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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70) ] _ e@ ? FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 11/30, 71 . b6 Section Ss home address bic provided the ollowing information: At approximately 4:45 PM, November 24, 1971, was advised by the Chief of Detectives that _there was an extortion in progress at Sea~Tac Airport. b6 then drove his unmarked police vehicle to the Seattle First b7C National Bank where he met various bank officials who had in their possession $200,000. in currency. He drove them to the airport, reaching the Northwest Airlines Operation Center approximately 5 PM. ‘There the money was transferred £ bank officials to a Northwest Airlines official, Also four parachutes were loaded into the police car as were eight crew meals and one set of instructions for exiting the Boeing 727. were hen drove the vehicle out onto the runway. b6 His car waS followed by a stairway truck and a gas truck. bic He stopped the vehicle approximately 300 yards from the plane landing area at approximately 5:45 PM. Shortly there- after he observed the plane land and drove the car to the ten to eleven o'clock angle of the nose of the plane. He remained in the parked car and a short time later one stewardess exited the plane via the stair truck and approached his car. She obtained the sack containing the $200,000. and took it on board the plane. She made other trips from the car to the plane carrying the parachutes and the exiting instructions and the flight crew meals. During this period of time, all of the passengers left the plane and proceeded approximately 200 feet beyond the police vehicle. The passengers boarded a bus which met them at that area and then the bus proceeded toward the terminal. At approximately 7:25 eu[ __arove the police b6 vehicle from the area of the plane and returned to the bIC terminal. This was done upon instructions he received from the captain. at__ Seattle, Washington File #_ SE 164-8] - BAF : Interviewed on Date dictated 11 26/71 b6 by b7C 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 ore not to be distributed outside your agency. DB Cooper-7316