Part 118, page 335
Document date 19 October 2000
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 118 p. 335, FD-302 interview, dated 19 Oct 2000 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-118/pages/335
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FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)
164A-SE-81
Continuation of FD-302 of Lucinda Reyes, On 10/18/2000, Page 3
approximately 24" in length, 18" in height, and 12" in width, black in color with one corner damaged. Reyes asked Frank about the damage and he stated that he had been sleeping near a campfire and while using the suitcase as a pillow had gotten it too close to the fire causing it to burn. She never saw this suitcase opened. Since he did not change clothes during this visit, she assumed that it did not contain clothes.
During this visit, Frank asked Reyes what she would think if he said he was D.B.Cooper. She responded that she did not know who D.B.Cooper was and Frank asked her if she had been reading the newspaper. Frank stated that he could have done it because he was a former paratrooper. Reyes was never aware of what actually happened that involved D.B.Cooper until years later when she saw a television movie about the airplane hijacking. During her conversation with Frank, he never mentioned money, and she could not recall him stating that he had actually committed the crime, only that he could have committed it. During this visit, Frank apparently bragged to other family members that he was in fact D.B.Cooper however Reyes did not hear him make this statement.
Reyes recalled Frank during this time period as being approximately 5'11" tall, 175 pounds, olive complexion with brown eyes and black hair. He wore sunglasses which she could not further describe. He smoked cigarettes however she does not recall the brand. She never observed him with a raincoat during this visit. In 1971 Frank would have been approximately 35 years old.
It was during this November visit that Frank gave to Reyes a blue steel revolver and asked her to keep this gun for him. She did not observe where Frank had kept the gun but assumed it was carried in the black suitcase. She agreed and accepted the gun, placing it into a closet where it has remained. Reyes advised that she and her husband have handled the gun and that several years ago a local gunsmith examined the gun and told her that it was very old and not to fire it as it was probably unsafe.
In recent telephonic conversation with Reyes, Frank has asked her if she still has the gun. He has stated that he wants the gun back along with a sword which has been in the family for