'Clues to Qantas Hoaxer' with photo of gelignite bomb at Sydney airport
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 4 p. 9, News clipping — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-04%3A009-009
The gelignite bomb whose discovery in a locker at Sydney International Airport triggered off the train of events in Wednesday's £235,000 hoax involving [illegible] a Qantas Boeing 707 airliner.
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CLUES TO QANTAS HOAXER
By J.D. HOLDSWORTH
In Sydney
AUSTRALIAN police are [hopeful] that they will soon be able to trace [a] Brown[?] and his accomplice who hoaxed Qantas Airlines into paying £235,000 ransom money after a bomb threat on Wednesday [illegible]
Close scrutiny of a bomb [illegible] found in a locker at [Sydney] Airport has yielded valuable [in-] formation; they say. Examination of tape recordings of the [Mr.] Brown[?] voice on the telephone has also given [clues to the] national [illegible] [illegible] information [illegible] sources has given [them] leads and [illegible] reward offered [will bring] [tips] from the underworld.
The [serial numbers of the currency] [illegible] phone calls [illegible]
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AN [ARTIST'S] PICTURE of [illegible] borne [Boeing?] [illegible] passengers, about £219[?]
The serial numbers of the notes are known and lists are being [published/circulated]... All international police also have been given a full des- cription of the accomplice and an [Identikit picture] has been distributed.
The airline [said] the handling of the ransom but they were not [insured against] such a loss and the money must be written off. Their critics were told by an airline spokesman yesterday: "Go to [hell?]"