Part 40, page 353

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

11/1/77 Date of transcription

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[REDACTED] home address [REDACTED] [REDACTED] telephone [REDACTED] was interviewed at his place of employment, Century 21 Real Estate Office, 1906 F Oceanside Boulevard, telephone [REDACTED] He furnished the following information:

After the initial hijacking of an airplane which was a Portland to Seattle flight in which the man bailed out of the airplane which occurred in about 1971, a man came to [REDACTED] attention who he felt could be of possible significance.

The man's name is [REDACTED] (phonetic) and [illegible] his middle initial is possibly [REDACTED] It was in late 1972 or the first part of 1973, at which time [REDACTED] was working for the Essex International Automotive Parts Division, which is a division of United Technology, the headquarters address of which is 6233 Concord Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. As of about two years ago, [REDACTED] was [REDACTED] for the Washington and Oregon areas. He lives in Seattle and works out of his home. He travels for that firm inasmuch as he is [REDACTED] His address could be obtained through the office in Detroit or possibly through the warehouse in Los Angeles which is at 777 Mission Street, Los Angeles.

[REDACTED] was working for Essex when [REDACTED] joined the firm in late 1972 or the first part of 1973 and that is when [REDACTED] met [REDACTED] He worked with [REDACTED] on two occasions for a period of two or three days each and he met him a third time which was at an auto parts convention in Los Angeles.

When they first met, which was in the Seattle area, [REDACTED] had recently become [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He previously had been working for Hastings Company, also an automotive parts firm in the Seattle area, but he had been laid off. If [REDACTED] mentioned why he had been laid off, [REDACTED] does not recall the reason but he does remember that [REDACTED] said it was a surprise to him. In conversation, [REDACTED] said that [REDACTED]

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Interviewed on 10/31/77 at Oceanside, California File # SE 164-81 SD 164-91

by SA [REDACTED] :M1r Date dictated 10/31/77

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DB Cooper-16160 164-81-7714