Part 52, page 174
DB Cooper-21830Serials 473-30-3599, SE 164-81-9436
Interviewed 30 April 2004Dictated 4 May 2004Transcribed 4 May 2004
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 52 p. 174 (DB Cooper-21830), FD-302 interview, interviewed 30 Apr 2004 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-52/pages/174
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FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 05/04/2004
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[REDACTED] date of birth [REDACTED] Social Security Number [REDACTED] Morris, Minnesota, [REDACTED] telephone number [REDACTED] was interviewed at a city park in Morris about [REDACTED] Kenneth Christiansen, and D. B. Cooper. [REDACTED] was a retired [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and retired in [REDACTED] After being apprised of the identity of the interviewing Agent and the nature of the interview, [REDACTED] provided the following information:
He had written a few letters to the F.B.I. office in Seattle, Washington, dating back to about 2000. He had addressed the letters to Agent [REDACTED] because he had learned at some point that Agent [REDACTED] was in charge of the D.B. Cooper case. The letters basically addressed his suspicion that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] may have been D. B. Cooper.
He had used the pseudonym [REDACTED] in the letters to disguise his true identity and rented a post office box in Hopkins, Minnesota, to receive any return correspondence from the F.B.I. He had kept his actions and suspicions from his wife and children because he had mentioned his suspicions to them previously and they thought it was a silly notion. He did not want to go through that again.
[REDACTED] Kenneth Peter Christiansen, date of birth October 17, 1926, Social Security Number 473-30-3599. Kenneth died of colon cancer in July, 1995. The suspicions about Kenneth started when he, [REDACTED] were visiting Kenneth [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Kenneth did not elaborate more and the statement struck him as curious.
Sometime later, he saw one of those television shows about unsolved crimes and the subject was D.B. Cooper. There seemed to be several similarities between Cooper and [REDACTED] and Kenneth had a lot of qualities which could have made it possible for him to commit the crime. Kenneth lived in the area,
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Investigation on 4/30/04 at Morris, Minnesota
File # SE 164A-81 -9436 Date dictated 5/4/04
by SA [REDACTED] skj
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