Part 40, page 378

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

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

1 Date of transcription 3/8/78

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[REDACTED] furnished the following information:

She works for [REDACTED] and has home phone [REDACTED]

She is [REDACTED] ROBERT WESLEY JONES

PHILIP RACKSTRAW, who was recently discovered as a murder victim.

PHIL RACKSTRAW [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] PHILIP never adopted JONES and JONES is his true name, although he always used the last name of RACKSTRAW in school and when he went into the Army.

She realizes that a murder warrant has been issued against JONES for the murder of [REDACTED] stepfather, but she will await the verdict of the court before deciding as to his guilt.

She denied any knowledge that ROBERT is identical to "D .B. COOPER", but she recalled that during the fall of 1971, ROBERT was just "floating around" because he was being sought on some fraud warrant out of Alabama. (Houston County, Dothan, Alabama) He intentionally did not keep his exact whereabouts known to his family.

She realizes D. B. COOPER had a knowledge of navigation and of parachuting and ROBERT is highly skilled at both. She believed he received his commercial flying license some time inthe fall of 1971, because at Christmas, 1971, [REDACTED]

She recalled that it was about this time that he worked for some real estate firm in the Los Angeles area and part of his work was the promotion of some land in Oregon, back in an area so remote that there were no roads and ROBERT had to fly prospects in there to see the land.

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Interviewed on 3/3/78 at California File # SC 164-50 SE 164-81

by SA [REDACTED] :js Date dictated 3/3/78

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-15962 /64-61- 7[illegible]

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