Interview report (FD-302)Interview re man met at Raphaels bar in Mexico during Christmas holidaysInterviewed 21 January 1972page 1 of 2
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Part 56, page 136

DB Cooper-23526Serials LA 164-497-303A

Interviewed 21 January 1972Transcribed 25 January 1972

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FD-302 (Rev. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 1/25/72

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[REDACTED] Freeport, Texas, telephone number [REDACTED] supplied the following information:

During the Christmas holidays [REDACTED] were in [REDACTED] Mexico, with his family friends named [REDACTED]

While in this town in Mexico on the day before Christmas they were at a bar called Raphaels and had occasion to meet a man named [REDACTED] claimed to have been employed by [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] later learned from another individual that [REDACTED] had been claiming that he was a sky diver and was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient Airliner in Oregon and had parachuted out.

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] seemed to be well known to the [REDACTED] of the Raphaels bar. [REDACTED] known as [REDACTED] is believed to be an American.

[REDACTED] were staying on a large [REDACTED] [REDACTED] which [REDACTED] believes is registered out of San Diego, California.

[REDACTED] had been telling everyone that he would be in [REDACTED] for about a week but he suddenly dis- appeared on Christmas day.

[REDACTED] was shown an artist conception drawing of the individual who actually hijacked the above mentioned airliner and he stated that this drawing vaguely resembled

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Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Freeport, Texas

SA [REDACTED] sac by ___

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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164-497-303/A [stamp text partially illegible]

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DB Cooper-23526