Interview report (FD-302)Interview re individual who repeatedly discussed the D.B. Cooper hijacking (El Paso)Interviewed 27 December 1973page 1 of 4
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Part 42, page 30

DB Cooper-16716Serials SE 164-81-7957

Interviewed 27 December 1973Transcribed 3 January 1974

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

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription January 3, 1974

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[REDACTED] was contacted and advised of the identity of the interviewing Agent as well as the nature of the inquiry. Subsequent to this, he freely and voluntarily furnished the following information:

Prior to coming [REDACTED] he had been [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] prior to and after a hijacking occurred in the northwest section of the United States, approximately 1½ years ago, in which a man known as D. B. COOPER is responsible for that hijacking. [REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] there was a [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] and who prior to the hijacking in which D. B. COOPER is suspected of committing, was frequently [REDACTED] This man by the name of [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] stated that he is positive that this [REDACTED] just before this hijacking occurred and did not return [REDACTED] until after the hijacking had occurred. When [REDACTED] Also after returning [REDACTED]

[REDACTED]

done prior to [REDACTED] remembers that he asked [REDACTED] what he was going to do when he went on leave and [REDACTED] laughingly told [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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Interviewed on 12/27/73 at [REDACTED] File # El Paso 164-52-2/ SA [REDACTED] /psr [handwritten initials] 1/2/74 by [REDACTED] Date dictated [REDACTED]

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-16716 164-81-7957

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