Part 48, page 14
DB Cooper-19803Serials SE 164-81-8838
Interviewed 6 January 1986Dictated 10 January 1986Transcribed 14 January 1986
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 48 p. 14 (DB Cooper-19803), FD-302 interview, interviewed 6 Jan 1986, serial SE 164-81-8838 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-48/pages/14
Transcript
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FD-302 (REV. 3-8-77)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 1/14/86
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DAVID H. WESTMORELAND was interviewed at the UTAH STATE PRISON, Draper, Utah, by KUTV, Channel 2, Salt Lake City, Utah, reporter BOB LOY. This interview was shown publicly on the KUTV television news at 10:00 p.m. on January 6, 1986, and was witnessed by the Agent at his home at [REDACTED] Ogden, Utah.
The Agent had previously interviewed [REDACTED] at the UTAH STATE PRISON on December 19, 1985 regarding his possible involvement in the November 24, 1971 hijacking of NORTHWEST ORIENT flight 305 out of Portland, Oregon. When interviewed by the Agent, [REDACTED] denied being the hijacker and was surprised and humored that someone might suggest that he committed the crime. [REDACTED] said he was occassionally "ribbed" by other inmates about being the hijacker, D.B. COOPER.
During the interview by LOY on KUTV, WESTMORELAND claimed that he was the hijacker of the plane. He said that he bet a fellow truck driver $100.00 that he could jump out of a commercial jet. As a result of the bet, WESTMORELAND said he boarded the plane drunk and made a "crack" about a bomb to one of the stewardesses. He said that he was not planning on demanding money, but the stewardess asked him how much he wanted. WESTMORELAND consequently said he wanted $250,000.00
WESTMORELAND said that he was given the money and some parachutes. After being shown the rear passenger stairway by the stewardess, WESTMORELAND said that he bailed out of the plane. Upon his exit, he said that he lost all of the money.
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[REDACTED] on the [REDACTED] differs from the accounts given in the original FBI communications about the incident that are in the files of the Salt Lake City Office, in that, in the communications the hijacker is described as cool, calculating and intelligent speaking. There is no mention of the hijacker [REDACTED] Also the communications state that the amount of the money demanded
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Investigation on 1/6/86 at Ogden, Utah
by SA [REDACTED] eab Date dictated 1/10/86 [guess: 1505]
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DB Cooper-19803
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