Part 61, page 326

DB Cooper-25548Serials LA 164-497

Document date 18 March 1977

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[REDACTED] RELATED THAT ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO, HE WAS ENGAGED BY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TO INVESTIGATE VERACITY OF INFORMATION BEING FURNISHED UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BY [REDACTED] INDICATING THAT COFFELT WAS POSSIBLY HIGHJACKER KNOWN AS D. B. COOPER. [REDACTED] STATES TRAVELED WIDELY IN U.S. FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS INTERVIEWING PAST ASSOCIATES OF COFFELT AND SPENT 12 HOURS INTERVIEWING [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] STATES, DURING INTERVIEW OF [REDACTED] IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT NEITHER [REDACTED] HAD EVER ACTUALLY [REDACTED] ALLEGEDLY FROM PARACHUTE USED BY HIGHJACKER. [REDACTED] STATED COFFELT HAD MADE CASUAL REFERENCE [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] COVERED MANY FACETS OF HIS EFFORTS TO DETERMINE IF COFFELT HIGHJACKER, IN FACTUAL AND ORGANIZED MANNER. STATED HE REACHED CONCLUSION COFFELT WAS PROBABLY NOT HIGHJACKER BASED ON FOLLOWING FACTS:

DURING PERIOD OF HIGHJACKING, BRYANT COFFELT WAS SUFFERING FROM SEVERE ALCOHOLISM AND ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

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DB Cooper-25548

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A redacted individual was engaged by Universal Studios about one month prior to investigate whether Bryant Coffelt was possibly the hijacker known as D. B. Cooper. The individual traveled widely across the U.S. interviewing past associates of Coffelt and spent 12 hours interviewing a redacted person. During an interview, it was ascertained that neither redacted individual(s) had ever actually handled material allegedly from the parachute used by the hijacker. Coffelt had made casual reference to something (redacted). The redacted investigator covered many facets of his efforts to determine if Coffelt was the hijacker, in a factual and organized manner. He concluded Coffelt was probably not the hijacker, based on the fact that during the period of the hijacking, Bryant Coffelt was suffering from severe alcoholism and was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Bates stamp / page tracking number for the DB Cooper file.

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