Interview of Port Orchard woman employed by the Bremerton Sun re D.B. Cooper ad
Interviewed 23 April 1972Dictated 27 April 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-59:236-240 Document: FD-302 interview of Port Orchard woman employed by the Bremerton Sun re D.B. Cooper ad Id: Cooper-Part-59:236-240 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A236-240 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 59 pp. 236–240 (DB Cooper-24380–24384), FD-302 interview, interviewed 23 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-59%3A236-240
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1 5/2/72
Date of transcription___________
[REDACTED] Port Orchard, Washington, who is employed as a [REDACTED] with the Bremerton Sun at Bremerton, Washington, was inter- viewed at her residence by SA [REDACTED] and SA [REDACTED] [REDACTED] who identified themselves as Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[REDACTED] stated she answered an ad that appeared in the Bremerton Sun late in December, 1971, or early January, 1972, and as a result talked to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] According to [REDACTED] stated he was running this ad in connection with a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and that he had received a lot of crank calls.
However, he stated that the ad, which read, "D. B. COOPER [REDACTED] [REDACTED] " was also responsible for him receiving one call that he said was mysterious sounding, in that the person identi- fying himself as D. B. COOPER, [REDACTED] said he recognized this voice as someone he knew and had dealt with before. [REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] was kind of a hoax from what he told her.
Then she said time went on and she talked to [REDACTED] some more, and he stated he was using his mys- terious call story as a basis to [REDACTED] She stated she then [REDACTED] account to her but did not [REDACTED] because she still thought there might be something to it in relationship to the one tele- phone call which he said sounded mysterious.
She stated she then called [REDACTED] sometime in January or the middle of February, following up his [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She also advised she talked to her [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and that they decided they wanted to find out some background information on [REDACTED]
She advised [REDACTED] told them that he had been a [REDACTED] for Bremerton, which was determined not true, as he had been proposed for the job, but since he did not
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have the qualification, he never worked as the [REDACTED]
She stated she also found out [REDACTED] is the son of [REDACTED] who does real estate promoting in the Bremerton area.
She advised [REDACTED] told her he had talked to the hijacker on the telephone and had recognized his voice, and that he had had additional contacts with this man and had known him previously. According to [REDACTED] said he was working on the supposition that the hijacker was an ex-Boeing executive and had an amateur or Army parachute experience, had also inside knowledge of how certain air- craft worked.
[REDACTED] further stated she searched the area as to the possibility as to whom this person would be and did a neighborhood investigation of the Holly area near Seabeck, Washington, and talked to the [REDACTED] at Holly View Homes and deducted that [REDACTED] was possibly identical to the hijacker. She stated [REDACTED] has a summer home in Holly View and lives in the vicinity of Renton, Washington, which is close to Seattle, and that his telephone number is in the Seattle telephone directory.
She further stated she interviewed [REDACTED] under the pretext of interviewing unemployed Boeing execu- tives. She stated [REDACTED] said he had been fired by the Boeing Company and then rehired back in February, 1972, in his old job. She stated [REDACTED] had a pretentious home and also has three sons and one of the members of his family was employed by Northwest Airlines Company.
She further stated one son, [REDACTED] years of age, and the other two names unknown, were both in their 20's and all three of them were married.
She further related [REDACTED] is a white male, [REDACTED] years of age, 5'11" tall, 175 lbs, with gray hair cut short but with long sideburns. She also advised that [REDACTED] appeared to have an agile gait. She also said he had just had a heart attack and had recovered. [REDACTED] stated she felt the hijacker might be [REDACTED] as he is very intelligent and has very nice home and wife.
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[REDACTED] also stated [REDACTED] told her he had seen some $20 bills and inferred these were bills from the hijacking. He also told her a [REDACTED] came to the Seattle area to [REDACTED] hijacker, and that he drove the [REDACTED] around and named [REDACTED] [REDACTED] as one of [REDACTED]
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She stated [REDACTED] had told her the [REDACTED] was blindfolded, when he drove them around. She also advised that [REDACTED] told her he originally was going to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in California, and that [REDACTED] was going to be the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and he was going to do the [REDACTED] on the hijacker, which was to be in the [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] further stated she then telephone [REDACTED] in Los Angeles, California, on approximately March 18, 1972, on a Saturday and asked [REDACTED] if he knew [REDACTED] and whether or not he, [REDACTED] had made a trip to the Seattle area in connection with the hijacking. [REDACTED] denied this and said he never heard about [REDACTED] and hung up.
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[REDACTED] stated that 15 minutes later, [REDACTED] telephoned her at the Bremerton Sun and said on thinking it over, he did receive a call one night at around midnight, based on a wild supposition in regard to D. B. COOPER. She stated [REDACTED] said it was such a wild yarn, he rolled over and went back to sleep.
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[REDACTED] said according to [REDACTED] he had not identified himself in any correspondence to [REDACTED] in Los Angeles. [REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] advised her the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] had been blindfolded, and he had done a lot of the driving of the [REDACTED] around the Seattle area for the purpose of [REDACTED] the hijacker. She said according to [REDACTED] the hijacker was supposed to give himself up, after [REDACTED] and then the hijacker was to obtain amnesty.
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[REDACTED] also stated she had seen an ad in the Seattle Times on about December 23, 1971, which said, "D. B. COOPER - [REDACTED] - Will keep secret," followed by a telephone number, which proved to
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be [REDACTED] telephone number, which indicated to b6 her [REDACTED] was at least involved in this thing in some b7C way.
[REDACTED] stated that she and the [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] of the Bremerton Sun, [REDACTED] talked b7C to [REDACTED] at the VIP Restaurant in Bremerton on Kit- sap Way in February or March, 1972, in regard to [REDACTED] of the hijacker.
She stated this was the occasion in which [REDACTED] b6 talked about the [REDACTED] and about b7C the supposition of how he began the whole thing that an individual could have a DME distant measuring equipment on a person's car and also one on an airplane and coor- dinate them in such a way, that they would measure the distance on the ground where the hijacker jumped.
[REDACTED] said she later talked to [REDACTED] b6 concerning his [REDACTED] b7C [REDACTED] but did not talk to him any further on the hijacking.
[REDACTED] stated neither [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] and that she b7C had never met [REDACTED] or any of the alleged [REDACTED] or anyone else connected with [REDACTED]
She also stated that she was not personally aware of anyone being [REDACTED] in connection with b6 [REDACTED] by either the Bremerton Sun, [REDACTED] b7C or anyone else.
[REDACTED] stated she knew [REDACTED] has a siz- b6 able [REDACTED] which b7C is a [REDACTED] he and his father [REDACTED]
She also stated [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] of the Bremerton Sun, talked to [REDACTED] b7C in the newspaper office about the middle of March, 1972.
She stated that at that time, [REDACTED] b6 opinion, after he had talked to [REDACTED] and had also checked b7C with Sheriff ART MORKEN of Kitsap County, was that the [REDACTED] was a hoax. She stated that [REDACTED]
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based this on the fact that Sheriff ART MORKEN had said, that [REDACTED] is one of the biggest liars in the County, and that as a result of the previous lies, he had told [REDACTED] [REDACTED] he doubted [REDACTED] integrity and the [REDACTED]
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Serials: SE 164-81