Interview report (FD-302)Interview of Floy Z. Hodgson, Dallas, re Harry Miller's claim of $200,000Interviewed 20 February 1976page 1 of 4
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Part 119, page 329

DB Cooper-54886

Interviewed 20 February 1976Dictated 25 February 1976Transcribed 1 March 1976

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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70) 1

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 3/1/76

FLOY Z. HODGSON, [redacted] Lewisville, Texas, was interviewed at his place of employment, Employers Casualty Company Building, at 423 South Akard, at which time he furnished the following information:

Following his discharge from military service he was still single and he worked for a period of six months for Kenworth Truck Manufacturing in Seattle, Washington. He has a brother, JOE D. HODGSON, who still lives in the Seattle vicinity.

During the six months spent in Seattle, he became acquainted with HARRY MILLER, a white male, who was then about 45 years old. MILLER and [redacted] in a Seattle suburb called [redacted]. He become [sic] friendly with the MILLERs and visited them in their home from time to time. As far as he (HODGSON) knows, MILLER was a law-abiding citizen and HODGSON never knew MILLER to be in trouble with the law or to have any criminal record.

After HODGSON left Seattle, he returned to Texas where he is from and went to work for Texas Technical University in the Maintenance Department in Lubbock, Texas. He worked there for about 12 or 13 years and then moved to the Dallas area and took up residence in Lewisville, where he and [redacted] still reside. Since returning to the Dallas area, he has worked doing building maintenance at One Main Place and in the Employers Casualty Company Building, his current employment.

Since leaving Seattle, he has never exchanged letters or cards with HARRY MILLER and they have never even exchanged Christmas cards, nor have they called one another on the telephone. Then very shortly after January 1, 1976, MILLER made a telephone call to HODGSON's home in Lewisville, which is telephone number [redacted] received this call and then put him on the line, since the call was for him and [redacted] had never met HARRY MILLER.

MILLER explained that he had gotton [sic] FLOY HODGSON's telephone number through FLOY's brother, JOE. HODGSON [this line struck through with strikethrough marks]

Interviewed on 2/20/76 [struck through] at Dallas, Texas [struck through] File # Dallas 164-191 [struck through] Seattle 164-81

by SA JOSEPH J. HANLEY:mam [struck through] Date dictated 2/25/76 [struck through]

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DB COOPER-54886