Interview report (FD-302)Interview of James Leroy Sender, Sarasota RAInterviewed 1 May 1975page 2 of 4
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Part 114, page 257

DB Cooper-52211Serials TP 164-110

Interviewed 1 May 1975Transcribed 5 May 1975

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inactive duty. Subsequently, he served for one year as the Chief Constable for Security at the Candle General Hospital, having been employed by the United Security Agency at Savannah, Georgia. He had also sold life insurance for a short period of time prior to entering employment with the Internal Revenue Service at Sarasota, Florida.

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Specifically, on or about November 24, 1971 SENDER had been serving on active duty in the capacity of Deputy Provost Marshal at Fort Stewart, Georgia. He had served in this capacity from August, 1970 until June, 1973 when he was released to inactive duty status. He recalled that on Thanksgiving Day, 1971 he had been at Fort Stewart, noting that he had not visited his mother in Oaklawn or [REDACTED]. His presence at Fort Stewart could be proven by the various daily reports which he would have signed in his capacity as Deputy Provost Marshal. He estimated that he probably signed 90 percent of the required papers of this organization, the 298th Military Police Company, Fort Stewart, inasmuch as the Provost Marshal is normally only a figurehead. He recalled that the various documents associated with the daily operation of the Military Police Company were only maintained one year, and then they were placed in dead storage at an unknown location. Specifically, he had not been in the northwest section of the United States, including Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington, on or about November 24, 1971.

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SENDER considered himself to be a skilled parachutist possessing a Senior Parachutist Badge, was a Qualified Jump Master, and had made 55 parachute jumps, all in the military service. He had made his last parachute jump during 1963 while on reserve status. From the early part of 1958 until 1963 he had been a member of the 17th Special Forces Reserve Group, an active reserve group of the United States Army, which met either weekly or monthly at Fort Lawton, Washington. The group in Seattle consisted of approximately 16 members who were mostly older persons then in their late 30's or early 40's. The entire reserve group consisted of approximately 100 members from various cities on the West Coast. He has not flown too much over the Portland-Seattle area, noting that his last qualification jumps had been made in Georgia and Utah. The only time he has flown over Portland was approximately three times during 1962 and 1963 en route to and from training missions in the

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