TeletypeNew York to Director, Seattle and Los Angeles re interview of Karl Payne Fleming, Newsweek25 April 1972page 5 of 8
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Part 108, page 366

DB Cooper-49417

Document date 25 April 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 108 p. 366 (DB Cooper-49417), Teletype, dated 25 Apr 1972, serial SE 164-81-2913 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-108/pages/366

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PG FIVE

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FLEMING WAS NOT ONE OF INDIVIDUALS PRESENT WHEN WIG WAS PURCHASED. HE DOES NOT RECALL SEEING COOPER WITHOUT A HAT OR CAP WHENEVER HE MET HIM. COOPER DESCRIBED AS A DEVOUT CATHOLIC WHO HAD BEEN MARRIED TO THE SAME WOMAN FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS. COOPER ALLEGED HE OWNED A BOAT, A CAMPER AND THREE AUTOMOBILES. FURTHER DESCRIPTION NOT KNOWN. COOPER INDICATED HE HAD TWO CHILDREN, A MARRIED DAUGHTER AND A SON IN COLLEGE. COOPER INDICATED HE HAD WORKED FOR BOEING AIRCRAFT COMPANY, SEATTLE, FOR FOURTEEN YEARS AND HAD BEEN DISCHARGED AND REPLACED BY A MAN FIFTEEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN HIMSELF, APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THERE WAS A GENERAL LAY-OFF AT BOEING. COOPER INDICATED HE FORMERLY LIVED NEXT DOOR TO A EPISCOPAL MINISTER. FLEMING DESCRIBED COOPER AS A WHITE MALE ALMOST 50 5' - 9" - 10" 160 - 165 FIFTY YEARS OLD, ABOUT FIVE FOOT NINE TO TEN, ONE SIXTY TO ONE SIXTY FIVE LBS., LARGE EARS, THIN LIPS, SHARP NOSE, WITH BALDING DARK BROWN HAIR, RIGHT HANDED AND A HEAVY SMOKER OF FILTERED TYPE CIGARETTE. COOPER HAS SOME SORT OF TATTOO, FURTHER DESCRIPTION NOT NOTICED, ON THE INSIDE LOWER LEFT FOREARM, NEAR HIS SHIRT CUFF. COOPER HAS A TWO INCH ROUND DEPRESSION ON LEFT SIDE OF HIS FOREHEAD END PG FIVE

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DB COOPER-49417