Part 120, page 409

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receiving expenses for the trip from her brother CURTIS THOMPSON of Gardena, California. She advised that she and JACK COFFELT lived in Honolulu at her current address until June, 1975, when COFFELT passed away as a result of complica- tions arising from the aforementioned illnesses. She stated that during the last few years of his life, COFFELT was extremely ill and could only get around with great difficulty.

She advised that to the best of her recollection, during the Thanksgiving holiday period of 1971, she and COFFELT were living in the Washington, D. C., area; however, she could not specifically recall exactly what she or JACK COFFELT were doing on or about the time of the "D. B. COOPER incident" during the same time period. She stated that due to her husband's physical ailments and severe phlebitis condition which required him to wear heavy nylon support stockings and his inability to move about without great deals of body pain, it would have been impossible for him to have taken on such an endeavor as attributed to D. B. COOPER.

Mrs. COFFELT advised that her husband had related to her that while he was in prison, he knew an individual by the name of JAMES BROWN who was a frustrated writer, and BROWN had taken on himself to edit a book which her husband had written while he was also in prison. She further advised that BROWN had visited her and her husband while they were living in the State of Washington in 1974, and BROWN and her husband had discussed the possibility of publishing the book which JACK COFFELT had written.

She further advised that since her husband's death, she has had contact with BROWN on several occasions during which BROWN had encouraged her to authorize the publishing of the book which her husband had written and that BROWN had indicated to her that he was going to feature her former husband JACK as the individual named D. B. COOPER in a story in which he, BROWN, was writing.

Mrs. COFFELT further advised that BROWN has come to Los Angeles and attempted to sell a story featuring her former husband as D. B. COOPER to movie producers. However, BROWN today has been somewhat unsuccessful as far as she knows. She

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