Interview re Eugene Cooper's resemblance to the D.B. Cooper composite sketch
Interviewed 11 March 1988Dictated 11 March 1988Transcribed 7 October 1988
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Id: Cooper-Part-97:195-196
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-97:195-196 Document: FD-302 interview re Eugene Cooper's resemblance to the D.B. Cooper composite sketch Id: Cooper-Part-97:195-196 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-97%3A195-196 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 97 pp. 195–196 (DB Cooper-43728–43729), FD-302 interview, interviewed 11 Mar 1988 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-97%3A195-196
FD-302 (REV. 3-10-82)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- 1 - Date of transcription 10/7/88
[REDACTED] residence [REDACTED] Newport, Oregon, telephone number [REDACTED], advised that she recalled EUGENE COOPER as having come from Eugene, Oregon, and eventually residing with JANE MILLER in Hermiston, Oregon. While in Hermiston, he was layed up in that he broke his leg and was on crutches. This was shortly after the D.B. COOPER highjacking. She advised that she thought of this at the time, and that he may have been the individual that highjacked the plane. She had been told by [REDACTED] JANE MILLER, that he had been in an accident on a bridge with the vehicle.
[REDACTED] described COOPER as follows:
Name EUGENE COOPER Race White Sex Male Nationality American Height 5'10" to 5'11" Weight 155 to 160 pounds Age Forty-eight to fifty Complexion Medium Build Medium Facial Features Long face Hair Losing hair on top, sandy colored, very receding Voice Medium pitch, soft Other Smoked; drank a lot Characteristics Very intelligent; very articulate; wore sunglasses; fingers and hands very long
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Investigation on 3/11/88 at Pendleton, Oregon File # PD-164A-41-1326
by SA SAMUEL A. MC PHETERS SAM[REDACTED] Date dictated 3/11/88
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DB Cooper-43728
FD-302a (Rev. 11-15-83)
PD 164A-41
Continuation of FD-302 of [REDACTED] , On 3/11/88 , Page 2
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[REDACTED] advised that when she saw the composite sketch of the suspect of the D.B. COOPER highjacking in 1971, she was really struck with the composite and said, at the time, to [REDACTED] "Gee, that looks like COOP." Then, she advised, she recalled that the suspects name was also COOPER and that EUGENE's name was COOPER. She advised she thought seriously about that and consulted with [REDACTED] about it but never told the police department.
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[REDACTED] advised that she heard COOPER was shot somewhere on the east coast. He was found in a car with a bullet in him. She heard this from [REDACTED] [REDACTED], in Oklahoma.
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[REDACTED] characterized COOPER as, "An asshole," a con man. He was always trying to find someone to take advantage of and always talking off the top of his head about how to make money.
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Regarding COOPER's art, [REDACTED] said that she [REDACTED] knows art. She said that COOPER's art was, "Far out, Geodesic." It has to be looked at from two to three different ways. She advised that if you look at his art in different ways, it takes on different shapes. She advised she had seen the name COOPER on the back of one of his paintings.
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DB Cooper-43729
Serials: PD 164-41