Document date 24 October 1975AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 85 p. 129 (DB Cooper-37486), Form, dated 24 Oct 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-85/pages/129
Transcript
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The outside layers of cloth and
just left the ropes that [guess: separate]
each panel and the band that
goes around the bottom and the
three inside sections of cloth, are
still intact.
He looked around at the trees
in the vicinity and found that a
ponderosa pine tree about thirty
feet up the hill from the chute
had something heavy fall through
it, breaking off a [guess: row] of [guess: branches]
[guess: on] to the bottom. Whatever
had come down through that tree
had taken an awful beating.
Now it started to make sense why
that was just half of a chute we
found. Who ever was in it was
left dangling about fifteen feet from
the ground because all the small
dead limbs had been crushed as
if a heavy load had been swung