Interview of Northwest Airlines employee re Toledo contacts and 727 crew conversations
Interviewed 27 September 1977Dictated 28 September 1977Transcribed 6 October 1977
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 40 pp. 308–309 (DB Cooper-16110–16111), FD-302 interview, interviewed 27 Sep 1977, serial SE 164-81-7065 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-40%3A308-309
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 10/6/77
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[REDACTED] NORTHWEST AIRLINES, was interviewed at his residence.
[REDACTED] advised that he had been to Toledo, Ohio, on the following dates: January 3-5, 1977; February 14-15, 1977; March 28-April 1, 1977; and May 26-27, 1977. He stated that during one of those times while at Toledo, Ohio, he received a telephone call from [REDACTED] con- cerning the hijacking of a NORTHWEST AIRLINES airplane. [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] inferred to him that NORTH- WEST AIRLINES had approved of his inquiries, and as a matter of fact [REDACTED] had an appointment to see [REDACTED] of NORTHWEST AIRLINES the next day and that NORTH- WEST AIRLINES was anxious to cooperate with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] asked him a number of ques- tions, the specific ones not recalled at this moment. He stated he answered some questions for [REDACTED] and he did not think that he told him anything which was of a confi- dential nature. [REDACTED] stated that he was guarded in his conversation with [REDACTED] informed him that the crew of the airplane had talked to him and they were cooperating. [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] gave him the impression that he was a [REDACTED] and was working with some [REDACTED] story of the NORTHWEST hijacking.
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[REDACTED] stated that on July 10, 1977, he directed a letter to [REDACTED] UNITED PRODUCTIONS, LIMITED, 3921 Deervale Drive, Sherman Oaks, California 91403, telling [REDACTED] that he could not participate in any way in the project, and he further requested that [REDACTED] not use any of the information which he had given on the telephone in connection with his [REDACTED] name. [REDACTED] made available a re- productive copy of the letter he directed to [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] stated that he kept sequencial notes as to times during the period of the hijacking which
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Interviewed on 9/27/77 at [REDACTED], Montana File # BT #164-26 SE #164-81 by [guess: M]/SA [REDACTED] /ddp Date dictated 9/28/77
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164-81-7065 DB Cooper-16110 7685(A)
BT #164-26 SE #164-81
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consisted of talking to the crew of the airplane and recalls one incidence of telling the crew that the Boeing 727 air- plane could not take off with the rear entrance steps down. He stated that he does not recall if all the conversation which he had with the crew was tape recorded; however, if there were any tapes, they would have been obtained by the FBI and any records that he may have kept as a result of his talking to the crew would be in the files of NORTHWEST AIRLINES at Minneapolis in the custody of [REDACTED] telephone [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] was informed that [REDACTED] is in no way connected with the FBI and that the FBI was not cooperating with his efforts to produce a movie concerning this matter.
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DB Cooper-16111
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b6 b7C
b6 b7C
Serials: SE 164-81-7065