Part 47, page 309

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here that might help ya. When we were setting down in the chair in the lobby down there by your ticket counter, a guy in the wine-colored shirt that walked in front of us while we were talking, turned around and went back towards the restau- rant. That was my man. The fellow that uh, your locals man in charge of security, and I don't remember his name, the fellow that he was watching, the guy with the beard that was taking all of those pictures around the airport, he was one of my men. I had other men there too covering but I'm not going to go into all that. I'm quite sure you get the drift of it. (Pause) I set you up for two reasons, [REDACTED] First, I wanted to get your attention. I wanted you to give some credance to what I was sayin. I want you to know I can do what I say I can do. That is the second reason I want you to know I can do what I say I can do, so if I tell you I know how to hijack a planeload of people and walk away with one and a half million dollars, in untraceable, and underline untraceable, untrace- able money, believe me I can do just that. I believe that I can, uh, sum up your and my options here pretty easy. Uh, let me first explain your options...as I see them. And, if I haven't covered them all, I'm sure you'll let me know if you have any others. First one would probably be the legal approach, uh, whatever you might try to do along those lines uh, I talked to the Federal people before I talked to you and I know that uh, what I'm offering you is on legal grounds. And if you approach me from the legal direction, all you gonna do is get publicity on this and I don't think you want that, and I don't see any need in it either. So, I think we can eliminate the legal approach. The second one is uh the possibility of just ignoring me and I'll go away, uh, I just, I don't need to explain that one uh I think that you know that that's not really a viable option and I'm sure you've already thought of that one. The third one and I hate to have to cover this one, but that's the way it's done nowadays, uh, is eliminate me. Now that ain't gonna work either. You know I'm

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