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PA3 5#433 88164-93 UNCLAS
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HE SAID HIS INTEREST RESULTED FROM EARLY NEWS REPORTS THAT COOPER
MAY HAVE BEEN A PARATROOPER. [REDACTED] ASKED POINTED QUESTIONS
OF SA SUCH AS, HAD ANY LATENT PRINTS BEEN OBTAINED AND HE WAS
INTERESTED TO KNOW IF COOPER HAD, IN FACT, PARACHUTED INSTEAD
OF HIDING SOMEWHERE IN THE PLANE. [REDACTED] ADMITTED THAT HE
HAD MADE 30 JUMPS WHILE IN THE U.S. PARATROOPERS SOME OF WHICH
WERE FROM PLANES FLYING 300 MILES PER HOUR. HE STATED THAT
ALTITUDE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PROBLEM FOR ANY SKILLED PARACHUTIST.
[REDACTED] MUST BE CONSIDERED A SUSPECT, UNTIL HE IS
ELIMINATED, BECAUSE OF HIS SIMILARITY TO THE COMPOSITE OF COOPER,
HIS U.S. PARATROOPER SERVICE, HIS [REDACTED] AND
HIS UNEMPLOYMENT AT THE TIME OF THE SKYJACKING, NOVEMBER 24, 1971.
ARREST RECORDS OR [REDACTED] AT PARKERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT
AND WOOD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, PARKERSBURG, ARE NEGATIVE.
[REDACTED] PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING BACKGROUND INFORMATION
CONCERNING HIMSELF:
NAME [REDACTED] SEX MALE, RACE WHITE, $DOB [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] POB [REDACTED] RESIDENCE [REDACTED]
PARKERSBURG, TWO WEEKS, FORMER RESIDENCE [REDACTED]
PARKERSBURG, WV, HEIGHT 5'7", WEIGHT 165, EYES GRAY, GLASSES