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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) Date 6/4/85

From : IA [REDACTED]

Subject: UNSUB., aka. D. B. COOPER CAA - HIJACKING

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On 6/4/85 [REDACTED] Centralia, Wash, telephone [REDACTED] advised he is a [REDACTED] at SHARIS RESTAURANT in Centralia and was talking with [REDACTED] who used to work at SHARIS. [REDACTED] advised he talked with [REDACTED] for about [REDACTED] and the story she told him is quite unbelievable but he decided he should report it to authorities.

[REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that she knows a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] including some [REDACTED] and is [REDACTED] [REDACTED] has a [REDACTED] (LNU) who lives in Aberdeen and is a [REDACTED] in Aberdeen. [REDACTED] claims [REDACTED] [REDACTED] so decided to ask [REDACTED] if he knew [REDACTED]

When [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] were conversing, [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that she probably wouldn't believe his story so wouldn't report it to authorities, but that it was true. [REDACTED] claims he is D. B. COOPER and that he worked for an airlines. [REDACTED] claims he packed some of the money around a chair and threw the chair out of the airplane and that is what the plane following the hijacked plane had seen. [REDACTED] claims he never left the plane but hid himself behind some paneling in the back of the airplane. When the hijacked plane landed another airline employee undid the paneling and let [REDACTED] out and they walked out of the airplane as airline employees. [REDACTED] said the other airline employee is dead. [REDACTED] claims he can start spending the money fifteen years from the date of the hijacking.

[REDACTED] has known [REDACTED] for many years but does not know where she lives or if she is working but is in the Centralia area.

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CF/cf (2)

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[Signature: CA [REDACTED]] [Signature: Centralia [guess: field office]]

164A-81-8808 SEARCHED [INDEXED] [guess: SERIALIZED] FILED [REDACTED] JUN 4 1985 FBI-S[illegible]

DB Cooper-19725