Interview report (FD-302)Re Vancouver caller reporting $20 bills with suspect serial numbersDictated 19 February 19801 page
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Part 73, page 82

DB Cooper-31405Serials PD 164-41

Dictated 19 February 1980Transcribed 4 March 1980

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FD-302 (REV. 3-8-77)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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Date of transcription 3/4/80

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At approximately 5:30 p.m., on February 11, 1980, [REDACTED] Vancouver, Washington, telephonically contacted the below listed agent at the Portland FBI Office to advise that he had called 30 minutes earlier and had spoken to a girl in the office and had given her the serial numbers to some $20 bills that he had found, and asked her to check them to see if they were "hot". [REDACTED] was advised that the FBI is interested in the money and was asked if it was pos- sible for him to bring the money into the office. He advised that he could and that he would appear at the Portland Office and bring the money at approximately 9:00 a.m. the following day, February 12, 1980.

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At approximately 9:45 a.m., February 12, 1980, [REDACTED] appeared at the Portland FBI Office with [REDACTED] at which time he brought with him a small plastic sandwich baggie containing some obviously decomposed $20 Federal Reserve Notes. Immediate examination of the money disclosed that bills bearing the following serial numbers were contained within the parcel:

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SERIAL NUMBER YEAR

L 30706882 B 1963 A I 02442844 A 1969 K 03654750 A 1969 I 02591811 A 1969 J 20209868 A 1963 A L 55376548 B 1963 A L 20301456 A 1969 L 51236377 B 1963 A D 27112759 A 1969

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[REDACTED] related that on Sunday afternoon, February 10, 1980, approximately 3:00 to 3:30 p.m., [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He decided [REDACTED] [REDACTED] At this point, [REDACTED] said, [REDACTED]

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Investigati[on on] 1-12/80 at Portland, Oregon File # PD 164-41 - [REDACTED]

SA [REDACTED]

Date dictated 2/19/80

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

DB Cooper-31405