Part 73, page 44
DB Cooper-31344Serials AN 164-59
Interviewed 15 May 1973Dictated 16 May 1973Transcribed 16 May 1973
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 73 p. 44 (DB Cooper-31344), FD-302 interview, interviewed 15 May 1973 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-73/pages/44
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AN 164-59
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involved in the venture that he was discussing. [REDACTED] b6 advised that he merely assumed himself that since [REDACTED] b7C was knowledgeable about aircraft and flight operations and spent his time reading periodicals relating to that field and allegedly was a pilot and/or parachutist that whatever [REDACTED] eventually did accomplish would in somehow be related to the aircraft field. He gathered from [REDACTED] that money would be involved but [REDACTED] never volunteered the source of the money. He gathers from the conversation that it would be some kind of a heist on the part of [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] even elaborated b6 that when he accomplished this feat that he would be b7C known by the first initials of his first and middle name and that he intended to use the surname of [REDACTED] [REDACTED] explained to [REDACTED] that in this way when his feat was publicized in the newspapers that it would be a clue to him, [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] had in fact accomplished what he had planned.
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[REDACTED] advised that at no time did [REDACTED] b6 indicate a city or state in the United States where he b7C was planning to perform this heist.
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[REDACTED] advised that he was [REDACTED] b6 [REDACTED] in Anchorage prior to [REDACTED] b7C [REDACTED] advised that to his recollection [REDACTED] had been [REDACTED] [REDACTED] stated that upon [REDACTED] he has neither seen nor heard from [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] further recalls that during some b6 conversations with [REDACTED] b7C that [REDACTED] had indicated that at one time he had planned to rob a bank in Fairbanks, Alaska. [REDACTED] elaborated that he intended to use a white snowmobile and wear a white sheet for clothing and would make his escape into the countryside and being camouflaged his chances of escape were excellent.
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DB Cooper-31344