Interview of New York Times employee re receipt of anonymous letter
This copy: Part 73 p. 275Also filed at Part 60 p. 70 (primary) · Part 72 p. 97
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Interview of New York Times employee re handling of handwritten letter
Dictated 13 October 1972Transcribed 18 October 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-73:275-275 Document: FD-302 interview of New York Times employee re handling of handwritten letter Id: Cooper-Part-73:275-275 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-73%3A275-275 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 73 p. 275 (DB Cooper-31628), FD-302 interview, dictated 13 Oct 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-73%3A275-275
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription: 10/18/72
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[redacted], New York Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York, New York, advised that the hand- written letter from [redacted] was received over the weekend of September 23, 1972. He stated that the letter was passed from Department to Department for about two weeks and was handled by a number of clerks and editors before he received it approximately ten days ago. He declined to estimate the number of people who handled the letter adding that it would be impossible to determine the number or identities of those people.
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[redacted] continued that [redacted] no present plans for publica- tion of the letter. He advised that a photocopy of the letter was forwarded [redacted] in the San Diego, California, area. He named [redacted] [redacted] California, telephone [redacted] explained that [redacted] determined from the letter's postmark that the letter had been mailed within a one hundred mile radius of San Diego but outside San Diego's city limits. He said [redacted] had requested the local Bureau of Vital Statistics to furnish a list of all deaths on [redacted] but [redacted] discovered such records are not filed by date. He related that to his knowledge no one else has made any attempt to determine the letter's accuracy or authenticity.
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FBI — SEATTLE
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Interviewed on 10/17/72 at New York, New York File # NY 164-627
by SA [redacted] D. HOG[illegible]3 [redacted] Date dictated 10/13/72
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.
DB Cooper-31628
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Serials: NY 164-627
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