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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription_____10/17/75

At 12:35 AM, October 7, 1975, DAVID ARTHUR STAUDT was interviewed at the Seventh District, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Police Department Station, 3172 North 36th Street. STAUDT was at this location having been arrested approximately one hour earlier by officers of the Milwaukee Police Department on local charges of armed robbery and Federal charges of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. At the outset of the interview STAUDT was advised as to the identities of SA JOHN W. FRAZER, JR. b6 and SA [redacted] He was advised of his rights both b7C orally and by a written waiver which he read, stated he under- stood, and signed. He was thereafter interviewed with respect to a number of criminal matters and voluntarily furnished the following information:

STAUDT was questioned regarding claims which he had allegedly made on previous occasions claiming to be D.B. COOPER, the individual who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971. STAUDT made the following claims in this regard:

STAUDT advised that on Thanksgiving Day, 1971, he hijacked the Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 and subsequently parachuted from this aircraft with $200,000.00 in ransom money. STAUDT stated that earlier that day he had made reservations with Northwest Airlines in the name DAVID BRADLEY COOPER which was likely the reason that D.B. COOPER appeared on the manifest.

STAUDT stated that he hijacked the aircraft between Portland and Seattle telling a stewardess that he had a bomb in a briefcase which he would detonate unless his demands were met. He advised he asked for $200,000.00 in bills of 20 dollar denominations and three parachutes (type not specified because he had no knowledge of what type to ask for). He stated that he asked for three parachutes because it was his intention to make a stewardess parachute from the aircraft with him to guarantee against the possibility of the parachute being rigged.

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Interviewed on___10/7/75___at_Milwaukee, Wisconsin___File #_MI 164-36___

SA [redacted] b6 by SA JOHN W. FRAZER, JR/JWF/pmc____Date dictated___10/10/75___ b7C

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