TeletypeNew York to Director, Seattle and Los Angeles re interview of man who met alleged D.B. Cooper26 April 1972page 5 of 8
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Part 58, page 105

DB Cooper-24134

Document date 26 April 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 58 p. 105 (DB Cooper-24134), Teletype, dated 26 Apr 1972, serial 168-497-411 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-58/pages/105

Transcript

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PG FIVE

[REDACTED] WAS NOT ONE OF INDIVIDUALS PRESENT WHEN WIG WAS PURCHASED. HE DOES NOT RECALL SEEING COOPER WITHOUT A HAT OR CAP WHENEVER HE MET HIM. COOPER DESCRIBED AS A DEVOUT CATHOLIC WHO HAD BEEN MARRIED TO THE SAME WOMAN FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS. COOPER ALLEGED HE OWNED A BOAT, A CAMPER AND THREE AUTOMOBILES. FURTHER DESCRIPTION NOT KNOWN. COOPER INDICATED HE HAD TWO CHILDREN, A MARRIED DAUGHTER AND A SON IN COLLEGE. COOPER INDICATED HE HAD OWRKED FOR BOEING AIRCRAFT COMPANY, SEATTLE, FOR FOURTEEN YEARS AND HAD BEEN DISCHARGED AND REPLACED BY A MAN FIFTEEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN HIMSELF, APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THERE WAS A GENERAL LAY-OFF AT BOEING. COOPER INDICATED HE FORMERLY LIVED NEXT DOOR TO A EPISCOPAL MINISTER. [REDACTED] DESCRIBED COOPER AS A WHITE MALE ALMOST FIFTY YEARS OLD, ABOUT FIVE FOOT NINE TO TEN, ONE SIXTY TO ONE SIXTY FIVE LBS., LARGE EARS, THIN LIPS, SHARP NOSE, WITH BALDING DARK BROWN HAIR, RIGHT HANDED AND A HEAVY SMOKER OR FILTERED TYPE CIGARETTE. COOPER HAS SOME SORT OF TATTOO, FURTHER DESCRIPTION NOT NOTICED, ON THE [REDACTED] COOPER HAS A [REDACTED] END PG FIVE

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DB Cooper-24134