Handwritten interview notes on Orville Andrew Lyons background and description (exhibit 1A777)
Document date 23 August 1984
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-88:048-057 Document: Handwritten interview notes on Orville Andrew Lyons background and description (exhibit 1A777) Id: Cooper-Part-88:048-057 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-88%3A048-057 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 88 pp. 48–57 (DB Cooper-38918, DB Cooper-38921, DB Cooper-38922, DB Cooper-38923, DB Cooper-38924, DB Cooper-38925, DB Cooper-38926, DB Cooper-38927), Handwritten note, dated 23 Aug 1984, serial 1065-7-363 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-88%3A048-057
8/23/84 ILOA SA SA
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[sketch of envelope] Toomsuba MS
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b6 b7C
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KEEP ATTACHED TO EXHIBIT SEATTLE 164-81-1A 777
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Orville Andrew Lyons – 3/28/30 Blue eyes- 5'11 180
Texas Board of Private Investigators Overland Security & Investigations State C-01874-7 1-6-82 [guess: Agency] Fort Worth
1948-50 US Marine – Ground soldier
[guess: Helitech] team – out of Prescott never parachuted Flagstaff Arizona
lived Arizona Phoenix at Calif – Culver City 1950's Texas – Ft Worth Delaware –
[guess: Story] Florida Didn't drink/ [except] quit 11 years ago beer -
Drank liquor to impress people
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DB Cooper-38918
Portland, Oregon mid-later fifties or later 1969-73 [guess: stayed] in Florida UNSUR's b6 Worked on yachts - b7C Palm Beach S & W cafeterias - Boat [guess: Yard] Went to Eddystone - High School Fort [guess: Lauderdale]
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completed 7 or 8th grade / reads & has taken other [guess: courses] (1951) Rifleman Marine Corp - (discharged) - (Not seriously hurt [illegible])
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[guess: Goes] to work 76 yr old Bryant [REDACTED] Uncle in Michigan b6 b7C owner
- Got car [guess: was] Texas came to [guess: Mo.]
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- 1981 went thru Bailey [guess: Security] academy in Texas Fort Worth worked uniform & plain clothes security
grew up on H.I. Dupont estate in Delaware father worked for Dupont [guess: granville] worked for him until he went into Marine Corp -
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Ht 5' 10" 5' 11" = 160 [guess: wgt] 195 [guess: most] AGE: 54 POB: Chester PA DOB 3/28/30 - eyes - blue - - hair 3 - brown some gray - parted left - combed back
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Torn leg up in 1971 or 1972 in fall out of a tree → [REDACTED] b6 b7C Panama City Fla [REDACTED]
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severely injured right leg 8" [guess: 10"] scar, [guess: pinned] right leg atrophy
At home working in trees where fell —
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In army in 1951 — got drunk & enlisted [guess: I]
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soft pack — [Salem — [guess: or other] cigarettes] — [Pall Mall] have smoked [Camels / Lucky Strikes]
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In 1970
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fly [guess: experience] Went up in mail plane — real estate co —) in service [guess: {military & helicopter / [guess: transport] No com—ercial [guess: flights] [guess: years] Brought up about [guess: hijacking] parachuting incident in NW U.S.
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DB Cooper-38921
AWOL [guess: Marines/warrants]
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Kicked out of Army for fraudulent application into Service / - didn't advise of entry in USMC Treated medically in service / mental ward - drinking / [illegible] Purple heart issue came up / was asked if hurt [guess: indicated] he was scratched up - got purple heart - US good wanted it back
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Right handed /
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- Trys not to use profanity - Polite
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- 19[illegible] -
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Been to Las Vegas in 1960's [REDACTED] Reno, Nevada lived there in 1960's
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DB Cooper-38922
Late 1960 - 65 Stay in Seattle, Washington worked in a western Steak house wore [guess: clip] ties / girls wore western outfits had state drivers licenses Delaware Miss Texas # 1065-7-363 — current
To Orville Androge Lyons 6567 Greenway Rd Ft Worth Tex 76116 3/28/30 Blue eyes - 5'11
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[guess: Lyons] a Rawleigh Products distributor [guess: distributor] ! 223 E Main St, Freeport Illinois 61037 [guess: Div] [guess: Dist] Distributors # 62684 thru 12/31/84
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DB Cooper-38923
Lyons has (700 stamp collection)
Been to Mexico (Juarez, Tijuana Windsor Canada
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[guess: A few] days each time
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In military was in a number of frightening situations but reacted well —
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worked Steak House in Seattle —
Has worked in [guess: New] Castle Del[aware] work house as security officer.
Has worn snap on ties in security work & [guess: bus] boy —
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DB Cooper-38924
Knew a [REDACTED b6/b7C] in Portland for approximately 3 weeks.
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Wished it had been him referring to the guy that had done the hijacking got money Did some gambling some in Nevada.
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Used to live with 2 or 3 women various parts of county. [REDACTED b6/b7C] was a [REDACTED b6/b7C]
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Don't know where he was before Portland or where he went from there.
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DB Cooper-38925
— used to go every Sunday to church — 1st Assembly church —
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Twice married [REDACTED] Delaware Divorced both [REDACTED] / Florida
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Usually gets along with women / thinks well of them
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Did some orientating / woods in service — reads topo maps
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Spent nights in woods fighting forest fires —
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fought fires in woods at night — Didn't ever get lost in woods
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DB Cooper-38926
Mother - Mary Lyons Wilmington Del
Sister [REDACTED] New Castle Delaware b6 b7C
Sisters [REDACTED] Mix [guess: Road] DE Delaware
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Brothers [REDACTED] New b6 [guess: Castle] b7C
1973 (Deceased) Brother Raymond Lyons
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Lyons Arrests SSN 211-20-6808 1951 - Stole car Wash[ington] [guess: for] DC Drinking problems # 66 4156 [guess: service] Mar[ine]
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DB Cooper-38927
Serials: 1065-7-363, 164-81-1A 777, 62684, C-01874-7