Interview report (FD-302)Interview of KATU-TV employee re $20 bill fragment J28365856AInterviewed 25 November 1981page 1 of 2
fbi_formLegibility: high

Part 97, page 10

DB Cooper-43418Serials PD 164-41-1879

Interviewed 25 November 1981Dictated 2 December 1981Transcribed 16 March 1982

Open in FBI Vault (Part 97, page 10 of the PDF)

FBI 164-81, Vault Part 97 p. 10 (DB Cooper-43418), FD-302 interview, interviewed 25 Nov 1981, serial PD 164-41-1879 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-97/pages/10

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

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

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

- 1 -

Date of transcription 3/16/82

---

[REDACTED], KATU-TV, 2153 NE Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, furnished the following information:

On November 25, 1981, she was assigned to meet and interview an unidentified male at the Mapleleaf Restaurant, SE 72nd Avenue and Stark Street, Portland. The man was to give her a portion of a twenty dollar bill and furnish her with information concerning the bill. At 10:30 AM she went to the restaurant with a fellow employee, [REDACTED]

When they arrived on the parking lot of the Mapleleaf Restaurant she was approached by a white male who made available to her the center portion of a U. S. Twenty Dollar Bill bearing serial number J28365856A. He then told the following story:

The man advised the money was found around Kalama by a family approximately one year ago. He said he is not sure how much they found, but there is at least one stack. The family gave the man one piece of the money and asked him to check where it might have come from, giving the serial number. He said he had seen the TV program last night about the anniversary of D. B. Cooper, showing pictures of the other money that was found, and that got him to thinking maybe this was part of that money and that is what prompted him to call the television station today.

The man would not let television station personnel talk to the family who found the money because he was trying to protect the identity of the family. They said they found it on the beach and they asked him to check into it instead of doing it themselves because they were just not the type of people who would know where to go.

The man said he is not related to the family, but they are just friends. He claimed [REDACTED] location where the money was found. When questioned about the amount of money found he finally said, "quite a bit." He said the family wanted strict privacy and that is why they were not coming forth. He described them as very reserved people and he believes they found it after the first amount of money was found.

---

Investigation on 11/25/81 at Portland, Oregon File # PD 164A-41-1879

by ________ SA [REDACTED] Date dictated 12/2/81

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-43418