Document date 9 August 1975AIDates: 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.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 36 p. 156 (DB Cooper-13707), Teletype, dated 9 Aug 1975, serial SE 164-81-1623 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-36/pages/156
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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ON THE SKYJACKING OR HOW IT CAME TO BE. HE RECALLED TALKING ABOUT
HOW THE INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO HAVE A [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] BUT EMPHATICALLY DENIED
THAT HE EVER MENTIONED THE NAME OF [REDACTED] IN THIS CONVERSATION.
[REDACTED] STATED THAT HE DID SERVICE IN SPECIAL FORCES WITH A (FNU)
BUT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY CLOSE AND HAS NOT HAD ANY CONTACT
WITH [REDACTED] SINCE RELEASE FROM SERVICE. [REDACTED] STATED THAT THIS
WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD EVER HEARD THE NAME D. B. COOPER AND
DEFINITELY DID NOT MENTION IT IN ANY WAY IN DISCUSSING THE SKY-
JACKING AT MANSFIELD, OHIO.
[REDACTED] ADVISED HE NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT ANYONE CONTACTING
HIM TO ASSIST IN ANY TYPE OF A "JOB" AND FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT
NE CONVERSATION HE DISCUSSED IDEAS FOR A NOVEL AND SOME OF
THESE IDEAS INCLUDED THE USE OF SPECIAL FORCES IN OVERTHROWING A
COUNTRY. [REDACTED] ADMITTED THAT DURING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT
SKYJACKING HE MIGHT WELL HAVE STATED THAT A SPECIAL FORCES TRAINED
MAN COULD HAVE DONE IT AND WOULD HAVE BEEN KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THE
MANY FACETS NECESSARY. [REDACTED] DENIED HAVING EVER BEEN CONTACTED
BY [REDACTED] OR ANYONE ELSE NOR DID HE HAVE REASON TO SUSPECT ANYONE