Interview report (FD-302)Interview of Houston source re man met in Baja CaliforniaInterviewed 21 January 1972page 1 of 2
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Part 8, page 85

DB Cooper-104Serials HO 164-118, SD 164-91-43, SE 164-81

Interviewed 21 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 8 p. 85 (DB Cooper-104), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Jan 1972, serial SD 164-91-43 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-08/pages/85

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FD-302 (Rev. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 1/25/72

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[redacted], Houston, Texas, supplied the following information:

[redacted]

[redacted] traveled to Mexico. While in Mexico they rode a ferry boat from the Mexican mainland to the Baja, California Peninsula and while on this boat met [redacted] Americans named [redacted] California; [redacted] California; and [redacted] (LNU), who was [redacted] Oregon. These individuals asked [redacted] to met them at a bar named [redacted] in Corbo San Lucas which is at the tip of the Baja Peninsula.

Upon arriving there [redacted] met the [redacted] individual at the bar and while drinking with them also became acquainted with an individual named [redacted]

Over a period of several days they learned from [redacted] that he was [redacted] Illinois and had previously been [redacted] also stated that he had lived in Portland, Oregon and on the west coast of California for some time.

[redacted] along with [redacted] boat named [redacted] This boat was over 40 feet long, had a [redacted]

One morning [redacted] that the night before, [redacted] had been drinking quite heavily and had stated that he was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient

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Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Houston, Texas File # HO 164-118 SE 164-81 [handwritten:] 164-91-43

by SA [redacted] /sac. Date dictated [stamp:] 1/25/[72?] FILED JAN 20 [19]72

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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