Part 45, page 69

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SWORN STATEMENT For use of this fon .oo AR 190-30; the proponent agency is Office of The . rovost Marshal General. LOCATION: Stuttgart, Germany DATE: 26 May 77 10[redacted] hrs FILE NUMBER: 097-77-0356 LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: [redacted] SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [redacted] GRADE/STATUS: SSG b6 per USCRC b7C ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: HHC, 4/73 Armor, APO NY 09046

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Q: SSG [redacted] this office is presently in possession of a Request for Assistance from the Legal Attache assigned to the US Embassy regarding possible information which you might posses regarding the Hijacking of Flight 305, on 24 November 1971. Do you infact have any information regarding the above incident? b6 per USCRC A: As far as positive information, I do not know. A SSG [redacted] b7C [redacted] who was assigned to the Everett Recruiting Station, Washington State, at the same time as myself, is a master jumper and posseses the knowledge of leaving an aircraft in the manner the incident took place. He was on leave at the time the inciden[redacted] place and returned a few days after the incident. I thought nothing about it, until the des- cription of the hijacker was placed on television. The description of the hijacker met that of [redacted] to enclude the age. I approached [redacted] and in a joking manner asked him where he was on leave and what he did with the money. He told me that he had gone alone into Canada to look at some land and that he knew nothing about the incident. Q: Where is [redacted] at this time and is he still on active duty? A: Yes, he still is on active duty. He is now an SFC and is assigned for duty in USAREUR Headquarters, located in Heidelberg, Germany. His telephone numbers are Heidelberg Military [redacted] I know [redacted] and do not think that he did it, but it was just a joke between him and me since he was on leave alone at the time and met the description of th[e] person shown on television. Q: Did you ever tell a [redacted] that [redacted] had talked about sky- jacking an aircraft in such a manner as flight 305? b6 per USCRC A: No, I neve[redacted] did tell [redacted] that I wor ked with a p[e]b7C n who met the de[redacted] and had the knowledge and was on leave at the time of the incident by himself. That is all I told [redacted] Q: Has [redacted] in fact ever mentioned to you the possibility of skyjacking an aircraft? A: No, never. Q: Do you think [redacted] is in fact the person responsible? b6 per USCRC A: No I do not. b7C Q: Do you wish to add or delete anything to or from this statement? A: No sir. x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/END OF STATEMENT/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x b6 per FBI b7C

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