Interview report (FD-302)Interview re Alvin Curtis Hartley's residence and activities in Grand JunctionInterviewed 23 January 1973page 4 of 5
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Part 60, page 250

DB Cooper-24930Serials DN 87-15972

Interviewed 23 January 1973Transcribed 6 February 1973

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 60 p. 250 (DB Cooper-24930), FD-302 interview, interviewed 23 Jan 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-60/pages/250

People

Alvin Curtis HartleySuspectLou JohnsonSuspect

Not identified: RONSON

Places

AlaskaBar-X Motel, Grand Junction, ColoradoGolden, ColoradoGrand Junction, ColoradoMeeker, ColoradoPalisade, ColoradoRamada Inn

Dates mentioned

1973-01-16

Transcript

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DN 87-15972 4

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[REDACTED] explained that [REDACTED] residing at Palisade, Colorado, [REDACTED] in Alaska, and at one time [REDACTED] HARTLEY. [REDACTED] owns two automobiles, a Mercury and a Cadillac, one of which had Alaska License plates. [REDACTED] has stated to [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] is [REDACTED] HARTLEY [REDACTED] was described as a person always out to make a fast buck and he could be the biggest liar in the world.

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[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] HARTLEY [REDACTED] Meeker, Colorado, last Tuesday, January 16, 1973, and that [REDACTED] HARTLEY [REDACTED] [REDACTED] RYAN Construction Company of Golden, Colorado. RYAN Construction Company was to purchase Drake Construction Company of Golden, Colorado, and offered a new firm to HARTLEY to manage. This deal however, was not consummated.

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[REDACTED] advised that while residing in Grand Junction, Colorado, HARTLEY has mostly done business at a 76 Station on Fifth and Grant and that HARTLEY has also stayed at the Ramada Inn on several occasions using fictitious names. The only name recalled by [REDACTED] was "A.C."

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[REDACTED] disclosed that on his previous telephone number [REDACTED] HARTLEY ran up a telephone bill amounting to [REDACTED] The telephone number was subsequently changed and [REDACTED] and is still attempting to make charges to his present number.

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[REDACTED] further explained that at one time he had [REDACTED] is now mysteriously missing; however, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] had disclosed that she had seen the [REDACTED] on one occasion as HARTLEY [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] stated that he was under the impression that HARTLEY had gone under the name of RONSON or JOHNSON at the Bar-X Motel, Grand Junction, Colorado, and that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Sheriff of Mesa County, that HARTLEY [REDACTED] in the Grand Junction area. [REDACTED] at one time had used a Budget Rent-A-Car, while staying with [REDACTED] at the Bar-X Motel at Grand Junction, Colorado.

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DB Cooper-24930