Interview of tipster re Kenneth Peter Christiansen as Cooper suspect

FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 05/04/2004

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[REDACTED] date of birth [REDACTED] Social Security Number [REDACTED] Morris, Minnesota, [REDACTED] telephone number [REDACTED] was interviewed at a city park in Morris about [REDACTED] Kenneth Christiansen, and D. B. Cooper. [REDACTED] was a retired [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and retired in [REDACTED] After being apprised of the identity of the interviewing Agent and the nature of the interview, [REDACTED] provided the following information:

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He had written a few letters to the F.B.I. office in Seattle, Washington, dating back to about 2000. He had addressed the letters to Agent [REDACTED] because he had learned at some point that Agent [REDACTED] was in charge of the D.B. Cooper case. The letters basically addressed his suspicion that [REDACTED] Kenneth, may have been D. B. Cooper.

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He had used the pseudonym [REDACTED] in the letters to disguse his true identity and rented a post office box in Hopkins, Minnesota, to receive any return correspondence from the F.B.I. He had kept his actions and suspicions from his wife and children because he had mentioned his suspicions to them previously and they thought it was a silly notion. He did not want to go through that again.

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[REDACTED] Kenneth Peter Christiansen, date of birth October 17, 1926, Social Security Number 473-30-3599. Kenneth died of colon cancer in July, 1995. The suspicions about Kenneth started when he, [REDACTED] were visiting Kenneth [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] Kenneth did not elaborate more and the statement struck him as curious.

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Sometime later, he saw one of those television shows about unsolved crimes and the subject was D.B. Cooper. There seemed to be several similarities between Cooper and [REDACTED] and Kenneth had a lot of qualities which could have made it possible for him to commit the crime. Kenneth lived in the area,

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Investigation on 4/30/04 at Morris, Minnesota

File # SE 164A-81-[REDACTED] Date dictated 5/4/04

by SA [REDACTED] skj

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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-21825

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worked for Northwest Airlines, knew how to parachute, and matched the physical description of Cooper. He was about 5'10", weighed about 170 pounds, and would have been about 45 years old in 1971. Kenneth was also a smoker and liked to drink. Despite the similarities, he had no proof and knew of no reason why [REDACTED] would have hijacked a plane.

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Kenneth was a flight attendant for Northwest Airlines for many years. He started in the 1960's and retired from that job in the early 1990's due to health problems. He was based out of Seattle and lived in many small towns in Washington over the years. At the time of his death, Kenneth lived in a house in Bonnie Lake, Washington. He purchased the house around the same time as the hijacking. Kenneth also knew how to parachute and learned how to do that in the military during World War II.

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Kenneth was never married, had no children, and lived alone. Kenneth had a couple of good friends who cared for him while he was dying. One of the friends was [REDACTED] Tacoma, Washington. He could not recall the name of the other person. Kenneth had met [REDACTED] at a bar when [REDACTED] was down and out on his luck. Kenneth took him under his wing and helped get him straightened out. [REDACTED] is now married and has children.

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Kenneth was not very close with [REDACTED] and they communicated with each other infrequently. Kenneth must have been [REDACTED] There was about [REDACTED] There were [REDACTED]

He and [REDACTED] after his death, but [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] provided a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] from [REDACTED] a document which depicts [REDACTED] and a cryptic note that [REDACTED] Those documents are attached and made a part hereto.

[REDACTED] provided no further information.

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DB Cooper-21826