Re attempted contact at Seattle Flag newspaper office, 222 Dexter Avenue North
This copy: Part 73 p. 286Also filed at Part 28 p. 95 (primary) · Part 72 p. 80
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Re contact with Seattle Flag newspaper office, May 5, 1972
Interviewed 5 May 1972Dictated 5 May 1972Transcribed 8 May 1972
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Id: Cooper-Part-73:286-286
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-73:286-286 Document: FD-302 re contact with Seattle Flag newspaper office, May 5, 1972 Id: Cooper-Part-73:286-286 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-73%3A286-286 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. 286 (DB Cooper-31640), FD-302 interview, interviewed 5 May 1972, serial SE 164-81-3937 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-73%3A286-286
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1 Date of transcription 5-8-72
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Special Agents [REDACTED] personelly contacted the office of the Seattle Flag newspaper located at 222 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle, at approximately 3:15 PM on May 5, 1972 and asked for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Several individuals were observed languishing on tops of desks and sitting in various groups scattered about the one large room which is the office space of the Seattle Flag news- paper. One unidentified individual stated that he was in the Advertising Department and that [REDACTED] and all of the [REDACTED] were out and he did not know when they would return. SA [REDACTED] identified himself and requested that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] call him at the FBI Office as soon as he came in.
At approximately 4:00 PM, May 5, 1972, [REDACTED] telephonically contacted SA [REDACTED] at the FBI Office. [REDACTED] stated he recalled having talked to SA [REDACTED] several years ago in regard to the [REDACTED] which occurred at the University of Washington at Seattle. [REDACTED] then asked what it was all about. SA [REDACTED] advised [REDACTED] he wanted to talk to him personally and asked if he was going to be in his office. [REDACTED] stated he was not going to be in his office and then said "I don't want to talk to the FBI". [REDACTED] then asked "what's it all about". He was advised by SA [REDACTED] that he want- ed to talk to him about the D.B. COOPER story published in the Seattle Flag. [REDACTED] stated "it's all in the article". He was advised that no, it was not all in the article as the FBI desired to know the identity of his source, name and address. [REDACTED] stated the source was anonymous in the article and would remain that way. SA [REDACTED] advised [REDACTED] either he would make the person's name and address, from whom he obtain- ed the story, available or he would not. [REDACTED] stated he would not. [REDACTED] then added "it's not those two men from Bremerton, Washington."
At this point the interview was terminated.
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Interviewed on 5-5-72 at Seattle, Washington File # SE 164-81-[guess: 3937] SAS [REDACTED] and by Date dictated 5-5-72
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DB Cooper-31640
Serials: SE 164-81-3937