Part 47, page 20

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. The plan that they finally come up with was to demand more than three to four chutes and then take the plane into Nevada. Just as they were coming into Reno they were to bail out. Their plan was to tether the chute to the back of the aircraft, hold it open and jump out when the point was right. In six months, then, they would split up the money.

The group was to throw a benefit over at the hospital in a big clearing down amongst [REDACTED] They would have jugglers and this kind of thing. This would give the group an excuse to be there. They would then divide the money.

The kept changing the plan all the time to make it better. Finally, they figured they would just fill all the seats in the back section. All the guys wanted to get in on it as witnesses, too. It was kind of catching. They would go along and split up their shares. I believe it was split up four ways.

[REDACTED] would take part of the money, cash it around the country and then he would give either the guys or the pilot the clean money six months later.

Part of the plan was that one of the guys who had a car with California plates on it (I think it was [REDACTED]) would park it uptown someplace, or along the road leading into a place where there would be a lot of cars around. The plan got kind of elaborate. It ended up they would get a bunch of green stamps, a certain number, which they would fold up. They would then use the numbers/letters on the green stamps to indicate the license number of the car. The plan they ended up with was simply to take a large number of green stamps where they would be the only ones to have that number/letter on them. One of the guys was able to do that. I think this is important. He was able to get that section of green stamps. I think it was $2,500 or $500, or something of this nature. The plan ended where they wrote with a felt pen the license number of the car that [REDACTED] would be in, then they would go along and get in the car at a later time. He was to leave the window open in his car and then he would stick them in through the window. The meeting ended up that the green stamps actually got wrapped around his windshield wiper and they got together that way.

The pilot and the stewardess also had a part in it. She had control of the seating. She would get on the aircraft early and also they would be seated in the back section. She also had the keys to a locker where they would store the parachutes to make it look like he had parachuted earlier. They had planned to disguise [REDACTED] as a woman because he had [REDACTED] [REDACTED] They disguised him. [REDACTED] did not know whether he could make this jump or not, so they had to bring another man in. They went out and searched for somebody outside the group. They did not like to do that, but they found a guy who would jump out of the plane with the money. This man liked the plan. One of the group brought him in the back way. He came in at the very last minute.

In the end, [REDACTED] decided to go ahead and do it himself. The outsider who was brought in to make the jump was named [REDACTED] He also had Oriental blood in him. [REDACTED] already knew about the plan now. So, [REDACTED] pipes up