Interview report (FD-302)Interview of Bremerton Sun employee re person who placed 'D. B. Cooper' adInterviewed 26 April 1972page 2 of 3
reportLegibility: medium

Part 59, page 242

DB Cooper-24386

Interviewed 26 April 1972Dictated 28 April 1972Transcribed 28 April 1972

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 59 p. 242 (DB Cooper-24386), FD-302 interview, interviewed 26 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-59/pages/242

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person he thought was the hijacker, the money would never be recovered and the person would never be proved to be the hijacker.

[REDACTED] said that he had contacted [REDACTED] [REDACTED] telephonically and later had talked to him in person concerning the hijacker. He stated that he contacted [REDACTED] from phone booths, so that the calls could not be traced. He also told them that a [REDACTED] had come to the area and [REDACTED] the hijacker. He later indicated that the [REDACTED] consisted of two people and that they were actually people who had been recruited in the Seattle area. [REDACTED] told him that the [REDACTED] had been blindfolded and led around and then taken to an isolated spot, where the hijacker was [REDACTED] while he was disguised and the [REDACTED] although the [REDACTED] was far enough away that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] indicated that [REDACTED] was given to him and that he was in possession of [REDACTED] [REDACTED] did not specifically say when [REDACTED] had taken place, but from the timing of when he told of [REDACTED] it appeared to [REDACTED] that it was probably in mid to late February 1972. [REDACTED] at one time, indicated that he had a deal with [REDACTED] and later said that he had contacted [REDACTED] and the deal might be off, but he was to be contacted through a want ad in the Seattle Times or P.I. When [REDACTED] indicated that he had a deal with [REDACTED] he indicated that [REDACTED] was to be [REDACTED] which was to be a [REDACTED] was to be [REDACTED] indicated that [REDACTED] had severed his connection with [REDACTED] but had offered [REDACTED] had re- fused to [REDACTED] as they did not want to take the question of amnesty for the hijacker to the Supreme Court and because of the CLIFFORD IRVING, HOWARD HUGHES Auto- biography hoax.

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In conversation with [REDACTED] at first indicated that his motive [REDACTED] was for [REDACTED] and later indicated that it was a humanitarian reason to get amnesty for the hijacker. [REDACTED] stated he told [REDACTED] that he did not think the hijacker would ever be given amnesty; however, [REDACTED] did not agree with this.

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