Interview of Cooper suspect, 8/23/84 (duplicate first page)
Interviewed 23 August 1984Dictated 25 August 1984Transcribed 2 September 1984
Part of: Interview of Cooper suspect re military, employment and personal history
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Id: Cooper-Part-47:242-242
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-47:242-242 Document: FD-302 interview of Cooper suspect, 8/23/84 (duplicate first page) Id: Cooper-Part-47:242-242 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A242-242 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 p. 242 (DB Cooper-19565), FD-302 interview, interviewed 23 Aug 1984, serial SE 164-81-8177 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A242-242
FD-302 (REV. 3-8-77)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 9/2/84
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[REDACTED] temporarily residing at the [REDACTED] Toomsuba, Mississippi, was contacted at his place of residence by Special Agents (SAs) [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] of the Meridian Resident Agency (RA) of the FBI. [REDACTED] was made aware of the identities of the interviewing Agents, and of the purpose of the interview, after which he voluntarily provided the following informa- tion:
[REDACTED] was born [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] grew up on the estate of [REDACTED] estate was located in the State of Delaware, and [REDACTED] was employed as a [REDACTED] with the [REDACTED] worked on the [REDACTED] estate and attended primary education at the EDDYSTONE HIGH SCHOOL until the eighth grade. [REDACTED] has read extensively, and has taken a number of other training courses outside of his formal education in order to supplement his knowledge.
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In [REDACTED] left the [REDACTED] estate and enlisted into the United States Marine Corps, where he served as a rifleman in an infantry platoon. [REDACTED] served throughout the United States and in Korea during the Korean conflict, and was discharged in [REDACTED]
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While in the U. S. Marine Corps, [REDACTED] was treated in a military hospital [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was awarded a Purple Heart after an individual of the military service approached him while he was in the hospital and asked him if he had been injured. [REDACTED] indicated that he had gotten scratched up in his activities with the military, and as such, he was eventually awarded a Purple Heart. [REDACTED] stated that the United States Government, upon further investigation, subsequently asked that the medal be returned, but [REDACTED] was unable to do so in that he no longer had it in his possession.
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While in the Marine Corps, [REDACTED] went into [REDACTED] [REDACTED] status, which was later reflected on his
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Investigation on 8/23/84 at Toomsuba, Mississippi File # JN 164A-181 [REDACTED] /DL SA [REDACTED] by SA [REDACTED] KF/dwd Date dictated 8/25/84
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DB Cooper-19565
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SEARCHED INDEXED [SERIALIZED] FILED 8/25/84
164A-81-8177
[stamp] [guess: OCT] 4 1984
Serials: JN 164-181, SE 164-81-8177