Handwritten noteHandwritten citizen letter naming a suspect as D.B. Cooper and describing drug-trade knowledgepage 3 of 6
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Part 73, page 262

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 73 p. 262, Handwritten note — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-73/pages/262

Transcript

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[I] am not crying about that since this was the [proper] thing to do. I did find the B.M.D.D. [guests] a little over zealous in their statement of facts in fact very much so, but I guess I just feel they are doing their job. I can [prove] my position and innocence; all the proper [time] and this is not my purpose here. Just because I [REDACTED] [wasn't] going to [stop] me from the program [and] [felt] myself one time ago, This basically was to find the sources and through legal means stop them. [The] pushers and small time dealers were all [picked] us [up] as fast as they were picked up [more] would pop up behind them. I knew that just something would stop [and] [this] [would] but would necessarily endanger [REDACTED] [I] [my]. So if [I was] going to really do some [good] it would have [to] [be] [the] [much] [deeper], I [knew] [on] the fact I had lived in an area [several] [years] [where] drugs were plentiful