Part 54, page 322

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AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

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[REDACTED] advised that to the best of her recollection, the following was the conversation between newscaster [REDACTED] of the KABC talk show and unknown woman caller at approximately 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., November 27, 1971:

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Unknown Female: "Hello. The man who hijacked the northwest plane sounds very much like my husband."

[REDACTED] "Why do you say that?"

Unknown Female: "He had been a paratrooper with the 101st airborne."

[REDACTED] "Did he need the money?"

Unknown Female: "No, they got away with $35,000 (silence) but it was legal. It sounds like something he would do."

[REDACTED] "Why would he do this?"

Unknown Female: "Why would he leave me after seven years of marriage."

[REDACTED] "Did he ever talk about hijacking?"

Unknown Female: "He had talked about the boy who took the plane to Italy and he had bungled the job."

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[REDACTED] stated that the unknown female caller had mentioned more than one time that her husband had been a paratrooper.

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