SA to SAC Los Angeles re KABC radio show caller claiming hijacker resembled her husband

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

TO : SAC, [REDACTED] DATE: 11/27/71 FROM : SA [REDACTED] SUBJECT: UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, FLIGHT NUMBER 305 PORTLAND TO SEATTLE 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING OO: Seattle

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AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

On 11/27/71, at twelve noon, Airport Duty Agent [REDACTED] telephonically advised that he had received telephonic information from [REDACTED] Federal Aviation Association (FAA) that [REDACTED] had been called by an employee at Northwest Orient Airlines, telephone number [REDACTED] and that the employee had received a telephone call from a [REDACTED] telephone number [REDACTED] who advised she had heard a woman caller on the KABC radio talk show of [REDACTED] say her husband may have been the airline hijacker.

The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED]

KABC Radio Station, telephone number 663-3311, was contacted and [REDACTED] of the talk show in progress, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] advised that he had not heard any such call from 6:00 a.m. to noon. [REDACTED] advised that the [REDACTED] show was on from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. He stated he had no phone number for [REDACTED] or his producer [REDACTED] recommended contact with [REDACTED] KABC [REDACTED] at his residence,

[REDACTED] advised that [REDACTED] residence phone number in Malibu was [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] residence phone number was [REDACTED] advised that a record is usually kept of callers by name but not always by return phone number. [REDACTED] advised [illegible]

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that all calls of the program are recorded. [REDACTED] advised that he would have a tape available for the FBI at 9:00 a.m., Monday morning, 11/29/71 and that an agent of the FBI should contact him at KABC Radio Station, 663-3311, to pick up the tape if it was desired. [REDACTED] further advised that he would check the log and see if the name was available for the caller.

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[REDACTED] recontacted SA [REDACTED] and stated that the record at the station was temporarily unlocatable. He advised that he would alert all his personnel on talk shows to keep careful records on callers and their phone number in the event that this incident should be repeated. [REDACTED] advised that he had formerly cooperated with the Bureau while being in the newscast business in the Baltimore, Maryland, area.

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[REDACTED] was contacted at [REDACTED] and she advised that she is an elderly woman who resides in a room of the home of [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] Hollywood, California. She advised that she had been listening to the [REDACTED] Talk Show, KABC Radio, between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and had heard an unidentified woman caller and that the woman sounded to her approximately 30 to 40 years of age.

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[REDACTED] advised she was always at home and could be contacted at any time. [REDACTED] was requested to repeat to the best of her ability the conversation as she recalled and that a stenographer at the Los Angeles Division of the FBI would take down the information:

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AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

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[REDACTED] advised that to the best of her recollection, the following was the conversation between newscaster [REDACTED] of the KABC talk show and unknown woman caller at approximately 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., November 27, 1971:

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Unknown Female: "Hello. The man who hijacked the northwest plane sounds very much like my husband."

[REDACTED] "Why do you say that?"

Unknown Female: "He had been a paratrooper with the 101st airborne."

[REDACTED] "Did he need the money?"

Unknown Female: "No, they got away with $35,000 (silence) but it was legal. It sounds like something he would do."

[REDACTED] "Why would he do this?"

Unknown Female: "Why would he leave me after seven years of marriage."

[REDACTED] "Did he ever talk about hijacking?"

Unknown Female: "He had talked about the boy who took the plane to Italy and he had bungled the job."

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[REDACTED] stated that the unknown female caller had mentioned more than one time that her husband had been a paratrooper.

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The following investigation was conducted by SA [REDACTED]:

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Both [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] were telephonically contacted this date and stated that neither could recall specifically the exact words of the conversation concerning the woman who had called in reference to the airline hijacking. They did state that the extent of the conversation was substantially as that related earlier by [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] stated that the radio station would have a tape recording of the conversation and could make it available to the FBI.

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[REDACTED] had the call sheet and determined that the telephone call was received at approximately 5:20 a.m. over the "Glendale line" from a person identified as [REDACTED]

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As they recalled, [REDACTED] did not furnish an address or phone number. [REDACTED] thought he recalled that she had stated her husband was a [REDACTED]

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[REDACTED] was recontacted at [REDACTED] and advised of the name of the caller and the approximate time of the call to the radio station. He said he would attempt to locate the tape of the conversation and advise.

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