Part 54, page 65

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land security chief, reports. November figures are not available, but Michael McGetligan, 811 E. Burn- side, was arrested Dec. 1 and charged with "possession of a concealed weap- on while attempting to board an air- plane."

Western Airlines personnel used the profile system to put the finger on him as he approached the boarding gate. Western isn't telling how they spotted him. A December hearing on his case has been set in U.S. District Court.

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pating airlines provide transportation for the caps, who are commonly called sky marshals.

The CSO's spend about a third of their time in uniform as regular cus- toms officers patrolling the air termi- nal, searching the hand luggage of pas- sengers boarding international flights, and standing by to fake over questioning of any passenger who seems to fit the behavioral profile of a potential hijacker.

The rest of their time is spent in ci- vilian clothes flying as sky marshals aboard certain flights. The sky mar- shals are introduced to the flight crews and are known to the stewardesses, Ad- sen explained.

They are rotated between airports to avoid recognition. Their flight assign- ments come from the Seattle office.

The airlines usually buy their own magnetometers, which now cost about $900 each, Adsen said. But a few air- port operators provide magnetometers and the FAA has a few which it can rush to any airport which has a special security problem -- like Portland dur- ing President Nixon's visit Sept. 25.

A second generation magnetometer which can pinpoint the location of a weapon as a passenger passes through the boarding gate is now being tested in the East -- but will be about three times as expensive as today's magneto- meters, Adsen said.

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months has insisted that the FAA put teeth in its security program and the FAA now proposes to do just that.

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