Interview report (FD-302) · Interview re suspect last seen eight years earlier, with physical description · Interviewed 7 December 1971 · page 2 of 3AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Interviewed 7 December 1971 · Transcribed 21 December 1971AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 18 p. 328 (DB Cooper-5660), FD-302 interview, interviewed 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-807 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-18/pages/328
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DN 164-98
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He was asked specifically what made him think
[REDACTED] as a suspect and he stated only because [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] stated he did not
know why the fact that [REDACTED] was forgotten
by him before during the conversation.
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[REDACTED] advised that he had not seen [REDACTED]
for about eight years and that at that time
[REDACTED] in San Mateo, California
and had been trying to get into the California Highway
Patrol. He noted that [REDACTED] had gotten into trouble in
San Mateo [REDACTED]
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He described [REDACTED] as being a White,
male, American, late 20s to early 30s, 6'1", 180 to 200,
medium build. [REDACTED] went on to say that the artist
composite drawing of the hijacker of the plane in Washington
did not look like anyone known to him.
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He said that he had seen Missoula, Montana "Times"
that the hijacker wrote a letter from Oakdale, California
to one of the Reno, Nevada newspapers which said [REDACTED]
He said this made
him think of [REDACTED] as possibly the hijacker.
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He noted that [REDACTED]
from Portland, Oregon to Salem, Oregon the last time he
had heard, [REDACTED] He denied any further
knowledge of the crime and stated that he himself knew nothing
about parachute jumping, the crime or activities of [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] He stated he also knows nothing of anyone
parachute jumping near [REDACTED] Montana November 25, 1971,
or any other time.