Interview report (FD-302)Sumner, Washington informant reports suspect to SeattleInterviewed 20 July 19731 page
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Part 72, page 134

DB Cooper-30970Serials SE 164-81

Interviewed 20 July 1973Dictated 24 July 1973Transcribed 30 July 1973

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 7/30/73

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[REDACTED], Sumner, Washington, phone [REDACTED], furnished the fol- lowing information concerning a man whom he phonetically knew as [REDACTED] residing at [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Sumner (by description of the location and the above phonetic name it was determined that the true name of the suspect is [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Sumner);

[REDACTED] explained that he was [REDACTED] with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office and starting ap- proximately six months before Thanksgiving of 1971 he had [REDACTED]. They were having trouble with the stop and go at 120th Street East and 214th Avenue East, [guess: and] in connection with this he asked [REDACTED] who [REDACTED] if he could park his car in this to observe the activity at this stop and go. Because he did this frequently at night, he struck up several con- versations with [REDACTED] and ascertained over a period of time that [REDACTED] was previously [REDACTED] at Boeing Aircraft. Further, [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. In his yard at the back was [REDACTED]

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He did not recall that it had [REDACTED] [REDACTED] lived in a mobil home and he had occasion to go into the home where [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. They had a modest home and [REDACTED] explained that he desired to get money to build a home on the prop- erty but it probably would be a long wait. He had con- tact with [REDACTED] up to about the time of the hijack and then there was a period he did not see him. Sometime about the time of the hijack he had [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] from the Pierce County Sheriff's Office investigated [REDACTED] At the

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Interviewed on 7/20/73 at Tacoma, Washington File # SE 164-81

by SA [REDACTED] Date dictated 7/24/73

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DB Cooper-30970

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[guess: Sub] Q 164-81 4895