Interview re aircraft advertisement and D.B. Cooper information, New York
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Interview of New York auto shop owner theorizing a pilot acquaintance was Cooper
Interviewed 10 June 1977Dictated 13 June 1977Transcribed 13 June 1977
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-72:227-228 Document: FD-302 interview of New York auto shop owner theorizing a pilot acquaintance was Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-72:227-228 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A227-228 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 72 pp. 227–228 (DB Cooper-31108–31109), FD-302 interview, interviewed 10 Jun 1977 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A227-228
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 6/13/77
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[REDACTED] was interviewed in his auto repair and reconstruction shop, [REDACTED] New York (NY).
[REDACTED] advised that he has been involved in the reconstruction and mechanical repair work on imported cars, at this location, [REDACTED]. In addition, he advised that, [REDACTED]
Concerning [REDACTED] furnished the following information:
In the aviation periodical "Trade-A-Plane", in either January, 1971 or February, 1971, he saw an advertise- ment for aircraft parts, which advertisement [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. This advertisement indicated that [REDACTED] had aircraft parts for a [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] answered this advertisement, and [REDACTED] sent him a list of parts available, and after picking out the parts he wanted, [REDACTED] [REDACTED], and mailed the whole thing [REDACTED], California, [REDACTED], (telephone number [REDACTED]).
[REDACTED] never received any aircraft parts from [REDACTED] started to try to locate [REDACTED] by calling him on the telephone and directing letters to the above address. [REDACTED] was unsuccessful in making any contact with [REDACTED] and to this day, he has never received neither the aircraft parts, nor the return of his [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] subsequently complained to the postal inspectors regarding this incident, in October, 1972, and forwarded all information to [REDACTED], Sacramento, California, their file number [REDACTED] [REDACTED] sent all information and [REDACTED]
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Interviewed on 6/10/77 at [REDACTED], New York File # NY 164-627
by SA [REDACTED] Date dictated 6/13/77
DB Cooper-31108
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NY 164-627
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[REDACTED] in Sacramento, California, and as far as he knows, [REDACTED] has never been located, and [REDACTED] mentioned in one communication that [REDACTED]
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On the basis of this, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] an individual, known as D. B. COOPER, who disappeared over the Nevada area, on Thanksgiving Day, 1971, with $200,000.
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[REDACTED] advised he has never met this [REDACTED], and his only information concerning D. B. COOPER is what he obtained from reading the newspaper accounts of COOPER's disappearance from the 727 over Nevada in 1971.
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[REDACTED] stated his belief in the similarities between [REDACTED] and D. B. COOPER were that they both had similar skills in aviation, as [REDACTED] was an agricultural pilot, so, therefore, would be familiar with parachutes, terrain, and survival techniques. He further felt that both [REDACTED] and D. B. COOPER were capable of non-violent type crimes, and he would describe both of their operations in the criminal field as semi-theatrical. [REDACTED] advised he felt [REDACTED] was acquainted with the area in and around the states of Oregon, California and Nevada, and he felt this, since [REDACTED] very well might have been engaged in agricultural flying in that area. He stated, to his knowledge, [REDACTED] flies an AT-6 aircraft, which [REDACTED] described as a sophisticated-type airplane.
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[REDACTED] was unable to supply anyother reasons for his belief that there was a possibility that [REDACTED] might be identical with the individual known as D. B. COOPER, but pointed out that this was strictly a theory, and he had nothing further to base this on, other than what was set forth above.
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DB Cooper-31109
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b6 b7C b7D
Serials: NY 164-627