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

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription: May 2, 1980

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[REDACTED], commonly known as [REDACTED], [REDACTED], Apex, North Carolina, [REDACTED] home telephone number [REDACTED], work telephone number [REDACTED], appeared at the Raleigh, North Carolina, Resident Agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where she was advised of the official identity of the interviewing agent and thereafter furnished the following information:

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[REDACTED] said a few evenings ago, she was watching a television program entitled "In Search of" and viewed a composite photograph of a man being sought for the hijacking of an airplane about ten years ago in the Northwestern United States. [REDACTED] stated the program stated the man used the name "D. B. COOPER" and parachuted out of the airplane. [REDACTED] said the composite photograph resembled her [REDACTED] ROBERT HUGH COOPER, SR.

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[REDACTED] said that on [REDACTED] ROBERT HUGH COOPER, SR. at Pueblo, Colorado, which is [REDACTED] [REDACTED] said she first met COOPER during July, 1961, while they both were [REDACTED] in Pueblo, Colorado. [REDACTED] said [REDACTED] on March 14, 1962, and that [REDACTED] advised that in January or February, 1962, she and [REDACTED] moved to Parker, Arizona, where they both [REDACTED] which was owned by [REDACTED] said [REDACTED] was older than COOPER and looked after COOPER [REDACTED] advised that the [REDACTED] lived in Tucson, Arizona.

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[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] in Parker, Arizona, she returned to Pueblo, Colorado, for a short while before taking a job in Northern California. [REDACTED] said she worked for [REDACTED] California, as a [REDACTED] at various [REDACTED] in the Northwestern United States. [REDACTED] stated COOPER visited her at some of the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] in 1963.

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[REDACTED] stated she last saw COOPER in 1963 in Yuma, Arizona, where he was in jail, probably on a bad check charge. [REDACTED] said she visited COOPER in jail and later saw him on the street there where he told her he had been released.

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Investigation on 5/1/80 at Raleigh, N.C. File # CE 164-219 - 3

by SA THOMAS M. MILLER Da[te dictated] 5/1/80

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.

ORIGINAL & 5 to Seattle 5/2/80 (2)

DB Cooper-43767