Part 56, page 171

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription ___ 1/25/72

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[REDACTED] Houston, Texas, supplied the following information:

Over the Christmas, 1971 holidays [REDACTED] and some family friends named [REDACTED] traveled to Mexico. While in Mexico they rode a ferry boat from the Mexican mainland to the [REDACTED] and while on this boat met three Americans named [REDACTED] California; [REDACTED] California; and [REDACTED] (LNU), who was a doctor living in Oregon. These individuals asked [REDACTED] and his party to met them at a bar named Raphaels in [REDACTED] which is at the tip of the [REDACTED]

Upon arriving there [REDACTED] and his party met the above three individual at the bar and while drinking with them also became acquainted with an individual named [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

Over a period of several days they learned from [REDACTED] that he was from [REDACTED] Illinois and had previously been employed by [REDACTED] [REDACTED] also stated that he had lived in Portland, Oregon and on the west coast of California for some time.

[REDACTED] along with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] staying on a large [REDACTED] named [REDACTED]

One morning [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that the night before, [REDACTED] had been drinking quite heavily and had stated that he was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient

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Interviewed on _1/21/72_ at _Houston, Texas_ File # _HO-164-118_ (A)(9)- [guess: 31]

by SA [REDACTED] /sac Date dictated _ 1/25/7[2] SE 164-81

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DB Cooper-23571