Interview report (FD-302)Telephonic interview of anonymous Mississippi caller re planned 727 hijackingInterviewed 30 October 1975page 1 of 4
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Part 36, page 367

DB Cooper-13983Serials KC 164-80, SE 164-81

Interviewed 30 October 1975Transcribed 3 November 1975

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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 11/3/75

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[REDACTED] Mississippi, [REDACTED] telephonically advised that he desired to furnish information regarding the person known as D. B. COOPER who hijacked a Northwestern Airlines Boeing 727 in November, 1971. At the outset of the telephone conversation [REDACTED] advised he had a two-fold purpose for furnishing the information. The first reason was that he was desirous of being considered for any reward that was available in the event he could furnish the identity of D. B. COOPER and second, he felt a sense of loyalty to FBI Director CLARENCE KELLY. For these reasons he was telephonically furnishing the information to Agents of the Kansas City Division rather than contacting the local office of the FBI in Mississippi. Additionally, [REDACTED] advised that he wished to keep his name anonymous and did not desire any publicity for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in connection with information furnished by him. He then advised as follows:

During [REDACTED] at the [REDACTED] Louisiana. He was assigned [REDACTED] and for approximately a three month period during the fall of [REDACTED] he was responsible for [REDACTED] [REDACTED] a white male, approximately [REDACTED] Through his association with [REDACTED] was taken into [REDACTED] confidence regarding the planning of a hijacking of a Boeing 727 jetliner. According to [REDACTED] related the following plan:

[REDACTED] would hijack a Boeing 727 somewhere between Spokane, Washington, and Boise, Idaho, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] on board with him. He would thereafter demand $200,000 in small bills and two parachutes, and attempt to parachute from the airplane into a forested area where an accomplice would be waiting with [REDACTED]

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Interviewed on 10/30/75 at Kansas City, Missouri File # SE 164-81 KC 164-80 SA [REDACTED] sb 10/31/75 by Date dictated

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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DB Cooper-13983