FBI insert re interview of Spencer, Iowa source about suspect Behrend
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Id: Cooper-Part-47:109-110
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-47:109-110 Document: FBI insert re interview of Spencer, Iowa source about suspect Behrend Id: Cooper-Part-47:109-110 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A109-110 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 47 pp. 109–110 (DB Cooper-19407–19408), Report, serial 104-81-8225 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A109-110
OM 164A-325 SE 164-81 RDG:klc 1
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The following investigation was conducted by Special Agent [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] was interviewed at the business office of [REDACTED] Spencer, Iowa. [REDACTED] provided the following information.
[REDACTED] [REDACTED] suspicion that [REDACTED] may have been involved in an aircraft hijacking was based on [REDACTED] resemblance to a picture shown on television and [REDACTED] belief that [REDACTED] has had no visible means of support for several years.
[REDACTED] described Behrend as follows:
Height 6' Build Very thin Hair Light brown, fairly straight, sparse Features Sharp-faced Age [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] has not seen [REDACTED] for over twenty years. His belief that [REDACTED] is now [REDACTED] years old is based on [REDACTED] having given his age as [REDACTED] on an insurance form dated [REDACTED]
In the early [REDACTED] [REDACTED] of the Clay County National Bank, Spencer, Iowa. [REDACTED] made a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] has tracked [REDACTED] activities ever since then in an attempt to [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] was dismissed from the Clay County National Bank. In [REDACTED] he moved to California and went to work for a bank. It was probably the Security National Bank, Los Angeles, California, (213/620-8581). [REDACTED] disappeared from that bank in the early 1970s under what [REDACTED] believes to be unfavorable circumstances.
[REDACTED] next located [REDACTED] in the late 1970s or in 1980. [REDACTED] was residing in Bellevue, Washington. When [REDACTED] telephoned him, [REDACTED] advised he was out of work. [REDACTED] has had no further contact with him.
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SEARCHED [INDEXED] SERIALIZED [FILED] APR 11 1983
SEATTLE
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104A-81-8225 DB Cooper-19407
OM 164-325 SE 164-81 RDG:klc 2
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When shown a composite picture of the suspected aircraft hijacker in Bureau file 164-2111, [REDACTED] stated that [REDACTED] better resembled the picture shown on television. [REDACTED] recalled [REDACTED] nose as thinner and sharper and his eyes as more piercing. [REDACTED] added that the picture displayed did not look that much like [REDACTED] and that it would not, on its own, make him think of [REDACTED]
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Relatives of [REDACTED] include his [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Moorehead, Minnesota, his [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Orange City, Iowa, and [REDACTED] Bellflower, California, [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-19408
Serials: 104-81-8225, 164-2111, 164-325, OM 164-325, SE 164-81