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Part 60, page 31

DB Cooper-24679

Document date 13 September 1972

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI Date:

Transmit the following in ___________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via ___________ (Priority) ----------------------------------------------

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[REDACTED] DESCRIBED [REDACTED] AS APPROXIMATELY FIVE FEET EIGHT INCHES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, SLENDER BUILD, BLACK HAIR, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, ABOUT FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. HE SAID [REDACTED] IS ADVENTURESOME, WELL EDUCATED, AND EXTREMELY COOL. FROM DETAILS HE HAS HEARD OF HIJACKING, IS EVEN MORE CONVINCED [REDACTED] COULD HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME.

ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, DENVER, HAS REQUESTED THAT EVERY EFFORT BE MADE TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF [REDACTED] AS SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION.

ON SEPTEMBER ELEVEN LAST, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, WHO HAS KNOWN [REDACTED] FOR TWENTY YEARS, WAS INTERVIEWED. [REDACTED] RECALLS [REDACTED] WAS A FORMER AIR FORCE OFFICER, A COLLEGE GRADUATE, AND A TOP SKIER, [REDACTED] STATED IS A PERSON WHO BECOMES VERY PROFICIENT IN ANYTHING HE UNDERTAKES. HE IS AT HOME IN THE WOODS, AND WOULD BE HAPPY WITH A DOG AND A GUN. HE IS A NOMAD TYPE, WHO WOULD TAKE OFF AT A MOMENTS NOTICE TO GO ANYWHERE. HE HAS PROSPECTED FOR URANIUM AND IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT MINERALOGY. [REDACTED] HAS INVENTIVE IDEAS

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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971-413-135 DB Cooper-24679