Interview report (FD-302)Interview re Ralph Antonio Porco as D.B. Cooper suspectTranscribed 2 October 1990page 2 of 4
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Part 106, page 137

DB Cooper-48428

Transcribed 2 October 1990

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FD-303a (Rev. 11-15-83)

164A-SE-81

Continuation of FD-302 of [REDACTED] , On 8/6/90 , Page 2

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working with [REDACTED] practicing jumps and exercising in order to get in good shape to perform another hijacking. RALPH had always been disappointed that the money was lost in the first hijacking when he hit the airplane wing and the bags were torn. He had planned to get it right the second time.

RALPH often commented that since there was no evidence from the hijacking, he would always get away with it, but that [REDACTED] dead. When the movie about the hijacking was on television several months ago, RALPH told [REDACTED] as he was going to be out of town. He wanted to watch it "to see how close they would come to how it really happened." The video recorder malfunctioned, however, and [REDACTED] which angered him.

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[REDACTED] further stated that there was a song which mentioned D.B. COOPER, by an artist she could not recall, that RALPH [REDACTED] Whenever it came on the radio,

RALPH had told her that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in order to avoid drawing attention. He planned to use [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] stated that after RALPH was jailed, [REDACTED] and one of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] that RALPH used in the hijacking, along with all of his pictures and personal papers from his time in the Army. To her knowledge, this property is at RALPH's mother's house, along with other pictures and mementos from his time in the service. The only photograph of RALPH that [REDACTED] could provide was one taken when he was a COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS officer in 1974.

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DB COOPER-48428