Part 118, page 77

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LA 164-497

3) BROCKWAY was financially in dire circumstances, would not let the legality of anything stand in the way of making money, and was intelligent enough to concoct plans for the hijacking.

4) About one and a half years ago WILLIAM CHARLES SMITH visited at his home in Redlands, California, for over a month. During a discussion of finances SMITH made a comment, "Hell, if you need money why don't you hijack an airplane? It's been done and got away with."

5) WILLIAM CHARLES SMITH legally changed his name about two years ago to BRIAN KEITH WINSTON and in August 1974 SMITH sent a letter to RIZOR asking for a letter of recommendation to cover the last one and a half years. SMITH wanted RIZOR to claim SMITH had been employed in Redlands for the year and a half. In the letter SMITH stated he had a bout with hard narcotics and was now seeking a job. SMITH graduated from Portland State University in 1973 and at the time the letter was written, was still living on the campus of that school under the name Brian Winston. RIZOR recalled that sometime in late 1971 or early 1972 [REDACTED - b6/b7C] had told him SMITH was in the hospital in Oregon with a back injury.

6) From telephone conversations [REDACTED - b6/b7C] in Oregon, he had gathered the financial circumstances of BROCKWAY had improved greatly in 1972 and 1973. He had heard that BROCKWAY, after being terminated at Boeing in Seattle, had obtained a position with Burroughs Corporation in Portland for a short period of time, but was not believed regularly employed after that.

7) RIZOR noted that the name "COOPER" used by the hijacker is the maiden name of RUTH INGRAHAM, possibly INGRAM, who is DON BROCKWAY's mother in Lakeside, Oregon.

8) He has heard that [REDACTED - b6/b7C] (last name unknown) married to [REDACTED - b6/b7C], owns considerable

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DB COOPER-54054

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