Document date 19 August 1972AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 112 p. 309 (DB Cooper-51157), Handwritten note, dated 19 Aug 1972, serial SE 164-81-3846 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-112/pages/309
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When he told me this it seemed so wild
to me that I never thought they
would ever do it. At the same
time I figured they might pull
something involving a lot of money,
and when they did [REDACTED] would
avoid me. There is no way
in my mind that this could all
be a coincidence, unless the witness
positively said, "it couldn't be Clair
Young." Then I'd have to think one
of them had told someone else but
to think another person would even
use the alias D.B. Cooper is far fetched.
If the witness said, "it could be Clair,"
I would know for sure it was; when
you take all the other facts into consider-
ation.
Then if he Clair Young, has no idea
he is being watched he could be
trapped. If some one went to Clair
and posed as a friend of mine, and
told him, "I had figured it all out
from the things [REDACTED] told me,"
Clair would have a deep fear of being
brought under surveillance and