Part 1, page 17
Document date February 1972
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 1 p. 17, Other, dated Feb 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-01/pages/17
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1 The complainant states that this complaint is b[ased on] 2 the copy of three twenty dollar bills bearing serial numb[ers] 3 L54904730A, L33529797A, and L20168977A acquired from Karl 4 Fleming who states that the copy of the three bills [Fleming] 5 received (now in the custody of the F.B.I.) was del[ivered to] 6 him by Jack Lewis in support of the claim that Flem[ing] was 7 interviewing the real "D.B. Cooper," which copy is a[t]tach[ed] 8 hereto as exhibit "A". The original copy has been [e]xamine[d] 9 by the F.B.I. laboratory in Washington, D.C. and [de]termin[ed] 10 to be fraudulent in that the serial numbers, which [are mat]ch[ed] 11 three numbers from the ransom paid were superimposed on 12 twenty dollar bills prior to being copied. 13 Further, Jack Lewis executed the two receipts [for] 14 thirty thousand dollars attached hereto as exhibit "B" 15 (original in the custody of the F.B.I.) in the pres[ence] of 16 Karl Fleming and "D.B. Cooper". Fingerprints lifted from 17 these receipts by the F.B.I. laboratory in Washington, D[.C.] 18 have been identified as belonging to William John Lewis. 19 Further, movie film and an audio tape of the intervi[ew] 20 between Karl Fleming and Donald Murphy, posing as "D.B. C[ooper]" 21 which took place on the morning of February 23, 1972 on a 22 beach fronting Puget Sound in King County, Washington, ha[ve] 23 been viewed and heard by agents of the F.B.I. person[ally] 24 familiar with the defendants William John Lewis, also kno[wn] 25 as Jack Lewis and Donald Sylvester Murphy; Donald Murphy [is] 26 the person depicted on film as "D.B. Cooper." The inter- 27 view of February 23, 1972 was recorded on movie film and 28 audio tape taken by Neil Peter Reichline and William Bar[ry] 29 Kaplan, from a location remote from the point of intervi[ew] 30 at the request of Karl Fleming (originals of the tape 31 [blank] 32 [blank] -6-