Interview re man met at Raphaels bar in Mexico during Christmas holidays
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Interview of Freeport, Texas source re man met in Mexico claiming to be hijacker
Interviewed 21 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-56:136-137 Document: FD-302 interview of Freeport, Texas source re man met in Mexico claiming to be hijacker Id: Cooper-Part-56:136-137 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-56%3A136-137 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 56 pp. 136–137 (DB Cooper-23526–23527), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Jan 1972, serial LA 164-497-303A (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-56%3A136-137
FD-302 (Rev. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 1/25/72
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[REDACTED] Freeport, Texas, telephone number [REDACTED] supplied the following information:
During the Christmas holidays [REDACTED] were in [REDACTED] Mexico, with his family friends named [REDACTED]
While in this town in Mexico on the day before Christmas they were at a bar called Raphaels and had occasion to meet a man named [REDACTED] claimed to have been employed by [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] later learned from another individual that [REDACTED] had been claiming that he was a sky diver and was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient Airliner in Oregon and had parachuted out.
[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] seemed to be well known to the [REDACTED] of the Raphaels bar. [REDACTED] known as [REDACTED] is believed to be an American.
[REDACTED] were staying on a large [REDACTED] [REDACTED] which [REDACTED] believes is registered out of San Diego, California.
[REDACTED] had been telling everyone that he would be in [REDACTED] for about a week but he suddenly dis- appeared on Christmas day.
[REDACTED] was shown an artist conception drawing of the individual who actually hijacked the above mentioned airliner and he stated that this drawing vaguely resembled
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Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Freeport, Texas
SA [REDACTED] sac by ___
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164-497-303/A [stamp text partially illegible]
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DB Cooper-23526
HO 164-118 SE 164-81
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[REDACTED] but that he could not positively say that it looked exactly like him.
[REDACTED] advised further that he recalls [REDACTED] mentioning the fact that he was planning on [REDACTED] Mexico to spend the New Years' holiday there. [REDACTED] also recalls that [REDACTED] was spending large sums of money and was also tipping all of the waiters very high.
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-23527
Serials: HO 164-118, LA 164-497-303A, SE 164-81