Interview report (FD-302)Interview of Grand Junction witness re A. C. 'Ace' HartleyInterviewed 21 March 1973page 2 of 3
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Part 72, page 323

DB Cooper-31226Serials DN 164-98

Interviewed 21 March 1973Dictated 27 March 1973Transcribed 2 April 1973

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 72 p. 323 (DB Cooper-31226), FD-302 interview, interviewed 21 Mar 1973, serial 164-5-4658 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-72/pages/323

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DN 164-98

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[REDACTED] advised that she had accompanied HARTLEY, after first meeting him in July of 1972, to the Delta, Montrose area where they investigated [REDACTED] and later in Fairplay, Colorado, had also investigated [REDACTED]. In August or September of 1972, she was with HARTLEY in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, investigating [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] had developed and that is why HARTLEY had come to the Grand Junction, area. [REDACTED] stated she has not known HARTLEY to be in Washington or Oregon but that [REDACTED] lived in California and he is [REDACTED] HARTLEY's daughter and grandson were victims of a recent murder in California, names and places unknown to [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] stated at the time she rented the budget rent-a-car in Grand Junction, she took the car to Salt Lake City, Utah, and was accompanied by HARTLEY who went to contact people with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in the Salt Lake area. [REDACTED] advised she never met the people contacted by HARTLEY, she allegedly stayed in the car or with [REDACTED] in the Salt Lake City area.

[REDACTED] advised that she had never seen hand guns in the possession of HARTLEY and that while in Grand Junction HARTLEY used a credit card under the name of (First Name Unknown) [REDACTED] allegedly was [REDACTED] and his function was to pay for the research expenses in looking over the [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] advised that to her knowledge HARTLEY had taken a bus from Rangely to Salt Lake City and was going to Old Mexico to check out some mining claims.

[REDACTED] advised she did not know the date HARTLEY rented the room from the [REDACTED] in Rangely, Colorado, and she was not aware of how HARTLEY paid

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DB Cooper-31226

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