Part 41, page 504
DB Cooper-16627Serials SE 164-81
Document date 22 May 1978
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 41 p. 504 (DB Cooper-16627), Memo, dated 22 May 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-41/pages/504
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SE 164-81
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175 pounds, black hair, hazel eyes, medium complexion. [REDACTED] has thin, fairly short black hair combed straight back, smooth face, slightly tapered chin, and, at time of interview, was wearing slightly dark lensed glasses of pilot or tear dropped shape.
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When asked what his circumstances were at the time of the hijacking incident; [REDACTED] replied that he was then employed at Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River. His employer was [REDACTED] and he was living in the [REDACTED] Washington. He was so employed until he was seriously injured in [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He said he remembers hearing about the incident as [REDACTED] to Vancouver at Thanksgiving Time, 1971, and was interested in it because of his knowledge of parachute jumping. He said he heard that the sports parachutes delivered to the hijacker had been rigged so as not to open and wondered if unsub had not been killed in the jump. Had the chute worked properly, said [REDACTED] the unsub could well have, in his opinion, landed safely, particularly because of the weather at the time. It is his opinion that the unsub did not jump where the search was intensified or at least where the airplane pilot said he felt a motion of the plane as the man jumped. [REDACTED] says he doubts a plane of that size would react to the weight of a man leaving the aircraft. (These technicals observations certainly must have been considered by airline personnel with more knowledge of such than [REDACTED].
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[REDACTED] said he was contacted once before while employed at Lower Granite Dam, but he was not at all antagonistic at being interviewed. He was cordial and friendly.
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It is being left to the discretion of the case Agent whether to have [REDACTED] employment with [REDACTED] at Lower Granite Dam and residence at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Washington, at Thanksgiving Time, 1971, verified. It appears he can be eliminated as a suspect in this case.
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DB Cooper-16627