From Los Angeles tipster to FBI Portland with spirit-guided theories, photographs and annotated map

Los Angeles, California December 5, 1971.

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F. 3. I. Portland, Oregon

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Dear Friends: I see nobody has found out what happened to the airplane hijacker yet. I thot for sure that by Sunday someone would find the parachutes. I have written several letters to you about it and I guess this one will finally be the last. I hope I have been some help in the case. You will have to discount what I wrote about Springfield, Oregon tho I guess. I had the spirit pretty good Saturday nite and it told me more about the case and repeated some of the things it had already told me and you can bet yout bottom dollar that you were pretty hot in looking for him at Woodland, but you have to go a little south and cross the Columbia. The spirit told me so many times that he came 'down near a fair'-'came down over a fair' and even once said he was in a fair that I have pinpointed the Multnomah County fairgrounds or near it as the place. The spirit also said 'he came down over a Mare' This is symbolic- it means an island like the fair area seems to be on because Mare island in San Francisco is the symbolism- so Mare in this case means an island. It also said celery. -to me this also means island, because in Spokane in the twenties when I was there, there were some chinese raising celery in the delta part of a river there not far from town- the southwestern section. Celery would mean then- delta area. I have never been over around that section, but if I did I would look around the columbia river on the west side and maybe near the north end of Smith lake. Smith lake looks like a horse with his front feet down and a saddle on his back., there are two little horns or saddle horns I call them sticking up on the northern side of the lake. Maybe this is what the spirit meant when it said ' he is in a seater' There is a little inlet there on the north side of the lake. If he made it accross the Columbia and got on the west side then he probably let the chutes go in to the lake and they floated down the river. The spirit seemed to say today Sunday that he had left the area. It is pretty definite with me then that he floated over the fair grounds. Maybe even the race track and came down in the middle of it. There was a word came thru me early last week 'union' and I wondered what it meant and today in looking at the map I found a street or avenue called Union. I think he was on it and either caught a trolley or walked on it. The spirit Saturday nite told me three times that he was a drugger. This means that he was narcotic. It also said he was a collector. I wonder what he collected besides the $200,000 ? Maybe he is selling narcotics, also, but there was another aspect of the case- it said he called a [illegible] and I thot it could mean his sweetheart, but at least two times or more it said he called a lawyer. Maybe he called a lawyer and the secretary answered. Could he be maybe a wanted man and need a lot of money to buy himself off? Maybe the lawyer is in cahoots with him and owns a light plane and picked him up. He sure made a phone call according to the spirit. When I was out walking bothe Saturday and Sunday I got a message twice- it said ' He had four' and then broke off. The sentence was not finished. I figured he had four men in with him. How did he know when to jump off. Did he go by lights or did he have something in his brief case such as a powerful walkie talkie [guess: or police radio] rigged up with someone on the ground? Maybe he was smarter than I thot he was and was [illegible] underware. He could thus stand the cold in the plane better and [illegible] with the aid of some kind of drug or amphetamine.

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I will have to discount my idea of him having anything to do with the forestry school south of Seattle airport. He is undoubtly in with a gang. If he is in narcotics then he probably also likes to gamble as a high roller or play the horses and that is why he wanted to go to Reno and said something about Mexico. Maybe his buddies buy dope in Mexico and use a small plane to get it. I would check light plane liscenses issued to lawyers issued in Portland, Seattle, and Wenatchee. The reason I said Wenatchee is because something came thru me about Jenatchee. It also mentioned'Kentuckian' and the spirit called him a Colonel and so I think he might be a Kentucky Colonel. If the money was marked you will probably find some of it pretty soon unless he left the country and went to Monte Carlo. That might be why the spirit said for a couple of days ' He is in a seater' Maybe he flew out of the country with the loot. I personally don't think you will find him, but you might just find those chutes floating in the river or down at Astoria one of these days, but I think he got away now. There was once the spirit seemed to say ' he paints' This might mean he used a dye to cover up his greay hair. Saturday I was out walking and the spirit said ' there's a bar' then it broke off and a little later a bar was bombed in Belfast. I heard it on the radio. On Friday it said Paris thru me three times and a little later on the radio I heard of another hijacking in paris. I get these words thru me every day. [REDACTED] years ago I had the holy ghost for three days and that was just a news flash with whole sentences and paragraphs coming thru me . It is a pulsation. Nobody in the United States could have it at the present time or I would know about it. The only country I can think of that might be close is Red China. I actually believe many chinese people at present time contact the spirit. This is called Karma. If I had the holy ghost at present time I could solve all your crimes or most of them anyhow, but sorry I don't have it. I am the only one in the world at the present time who can sit at a typewriter and say exactly what a man must do to contact God and have the holy ghost. It really is very simple if you know how, but if you are ruptured you can't get it and [REDACTED] It is all in the bible except the drinking of coffee. If you are a young man shall we say between 20 and 35 then prepare to take a year out of your life. Don't drink a cup of coffee in that whole year. Don't use the sex. Do not smoke or drink. Give up all the animal foods. This includes milk, butter, cheese and etc. Go by what it says in the book of Genesis. Eat all the fruit and herbs. A good bowl of vegetable soup every day will do it and a little oil or peanut butter , rye bread and any kind of raw fruit and when the blood turns over you will start to contact God and he will send his son the Christ and you will get burned out. That is what happened to me [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. Now [illegible] only hear a few words. The burning out process takes about an hour and it takes a year of good living and much walking to reach it. A man is either in the blood or out of the blood. If you eat a lot of blood producing foods you will be in the blood and can't contact. If you eat fruits and vegetables you give up your blood gradually and build towards a flesh and bone body. This is mentioned in the scriptures. The church people all missed the boat. We wouldn't have a Viet Nam War or so much crime now if men were working for the holy Ghost in this country and a permanent peace would be a reality. The hard crust of the church system is a hard nut to crack. They persist in following ceremony. God don't give a hang about ceremony. Health minded people is what he is looking for. Men who walk and hike or ride a bicycle and be careful to eat the natural fruits and vegetables and give up the sex and coffee and processed foods. It does call for a little sacrifice and men just don't give it all up. Look about you and try to find a man who don't smoke, don't drink liquor or coffee, don't use sex and a walker. A vegetarian? Sincerely[REDACTED]

Eagle Rock along North Umpqua River

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Willamette River, downtown Portland

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MIGHT H[AVE] VE DITCHED CHUTES EITHER IN COLUMBIA [OR] SMITH LAKE [IN] NORTHERN SECTOR [OF] NORTH[ERN] Columbia

[Map labels:] Vancouver River WASHINGTON OREGON [Golf Course] Broadmoor PONTLAND [guess: PORTLAND]

[Handwritten annotation with arrow pointing to Union area:] HE WALKED OR RODE DOWN UNION AVE. ACCORDING TO SPIRIT. IT TOLD ME THIS MONDAY OR SHORTLY AFTER HIJACK THE WORD UNION CAME THRU VIE. I FOUND THE STREET NAME SUNDAY WHEN LOOKING AT MAP. PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT IT HAD TO DO WITH SOME UNION HALL.

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Eagle Rock along North Umpqua River

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Willamette River, downtown Portland

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COULD HAVE HAD CAR PARKED NEAR WHERE HE CAME DOWN OR CALLED GIRL FRIEND OR THE LAWYER AND THEY CAME AND PICKED HIM UP PLUS PARACHUTES. COULD HAVE TROLLEYED TO TOWN.

[handwritten annotation, left side of map:] COULD HAVE COME DOWN AROUND HERE

[handwritten annotation, left side near I-5:] COULD HAVE FLOATED OVER FAIR GROUNDS. MIGHT HAVE BEEN NEAR AREA COMPLETED IN 1968 - AND GOT PICKED UP HERE AFTER PHONE CALL

[handwritten annotation, center of map:] MUST HAVE BEEN ON UNION AVE ACCORDING TO SPIRIT

[handwritten annotation, right side:] HIS CAR (FORD) WAITING IN PARKING LOT AT AIRPORT COULD HAVE BEEN

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P. S. I wouldn't even be surprised if this man actually workd at the fair. How many people work aroun[d] there ? A few guards I su[ppo]se and who works at the place where they keep the live stock and what doctors work around there. He might be an assistant vet and know something about drugs they give to horses such as benezdrine. Just a hunch, because there was something that came thru me about a doctor besides something about a lawyer. I would check all personall at the fair grounds if it were me.

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