Part 51, page 152
Interviewed 6 February 1997Transcribed 13 February 1997
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 51 p. 152 (DB Cooper-21263), FD-302 interview, interviewed 6 Feb 1997 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-51/pages/152
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FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 02/13/97
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[REDACTED] social security number [REDACTED] of [REDACTED] Pace, Florida [REDACTED], telephone [REDACTED] was advised of the identity of the interviewing agent and the purpose of the interview. [REDACTED] believes [REDACTED] deceased [REDACTED] was D.B. Cooper and provided the following information:
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DUANE LORIN (WEBER), date of birth 06/18/1924, SSN 293- 14-8862, also known as JOHN CHALK COLLINS, JR., date of birth 11/13/28, SSN 587-18-0349 was born in Willoughby, Ohio. He died of Polysystic Kidney Disease on 03/28/1995 in Pace, Florida. While confined to a hospital bed at the West Florida Regional Medical Center, Pensacola, Florida, he confessed [REDACTED] [REDACTED] that he was Dan Cooper, alias D.B. Cooper.
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In 1990, [REDACTED] said she found a blue parking ticket from the early 70s from the Seattle/Tacoma area. She asked WEBER why he was saving it and he threw it away.
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[REDACTED] said that WEBER had destroyed all photographs of himself prior to the late 70s. She later found a full-body photograph of WEBER wearing a plaid jacket. When she inquired about the photograph, WEBER replied that [REDACTED] had taken the photo right before the big one. [REDACTED] believes that WEBER has something on underneath his jacket in the photograph.
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[REDACTED] stated that WEBER would often relate stories of crimes that he and [REDACTED] SSN [REDACTED] had committed. She said WEBER told her that he went to prison in Colorado for a crime planned and committed by [REDACTED] who might have been a Navy careerist. He was stationed in the Seattle or Portland area during 1971. [REDACTED] believes that he is the reason that [REDACTED] and WEBER might have been in the area when the crime was committed. [REDACTED] believes that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] may have been an accomplice. She feels [REDACTED] will not talk if she finds out that WEBER is deceased.
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Investigation on 02/06/1997 at Milton, Florida
File # SE-164A-81 -[guess: 9976]
Date dictated
by SA [REDACTED]
SERIALIZED___FILED___ MAR 2 8 1997 FBI SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-21263