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EDBOMRev Abe sle10) D 4 | reve BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION © of Dote of tronseription 12/3/72 , California, was interviewed at the Skylark Airpor b7C information: Upon hearing the newscasts and reading the papers concerning the skyjacking of a commercial aircraft in Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971,‘ and upon seeing an artists conception of the individual who perpetrated this crime. C ladvised he believes he talked to a man who closely b6 resembles the subject during July or August 1971. Based upon b7C his conversation with this individual he strongly suspects a Sinore, California, and furnished the following the man may be the person connected with this crime. [____—idrecdkled that he talked to this man for ' bé6 approximately ten to fifteen minutes concerning different b7C aspects of parachute jumping and during this conversation the man asked several unusual ques ch as how would one go about jumping out of jets, [Pin lspecdrieaaay | ; recalls telling the man it:could be done the door of the aircraft opened inward or if it had a rear stairwell that could be raised and lowered. The man appeared interested . ang they discussed this further, to the point where air speed and drag was talked about, The fact was brought up that full flaps and lowered landing gear would supply the drag needed to exit from a jet. ' The man also asked where jump centers were. b6 ‘Located in the northwest. old him about three bic locations in the State of Washington, one by the Boeing Air Field in Seattle, one on the Washington side of the | Columbia River, just north of Portland, Oregon, and the other center inbetween, The man was apparently interested, but did | not_right down the names or locations of those centers mentioned ey Cd : b6 EF a|states it was his opinion that a person contemplating a skyjacking of a commercial aircraft would ask b7c questions such as those purposed. He recalled at the tine ' these questions were asked he thought it was strange as nobody i else has ever purposed such stions SMe, t \- _* i ~, - _ . . [ Interviewed on t2/3/7)_ ot Elsinore, California Fite #Los_ Angeles 36) 197 . SA EDWARD A. ROMANOFF/clp Y Dote dictoted 2 . . . . . . . > a . This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBIand iq Je f your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. - ee DB Cooper-5112 } ; ~ ~ ,iwe bodega et On Iw Stet! : ve gets yates dae ga 2. Sea wee ~~ ~ . oro) ; ee