ReportButte insert re 2/13/73 interview at Montana residence on Cooper suspect13 February 1973page 1 of 2
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Part 30, page 303

DB Cooper-10965Serials BT 164-26, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-4553

Document date 13 February 1973

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BT #164-26 SE #164-81 JHS/cjs/mhs Page 1

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The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED]

AT [REDACTED] MONTANA

Efforts to contact [REDACTED] on February 9 and 12, 1973, were negative.

On February 13, 1973, [REDACTED] who is [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was interviewed at his resi- dence at which time he furnished the following information:

He has discussed the D. B. COOPER hijacking case at length with [REDACTED] a young woman who formerly resided at [REDACTED] and was employed at the [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] told him about conversations she had had with an individual by the name of [REDACTED] from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Montana. Apparently [REDACTED] and one evening while they were having a few drinks, [REDACTED] started bragging about the fact that he knew D. B. COOPER. Based upon conversations he has had with [REDACTED] he has come to the following conclusions concerning the possible identity of the individual [REDACTED] was referring to:

Mr. X, [REDACTED] went to school with him. [REDACTED] has [REDACTED] possibly involved, whom he will identify as Mr. Y. [REDACTED] and Mr. Y are from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. X was raised in [REDACTED] Montana. [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that his initials are [REDACTED] Mr. X and Mr. Y [REDACTED] [REDACTED] said Mr. X has enough money so that he would not have to spend any of the ransom money he received from the hijacking.

Mr. X is a pilot and had worked out of [REDACTED] sometime in 1968. If this is true, he would have had to

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DB Cooper-10965 164-81-4553