TeletypeLas Vegas to Director, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City re former Top Ten fugitive as suspect29 November 1971page 2 of 3
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Part 53, page 375

Document date 29 November 1971

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PAGE TWO PREVIOUSLY INSTRUCTED PILOT TO FLY WITH HIS LANDING GEAR AND FLAPS DOWN. UNSUB APPARENTLY PARACHUTED FROM PLANE AT AN UNKNOWN TIME FOLLOWING TAKEOFF FROM SEATTLE. CREW OF PLANE STATES THEY TALKED TO HIJACKER VIA THE INTERCOM AT EIGHT ZERO FIVE PM BUT HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH HIM. PLANE LANDED AT RENO, NEVADA, ELEVEN ZERO ONE PM, PST, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, WITH ONLY CREW ABOARD.

[REDACTED] AKA, FORMER TOP TEN, IO NUMBER [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] HAS BEEN SUGGESTED AS SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER IN VIEW OF [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY DIVISION CONTACTED [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY, WHO HAS STATED THAT [REDACTED] b6 b7C [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY AREA ABOUT TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO [REDACTED] EXACT DESTINATION NOT KNOWN BUT POSSIBLY [REDACTED] STATED HE BELIEVED [REDACTED] [REDACTED] SALT LAKE CITY IN NEAR FUTURE BUT EXACT DATE UNKNOWN.

LYON COUNTY, NEVADA, SHERIFF'S OFFICE ADVISED THIS DATE THEY HAVE INFORMATION THAT [REDACTED] b6 END PAGE TWO b7C