Part 103, page 85
DB Cooper-46534Serials AN 164-59
Interviewed 15 May 1973Transcribed 16 May 1973
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 103 p. 85 (DB Cooper-46534), FD-302 interview, interviewed 15 May 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-103/pages/85
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AN 164-59
involved in the venture that he was discussing. [REDACTED] advised that he merely assumed himself that since BURNS / was knowledgeable about aircraft and flight operations and spent his time reading periodicals relating to that field and allegedly was a pilot and/or parachutist that whatever BURNS eventually did accomplish would in somehow be related to the aircraft field. He gathered from BURNS that money would be involved but BURNS never volunteered the source of the money. He gathers from the conversation that it would be some kind of a heist on the part of BURNS.
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[REDACTED] advised that BURNS even elaborated that when he accomplished this feat that he would be known by the first initials of his first and middle name and that he intended to use the surname of [REDACTED] BURNS explained to [REDACTED] that in this way when his feat was publicized in the newspapers that it would be a clue to him, [REDACTED] that BURNS had in fact accomplished what he had planned.
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[REDACTED] advised that at no time did BURNS indicate a city or state in the United States where he was planning to perform this heist.
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[REDACTED] advised that he was [REDACTED] in Anchorage prior to BURNS' release. [REDACTED] advised that to his recollection BURNS had been in the Anchorage State Jail for approximately 14 or 15 months at the time. [REDACTED] stated that upon [REDACTED] he has neither seen nor heard from BURNS.
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[REDACTED] further recalls that during some conversations with [REDACTED] that BURNS had indicated that at one time he had planned to rob a bank in Fairbanks, Alaska. BURNS elaborated that he intended to use a white snowmobile and wear a white sheet for clothing and would make his escape into the countryside and being camouflaged, his chances of escape were excellent.
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DB COOPER-46534