Original interview notes re Huddleston as possible Cooper suspect, exhibit SE-164-81-1A

Document date 1 December 1998

Part 89pages 163–1686 pagesDB Cooper-39593–39598

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Document: Original interview notes re Huddleston as possible Cooper suspect, exhibit SE-164-81-1A
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 89 pp. 163–168 (DB Cooper-39593–39598), Handwritten note, dated 1 Dec 1998, serial SE 164-81-1A (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-89%3A163-168

12/1/98

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[REDACTED] SSN: [REDACTED] DOB: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] S.D. CA

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KEEP ATTACHED TO SEATTLE EXHIBIT SE 164-81-1A [guess: 8(6)]

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4/78: [REDACTED] Chicago + arrived in SD

Alias: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED], S.D.

1st met Huddleston after [guess: approx] 1 week [REDACTED]

Would see H. @ [guess: bar] a couple of times per week. On weekends, they would spend time together [REDACTED] [REDACTED]: Lake Elsinore, CA Billings, Mont. [REDACTED] (will get #)

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DB Cooper-39593

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b6 b7C

[REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED b6/b7C]

1983: Drove to Huntington Beach to [REDACTED b6/b7C]

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1984: Lake Elsinore Resort + Casino [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED] admits he was + explained his [REDACTED] He began [REDACTED] if he lost [guess: his] lead of D.B. Cooper. [REDACTED] not familiar I'm the guy who jumped out of the plane over Oregon.

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DB Cooper-39594 Didn't really [guess: discuss] @ length @ that time He more interested in [REDACTED] NOVA/60 Mins. or more TV show ~ 4 days later AMW profiled D.B. Cooper. H. called [REDACTED] its room [REDACTED] saw last few seconds.

[redacted] understanding that [guess: late] wife [redacted] [redacted]

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[redacted] discussed the matter w/ H's [guess: periodicals] over the next 1½ years. Details: loaded on 8 [guess: list] the story took a day to get out of tree b/c he couldn't move his leg Shoot deployed [guess: the] but was [guess: sidlening] b/c of speed [arrow/symbol]

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Hold conversation of Flight Crew: Wm. H. looked stewardess the [guess: note], she put it in [guess: her] pocket b/c she thought it was a flirt + smiled @ him b/c he had previously [guess: talked] + [guess: kidded] w/her. Langua[ge] "Maam you better read the note" She smiled again. He then took off his glasses. "Maam I have a fucking bomb", [guess: then] opened a case + showed [guess: her] a bomb. She the took him seriously.

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DB Cooper-39595

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b6 b7C

H. told [REDACTED] that he had a [guess: packet] of goggles / [guess: days] of clothes & other things he needed

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After loading, he walked out to the Kalokamus Hwy where he was picked up by a Truck Driver who took him to the BOMBER MOTEL. Told [REDACTED] he had had an argument w/ [REDACTED] & that she had left him out the w/o wheelchair.

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Up & walking around 4/in 2 months. [REDACTED] helped him out by delivering groceries & obtaining a wheel chair.

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DB Cooper-39596

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b6 b7C

He passed away in 1986

11/13/87 - [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED] remained in Chicago until [REDACTED] while he returned to S.D.

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1995: Called [REDACTED], attorney who [REDACTED] had met [REDACTED] Asked if he would be in trouble if he brought info to FBI. I [guess: tried] called after every a TV show about D.B. Cooper. Thats when he find told [guess: nothing].

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[REDACTED] didn't do anything b/c he didn't want b6 to [guess: tarnish] family [guess: name] & cause embarrassment b7C 6/c [REDACTED]

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DB Cooper-39597

4/98: Brought it up again to [REDACTED b6/b7C] [REDACTED] pursued it + [guess: contacted] [REDACTED] thinking he was [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] eventually wanted to be [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] has been in contact [guess: of] [REDACTED] over the past several months.

Last spoke to [REDACTED] 5-6 weeks ago while he [REDACTED] (had initially [REDACTED])

Huddleston likely would not have told others

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-39598

Serials: SE 164-81-1A