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

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE[STIGATION]

[Date of transcrip]tion 10/23/75

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[REDACTED] was intervi[ewed at her] [r]esidence [in] Wisconsin. The interview concerned [REDACTED] DAVID ARTHUR STAUDT and claims he ha[s prev]iously [made/stated] with respect to being D.B. COOPER, [the individu]al responsible for the hijacking of Northwest airli[nes flight] [3]05 on November 24, 1971. [REDACTED] advised a[s follows]:

[REDACTED] stated that she has k[nown STAUDT] since [first] having met him in Mi[lwaukee duri]ng that general time. She stated she [REDACTED] [the matter/this] [REDACTED] [first came] to her attention [via/through] [a story/article] [in the] [Mil]waukee Journal" (Milwaukee evening newspaper), ran a[n article on] [about] the hijacking during late 1973. On this occasion [REDACTED] [came/approached her] with the article and said, "Doesn't t[his] [loo]k[e] [li]ke me?" [REDACTED] advised that she noted a slight rese[mblance and] mentioned the matter to her family. [REDACTED] stated th[at he] [further made] claims that he in fact was the indivi[dual respon]sible for the hijacking and furnished the followin[g]:

STAUDT had stated that wh[ile working] [for] Sundberg - Farrar, as an industrial designer in [Mi]chigan, he obtained plans for a Boeing 727 whic[h gave him] [t]he idea of hijacking this type of aircraft. [REDACTED] [STAUDT in fact] hijacked Northwest Airlines flight 3[05 and] [REDACTED] told [her] that he was not able to spend the mo[ney because] it was "too hot". [REDACTED] advised that she never p[aid much] [a]ttention to his claims inasmuch as he was always m[a]l[ing] [st]atements like this and she thought it was a joke. [REDACTED] [sai]d he never told her of any of the details of t[he hijacking] [n]or where the money was located. She stated that [to her kn]o[w]ledge, he has never been in Washington or O[r]e[gon and] [REDACTED] he has a [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] stated that during [REDACTED] while STAUDT was in a fugitive status, she had c[amped] [REDACTED] with him to Joshua Tree National Monument to a[REDACTED] [nea]r Barker Dam. She advised STAUDT told her that t[his] [was a pre]tty spot that he wanted her to see and that ina[smuch as] [she] had previously [REDACTED]

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Interviewed on 10/21/75 at Muskego, Wisco[nsin]

by SA JOHN W. FRAZER, JR/JWF/pmc 1

MI 164-36

10/22/75

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