Interview report (FD-302)Interview re Eugene Cooper, salesman at Arrow ChevroletInterviewed 11 March 1988page 2 of 2
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Part 97, page 191

DB Cooper-43724Serials PD 164-41

Interviewed 11 March 1988Dictated 11 March 1988Transcribed 6 October 1988

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 97 p. 191 (DB Cooper-43724), FD-302 interview, interviewed 11 Mar 1988, serial PD 164-41-977 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-97/pages/191

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FD-302a (Rev. 11-15-83)

PD 164A-41

Continuation of FD-302 of [REDACTED], On 3/11/87, Page - 2 -

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[REDACTED] advised that, to his recollection, COOPER had left Arrow Chevrolet around December of 1972. He thought COOPER had come there a few months after the D.B. COOPER hijacking, around the first part of 1972. He was not with Arrow Chevrolet for very long where he was employed as he a salesman until the first part of 1972. However, [REDACTED] advised that COOPER was hurt prior to that time and had gone into the Veteran's Hospital, in Walla Walla, Washington, even while there at Arrow Chevrolet.

[REDACTED] advised that COOPER said he had been hurt but did not say how, he did not talk much about it.

[REDACTED] described COOPER as:

Height 6'0" Race White Sex Male Build Athletic, no pot belly Age Late thirties or forties Hair Short, receding hairline Facial Hair None Complexion Unrecalled Characteristics Took pain pills

[REDACTED] reiterated that [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Arrow Chevrolet at the same time EUGENE COOPER did. He advised that he thought COOPER was capable of doing anything. He knew he was stealing dollars from his wife's first husband's coin collection, silver dollars.

[REDACTED] advised that he thought COOPER just disappeared. He went to the hospital and had pins put in his arm. On one occasion, COOPER told [REDACTED] that he had wrecked the car and asked him to insure it after he had wrecked it, [REDACTED] refused.

[REDACTED] reiterated that he thought COOPER was at Arrow Chevrolet in 1972, and 1973.

[REDACTED] advised he could not recall COOPER smoking a lot but something was wrong with his hand, a scar or something on his hand.

[REDACTED] advised that COOPER was very glib, quick, intelligent. COOPER never said anything about being in the service according to [REDACTED].

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DB Cooper-43724