Interview report (FD-302)Interview of Greyhound bus passenger re three suspicious individuals travelling Everett to RenoInterviewed 28 December 1971page 3 of 5
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Part 18, page 378

DB Cooper-5710Serials SE 164-81

Interviewed 28 December 1971Dictated 4 January 1972Transcribed 6 January 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 18 p. 378 (DB Cooper-5710), FD-302 interview, interviewed 28 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1834 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-18/pages/378

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Portland, OregonReno, NevadaSeattle, Washington

Transcript

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SE 164-81

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spoke intelligently, talked excessively about being a [REDACTED - b6, b7C]

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This third individual who joined the other two previously on the bus in Portland, Oregon, immediately struck up a conversation with [REDACTED] and told him that [REDACTED] at Seattle, Washington. He acted very peculiar as far as [REDACTED] was concerned and overdid his [REDACTED] story. He appeared to [REDACTED] to be very suave, very smooth, and somewhat of a con artist. He settled himself with the other two persons in the seat in front of [REDACTED] and it was clear that all three were well acquainted with each other at that point, with perhaps the exception of the young girl not being too well acquainted with the first individual. [REDACTED] received the impression from the three that they had "picked up" the young girl and that she was accompanying them to Reno, Nevada on short notice.

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During the period that the bus was leaving Portland, Oregon, the third individual made a crack about "get the parachutes ready" and called his other male companion, [REDACTED] at which point the person referred to as [REDACTED] got rather upset and told him not to use that name. From then on the third individual referred to the first individual as [REDACTED]. The first individual called the third individual [REDACTED].

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During the trip to Reno, Nevada, from Portland, the third individual, referred to as [REDACTED] showed [REDACTED] [REDACTED] identification which he took from his brief case, identifying him as [REDACTED] last name believed to be [REDACTED] by [REDACTED]. The identification which he showed was a driver's license and also some type of card which [REDACTED] thought to be a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The third individual, [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that this was a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] at any time he wished to with no problems attached. At approximately this point, [REDACTED] became aware that the third individual with whom he was

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