Bureau of Customs memo re Customs Security Officer discussing parachute hijacking
Document date 22 February 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 78 p. 163 (DB Cooper-33986), Memo, dated 22 Feb 1972, serial MP 164-73-299 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-78%3A163-163
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum BUREAU OF CUSTOMS
DATE: February 22, 1972
TO : FILE FILE:
FROM : [REDACTED] b6 Per BOC TASOS Staff b7C Per BOC
SUBJECT: Identification Procedure
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On February 12, 1972 at approximately 1100 hours, I was at the [REDACTED], when an employee, [REDACTED] mentioned that she had read b6 Per BOC a recent article concerning the North West Orient b7C Per BOC hijacking on November 24, 1971. [REDACTED] stated that b7E Per BOC she remembered a [REDACTED], Customs Security Officer [REDACTED] which started on [REDACTED] and ended [REDACTED].
CSO [REDACTED] and a friend, CSO [REDACTED] also from [REDACTED], were talking to her about the recent hijackings and [REDACTED] told her he was a pilot. In b6 Per BOC the conversation that followed, [REDACTED] stated to her b7C Per BOC and [REDACTED] that the way to hijack a plane and b7E Per BOC escape would be to bail out using a parachute. He also stated that he could not wait to get back to the wilds of Oregon. I asked [REDACTED] if she had mentioned this to anyone else and she stated that she had talked to a Colonel several weeks before. I told [REDACTED] not to devulge any additional information concerning the in- cident.
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After leaving the cleaners, I proceeded to our office, [REDACTED] where I looked up the two individuals mentioned. CSO [REDACTED] post of duty was Portland, Oregon and CSO b6 Per BOC [REDACTED] post of duty was New York. On Monday, b7C Per BOC [REDACTED] I mentioned the above conversation I b7E Per BOC had with [REDACTED] to my supervisor, Special Agent [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Air Security Coordinator.
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164-73-299 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED MAR 2 1972 FBI-MINNEAPOLIS
DB Cooper-33986 b6 Per FBI b7C Per FBI
Serials: MP 164-73-299
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