Telephonic interview of anonymous Mississippi caller re planned 727 hijacking
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Re anonymous telephonic informant from Mississippi with hijacking details
Interviewed 30 October 1975Transcribed 3 November 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-72:246-249 Document: FD-302 re anonymous telephonic informant from Mississippi with hijacking details Id: Cooper-Part-72:246-249 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A246-249 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. 246–249 (DB Cooper-31133–31136), FD-302 interview, interviewed 30 Oct 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-72%3A246-249
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 11/3/75
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[REDACTED], Mississippi, telephonically advised that he desired to furnish information regarding the person known as D. B. COOPER who hijacked a Northwestern Airlines Boeing 727 in November, 1971. At the outset of the telephone conversation [REDACTED] advised he had a two-fold purpose for furnishing the information. The first reason was that he was desirous of being considered for any reward that was available in the event he could furnish the identity of D. B. COOPER and second, he felt a sense of loyalty to FBI Director CLARENCE KELLY. For these reasons he was telephonically furnishing the information to Agents of the Kansas City Division rather than contacting the local office of the FBI in Mississippi. Additionally, [REDACTED] advised that he wished to keep his name anonymous and did not desire any publicity for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in connection with information furnished by him. He then advised as follows:
During 1966, [REDACTED] at the [REDACTED] Louisiana. He was assigned [REDACTED] and for approximately a three month period during the fall of [REDACTED] he was responsible for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] a white male, approximately [REDACTED]. Through his association with [REDACTED] was taken into [REDACTED] confidence regarding the planning of a hijacking of a Boeing 727 jetliner. According to [REDACTED] related the following plan:
[REDACTED] would hijack a Boeing 727 somewhere between Spokane, Washington, and Boise, Idaho, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] on board with him. He would thereafter demand $200,000 in small bills and two parachutes, and attempt to parachute from the airplane into a forested area where an accomplice would be waiting with [REDACTED]
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Interviewed on 10/30/75 at Kansas City, Missouri File # SE 164-91-[REDACTED] KC [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] 10/31/75 by Date dictated
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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DB Cooper-31133
KC 164-90
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and other items necessary for at least two weeks survival in the woods. The hijacking would take place at night preferably during foul weather and [REDACTED] planned to make a test run on the same flight one week before the actual hijacking. [REDACTED] intended to use an [REDACTED] and indicated that [REDACTED] at that time was [REDACTED], Washington. If [REDACTED] and the [REDACTED] succeeded in their plan they would thereafter travel to Mexico City or Acapulco, Mexico, for the purpose of [REDACTED].
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[REDACTED] could not or would not furnish [REDACTED] real name, however, he did furnish some information that might help in ascertaining [REDACTED] identity. He advised that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Shreveport, Louisiana, and that while [REDACTED] had become the
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[REDACTED] had worked in several parts of the country including the Pacific Northwest where he worked [REDACTED] for Morrison Knudson Construction Company at a job site at Boise, Idaho. Also at one point in his life [REDACTED] had been employed [REDACTED] in the Pacific Northwest. After being drafted into the U. S. Army [REDACTED] later volunteered for Airborne Training and was subsequently assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, [REDACTED]. During [REDACTED], elements of the 101st Airborne Division were ordered [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Mississippi, and after approximately [REDACTED] deserted and attempted to join up with [REDACTED] someplace in Texas.
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[REDACTED] furnished the following physical description regarding [REDACTED]:
Race Sex Age Height Weight Hair Tattoos
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2
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DB Cooper-31134
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b6 b7C b7D
KF 134-90
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[REDACTED]
Possible Ethnic background Possible birthplace [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] advised in December, 1971, he went to Mexico City [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. He did not have a conversation with [REDACTED] but he did speak [REDACTED] [REDACTED] claimed to be from the State of Washington and according to [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] advised that he has not furnished this information to any law enforcement agency prior to this time because, [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. He was advised that his name would not be divulged outside the FBI and in the event any reward was offered [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] furnished the following background information regarding himself:
Race White Sex Male Name [REDACTED] Alias used [REDACTED] Date of birth [REDACTED] Place of birth [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
Address [REDACTED]
Next of kin [REDACTED]
Occupation [REDACTED]
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b6 b7C b7D
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DB Cooper-31135
KC 164-80
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Telephone # [REDACTED]
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b6 b7C b7D
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4
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DB Cooper-31136