomplished paratrooper. He retired from the military [REDACTED] and purchased [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Wyoming, where he resided until 1974 when he [REDACTED] Canada, which is located [REDACTED] the southern beginning of the Alaskan Highway. His home phone is [REDACTED] had no photographs [REDACTED] of his father since any he had had were destroyed when hi[s] [REDACTED] 1977
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[illegible stamps] FBI--SOAILE
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DB Cooper-15527
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b6 b7c b6 b7c b6 b7c b6 b7c b6 b7c b6 b7c b6 b7c
SI 164-31 2
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[REDACTED] could not suggest anyone who would have a recent photograph of [REDACTED] and he did not himself have, nor did he know of anyone else that would have, any pertinent identifying data regarding [REDACTED] military service record, or other military service data.
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[REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] is not living extravagantly, and "works his rear off" from dawn to dusk just to survive in the north woods of Canada.
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DB Cooper-15528
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b6 b7C b6 b7C
Serials: SI 164-31