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FD-302 (Rev. 11-27-70) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 1/25/72

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[REDACTED] Houston, Texas, supplied the following information:

Over the Christmas, 1971 holidays [REDACTED] and some family friends named [REDACTED] traveled to Mexico. While in Mexico they rode a ferry boat from the Mexican mainland to the [REDACTED] and while on this boat met three Americans named [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California; [REDACTED] [REDACTED] California; and [REDACTED] (LNU), who was a doctor living in Oregon. These individuals asked [REDACTED] and his party to met them at a bar named Raphaels in [REDACTED] which is at the tip of the [REDACTED]

Upon arriving there [REDACTED] and his party met the above three individual at the bar and while drinking with them also became acquainted with an individual named BILL MASON and [REDACTED]

Over a period of several days they learned from MASON that he was from Highlands Park, Illinois and had previously been employed by Northwest Orient Airlines as a sales agent in Seoul, Korea. MASON also stated that he had lived in Portland, Oregon and on the west coast of California for some time.

MASON and [REDACTED] along with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] were staying on a large Tri-maran boat named The Red Wing. This boat was over 40 feet long, had a white hull and red sails.

One morning [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] that the night before, MASON had been drinking quite heavily and had stated that he was the individual who had hijacked the Northwest Orient

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Interviewed on 1/21/72 at Houston, Texas File # HO-164-118 SE 164-81 by SA [REDACTED] /sac . Date dictated 1/25/72 164-81 - [REDACTED] sub. 3rd

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