LA insert re interviews of hospital co-worker and registered letter from Tacoma

Document date 6 January 1972

Part 56pages 116–1172 pagesDB Cooper-23506–23507

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Document: LA insert re interviews of hospital co-worker and registered letter from Tacoma
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 56 pp. 116–117 (DB Cooper-23506–23507), Report, dated 6 Jan 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-56%3A116-117

LA 164-497 CRS/gar 1

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On January 6, 1972, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California, was interviewed and advised as follows:

She had known [REDACTED] for about seven years having become acquainted with him through hospitals where [REDACTED] was employed as [REDACTED] and she as a [REDACTED] advised that about the last week of October or the first week of November 1971, [REDACTED] had taken her car during the night without her knowledge or permission. At about this same time [REDACTED] [REDACTED] from the apartment of [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She had previously allowed [REDACTED] to use her car to visit [REDACTED] while she was in the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in Los Angeles and he was also familiar with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] apartment and where the [REDACTED] had been kept. When her car disappeared and the [REDACTED] apartment [REDACTED] she knew [REDACTED] was the person responsible.

She filed a stolen report for the car with the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

About four days after her car was stolen she received a telephone call from [REDACTED] in Tacoma, Washington. [REDACTED] advised she had gotten the keys from [REDACTED] and was returning them to her by registered mail along with a [REDACTED] to cover parking expenses. [REDACTED] had advised her exactly where she and [REDACTED] had parked the car at International Airport in Los Angeles.

She continued that during this same call [REDACTED] had advised her that after she and [REDACTED] arrived in Tacoma they had contacted [REDACTED] estranged husband of [REDACTED] alleged that [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] had gotten into a fight resulting in the [REDACTED] had alleged that [REDACTED] was still [REDACTED] and military authorities had arranged for the release of [REDACTED]

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DB Cooper-23506

LA 164-497 CRS/gar 2

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A few days after the telephone call from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] she had received a registered letter from Tacoma, Washington, containing the keys to her car and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Following the instructions given her by [REDACTED] she had located and recovered her car at Los Angeles International Airport.

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[REDACTED] states she did not believe [REDACTED] [REDACTED] story about [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] having [REDACTED] shortly after their arrival in Washington as it is her belief that if [REDACTED] [REDACTED] authorities would not have released the [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] continued that [REDACTED] is a [REDACTED] in the United States Army stationed at [REDACTED] Washington. He allegedly lives on the base with another woman whom he alleges is his wife but to whom he is not married. He is soon eligible for retire- ment and [REDACTED] purpose in contacting him was to reclaim custody of a [REDACTED] who had been sent to live with their father during [REDACTED] incarceration in Los Angeles.

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She also believed that [REDACTED] was concerned with arranging to receive some financial benefits and support from [REDACTED] upon his impending retirement.

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[REDACTED] stated she knew [REDACTED] to be broke when she last saw him, stating he had not worked for months. He was a heavy smoker of Pall Mall cigarettes, was very personable intelligent speaking man who has claimed to have been in the United States Marine Corp and attended jump school in Michigan. When last seen she estimated his weight at about 200 pounds.

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On January 17, 1972, the Portland Division advised a photograph of [REDACTED] was displayed to witnesses and was not recognized as the hijacker.

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Serials: LA 164-497