Interview report (FD-302)Interview of Hartwood Aviation employee re emergency parachute orderTranscribed 30 October 19721 page
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Part 112, page 116

DB Cooper-11231

Transcribed 30 October 1972

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 10/30/72

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[REDACTED] Hartwood Aviation, Incorporated, Route 6, Box 369B, Hartwood, Virginia, zip code 22471, telephone number [REDACTED] advised as follows:

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] Hartwood Aviation, Incorporated, and that she recalls an incident wherein a man identified himself as [REDACTED] called Hartwood Aviation in September, exact date not recalled, 1972, wherein he ordered three emergency parachutes. Later this individual came to Hartwood Aviation on September 16, 1972, and paid for three emergency parachutes in the amount of $310.44. He made payment by using a check in the name of CHARLES A. TULLER and listed telephone number 836-4400, extension 433.

[REDACTED] advised that she put her initials on the bill of sale and jotted down [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] later called Hartwood Aviation about purchasing three additional parachutes and that on October 7, 1972, he returned with a female companion. At that time he paid an additional $260 by a check which was signed CHARLES A. TULLER and drawn on the Madison National Bank, Washington, D.C.

[REDACTED] advised that she would describe [REDACTED] as a white male, about 30, 6'1" tall, 180 to 190 pounds, dark hair and good looking.

She advised that the female who accompanied [REDACTED] was a white female in her early twenties, 5'3", slight build, brunette hair, mod dress, possibly dark clothes and a mini-skirt.

[REDACTED] advised that she would probably recall [REDACTED] should she see him again but was doubtful whether or not she could identify his female companion.

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10/27/72 Hartwood, Virginia AX [REDACTED] Interviewed on _____________________________ at _________________ File# _______________

SA [REDACTED] dmp -40- 10/27/72 by ___________________________ Date dictated _______________

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. nor duplicated within your agency. DB Cooper-11231