Interview of walk-in at Sarasota Resident Agency re parachuting background
Interviewed 1 May 1975Transcribed 5 May 1975
Part of: Interview of volunteer at Sarasota RA re NORJAK, with background and physical description
Report a problem
Email this to [email protected]
Id: Cooper-Part-72:173-174
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-72:173-174 Document: FD-302 interview of walk-in at Sarasota Resident Agency re parachuting background Id: Cooper-Part-72:173-174 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A173-174 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 72 pp. 173–174 (DB Cooper-31033–31034), FD-302 interview, interviewed 1 May 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A173-174
FD 302 (Rev. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 5/5/75
---
[REDACTED] Sarasota, Florida, telephone number [REDACTED] [REDACTED] voluntarily appeared at the Sarasota Resident Agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sarasota, Florida, and furnished the following information:
[REDACTED] had resided at [REDACTED] Sarasota, up until three weeks ago when he moved into his newly purchased residence noted above. He has been unemployed since [REDACTED] by the Internal Revenue Service, Federal Building, Sarasota.
[REDACTED] who was born [REDACTED] [REDACTED] had graduated from [REDACTED] Oak Park, Illinois, during [REDACTED] From [REDACTED] he had served in the United States Army. During the winter quarter of [REDACTED] he had enrolled at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and had attended that school until he graduated during December, [REDACTED]. During [REDACTED] he joined the Seattle Police Department with whom he had served until [REDACTED] at which time he was called back to active duty with the United States Army, Military Police Corps. He had served on active duty until [REDACTED] at which time he returned to the Seattle Police Department. During [REDACTED] he had taken a leave of absence from the Seattle Police Department for [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] and he had returned to the Seattle Police Department. He had continued his employment with the Seattle Police Department until March, [REDACTED] when he had resigned and entered on active duty in the United States Army as a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He had served with the United States Army until he was released to inactive duty as a reserve officer during June, [REDACTED] He had been a [REDACTED] at the time of his release to
---
Interviewed on 5/1/75 [REDACTED] arasota, Fla.
SA [REDACTED] by [REDACTED]
File# TAMPA 164-110-4/3
SEARCHED ___INDEXED___ SERIALIZED MAY 15 1975 FBI — SEATTLE
---
Sub Q
---
DB Cooper-31033
TP 164-110
---
inactive duty. Subsequently, he served for one year as the [REDACTED] at the Candle General Hospital, having been employed by the United Security Agency at Savannah, Georgia. He had also sold life insurance for a short period of time prior to entering employment with the Internal Revenue Service at Sarasota, Florida.
Specifically, on or about November 24, 1971 [REDACTED] had been serving on active duty in the capacity of [REDACTED] Fort Stewart, Georgia. He had served in this capacity from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] when he was released to inactive duty status. He recalled that on Thanksgiving Day, 1971 he had been at Fort Stewart, noting that he had not visited [REDACTED] [REDACTED] His presence at Fort Stewart could be proven by the various daily reports which he would have signed in his capacity as [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He estimated that he probably signed 90 percent of the required papers of this organization, the [REDACTED] Fort Stewart, inasmuch as the [REDACTED] is normally only a figurehead. He recalled that the various documents associated with the daily operation of the [REDACTED] were only maintained one year, and then they were placed in dead storage at an unknown location. Specifically, he had not been in the northwest section of the United States, including Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington, on or about November 24, 1971.
[REDACTED] considered himself to be a skilled parachutist possessing [REDACTED] was a [REDACTED] and had made 55 parachute jumps, all in the military service. He had made his last parachute jump during [REDACTED] while on reserve status. From the early part of [REDACTED] until [REDACTED] he had been a member of the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] an active reserve group of the United States Army, which met either weekly or monthly at Fort Lawton, Washington. The group in Seattle consisted of approximately 16 members who were mostly older persons then in their late 30's or early 40's. The entire reserve group consisted of approximately 100 members from various cities on the West Coast. He has not flown too much over the Portland-Seattle area, noting that his last qualification jumps had been made in Georgia and Utah. The only time he has flown over Portland was approximately three times during [REDACTED] en route to and from training missions in the
---
b6 b7C
---
2
DB Cooper-31034
Serials: TP 164-110