Part 72, page 278
Interviewed 20 February 1976Dictated 25 February 1976Transcribed 1 March 1976
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 72 p. 278 (DB Cooper-31178), FD-302 interview, interviewed 20 Feb 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-72/pages/278
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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 3/1/76
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[REDACTED], Texas, was interviewed at his place of employment, Employers Casualty Company Building, at 423 South Akard, at which time he furnished the following information:
Following his discharge from military service he was still single and he worked for a period of six months for Kenworth Truck Manufacturing in Seattle, Washington. He [REDACTED] in the Seattle vicinity.
During the six months spent in Seattle, he became acquainted with [REDACTED], a white male, who was then about 45 years old. [REDACTED] in a Seattle suburb called [REDACTED]. He became friendly with the [REDACTED] and visited them in their home from time to time. As far as he [REDACTED] knows, [REDACTED] was a law-abiding citizen and [REDACTED] never knew [REDACTED] to be in trouble with the law or to have any criminal record.
After [REDACTED] left Seattle, he returned to Texas where he is from and went to work for Texas Technical University [REDACTED] in Lubbock, Texas. He worked there for about [REDACTED] and then moved to the Dallas area and took up residence in [REDACTED], where [REDACTED]. Since returning to the Dallas area, he has worked doing [REDACTED] at One Main Place and in the Employers Casualty Company Building, his current employment.
Since leaving Seattle, he has never exchanged letters or cards with [REDACTED] and they have never even exchanged Christmas cards, nor have they called one another on the telephone. Then very shortly after January 1, 1976, [REDACTED] made a telephone call to [REDACTED] which is telephone number [REDACTED] received this telephone call and then put him on the line, since the call was for him and [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] explained that he had gotten [REDACTED] telephone number through [REDACTED]
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Interviewed on 2/20/76 at Dallas, Texas
File # Dallas 164-191-/5/ Seattle 164-81
by SA [REDACTED] Date dictated 2/25/76
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164-81-[illegible] DB Cooper-31178